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Community / DestinationAbbey of Gethsemani
A silent, unstructured retreat house at the Cistercian Abbey of Gethsemani in Kentucky, open to guests of all faiths.
BookJack Kornfield
Accounts from practitioners across traditions about integrating awakening, failure, relationship, and ordinary responsibility after peak experience.
Podcast ShowAnderson Cooper
A journalist grieving his own family creates room for public figures and listeners to speak without making grief a problem to solve.
BookD. W. Pasulka
A religious-studies account of how UFO experience, secrecy, media, technology, and new forms of authority can generate worlds of meaning that resemble religious formation.
Podcast EpisodeThe Lord of Spirits
Introduces an Eastern Orthodox account of angels, demons, and the spiritual world from within that tradition’s scriptures and theology.
Podcast EpisodeSean Carroll
Makes a leading neuroscientist’s physicalist account of consciousness available in direct comparison with emergence and information theory.
Podcast ShowRichard Rohr; Brie Stoner; Paul Swanson
BookJohn of the Cross
John’s extended account of detachment, prayer, spiritual perception, and the path toward union with God.
Lisa Miller
Clinical psychologist Lisa Miller combines personal narrative with research on spirituality, development, depression, resilience, and the brain. She argues that a capacity for spiritual awareness is part of human life and that cultivating connection to something larger than the isolated self can support meaning and psychological well-being.
Dacher Keltner
Psychologist Dacher Keltner explores awe through research, stories, art, music, nature, moral courage, collective movement, birth, and death. He shows how encounters with what feels larger than the self can alter attention, soften self-focus, and deepen connection—without requiring readers to begin with religious belief.
BookRamana Maharshi; edited by David Godman
Selections organize Ramana Maharshi’s teachings on self-inquiry, awareness, mind, surrender, and liberation.
BookRam Dass
Ram Dass combines memoir, hand-drawn visual teaching, yoga, meditation, devotional practice, and practical instruction in one of the defining books of American countercultural spirituality. He tells how psychologist Richard Alpert’s experiments with psychedelics led him to India, a guru, and a new identity, then invites readers into present-moment awareness and spiritual practice.
BookJoanne Cacciatore
A bereavement researcher and practitioner offers compassionate reflections and practices for living with devastating loss.
BookJoe Dispenza
Joe Dispenza combines meditation instruction, workshop reports, personal transformation stories, and language drawn from neuroscience, epigenetics, and quantum physics. He argues that people can move beyond habitual identity and biology toward unusual healing and changes in lived reality.
Ralph Blumenthal
A biography of Harvard psychiatrist John Mack follows his controversial study of people reporting alien encounters and the professional, ethical, and metaphysical questions that followed.
Stuart A. Vyse
Psychologist Stuart Vyse examines why intelligent people develop and retain superstitious beliefs and rituals. Drawing on research into learning, coincidence, uncertainty, control, cultural transmission, and cognitive bias, he explains how meaningful patterns can become convincing even when a causal connection has not been demonstrated. Astrology appears within a wider human landscape of divination, luck, ritual, and magical thinking.
BookJoseph Chilton Pearce
Joseph Chilton Pearce argues that human development is shaped by interacting biological, emotional, cultural, and spiritual capacities and that experiences of transcendence can reorganize the body and brain. Moving across child development, neuroscience, contemplative traditions, heart research, culture, and personal story, he proposes that modern institutions inhibit an innate movement toward greater intelligence, compassion, and expanded consciousness.
BookNancey Murphy
Philosopher and theologian Nancey Murphy argues for ‘nonreductive physicalism’: human beings are wholly physical creatures whose complex capacities for reason, morality, relationship, and spirituality need not require an independently separable soul. Engaging neuroscience, philosophy of mind, biblical interpretation, and Christian theology, she asks how agency, identity, ethics, resurrection, and divine action can remain meaningful without substance dualism.
