In this video from 2020, the discussion focuses on the Esalen Institute, in Big Sur, California, as an important hub of the human potential movement that began in the 1960s and continues to the present day. Topics include gestalt therapy, holotropic breathing, kundalini and the Spiritual Emergence Network, sensory isolation, rebirthing, encounter groups, Rolfing and [...]

He focuses on the distinctions between physical light and many forms of spiritual light, including magical light, Egyptian light, and divine light. He reflects on the multiple meanings of the notion of light entrapped within matter or flesh. He argues that scientism, to the extent that it denies the realities of the spirit, is a [...]

Frank X. Barron, PhD, a World War II veteran and a professor emeritus of psychology at the University of California, Santa Cruz, was an internationally influential figure in the study of human personality and creativity for nearly half a century. He authored many books, including Creativity and Psychological Health. 

Glenn is offering an online seminar on April 9 – 30, four Thursdays, 10 am – 1 pm, MDT. See https://glennaparicioparry.com/events/original-love-workshop-february-2026/

Arthur explores how alchemical traditions—understood as processes of inner, relational, and cultural transformation—can guide the regeneration of society during times of instability. Drawing from Christian theosophy, Hermeticism, and Tibetan Buddhism, he reframes “light work” as a grounded, symbolic practice rooted in natural stages of consciousness and spiritual development. Versluis points toward decentralized, spiritually attuned communities [...]

In this reboot from 2020, James acknowledges that he is approaching this topic as a mystic and a scholar, but not as a practitioner of ceremonial magic. He reviews various historical cases of conjuring, particularly that of John Dee, the court astrologer to Elizabeth I. He points out that laws against conjuring were established by [...]

Here he suggests that the current systems of chakras have antecedents going back to the Indus Valley civilization over 5,000 years ago. Much of our contemporary understanding can be traced by to a sixteenth century manuscript that was translated into English by Sir John Woodroffe as The Serpent Power. The discussion focuses on the deities, [...]