Soul Boom: Why We Need a Spiritual Revolution

The great British documentarian and philosopher Adam Curtis talks about how in Victorian times people spoke about death constantly but never about sex. In contemporary society, the reverse is true: we never talk about death but are obsessed with sex. I think that’s why the COVID-19 pandemic was especially terrifying to us. As body bags were stacked

Father Pierre Teilhard de Chardin: We are not human beings having a spiritual experience; we are spiritual beings having a human experience.

Although faith and religion are never overtly mentioned in the show, and Star Trek’s central focus is the glorification of science and exploration, to me the core message is essentially a spiritual one. Global unity for our human family, founded on increased compassion and universal equity.

What kind of old human do you want to be? That is, if my perspective is right and your consciousness and its corollary—your soul—exists beyond your physical body, who is the person you are taking with you when the old age segment of your life is finally over?

All men have been created to carry forward an ever-advancing civilization.

When you stop and deeply consider these insidious pandemics of injustice, disease, and imbalance, you start to see connections between them that make it much more difficult to examine them individually.

great fiction and poetry address core universal human issues.

In the country of Bhutan, happiness is a central focus of life and culture. The government doesn’t solely measure economic improvement but also its citizens’ well-being, with its tracking of GNH or Gross National Happiness. And yet, in the same culture, one is expected to think about death at least three times a day.

We are currently in a global mental health crisis that is ruthlessly affecting teens and young adults at a rate unlike anything the world has ever seen. In the dozens and dozens of talks and presentations I’ve given at colleges and universities, this fact seems to be abundantly well-known by those under fifty and almost completely, cluelessly unkno