Tag Archives: Religion

The Spiritual In Art Collective

THE SPIRITUAL IN ART COLLECTIVE is an international collective dedicated to research into the spiritual dimension of contemporary art. Formed in 2026 following an international Open Call, the Collective brings together artists from different geographical, cultural and disciplinary contexts. They are united not by a common aesthetic or a predetermined definition of the spiritual, but by a shared willingness to explore its meaning and possibilities within contemporary art.

Extract from ‘Consciousness Came First’

Dr Edi Bilimoria is an award-winning author, engineer, and international speaker with over fifty years of study in the Perennial Philosophy. ‘Consciousness Came First’ is a unique, panoramic and powerful book bridging the gulf between contemporary science and the philosophy of the ages. Aimed at the general rather than the specialist academic reader, it is essential reading for all those attempting to unravel the mysteries of life in the modern age. Based on his monumental award-winning four-volume work ‘Unfolding Consciousness: Exploring the Living Universe and the Intelligent Powers in Nature and Humans’, it is arguably the most radical and persuasive reappraisal of the subject in decades.

AI-Boosted Religion

“AI religions are beginning to emerge as a significant cultural and intellectual phenomenon. This emergent development invites serious scholarly inquiry into the intersection of artificial intelligence, religious cognition, and the deep structures of spiritual longing that have characterized human civilization across millennia.”

Cristian Horgos lives in Romania. After graduating Math and IT, he taught Math-IT for ten years. He currently works for an IT company. Some of his other published articles are: Mathematical equation, hidden in Brâncusi’s Triptych from Târgu-Jiu.

On Complexity and Consciousness

Neil Theise is a Professor of Pathology at the NYU Grossman School of Medicine. Through his scientific research, he has been a pioneer of adult stem cell plasticity and the anatomy of the human interstitium. Dr. Theise’s book, ‘Notes on Complexity: A Scientific Theory of Connection, Consciousness, and Being’ (Spiegel & Grau, 2023) calls on his studies in complexity theory to address topics such as consciousness studies and science-religion dialogue. In this interview he discusses his life, ideas and work.

The Universe May Be Stranger Than Religion Imagined

David W. Falls writes about artificial intelligence, belief, secular meaning, and the future of human identity. This essay explores how human beings have long interpreted strange or unseen experiences as signs, spirits, visitations, or messages from beyond. Its central argument is that science has not made the universe less mysterious. It has made supernatural explanations harder to defend. The unseen may be real, profound, and astonishing without being sacred, personal, or watching us.

The piece moves through perception, pattern-making, grief, ghost belief, religious explanation, and the hidden realities revealed by modern science. It is skeptical of supernatural claims, but not dismissive of the experiences that often give rise to them. My aim is to take mystery seriously without turning it too quickly into doctrine.

Three In One Nature of Consciousness & Dream Seequence

Alan MacDonald was a graphic designer and illustrator for 40 years.
“As a metaphysical artist I am concerned with a three-way comparison between: metaphysics (science of subject / why), Science of object (how), and information technology, the most important metaphor we have for the nature of consciousness. Vedic philosophy, describes the three in one nature of consciousness; rishi, devata, chandas (knower, known, process of knowing). My ‘Dream Sequence’ series proposes dreams as daily status reports from the source regarding our level of alignment with the source. I record every dream, interpret upon waking and illustrate it.”

Voyage to a Beginning: A review of Gary Lachman’s ‘Touched by the Presence’

Luke Gilfedder, a British author and modernist scholar, reviews Gary Lachman’s new memoir, ‘Touched by the Presence: From Blondie’s Bowery and Rock and Roll to Magic and the Occult’. ‘Touched by the Presence’ follows Lachman’s journey from founding member of Blondie to prolific writer on consciousness, counterculture, and the Western esoteric tradition. The book offers a distinctive perspective on the intersection of the arts, existentialism, and the philosophy of consciousness, as experienced by a young person undergoing a major life transition – from member of a world-famous band to full-time author.

From Curvature to Creation : What π really measures

Sabahat Fida is a lecturer in Zoology with the Higher Education Department in Kashmir. With academic training spanning in both the sciences (MSc Zoology) and the humanities (MA Philosophy), her work seeks to bridge the realms of science, metaphysics, religion, and philosophy. ‘From curvature to creation: what pi really measures’ explores the philosophical implications of the mathematical constant π. The piece traces π from its definition to its quiet governance of physical laws and biological form, arguing that its ubiquity points to a mathematically ordered cosmos.

Can you be aware of nothing? The rare sleep experience scientists are trying to understand

Adriana Alcaraz-Sanchez is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (IASH), University of Edinburgh.
“I completed my PhD in Philosophy at the University of Glasgow. I’m interested in the study of consciousness, in particular in altered states of consciousness across wakefulness and sleep. To date, my research has focused on the examination of unusual forms of awareness during sleep, including witnessing-sleep, minimal forms of dreaming, and the hypnagogic state. At present, I’m investigating the links between dreaming and daydreaming. I take an interdisciplinary approach, and most of my work combines methods from analytic philosophy, phenomenology, and qualitative research.”

How higher states of consciousness can forever change your perception of reality

Steve Taylor is a Senior Lecturer in Psychology, Leeds Beckett University.
Steve Taylor PhD is the author of several best-selling books on psychology and spirituality, including his new book DisConnected: The Roots of Human Cruelty and How Connection Can Heal the World. He was past chair of the Transpersonal Section of the British Psychological Society.
Dr Taylor teaches Consciousness Studies, Transpersonal Psychology and Positive Psychology. His research interests are spirituality, transformational experiences, parapsychology and altered states of consciousness.
Steve’s background is in Transpersonal Psychology and Positive Psychology. He has published 14 books, and his journal articles have been published in many academic journals, magazines and newspapers, including The Journal of Humanistic Psychology, The Journal of Consciousness Studies and The Journal of Transpersonal Psychology. His work has been featured widely in the media in the UK.