A collection of prayer, poetry, and spiritual practice centering the Black interior world, from the New York Times bestselling author of This Here Flesh and creator of Black Liturgies "A true ...

Hypnosis, prayer and meditation offer unique pathways to altered states of awareness, self-reflection and healing. Exploring relationships, similarities and differences among them will help us appreci ...

Millions of people use these tools every day. But it has been more of a private affair to prevent a public offense. Why have such valuable tools been silenced from public expression and hidden from ...

Mention meditation and many of us think of Buddhist monks, orange robes and incense. But meditation is increasingly being recognised outside of the spiritual realm as a powerful health improvement ...

For centuries, people have offered prayers for the sick, often with surprising results. Now, medical research has shown proof that healing prayers have positive results for the sick. Spiritual gurus ...

Smudging is the practice of lighting herbs to create smoke that is wafted around a person or space in order to cleanse and purify surrounding energy. Spiritual experts stress that it is the intention ...

As I witnessed the droning sounds of Tarek Atoui’s hybrid sculpture performance Organ Within at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, I noticed a family of four—two young parents with two ...

On a quiet Saturday afternoon, Ming He, a fourth-year medical student in Dallas, came across a man dying in the VA Hospital. Suffering from a rare cancer and hooked up to an oxygen tank, the man, an ...

As a returning cancer warrior, hospital rooms, medical procedures and prayers for positive results are, once again, part of ...

After a devastating family tragedy in her early 30s, journalist Joh Jarvis found solace in mediation. Now, she teaches the spiritual practice to prisoners in America's most notorious jails. At a time ...