Ancient India, Living Traditions
September 29th, 2025 | by Harmonist staff
The British Museum’s Ancient India, Living Traditions exhibition brings together exhibits on the sacred art of Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism
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Can You Be Aware of Nothing?
September 18th, 2025 | by Harmonist staff
For some people, sleep brings a peculiar kind of wakefulness. Not a dream, but a quiet awareness with no content. This lesser-known state of consciousness may hold clues to one of science’s biggest mysteries: what it means to be conscious
Psychedelic Sacraments
September 8th, 2025 | by Harmonist staff
Several mental health practitioners and scientists have been staunch advocates of psychedelic-assisted therapy based. What is somewhat new, however, is the addition of a handful of high-profile clergy to the list of supporters
AI Avatars
August 4th, 2025 | by Harmonist staff
I thought of Kisa Gautami’s story when I first encountered the 2020 Korean documentary “Meeting You,” in which virtual reality technology is used to reunite a grieving mother, Jang Ji-sung, with her deceased 7-year-old daughter, Nayeon
Why the Mystery of Consciousness Is Deeper Than We Thought
July 28th, 2025 | by Harmonist staff
Despite great progress, we lack even the beginning of an explanation of how the brain produces our inner world of colors, sounds, smells and tastes
A Hindu Temple for the ‘Unheard and Unseen’
July 21st, 2025 | by Harmonist staff
By Richa Karmarkar, originally published by Religion News Service. NEW YORK (RNS) — Illuminated by a skylight at the center &hellip
Reincarnating Religion
June 19th, 2025 | by Harmonist staff
Why leave church? Unchurched young adults answer by citing too many rules, too much stress on money and power and too little care given to meeting spiritual needs
Africa’s Oldest Hindu Temple
April 3rd, 2025 | by Harmonist staff
Shri Draupadiammen is a revered goddess as well as a key figure in the Mahabharata, a sacred Hindu text. Through firewalking devotees mirror her strength and courage
The Legacy of the Chola Dynasty
January 27th, 2025 | by Harmonist staff
Today, Nataraja is one of the most recognisable symbols of Hinduism. But to the medieval Indian mind, Nataraja was really a symbol of the Cholas
Using AI to Talk to Animals
January 6th, 2025 | by Harmonist staff
Researchers are building an AI system that they hope will, one day, allow humans to understand the many languages that animals use to communicate with one another
Maha Kumbh Mela 2025: The Largest Gathering on Earth
December 19th, 2024 | by Harmonist staff
In 2025, between Jan. 13 and Feb. 26, about 400 million people, more than the population of the United States, are expected to participate in the festival
My Kali is Queer
October 28th, 2024 | by Harmonist staff
Hinduism’s powerful goddess of death and the end of time, wanders through a pride festival in Toronto at night. She observes groups of people out on the town, takes a subway ride, stops in a bar. People take selfies with her. In the last frame, she is on a park bench where a man gives her a cigarette
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