Eastern & Non-DualGREEN MOUNTAINS, Vt.
The Monk, the Theologian, and the Soul in the Machine
A Vermont techno-monastery and the Herd of God's own theologian have fallen into a long, courteous, unresolved argument about suffering — and about...
The Eastern Desk
Eastern & Non-Dual
Western splinters that took a patient tradition and attached a clock to it. The traditions are not amused.
'The Age Must Turn': The Vanguard That Says the Bottom Is Now
A non-dual movement holds that we are at the nadir of a cosmic cycle — and that hastening its turning is a sacred duty. Its rhetoric alarms scholar...
The Lab That Builds Minds From Belief
A self-described 'metascientific' order revives a Tibetan thoughtform practice and calls it engineering. Their creations, they insist, are real. So...
Chasing the Rainbow Body on a Deadline
A Western splinter group has taken a contemplative ideal and attached a clock to it. Practitioners of the tradition it borrows from are not amused.