Abstract: If there’s one thing that is widely associated with modern Norse spirituality, it is this form of Paganism’s long, ugly history with white supremacists and the far-right. A lot, however, has changed in the past decade thanks to anti-racist...
Abstract: As an academic, painter and Kriya practioner, my presentation would focus very briefly on the spiritual theories preached by the spiritual masters in the 20th Century India, and then move on to discuss the essence of what I have gained through...
Abstract: Colonialists, such as American Baptist missionaries and British administrators and/or ethnographers, rejected the Nagas’ traditional-primal religion in the mid-nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This blatant colonial rejection, I argue...
The Omu Aro is the emblem and insignia of the Arochukwu people, an Igbo subgroup in Abia State, Southeastern Nigeria. It serves as a symbol of unity, integrity, identity, and is a reflection of the Aro's spirituality. The art, created using elements like...
Abstract: This paper explores the use of power from an African alternative spiritual perspective with particular reference to the practice of sorcery in African Traditional Religion. The purpose of this research is to advance open-hearted dialogue between...
This paper describes a naturalistic spiritual path, Atheopaganism: a godless and non-supernatural religion which has introduced the ritual arts to thousands of practitioners. Drawing from neuroscience, religious studies and the author’s more than 35 years...
Abstract: In this paper, I analyze how Indigenous spiritualities are transforming non-indigenous realities. I investigate the way non-indigenous people are using them to overcome health issues (i.e. depression), but also how they are being commodified for...
Abstract: In my paper, I would like to read Emily Dickinson's poems from the perspective of environmental spirituality, for which the key elements will be spirituality inspired by the earth, taken from pagan practices and ecofeminist works (Merchant...
The Beatles 1968 retreat in an ashram on the banks of the Ganges was a watershed moment in the transmission of Eastern spirituality to the West. With the help of images and selected songs, this presentation will describe the circumstances that brought the...
The paper will propose a comparative analysis between the philosophy of the Indian philosopher Sri Aurobindo, and Rudolf Steiner based on the interstice of their philosophical ideas between transcendence versus immanence or dualism versus non-dualistic...
Abstract: Having survived hundreds of years of colonial domination, India’s indigenous spiritual traditions have, remarkably, come to exert a powerful influence on the colonizing West. While the overall impact has been to deepen and broaden Western...
