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 • October 29, 2026

    Special Issue Published

    Special Issue #01: Psychedelics, Contemplation, and Religion

    The Journal of Contemplative Studies is happy to announce that Special Issue #01: Psychedelics, Contemplation, and Religion, has been fully published! Guest edited by Stuart Ray Sarbacker, Oregon State University, and Daniel A. Hirshberg, University of Colorado Boulder, this issue…
  • JCS Editor • October 22, 2026

    Contemplative Studies at the AAR Annual Meeting

    November 21-24, 2026

    Contemplative Studies Unit Whither the future? Forward-looking Frameworks for Contemplative Research  Hosted by: Contemplative Studies Unit Sunday, 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM. This panel draws on forward-looking methodologies for understanding contemplative praxis. Drawing from a range of traditions, from Indigenous traditions,…
  • JCS Editor • October 8, 2026

    Contemplation + Justice

    An Interview with Rhonda Magee

     I could readily see how mindfulness might support our students in deepening their skillfulness as lawyers, in listening, thinking, writing, in helping people resolve immediate conflict. 
  • JCS Editor • October 1, 2026

    Contemplation + SENSEmaking

    An Interview with Mikey Siegel

    How do you create universally accessible tools and technologies  to shift collective human consciousness?   
  • JCS Editor • September 17, 2026

    Contemplation + SENSEmaking

    An Interview with JoVia Armstrong

    I think it’s about intention, right? Some people have argued that all music is therapeutic. But what if it was intentionally composed that way?
  • JCS Editor • July 30, 2026

    Contemplation + Scrolling

    An Interview With Sarah Beach

    “Mindful scrolling,” or the mindful use of any technology, is a little bit of a contradiction, like putting a square peg in a round hole.
  • JCS Editor • July 9, 2026

    Author Insight

    An Article With Muhammad 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.
  • 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.
  • 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?
  • JCS Editor • October 29, 2026

    Special Issue Published

    Special Issue #01: Psychedelics, Contemplation, and Religion

    The Journal of Contemplative Studies is happy to announce that Special Issue #01: Psychedelics, Contemplation, and Religion, has been fully published! Guest edited by Stuart Ray Sarbacker, Oregon State University, and Daniel A. Hirshberg, University of Colorado Boulder, this issue…
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  • JCS Editor • October 22, 2026

    Contemplative Studies at the AAR Annual Meeting

    November 21-24, 2026

    Contemplative Studies Unit Whither the future? Forward-looking Frameworks for Contemplative Research  Hosted by: Contemplative Studies Unit Sunday, 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM. This panel draws on forward-looking methodologies for understanding contemplative praxis. Drawing from a range of traditions, from Indigenous traditions,…
    Read more
  • JCS Editor • October 8, 2026

    Contemplation + Justice

    An Interview with Rhonda Magee

     I could readily see how mindfulness might support our students in deepening their skillfulness as lawyers, in listening, thinking, writing, in helping people resolve immediate conflict. 
    Read more
  • JCS Editor • October 1, 2026

    Contemplation + SENSEmaking

    An Interview with Mikey Siegel

    How do you create universally accessible tools and technologies  to shift collective human consciousness?   
    Read more
  • JCS Editor • September 17, 2026

    Contemplation + SENSEmaking

    An Interview with JoVia Armstrong

    I think it’s about intention, right? Some people have argued that all music is therapeutic. But what if it was intentionally composed that way?
    Read more
  • JCS Editor • July 30, 2026

    Contemplation + Scrolling

    An Interview With Sarah Beach

    “Mindful scrolling,” or the mindful use of any technology, is a little bit of a contradiction, like putting a square peg in a round hole.
    Read more