In our keynote moderated discussion with Cornel West, co-host of the Spiritual Citizenship Conference, Oneika Mays, will explore the relationship between Cornel West's spiritual and religious commitments and his political activism. By highlighting the example of his many decades of work, through this conversation we will arrive at a notion of what it means to be a spiritually-informed citizen. We will explore what, from Dr. West's perspective, are the most important things we can do today to start living our spiritual practices in a politically engaged way.
Many spiritual traditions have viewed sexuality as an obstacle to spiritual practice. Because queers are seen as the embodiment of sexuality, our sexualities have been sidelined and prohibited. Yet many queer yogis are also climate justice activists: what connections can we discover between our e...
In this live interview, Andrew Harvey will share his vision of our current unprecedented world crisis. He will show that it is an evolutionary global dark night that could potentially birth an embodied divine humanity. The birthing force, he believes, of this new humanity will be what he calls Sa...
Indigenous/Native Americans, Africans, and Asians have traditions of recognizing and honoring sexual and gender diversity that predates the modern movement to recognize LGBTQIA+ rights by hundreds of years. Due to European settler-colonialism, imperialism, and Christian missionary attacks on indi...