BookBessel van der Kolk
Psychiatrist Bessel van der Kolk surveys how overwhelming experience can alter memory, attention, bodily sensation, relationships, and the nervous system. Drawing on clinical cases, neuroscience, developmental research, and decades of trauma treatment, he explains why people may continue reacting to danger after an event has ended and discusses approaches ranging from relational therapy and EMDR to yoga, neurofeedback, theater, and body-based work.
Podcast EpisodeGod In All Things
Somatic noticing makes discernment audible and immediately testable in nine minutes. This exact conversation earns inclusion because the audio mode performs work a parallel book entry would not.
BookChristine Caldwell
Somatic therapist Christine Caldwell treats the body not as an object to manage but as a living source of attention, agency, relationship, and meaning. Brief explanations and practices in breathing, sensing, moving, resting, and relating make embodiment concrete rather than merely conceptual.
BookAbdallah ibn Alawi al-Haddad; translated by Mostafa al-Badawi
A concise classical manual of intention, prayer, remembrance, conduct, and spiritual discipline from the Hadrami Sufi tradition.
BookThe Episcopal Church
The authorized Episcopal liturgical book of daily prayer, Eucharist, rites, psalms, and pastoral offices.
BookMargery Kempe
A medieval laywoman’s account of visions, tears, pilgrimage, family negotiation, conflict with clergy, and public devotion.
BookAlan Watts
A playful argument that the isolated ego is a social fiction and that persons belong to a larger field of life and reality.
Podcast EpisodeGinger Campbell
A single review compares Anil Seth, Antonio Damasio, Mark Solms and others, revealing disagreement within neuroscience of consciousness. This exact object earns inclusion because hearing the exchange performs work the 574-book shelf cannot supply as directly.
Podcast ShowGinger Campbell
BookJules Evans; Tim Read, editors
This collection brings together first-person accounts of overwhelming spiritual or transformative experiences alongside reflection on what helped and what harmed. Its contributors describe varied paths through crisis rather than offering one universal explanation or sequence.
Podcast EpisodeMichael W. Taft
Rasmussen’s trauma history and long retreat practice let psychology, metta and spiritual bypassing meet in one lived account. This exact object earns inclusion because hearing the exchange performs work the 574-book shelf cannot supply as directly.
BookRichard J. Foster
A modern ecumenical map of inward, outward, and corporate Christian disciplines.
BookCynthia Bourgeault
Cynthia Bourgeault teaches Centering Prayer as a Christian practice of consent, surrender, and interior silence. Alongside practical instruction, she describes attention, the sacred word, emotional programs, false-self patterns, and the way contemplative practice may alter one's relationship to thought and identity rather than simply produce calm.
Community / DestinationCenters for Spiritual Living
A global directory of Centers for Spiritual Living communities teaching the New Thought philosophy known as Science of Mind.
Podcast EpisodeSean Carroll's Mindscape
A leading consciousness researcher and a physicalist host expose live evidentiary disagreement inside science rather than pushing the traveler toward a spiritual metaphysics. This exact conversation earns inclusion because the audio mode performs work a parallel book entry would not.
BookAnonymous
The anonymous author counsels a student to place thoughts beneath a 'cloud of forgetting' and reach toward God through naked loving intent beneath a 'cloud of unknowing.' It preserves direct access to a central stream of Christian contemplative practice.
Podcast EpisodeJames Finley
Offers an exact 30-minute encounter with unknowing instead of requiring a dense mystical text.
BookShane Claiborne, Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove, and Enuma Okoro
A year-round collection of daily prayer, song, Scripture, saints, and justice-oriented remembrance for communities and individuals.
Community / DestinationContemplative Outreach
A Contemplative Outreach pathway to local Centering Prayer groups and online gatherings in the Meditation Chapel.
BookHadewijch
Poems, visions, and letters from a thirteenth-century Beguine whose language of divine Love shaped Christian mysticism.
Annaka Harris
Annaka Harris introduces the mystery of subjective experience through short thought experiments about perception, free will, the self, and whether consciousness may be more basic in nature than we usually assume. The book is less a survey of the field than an invitation to notice how strange ordinary awareness becomes when examined closely.
