Any number of world religions may claim to have the monopoly on enlightenment, but a study published Thursday in the journal Psychology of Religion and Spirituality challenges the idea that being ...

People who believe in oneness -- the idea that everything in the world is connected and interdependent -- appear to have greater life satisfaction than those who don't, regardless of whether they ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Alice G. Walton, PhD is a writer who covers health and mental health. People may think of certain religions as being more about ...

Research on meditation and mindfulness is flourishing with a particular focus on wellbeing outcomes. However, recent Western accounts of mindfulness depart from Eastern traditions in important ways.

People who feel a sense of oneness with something outside of themselves are more likely to be satisfied in life, according to a study. The idea that humans form part of a greater whole—from nature to ...

Growing up in segregated Richmond, Virginia, the first creative love of James Branch's life was chemistry. Which seems fitting enough given all the musical compounds he would later contrive. As a ...

Many question the traditional relationship structures, and I find myself drawn to defend what many now dismiss as merely a cultural construct: monogamy. Far from being an outdated social convention, ...

This article has been handpicked from the Okayplayer editorial archives and included in our Hip Hop 50 collection as a noteworthy inclusion to the genre's rich and diverse narrative. The article has ...

On Oneness, trumpeter and composer Matthew Halsall has fashioned a compendium of pieces that are fixed between spiritual meditative repose and poetry in motion. The collection of seven tone poems was ...

Research on meditation and mindfulness is flourishing with a particular focus on wellbeing outcomes. However, recent Western accounts of mindfulness depart from Eastern traditions in important ways.