The distinguished biographer and professor of philosophy explores what it means to live a ‘good life’ and the idea – as expressed in the lives of Spinoza, George Eliot and the Indian sage Ramana Maharshi – that we are all ‘modes of the infinite’
The Oxford psychologist talks about the development of MBCT, how it can help us look upon ourselves with a compassionate gaze and find peace in a chaotic world. ‘If we live in a universe which is, as David Bentley Hart’s book says, All Things are Full of Gods… then we can’t distinguish a secular practice from a sacred practice.’
The Scottish writer, theologian, and environmental activist talks about climate change as fundamentally a spiritual crisis – a wake-up call inviting us to understand the world as a manifestation of the divine. ‘This is where the evolution of conscious life on Earth has brought the planet to.’
The yoga and somatics educator Lisa Peterson talks about her unique form of teaching, which blends together therapeutic practice and spiritual enquiry, guiding students through the lived experience of breath, movement and consciousness
The Los Angeles based writer talks about her recent book Time, Myth and Matter: Essays on the Natures and Narratives of Reality, in which she weaves myth and science into a coherent narrative and looks at the intertwining of the inner or psychic dimension with the outer world of physics
The well-known scientist and author talks about the need to rethink our agriculture so that it is more sustainable and equitable, and to base our economic system on the perennial values of compassion, humility and oneness