Contemplation + SENSEmaking: An Interview with Eve Ekman
I discovered that the mere reflection upon our emotions was an intervention towards well-being.
Contemplation + Indigeneity An Interview With Lance Henson
Contemplation for me involves being in touch with not just the world, but all of the worlds—the dream and the spiritual worlds—and understanding your place within them.
Contemplation + SENSEmaking: An Interview with Adam Lobel
As far as there being categories of East and West, of philosophy versus spirituality or religion, I can’t even draw the boundaries anymore.
Contemplation + SENSEmaking: An Interview with James Gentry
The mind-body binary, the nature-culture binary […] these kinds of dichotomies undergird a lot of the problems that we face as a global society in terms of the eco-crisis.
Contemplation + SENSEmaking
There are a number of things that darkness invites—interiority, depth, authenticity—that artificial intelligence can’t approximate.
ISCR 2025 Contemplative Studies Update
The phenomena we study tend not to present a linear arc from life to death but a cyclical co-emergence of decomposition and re-emergence.
AAR 2025 Contemplative Studies Update
All of these papers demonstrate the ways in which contemplation—in its plurality of methods and modalities—is responsive and resonant across boundaries. In this, contemplation is consistently a methodology of movement, of transformation to reshape how we relate to the world and ourselves.
Contemplation + SENSEmaking: An Interview With Pir Zia
I’ve never regarded this universe as a solely, or even primarily, physical phenomenon. I’ve always had the feeling of inhabiting a multidimensional universe.
Contemplation + Education An Interview With Robert W. Roeser
How could we create a more holistic education that meets young people’s developmental needs and sets them on a path of curiosity, awe, wonder, service, and flourishing?
Fall Contemplative Conferences
The ISCR 2025 Conference is an international conference for rigorous interdisciplinary investigation of contemplative practices in diverse contexts. This year’s theme is The Arc of Life and Death. The conference will feature pre-conference workshops, plenary sessions, contemplative practice periods, individual presentations, concurrent panels, and poster sessions focused on a diverse range of topics and best practices within contemplative research.
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