Modern spirituality
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Modern spirituality
To DIY your own world of life signifiers, you have to think you can improve on a
bar mitzvah
as a coming-of-age ritual, on shabbat as a form of digital detox, and as
teshuvah
as a way to grapple with your guilt (or analogs in other religious traditions). Many do of course, and every trendy San Franciscan has their personal regimen of special diets,... See more
bar mitzvah
as a coming-of-age ritual, on shabbat as a form of digital detox, and as
teshuvah
as a way to grapple with your guilt (or analogs in other religious traditions). Many do of course, and every trendy San Franciscan has their personal regimen of special diets,... See more
Antonio García Martínez • Why Judaism?
The main problem with Burning Man — and with the current psychedelic renaissance — is the lack of a meaningful systems-level critique. Such a critique would understand humanity’s natural vitalizing impulses — our innate yearning for ecstasy and transcendence through altered states, eroticism, liberated movement, and community communion — as... See more
Daniel Pinchbeck • How Burning Man Failed
“The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.”
— Søren Kierkegaard
— Søren Kierkegaard
Istra of Glome • Tweet
Higgie at one point attends a yoga class, and the instructor “plays a Tibetan singing bowl and tells us quietly that the world needs to soften.” She makes no effort to make the connection between yoga (a Hindu-related spiritual discipline) and a Tibetan singing bowl (a modern invention with roots neither in Tibet nor in shamanism as often claimed).
... See moreJessa Crispin • Culture, Digested: The Worst Book I Read This Year Culture, Digested: The Worst Book I Read This Year
I have my own version of spiritual practice; I’m just not used to acknowledging it to others. But I think it gets expressed through the “why” of the work I do every day, where I’m moved to amplify creative potential in the world, and where I’m in awe of all the strange, ineffable qualities that make us human.
Nadia Asparouhova • Public Faith
people who leave organized religion quickly become eager to replace the void with another system of meaning—a dimension most atheist groups have failed to consider.