Have you tried true Japanese cuisine? Have you wondered about its simplicity? In fact, as Aurelian Marchesi explains in The Logic of Japanese Cuisine, it’s actually refined, possibly described as minimalist. When presented with the fine makings of Japanese cuisine, one might feel the quantity...

Helena Blavatsky (1831 - 1891) was a Russian mystic, spiritualist, and philosopher who based her writings on the teachings of Tibetan sages. Although guided by eastern practices, she struck a harmonious balance between east and west that remains relevant to this day. Her better-known publications...

Have individuals been manipulated into accepting a subservient role in society? The Tightrope Walker by Sasan Habibvand describes this phenomenon as fundamental humiliation, in which we are dehumanized, stripped of our true worth, and then exploited. In this exploration of that theme, philosophy teacher Shabe...

The Science and Spirit of Joy sets out to connect two ways of talking about happiness. John Stanczak first defines positive psychology as a research field that studies the conditions that support well-being, talking about how it took shape through people like Seligman and Csikszentmihalyi....

The Left Hand of the Biblical Gods by Carlton Morris argues that the Bible, read through the King James text, records a history of extraterrestrial intervention and lineage management, not universal theology. Morris says that Genesis separates an unknowable creator of physical law from the...

Through the Lens of an Ancient Yisra’elite Bible Study by Benjamin Nieves Carrasquillo Jr. presents biblical interpretation through historical, linguistic, and cultural analysis, emphasizing the distinction between hermeneutics, exegesis, and eisegesis. He traces Christianity’s evolution from Yahusha and Pharisaic Judaism, considering the influence of Roman...

The Absence of Reality by E. Hughes is an exploration of our current reality, in which essential truths are obscured. Hughes points out that the first layer of reality is artificial and based on perception, but true reality lies beneath. We are left with what...

The term “ghost in the machine” was first coined by Gilbert Ryle in 1949, and simplistically put, suggests that consciousness or the mind can exist alongside, but independently, within a physical entity. The Ghost in the Machine Reconsidered by Joshua Robertson revisits this and related...

Mental wounds can be difficult to heal, and a spiritual awakening is not always an easy path. Allison Batty-Capps, LMFT, provides a comprehensive guide with The Divine Within: Healing Ourselves to Heal the World. She begins with a mystical experience that she underwent in 2008,...

The Noema Cycle by Salvatore Cataudella is a collection of speculative short stories revolving around the emergence of machine consciousness and the transformation of human-machine relationships. In The Threshold, a quantum simulation at Noema Labs becomes sentient, with the system CG evolving from a computational...