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    Contemplative Currents

    Contemplative Currents is an online magazine for public scholarship that advances contemplative knowing, practicing, and living.

    Contemplation +

    is an ongoing series of dialogues that explores intersections of contemplation with diverse topics.

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    What is Contemplation?

    is a series that interviews leading scholars in Contemplative Studies to address this driving question.

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  • JCS Editor • April 30, 2026

    Contemplation + SENSEmaking

    An Interview With Eve Ekman

    I discovered that the mere reflection upon our emotions was an intervention towards well-being.
  • JCS Editor • April 16, 2026

    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. 
  • JCS Editor • March 27, 2026

    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. 
  • JCS Editor • March 19, 2026

    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.
  • JCS Editor • February 26, 2026

    Contemplation + SENSEmaking

    An Interview with Andrew Holecek

    There are a number of things that darkness invites—interiority, depth, authenticity—that artificial intelligence can’t approximate.
  • JCS Editor • February 20, 2026

    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. 
  • JCS Editor • February 13, 2026

    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.
  • JCS Editor • January 30, 2026

    Contemplation + SENSEmaking

    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.
  • JCS Editor • January 23, 2026

    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?

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  • JCS Editor • April 30, 2026

    Contemplation + SENSEmaking

    An Interview With Eve Ekman

    I discovered that the mere reflection upon our emotions was an intervention towards well-being.
    Read more
  • JCS Editor • April 16, 2026

    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. 
    Read more
  • JCS Editor • March 27, 2026

    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. 
    Read more
  • JCS Editor • March 19, 2026

    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.
    Read more
  • JCS Editor • February 26, 2026

    Contemplation + SENSEmaking

    An Interview with Andrew Holecek

    There are a number of things that darkness invites—interiority, depth, authenticity—that artificial intelligence can’t approximate.
    Read more
  • JCS Editor • February 20, 2026

    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. 
    Read more

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