Thank you for the illuminating discussion of the Esalen Institute and its relationship to American spiritual thought (“From Emerson to Esalen: America’s Religion of No Religion,” The Chronicle Review, ...

Experiencing 2020 from the POV of a rational-minded person is exhausting and scary. It sometimes feels as though we’ve ended up in the worst timeline of a badly-scripted parallel universes story.

I am grateful to Daniela Vocheci, who contacted me after my last post (Science and Spirituality 2) to ask some interesting questions. In my reply, I pointed out that the general tone of her enquiry ...