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.

    All Interviews
    • JCS Editor • July 9, 2026

      Author Insight

      An Article With Muhammed Faruque

      It is one thing to speak of interconnectedness at a theoretical level, but quite another to demonstrate, in practice, that it can be—and indeed is—achieved.
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    • JCS Editor • June 25, 2026

      Contemplation + SENSEmaking

      An Interview with Wolfgang Buttress

      Over the course of about a decade, I began to understand something fundamental: I wasn’t separate from nature—I was part of it.
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    • James MacNee • June 18, 2026

      Workshop on Metaphor in Tibetan Contemplative Literature

      How do metaphors—and the poetic utterances they inhabit—participate in projects of transformation and cultivation within Tibetan literature? In short, how do metaphors work contemplatively?
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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.
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    • 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. 
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    • 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. 
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