How are contemplation and meditation linked? Which is more important? How do you approach one from the vantage of the other? In our time, these two gifts of prayer are often conflated and confused by ...

Do the world’s religions and contemplative traditions send people to the same place – compassion, bliss, awe, a sense of God, awareness, or the universe? We conducted a study that asked a smaller ...

Meditation is an ancient human practice. Our ability to artfully cultivate attentive, imaginal, and embodied modes of consciousness, and more so, intentionally design and apply techniques to transcend ...

The recent International Symposium for Contemplative Studies (ISCS), held in Denver, opened with a guided meditation-turned-keynote address by mindfulness pioneer Jon Kabat-Zinn, sitting cross-legged ...

Whether it's prayer, meditation, tai chi, or just chanting, every major religion weaves some form of contemplative practice into its rituals. You don't even have be religious to enjoy the widely ...

In a few months I will be completing nine years of writing for “Mystic Mantra”. These columns are written as much for my own spiritual awakening and benefit as, hopefully, for that of the readers.

Sigal Samuel is a correspondent for Vox’s Future Perfect. She writes primarily about the future of consciousness, tracking advances in artificial intelligence and neuroscience and their staggering ...

Guest blogger Jeff Genung is co-founder and President of Contemplative Life http://contemplativelife.org, a non-profit technology company that helps connect people ...