BookDaniel C. Dennett
Dennett rejects a central inner observer and proposes a multiple-drafts account of consciousness grounded in cognitive processes.
Michael S. Gazzaniga
Cognitive neuroscientist Michael Gazzaniga approaches consciousness through the brain's many specialized systems. Drawing on split-brain research, biology, and the idea of emergence, he argues that conscious life need not come from one central location or inner commander.
Susan Blackmore
Susan Blackmore offers a compact tour of the questions that make consciousness difficult: subjective experience, attention, the self, free will, altered states, and the relation between mind and brain. She introduces major experiments and theories while showing why even the word consciousness remains contested.
Podcast EpisodeGod In All Things
A compact explanation lets listeners recognize movement over time before attempting a major decision. This exact conversation earns inclusion because the audio mode performs work a parallel book entry would not.
Podcast EpisodeBarbara Holmes; Donald Bryant
Voice, pacing and permission to withdraw do work that a text-only recommendation cannot.
BookMatthew Fox
Creation-spirituality theologian Matthew Fox retrieves the ancient language of the cosmic Christ to describe divine presence filling creation rather than being confined to the historical Jesus or the institutional church. Drawing from Christian mysticism, art, science, Indigenous references, ecology, and justice, he argues that recovering creation’s sacredness can unite contemplation with prophetic resistance to anthropocentrism, oppression, and ecological destruction.
BookHelen Schucman (scribe)
A Course in Miracles is a three-part spiritual curriculum—a Text, Workbook for Students, and Manual for Teachers—presented in Christian language but radically reinterpreting sin, salvation, forgiveness, perception, and the world. It teaches that separation from God is an illusion, that fear arises from mistaken perception, and that forgiveness permits a shift from fear toward awareness of love.
BookJürgen Moltmann
A major twentieth-century theology of divine suffering, abandonment, and hope centered on the crucifixion.
BookJohn of the Cross
A Carmelite account of the purifying “nights” of sense and spirit through which attachment and familiar spiritual consolation are transformed.
BookGerald G. May
A psychiatrist and contemplative interprets John of the Cross and Teresa of Avila as guides through spiritual darkness and transformed desire.
Podcast ShowAndrew Nemr; Mike Freeman
A bounded series reads John of the Cross slowly while one artist tests the text against lived spiritual disorientation.
Podcast ShowMichael W. Taft
Experienced meditators, clinicians and researchers examine practice effects, false insight and nondual claims from inside contemporary dharma worlds.
BookCurt Thompson
A Christian psychiatrist connects suffering, hope, attachment, and community through interpersonal neurobiology.
BookNadine Burke Harris
A pediatrician explains adverse childhood experiences, stress physiology, and the case for trauma-informed public health.
BookRichard Gallagher
A psychiatrist recounts cases he interprets as genuine demonic possession and explains how his clinical skepticism gave way to belief.
BookGary R. Renard
Gary Renard presents conversations he says occurred with two ascended masters who appeared in his home and taught a metaphysical interpretation of A Course in Miracles. The book describes the world as a projection of a split mind, emphasizes forgiveness as release from perception, interprets Jesus and the crucifixion nontraditionally, and frames awakening as remembering a nondual reality beyond bodies, time, guilt, and separation.
BookPierre Teilhard de Chardin
Teilhard interprets work, passivity, matter, evolution, and ordinary action within a world becoming transparent to divine presence.
BookAldous Huxley
An influential first-person account of mescaline, perception, and the possibility that ordinary consciousness filters a wider reality.
Podcast EpisodeFatemeh Keshavarz with Krista Tippett
Fatemeh Keshavarz restores Rumi to his Islamic Sufi setting while opening his language of love, searching, restlessness, and the divine to contemporary listeners.
BookThomas Metzinger
A philosopher argues that the experienced self is a transparent model generated by the brain rather than an entity perceived directly.
BookCeleste Snowber Schroeder
Celeste Snowber Schroeder invites Christians to bring gesture, movement, breath, posture, and dance into prayer. Scriptural reflection and simple exercises challenge the habit of treating prayer as an activity of words and thoughts alone.
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