The Demoralised Mind: Exploring Our Cultural Insanity
Feel you might be depressed because you feel disorientated and struggle to locate meaning, purpose and fulfilment in your life? In this article John Schumaker e...
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10 of the Most Life-Changing Principles in a Spiritual Awakening
“I truly attained absolutely nothing from complete, unexcelled enlightenment!” - The Buddha Spiritual awakening is not a state, experience or goal to reach in ...
Yoga Explained: The Things That Darken The Heart
There are many definitions of yoga such as: Yoga as the movement from one point to another, higher one
Yoga as the bringing together, the unifying of ...
Spiritual Bypassing – Avoidance In Holy Drag
Spiritual bypassing, a term first coined by psychologist John Welwood in 1984, is the use of spiritual practices and beliefs to avoid dealing with our painful f...
How to Build a Culture of Good Health: Gabor Maté
Physical well-being depends on more than keeping our bodies fit. Emotions and the people who come into our lives matter just as much. “I never get angry,” says...
On Love by Jiddu Krishnamurti
Love is an important, extraordinary aspect of experience. Krishnamurti uses simple language and an immeasurable intensity of thought to help us polish the mirro...
Buddhist Teachers Respond to Donald Trump’s Presidential Win
After Donald Trump’s stunning upset, the Buddhist Magazine 'Lion’s Roar' reached out to a number of Buddhist teachers for their responses. Norman Fischer, Roshi...
5 Ways To Nurture Happiness
Only a handful of times have I come across writing with such clarity and precision regarding the pursuit of happiness and ways to nurture happiness as a human b...
10 philosophical teachers that will vastly improve your life
I first stumbled across philosophic teachers and their teachings by chance during my A-Levels and I selected philosophy as my fourth subject as it sounded 'easy...
Why Practice Yoga? A Beginner’s Guide
"Yoga is not something that you do. Yoga is something that you become. It is not an act, it is a quality. If you cultivate your body, mind, emotions and energi...
HYPERNORMALISATION: We’re Living in a False World Documentary
'We live in a world where the powerful deceive us. We know they lie. They know we know they lie. They don’t care.' HyperNormalisation wades through the culmina...
Disturbing Illustrations Expose the Absurdities of Modern Culture
Too few artists today have the courage to tackle important social commentaries with their art. But Spanish artist Luis Quiles has undoubtedly broken this mold w...
An Isolated Tribe’s Warning to the Modern World. “Aluna: A Message to Little Brother”
25 years ago an isolated Colombian tribe emerged to share a warning about humanity’s future, captured in a film about them that had a far-reaching global impact...
Where is the I? Alan Watts on memory and knowing the self
By Alan Watts “While you are watching this present experience, are you aware of someone watching it? Can you find, in addition to the experience itself, an e...
Inside Out: The Epistemology Of Everything
This is a response to the question posed by John Brockman "What will change everything? What game-changing scientific ideas and developments do you expect to li...
15 Types Of Distorted Thinking
What is distorted thinking? It is a way in which our mind convinces us of something that isn't really true. Here are 15 types of distorted thinking that it cert...
20 Potent Pieces Of Life Advice, As Told By People Over 60.
Recently, a question was posed to those over the age of 60. The question was this: “What advice would you give to those who are half your age?” While the questi...
Terence McKenna breaks down the Source of Love
We took great pleasure in making this video ourselves as Terence McKenna breaks down the Source of Love. In poignant fashion, he peels back the layers of the h...
The Problem With Society Isn’t Greed
A lot of people reacted to my comment on Facebook the other day that greed is more a symptom than a cause of our current system, with all its inequities. I’m as...
Identity: A Short Film About Our Masks of Identity
"Living in a world where everybody wears masks due to lack of self-identity, a brave girl encounters the truth that sets her free" The director summarizes this...
Silencio – The Pursuit of Passion
Sometimes I tend to ask myself: What makes me take certain decisions? The ones that lead me to take certain actions, leaving the consideration of the result com...