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Frithjof Schuon

Born in Basle, Switzerland in 1907, Frithjof Schuon was the twentieth century's pre-eminent spokesman for the perennialist school of comparative religious thought. The leitmotif of Schuon's work was foreshadowed in an encounter during his youth with a marabout who had accompanied some members of his Senegalese village....[more]

Mrinal Kaul `Martand'

Mrinal Kaul (b. 1981- ) read for a B.A. (Hons.) in Sanskrit at St Stephen’s College in University of Delhi (2000-2003), and proceeded to a Certificate Course in Manuscriptology, an Advanced Course in the Indian Grammatical Traditions and an incomplete M.A. in Sanskrit (with specialization in Nyaya) at Center for Advanc....[more]

Aadeshnath

For English version of the original Hindi interview on OMNI TV. Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsE8xr3bKq0 Yogi Hemant Panchpor alias Aadeshnath was born and brought up in a middle class family from Pune, India. He has traveled to different parts of the world in the search of mystery of spiritual world. Settle....[more]

Alma Gottlieb

I am a cultural anthropologist. I earned my BA from Sarah Lawrence College in anthropology and French (1975), and my MA (1978) and PhD (1983) in cultural anthropology from the University of Virginia. Among other works, I am the author of The Afterlife Is Where We Come from: The Culture of Infancy in West Africa (2004....[more]

Body, Mind & Spirit, Religion

Skye Alexander

Architecture, Body, Mind & Spirit, Health & Fitness, House & Home

Al-Ghazali

Philosophy, Religion

Abu Hamid Muhammed ibn-Muhammed a-Tusi al-Ghazali began an academic career in Baghdad, but abandoned it after a spiritual crisis in 1095. He became a Sufi mystic and, after years of wandering, settled in Tus, Persia (his birthplace) where he and his followers took up a monastic life. After visiting Mecca, Alexandria, a....[more]