Plato described ordinary life as unthinking, lived in a dim cave of shadowy reflections, but said that it is possible to leave the cave and see things in sunlit clarity as they actually are.

The faith I was born into formed me.

...primal people see the objects of this world not (or not only) as solid but as open windows to their divine source.

Swami Ashokananda was a brilliant and accomplished spiritual teacher in the West.

The goal of spiritual life is not altered states, but altered traits

In the post-individualistic era, science and spirituality will become allies, and human beings will realize a vast potentiality now only dimly felt.

Science can prove nothing about God, because God lies outside its province.