Excited to announce that I'll be spending my spring sabbatical (spring 2026) at Harvard's Center for the Study of World Religions @harvardcswr.bsky.social! I know I'm going to meet some fascinating and fantastic scholars there. Can't wait for the mind-blowing conversations

Syrian Druze recall what they believe to be past lives — even vivid details In Syria's large Druze minority, a belief in reincarnation binds the community together.

This is such an interesting story about reincarnation stories in Syria that NPR posted this month:
www.npr.org/2025/05/06/n...

The Impossible Animal: Professors and the Paranormal, Nicole Bauer A few years ago, I had an experience during meditation that I cannot put into words. I can try to describe it with weak metaphors and approximations, but suffice it to say, it was one of those astonishing, sublime, blow-your-doors-off experiences that mystics and many others have recounted for centuries. I had been in the middle of writing an article about proto-communist radicals who attempted to overthrow the government in late eighteenth-century France, just before Napoleon’s coup, and completely lost interest in the project.

The Impossible Animal: Professors and the Paranormal, Nicole Bauer

A few years ago, I had an experience during meditation that I cannot put into words. I can try to describe it with weak metaphors and approximations, but suffice it to say, it was one of those astonishing, sublime,…