Join Casper ter Kuile, author of The Power of Ritual and the co-founder of The Nearness and the Sacred Design Lab, for a conversation with Wayfare Magazine editor Zachary Davis…
Tope, Miriam, and Shahid come from a variety of backgrounds but share an interest in religion and community. Join us as we navigate questions around finding meaning and belonging in…
Join tarot reader Joseline Yu to explore the nuances of tarot through reading cards for one another. In a tarot reading, cards are picked to make a layout full of…
Join Topi Heikkerö to explore one of the first Ch’an (Zen) Buddhist poems: “Faith in Mind” by Master Sengcan, the Third Chinese Ch’an patriarch. This brief poem puts forth the central teaching of non-duality in clear and yet profound way. “The Supreme Way is not difficult If only you don’t pick and choose.” In this…
Join Topi Heikkerö to read and discuss Emily Dickinson’s classic poems. In this salon, we’ll dive into three powerful poems by Emily Dickinson. The emphasis is more on her vision of life, rather than technical analysis of her writing. The promise is that Dickinson can open up the world and life in ways that are…
Entrepreneur, death doula, and adventure-seeker. Driven by her curiosities and inquisitive nature, Maura McInerney-Rowley founded Death Archetypes, Hello, Mortal, and Mauri (an end-of-life consultancy) to transform the denial of death into a celebration of life. Are you ready to embrace the reality of your mortality? Honoring our shared mortality can bring us together and awaken…
"Tell me your life story in three sentences." Join founder Maura McInerney-Rowley and journalist Carolyn Gregorie for an enlightening salon featuring insights from our interview with Darnell Lamont Walker, an Emmy-nominated children's TV writer and death doula, as he shares his expertise on the art of storytelling. Part of the Death Over Coffee series. Explore the transformative process… Continue reading Death Over Coffee: Telling Our Life Stories
Why do people from different cultural backgrounds behave and think differently – if at all? A historical and philosophical lens. My name is Dhruv Ghulati and I am an AI entrepreneur and work in technology. I have lived in Hong Kong, Thailand, Qatar, across the Indian subcontinent, London and the Netherlands. You can find some…
The first of a series of conversations with Robin Hanson, this salon will discuss what "the sacred" is and how best to identify and explain its roles in human life.…
In this introductory salon, we’ll define key terms like “psychedelic” and “set and setting” in order to show how Jewish wisdom, practices, and narrative can serve as both the container…
A grandson of the Baal Shem Tov (the founder of Hasidic Judaism), Rebbe Nachman (1772-1810) originally from Bratslav, Ukraine, is growing in popularity to this day as thousands of pilgrims travel to his gravesite in Uman, Ukraine, every year, even during the war, to pray and connect spiritually. Rebbe Nachman is known for his mandate…
Famed author of Be Here Now, Ram Dass was originally known as Richard Alpert, a nice Jewish boy and psychedelic researcher at Harvard, who, having been expelled from the institution, traveled to India and became a disciple of the Hindu guru Neem Karoli Baba. His writings reflect both his varied psychedelic experiences as well as…
