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September 2023

September 30, 2023

Practical Spirituality: Key Questions

Seekers go through two stages in their spiritual journey: exploring and applying. During the exploration...

September 14, 2023

Conscious Spiritual Homeostasis

Can we apply the same principles the body uses for homeostasis to spiritual living? In...

September 03, 2023

Can Nonduality Be Life-Affirming?

The philosophy of non-duality has enamored me since I was in my early twenties. The...

August 2023

August 15, 2023

The Easiest Way to Give Meaning to Emotional Pain?

Life is hard. We all experience physical, mental and emotional pain from time to time....

August 07, 2023

Interspirituality is Best Understood at 30.000 Feet but Can Only Be Practiced on the Ground

The deeper you dig into something, the more differences you see. Details unveil diversity. That...

June 2023

June 17, 2023

The Spiritual Act of Fatherhood

Rather than being mere sperm donors, men can transform fatherhood into a spiritual act when...

June 14, 2023

Spirituality for Broken People

I was broken when I first ventured outside the realm of traditional religion. Family circumstances...

February 2023

February 17, 2023

Is Interrogative Thinking the Wisdom Described in the Serenity Prayer?

Recently, I’ve become aware of the idea of interrogative thinking and am fascinated, probably because...

February 03, 2023

Two Ways to Talk About Meditation

“I am giving a meditation talk next week at our church,” a friend told me...

January 2023

January 30, 2023

Dear Fellow Spiritual Seekers: We Are Too Serious

My daughter asked me which three movies I’d take with me to a desert island....

January 27, 2023

Know This Atman: A Reflection

Know this Atman Unborn, undying, Never ceasing, beginning, Deathless, birthless, Unchanging for ever. How can...

January 20, 2023

Writing Your Interspiritual Life Story

One of the first things I encourage people to do in the interspiritual mapping process...

January 16, 2023

An Interspiritual Mapping Process

Practicing interspirituality can be confusing. That is why it is important to have a mapping...

January 10, 2023

Flow With Life

One of the great lessons we can learn from ancient spiritual seekers is their observance...

January 06, 2023

The Ten Most Read Articles of 2022: Interspirituality for the Modern Day Seeker

Humanity, interfaith ministry, beliefs, integral theory, moments of peace, Christianity and Buddhism, faith definitions, trans-rational...

December 2022

December 26, 2022

Three Proven Ways to Increase Empathy

Empathy can be described as the ability to expand consciousness and put oneself in other...

December 12, 2022

All or Nothing Thinking May Be Limiting Your Interspiritual Journey

One of the many wise things that Yogi Shanti Desai, my teacher and mentor for...

December 09, 2022

Faith: Beyond Reason

“Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.” M....

November 2022

November 28, 2022

Nonduality Without Apathy: How I Keep Non-Attachment from Turning Into Indifference

I fell in love with the concept of nonduality in my early twenties. The concepts...

November 21, 2022

The Universal Spiritual Acts of Experimentation, Contemplation, Love and Service

“Religion is doing; a man does not merely think his religion or feel it, he...

November 07, 2022

Introducing the Monk of All Faiths

Last year, I published a small book titled Monk of All Faiths. I based the...

October 2022

October 28, 2022

Is Your Spiritual Teacher Parroting?

We all know what parroting means in communications. It’s repeating precisely what someone else said...

October 03, 2022

Interspiritual Explorers Are Lonely

“I’ve never spoken to anyone about this,” a recent client told me. “My wife is...

September 2022

September 16, 2022

A Way to Understand Nondual Oneness

What is nondual oneness? That is a question that most spiritual teachers struggle to answer....

September 05, 2022

Being a Spiritual Seeker Can Be Both a Sign of Weakness and Strength

People seek for different reasons. Some are lost. Others are explorers. The reason motivates the...

August 2022

August 25, 2022

What Deceased Spiritual Teachers Cannot Teach Us

I revere much of the wisdom that has been preserved in spiritual and religious traditions....

August 22, 2022

Interspirituality is Not the Same as Superstition

In this article, I want to clarify the difference between interspirituality and superstition. There is...

August 18, 2022

Finding Original Intent: A Key to Practicing Interspirituality

If you are interested in interspirituality, you have to ask one key question before you...

August 08, 2022

An Episcopalian Priest: Half My Congregation Practices Buddhist Meditation

About five years ago, I met an Episcopalian priest for coffee. I was a newly...

August 04, 2022

How To Practice Interspirituality

In a previous article, I defined ‘interspirituality’ as the “exploration of the immaterial or sentient...

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