Modern spirituality

In choosing how we are in the world, we shape our experience of that world, our contribution to it. We shape our world, our inner world, our outer world, which is really the only one we’ll ever know. And to me, that’s the substance of the spiritual journey. That’s not an exasperating idea but an infinitely emboldening one.

Maria Popova • Maria Popova — Cartographer of Meaning in a Digital Age

Natalie Audelo

To DIY your own world of life signifiers, you have to think you can improve on a

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as a coming-of-age ritual, on shabbat as a form of digital detox, and as

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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?

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When scientific progress destabilized religious authority and the lack of meaning found in a pure rational worldview revealed science’s limitations, movements like Theosophy offered a kind of third way, a path toward understanding the world between science and religion. Theosophy was in conversation with both realms, using tools like magical