Recently I’ve been contemplating the loss in modern culture of authentic sacred rituals and places, so when I came across...
The syncretic Santo Daime religion of Brazil is a fascinating mix of Catholicism, Spiritism, African animism and indigenous South American...
In 2006, if you had asked to any self-professed rationalist/atheist who was the person he or she admired the most,...
There are very few things that make me laugh out loud, but the Myths Retold website is one of them....
Erik Davis has a wonderful piece up at Aeon Magazine discussing the 2011 documentary Kumaré (trailer above), the ‘prank’ at...
There’s been no shortage of press coverage in the past week regarding a news story about Scientology’s construction of an...
The Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamun has become famous to us in the modern age mainly as a consequence of his tomb...
Members of New Zealand’s defence force farewell fallen comrades with an emotional haka: Haka is used throughout New Zealand by...
