We have, for the first time in history, easy access to all of the world's great religions. Examine the many great traditions - from Christianity to Buddhism, Islam to Taoism, Paganism to Neoplatonism - and you are struck by two items: there are an enormous number of differences between them, and a handful of striking similarities. When you find a few essential items that all, or virtually all, of the world's great religions agree on, you have probably found something incredibly important about the human condition, at least as important as, say, a few things that physicists can manage to agree on (which nowadays, by the way, ain't all that impressive).

'What's my philosophy? In a word, integral. And what on earth - or in heaven - do I mean by 'integral'? The dictionary meaning is fairly simple: 'comprehensive…

These similarities would seem to suggest, among other things, that there are spiritual patterns at work in the universe, at least as far as we can tell, and th…

This is a massive and violent schism and rupture in the internal organs of today's global culture and this is exactly why many social analysts believe that if …

Mortals deem that the gods are begotten as they are, and have clothes like theirs, and voice and form.

All religions, with their gods, their demigods, and their prophets, their messiahs and their saints, were created by the credulous fancy of men who had not att…

I am an Egyptian Muslim, educated in Cairo and New York, and now living in Vienna. My wife and I have spent half our lives in the North, half in the South. And…