The majority of scholarship on radicalism focuses on political activists, and only occasionally on literary authors. This is, of course, to be expected, because there is so much to be explored in areas ranging from anarchism, communism, environmental activism, terrorism, and communalism, to name those types of radicalism discussed in the nearly twenty years of JSR articles thus far. At the same...
Abstract There is a history of psychedelics and entheogens in twentieth- and twenty-first century in the context of neo-gnostic elements from contemporary popular authors and scholars including Christopher Bache, Jonathan Phillips, Erik Davis, and Daniel Pinchbeck. In particular the scholarly work of Christopher Partridge provides some context. Christopher Bache’s work also clearly has a...
A lthough there have been many advances in physics, the implications of quantum theories have not been incorporated into the humanities. As a result, much of academia has remained in a seventeenth or eighteenth century worldview, with some scholars still seeking to analyze spirituality in dualistic, reductionistic, and materialistic terms that in fact have been superceded. Such perspectives...