Saint John of the Cross was a Carmelite reformer and a mystical writer. Both his poetry and his studies on the growth of the soul are considered the summit of metaphysical Spanish literature.

Probably the most amazing short film you will ever see, featuring one of nature's  greatest and most fleeting phenomena.

There is a place
In the deepest Heart of my Being,
Where mountains rise so high,
They look down upon Heaven.

You drink from Living Waters now,
Flowing from the Wellspring of the Heart.
All is changed.
All is changed.
Oh mind, oh mind,
I leave you here.

Inner Directions has announced their eighth Inner Directions Gathering, 'The Paradox of Awakening', which will be held at its usual location within the Sherwood Auditorium, located at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego.

The 2012 event will include the presenter, Jeff Foster. Read an extract from his book, The Wonder of Being, as well as find out more details about the event.

In an interview with Paula Marvelly, Swami Dayatmananda talks about the teaching of Advaita Vedanta and Swami Vivekananda's dictum that Religion, Science and the Arts are three expressions of the nondual reality.

An exquisite short video by experimental filmmaker, Stan Brakhage, composed of the delicate wings of moths.

Henry Suso, student of Meister Eckhart, was a powerful nondual mystic in his own right, his clear pointing to the 'fifth self' surprisingly modern for a fourteenth-century German Christian monk.