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Robert Bly’s discursive book Iron John (Addison-Wesley, 1990) intended to identify a new mental and social model and updated myth for the modern male psycholo...

“Meditation” is being popularized by media, but the technique is not meditation but “relaxation.” The distinction arose with the 1975 bo...

Perhaps reflective of the cultural mentality and spiritual crisis of the turn of the 20th-century and earliest decades thereafter, all of Hermann Hesse’s ...

The history of religion charts the relationship between environment and culture. The natural environment or geography in which ancient peoples lived was the phy...

Just as hermits are often viewed stereotypically as eccentric wilderness recluses, so, too, the typical introduction to historical hermits is often to Antony th...

Neurologist and popular writer Oliver Sacks has long chronicled the oddities of neurology. His most striking anecdotes involve hallucinations, both visual and a...

Popular media today, including book popularizations, describe the atomization of people in modern urban technological culture, lamenting a lost — perhaps ...

Nishida Kitaro (1870-1945) was not only Japan’s foremost philosopher but remains a significant world philosopher of the 20th century. Though little known ...

According to scientists, solitary animals are those animals which — with the exception of the evolutionary necessities of feeding and reproduction, includ...

Montaigne’s essay “That to Philosophize is to Learn to Die” is filled with quotations of the ancient Romans because they reflect MontaigneR...