Contemplation + Psychedelics: An Interview With Stuart Ray Sarbacker

Contemplation + Psychedelics: An Interview With Stuart Ray Sarbacker

JCS: How do you bring yogic traditions and psychedelic science together? What brought you to this point? SS: There are a number of different factors. Part of it came out of my own experiments with contemplative practices and with psychedelics, which, among other things, had played a part in my interest in the study of…

SPECIAL ISSUE ARTICLE: The Contemplative Mood of Nan Shepherd’s The Living Mountain: Toward an Embodied Ecocentric Epistemology
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SPECIAL ISSUE ARTICLE: The Contemplative Mood of Nan Shepherd’s The Living Mountain: Toward an Embodied Ecocentric Epistemology

“The Contemplative Mood of Nan Shepherd’s The Living Mountain: Toward an Embodied Ecocentric Epistemology” by Jared R. Lindahl is a part of Special Issue #03: Contemplative Ecology. Abstract: Nan Shepherd (1893–1981) was a Scottish novelist, poet, educator, and mountaineer. Her primary work of nonfiction, The Living Mountain, concerns the Cairngorm mountains of Scotland. More than a work of natural…

SPECIAL ISSUE ARTICLE: The Persistence of Habit: Tantric Engagements with Dharmakīrti’s View of Yogic Perception
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SPECIAL ISSUE ARTICLE: The Persistence of Habit: Tantric Engagements with Dharmakīrti’s View of Yogic Perception

After a century and a half of focus on Buddhist doctrine, academic attention is increasingly being paid to practice. What remains undertheorized, however, is the relation between the two. An example of this is the idea that tantric practice is simply a ritual technology, separate and autonomous from doctrinal formulation. This is a persisting academic trope, one that conceptualizes doctrine and practice dichotomously.

Contemplation + Medicine: An Interview With Pierce Salguero

Contemplation + Medicine: An Interview With Pierce Salguero

JCS: I’m really curious how you came to this intersection of Contemplative Studies and Health. You’ve largely been studying Buddhist medicine, is that right? What brought you here? Either professionally, personally, or all of the above. PS: I never felt like I fit into any discipline, from my college years up until the present, because…

SPECIAL ISSUE ARTICLE: Self-Transformative Research: Effects on Researchers of a Holistic Collaborative Study of Spiritual Exemplars
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SPECIAL ISSUE ARTICLE: Self-Transformative Research: Effects on Researchers of a Holistic Collaborative Study of Spiritual Exemplars

After a century and a half of focus on Buddhist doctrine, academic attention is increasingly being paid to practice. What remains undertheorized, however, is the relation between the two. An example of this is the idea that tantric practice is simply a ritual technology, separate and autonomous from doctrinal formulation. This is a persisting academic trope, one that conceptualizes doctrine and practice dichotomously.

ISCR Conference 2025
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ISCR Conference 2025

Abstracts and Proposals Due April 30th, 2025 The 3rd Conference of the International Society for Contemplative Research (ISCR) will be held on the campus of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from November 3-6, 2025. The ISCR 2025 Conference is an international conference for rigorous interdisciplinary investigation of contemplative practices in diverse contexts. This year’s…

SPECIAL ISSUE ARTICLE: Riven: A Mysticism of Place in Times of Grief
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SPECIAL ISSUE ARTICLE: Riven: A Mysticism of Place in Times of Grief

After a century and a half of focus on Buddhist doctrine, academic attention is increasingly being paid to practice. What remains undertheorized, however, is the relation between the two. An example of this is the idea that tantric practice is simply a ritual technology, separate and autonomous from doctrinal formulation. This is a persisting academic trope, one that conceptualizes doctrine and practice dichotomously.

SPECIAL ISSUE ARTICLE: Contemplative Life amidst Mass Extinction: Catholic Revisions of Spirituality, Law, and Multispecies Justice
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SPECIAL ISSUE ARTICLE: Contemplative Life amidst Mass Extinction: Catholic Revisions of Spirituality, Law, and Multispecies Justice

After a century and a half of focus on Buddhist doctrine, academic attention is increasingly being paid to practice. What remains undertheorized, however, is the relation between the two. An example of this is the idea that tantric practice is simply a ritual technology, separate and autonomous from doctrinal formulation. This is a persisting academic trope, one that conceptualizes doctrine and practice dichotomously.

Contemplation + The Body: An Interview With Donata Schoeller

Contemplation + The Body: An Interview With Donata Schoeller

Donata Schoeller is the co-founder and academic director of the European Erasmus training program Embodied Critical Thinking and Understanding (TECTU), and the principal investigator and conceptual director of the international research project “Freedom to make sense: embodied, experiential and mindful research.” She is the author of Close Talking and co-editor of Embodied Thinking in Research and Learning, Saying What We Mean, and Thinking Thinking.

SPECIAL ISSUE ARTICLE: Supreme Patriarch Suk Kai Thuean’s Method of Visualizing the Elements
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SPECIAL ISSUE ARTICLE: Supreme Patriarch Suk Kai Thuean’s Method of Visualizing the Elements

After a century and a half of focus on Buddhist doctrine, academic attention is increasingly being paid to practice. What remains undertheorized, however, is the relation between the two. An example of this is the idea that tantric practice is simply a ritual technology, separate and autonomous from doctrinal formulation. This is a persisting academic trope, one that conceptualizes doctrine and practice dichotomously.

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