The ultimate nature of everything must ground both the material world and our ability to experience that world. One way to understand that ultimate nature…

This talk will explore a series of conceptual turns in medieval Kabbalah, treating it not only as a theological system but as a transformation of…

This illustrated talk discusses the way in which Zoroastrian thought articulates a cosmological and ethical vision of the tension between constructive and destructive forces. Against…

Contemporary opinion elites worldwide generally hold that mind and consciousness are manufactured by neurophysiological processes occurring in our brains and must therefore vanish at death.…

Existential thinkers have often looked at the human condition as rooted in freedom. Sartre argued that radical freedom stems from the fact that human consciousness…

Are we ruled by astrological forces that dictate our destiny? Can we set ourselves free from our “birth programme”? Gnostics believed that Jesus had abolished…

Isaac Newton is known to have been an intensely secretive person. What has not been known until now is that Newton composed his most famous…

We live in a highly imaginative world. The screens and surfaces that surround us display myriad images. And yet, a sense of confusion or emptiness…

The so-called “Middle Ages” are often perceived as a period in which God was placed at the center of humanity’s intellectual and spiritual world, whereas…