Soul Boom: Why We Need a Spiritual Revolution

In the country of Bhutan, happiness is a central focus of life and culture. The government doesn’t solely measure economic improvement but also its citizens’ well-being, with its tracking of GNH or Gross National Happiness. And yet, in the same culture, one is expected to think about death at least three times a day.

We are currently in a global mental health crisis that is ruthlessly affecting teens and young adults at a rate unlike anything the world has ever seen. In the dozens and dozens of talks and presentations I’ve given at colleges and universities, this fact seems to be abundantly well-known by those under fifty and almost completely, cluelessly unkno

Although faith and religion are never overtly mentioned in the show, and Star Trek’s central focus is the glorification of science and exploration, to me the core message is essentially a spiritual one. Global unity for our human family, founded on increased compassion and universal equity.

it might be difficult, at first blush, to get something seemingly tangible, practical, and readily applicable to one’s day-to-day life from poetry or spirituality. But men die miserably every day from lack of what is found there. In other words, we humans suffer needlessly from an absence of what can be found in poetry and in spirituality.

The great British documentarian and philosopher Adam Curtis talks about how in Victorian times people spoke about death constantly but never about sex. In contemporary society, the reverse is true: we never talk about death but are obsessed with sex. I think that’s why the COVID-19 pandemic was especially terrifying to us. As body bags were stacked

The founder of the Baha’i Faith, Baha’u’llah, writes, Let your vision be world embracing rather than confined to your own selves.

There is zero evidence of how contemplation, emotion, self-awareness, reflection (not to mention poetry, art, and prayer), and the internal cinematic experience of consciousness help or have helped humanity propagate and thrive.

What good is a spiritual path that only enriches our own inner peace while hundreds of millions go hungry? And conversely, how do we sustainably serve those millions if our hearts are hard, empty, cold, and filled with selfish ego or materialistic motives? How can there be peace without justice? There is an ongoing dance, a conversation between the

When you stop and deeply consider these insidious pandemics of injustice, disease, and imbalance, you start to see connections between them that make it much more difficult to examine them individually.