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JCS Editor • January 23, 2025Contemplation +
An Interview With Agnieszka Olszewska-Guizzo
JCS: To begin, we would love to have you introduce yourself and tell us a little bit about you and your work, for our readers. AOG: My name is Agnieszka Olszewska-Guizzo. I hold a PhD in Landscape Architecture and Urban… -
JCS Editor • January 19, 2025Book Review
Review of Night of Beginnings: A Passover Haggadah
“Review of Night of Beginnings: A Passover Haggadah“, Ariel Evan Mayse, Stanford University Reviewed by Ariel Evan Mayse, it discusses Marcia Falk’s Night of Beginnings, a reimagined Passover Haggadah designed to inspire contemplative practice. Falk combines poetic liturgy, gender-inclusive language, and… -
JCS Editor • January 13, 2025Book Review
Review of Neuroscience for Designing Green Spaces: Contemplative Landscapes
“Review of Neuroscience for Designing Green Spaces: Contemplative Landscapes“, Ariel Evan Mayse, Stanford University Reviewed by Ariel Evan Mayse, this review explores how urban green spaces can promote mental well-being through intentional design informed by neuroscience, as discussed by Agnieszka Olszewska-Guizzo… -
Ame Wren • January 9, 2025Sharath Jois
The Active Series
On November 8, 2024, the Contemplative Sciences Center hosted teacher, practitioner, and lineage holder of Ashtanga yoga, Sharath Jois, for an event revealing his new series, The Active Series, and accompanying book by the same name. The event was cohosted… -
JCS Editor • January 6, 2025Special Issue Article
Practicing the “Threefold Mystery”: Rethinking a Shingon Ritual from Dichotomy to Dialectic
“Practicing the ‘Threefold Mystery’: Rethinking a Shingon Ritual from Dichotomy to Dialectic” by Richard K. Payne is a part of Special Issue 4: Philosophy and Contemplation in Tantric Buddhism, Guest edited by Yaroslav Komarovski. Abstract: After a century and a half… -
JCS Editor • December 30, 2024Special Issue Article
No Attainment, Nothing to Attain: A Buddhist Reflection on Psychedelics
“No Attainment, Nothing to Attain: A Buddhist Reflection on Psychedelics” by Peter D. Hershock is a part of Special Issue 1: Psychedelics, Contemplation, and Religion, Guest edited by Daniel A. Hirshberg and Stuart Ray Sarbacker. Abstract: The religious or spiritual value… -
JCS Editor • December 20, 2024What is Contemplation?
An Interview with Michael Sheehy
Michael Sheehy is Research Associate Professor and Director of Research at the Contemplative Sciences Center at University of Virginia where he is Principal at CIRCL Contemplative Innovation + Research Co-Lab and Editor in Chief of the Journal of Contemplative Studies. -
JCS Editor • December 20, 2024Conference Recap
American Academy of Religion Annual Conference, 2024
The American Academy of Religion held its 2024 Annual Meeting in San Diego, CA, November 23-26. The Contemplative Studies unit sponsored or co-sponsored three panels exploring contemplative practices, experiences, and traditions. Topics ranged from Confucian contemplations for college students, to… -
JCS Editor • December 6, 2024What is Contemplation?
An Interview With Oludamini Ogunnaike
Oludamini Ogunnaike is an Associate Professor of African Religious Thought and Democracy at the University of Virginia. He is the author of Deep Knowledge: Ways of Knowing in Sufism and Ifa, Two West African Intellectual Traditions (2020) and Poetry in…
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JCS Editor • January 23, 2025
Contemplation +
An Interview With Agnieszka Olszewska-Guizzo
JCS: To begin, we would love to have you introduce yourself and tell us a little bit about you and your work, for our readers. AOG: My name is Agnieszka Olszewska-Guizzo. I hold a PhD in Landscape Architecture and Urban… -
JCS Editor • January 19, 2025
Book Review
Review of Night of Beginnings: A Passover Haggadah
“Review of Night of Beginnings: A Passover Haggadah“, Ariel Evan Mayse, Stanford University Reviewed by Ariel Evan Mayse, it discusses Marcia Falk’s Night of Beginnings, a reimagined Passover Haggadah designed to inspire contemplative practice. Falk combines poetic liturgy, gender-inclusive language, and… -
JCS Editor • January 13, 2025
Book Review
Review of Neuroscience for Designing Green Spaces: Contemplative Landscapes
“Review of Neuroscience for Designing Green Spaces: Contemplative Landscapes“, Ariel Evan Mayse, Stanford University Reviewed by Ariel Evan Mayse, this review explores how urban green spaces can promote mental well-being through intentional design informed by neuroscience, as discussed by Agnieszka Olszewska-Guizzo… -
Ame Wren • January 9, 2025
Sharath Jois
The Active Series
On November 8, 2024, the Contemplative Sciences Center hosted teacher, practitioner, and lineage holder of Ashtanga yoga, Sharath Jois, for an event revealing his new series, The Active Series, and accompanying book by the same name. The event was cohosted… -
JCS Editor • January 6, 2025
Special Issue Article
Practicing the “Threefold Mystery”: Rethinking a Shingon Ritual from Dichotomy to Dialectic
“Practicing the ‘Threefold Mystery’: Rethinking a Shingon Ritual from Dichotomy to Dialectic” by Richard K. Payne is a part of Special Issue 4: Philosophy and Contemplation in Tantric Buddhism, Guest edited by Yaroslav Komarovski. Abstract: After a century and a half… -
JCS Editor • December 30, 2024
Special Issue Article
No Attainment, Nothing to Attain: A Buddhist Reflection on Psychedelics
“No Attainment, Nothing to Attain: A Buddhist Reflection on Psychedelics” by Peter D. Hershock is a part of Special Issue 1: Psychedelics, Contemplation, and Religion, Guest edited by Daniel A. Hirshberg and Stuart Ray Sarbacker. Abstract: The religious or spiritual value…