From the time of Heraclitus, who left us the famous concept of panta rei, everything flows, from the Buddhist vision of the interconnectedness of all things, to the laws of thermodynamics, to the m…

This is a very high subject and very difficult to deal with. Spiritual love is not something that can be known intellectually, from the outside, that can be taught and learned with ordinary methods…

This theme was on my mind for a while, but it became especially demanding over the last week, in conjunction with a New Year’s conversation with an old friend. The conversation was supposed to be a…

Humanity is facing the problems of post-modernity, from pollution, water use and migration, to globalisation, lack of time, speed, loss of contact with oneself, digitalisation, global warming, spec…

In cultures that venerate shamans and also conduct rites of passage, the shamanic crisis is considered to be a form of initiation that is much superior to the rite of passage. It is seen as interve…

I would say that during the time I first started to experiment with psychedelics in 1961, the society that I had grown up in and that I trained myself in, the high priests of that society had becom…

To awaken to the timeless and perfect Truth, don’t put so much importance on study. Avoid the tendency to collect a lot of information on spirituality. Instead, dive within with your entire …

The biggest Transpersonal Psychology event of the year will be held in Tuscany from 4 to 8 October 2023. If you know it I know you won’t miss it, if you don’t, this is an opportunity not to be m…

Anything is one of a million paths. Therefore you must always keep in mind that a path is only a path; if you feel you should not follow it, you must not stay with it under any conditions. To have …

There is a force in the universe that empowers and guides us to meet the challenges of our time. This force is not one of the known physical forces, a push-pull kinetic-energy force. It is a subtle…

The story goes that a Catholic missionary in the presence of the conditions of an African slum complained to God: “Lord, can’t you see how much misery, why don’t you do something? Then the Lord ans…

Enlightenment is a simple realization that everything is as it should be. That is the definition of enlightenment: everything is as it should be, everything is utterly perfect as it is. That fee…

When you remember a dream, it will probably be quite obvious to you that during the dream you merely observed the images weaving before your soul without having a clear awareness of yourself. Self-…

Love therefore, no longer bound to the object, no longer paralysed by fear of rejection, no longer constrained by calculations and strategies but free to emanate from the centre of being. The lo…

Thus a religious man is not really one who puts on a robe or a loincloth, or lives on one meal a day, or has taken innumerable vows to be this and not to be that, but is he who is inwardly simple, …

We are “asleep,” compared with what we could be. We are dreaming. We are entranced. We are automatized. We are caught in illusions while thinking we are perceiving reality…

The antithesis of material realism is monistic idealism. The centerpiece of this new paradigm is the recognition that modern science validates an ancient idea—the idea that consciousness, not matt…