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The Milk of Stars
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Burning for God: The Mystical Rebellion of St. Teresa of Ávila
Poetic Disobedience Part 2
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An excerpt from my dissertation "The Bee Cult in Greek Myth and Ancient History"
(Part 1) Women's Religious Experience: The Ancient Mediterranean Sistrum
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To Yield Yourself to a Dream
(Part 2) | The Lost Language of the Imagination in the British Romantic Era
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When Caves were Temples (Part 1)
I was eight years old the first time I set foot in a prehistoric cave. It was the same cave my father visited as a child, and my grandparents before…
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To Know With the Entirety of Who We Are
My Approach to Knowledge: Intellectual and Experiential Ways of Knowing
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The Oracular Arts
Prophetic Priestesses of the Bee and the Serpent
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On the Wine of Dionysus: Ecstasy, Longing and Duende
This study emerged out of a wine bottle that slipped through my fingers one night in a seemingly preordained descent, crash-landing on the pavement at…
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What is the Otherworld?
The Sacred in the Mundane
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What happened to religion?
On Ritual (part 4) Purification, ordinary divinity and the possibility of religious continuity from Bali to the temples of the deep past
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Of Love and Books
In conversation with a Spanish Catholic Priest
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Poetic Disobedience: On the Great Mystics Who Set the World on Fire
A new series for paid subscribers
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