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By Ann Kaplan Mulholland

“Just because I study spirituality-because I talk about it-that does not mean I am a good person, but it doesn't mean I am not either.”


Deconstructing the Transpersonal Leader

Everyone knows what it’s like to be under the “leadership” of a crummy boss. This is the guy who has no particular sense of what his employees need or want from their professional lives, and demonstrates no interest whatsoever in becoming otherwise enlightened. He’s in the gig for the ego boost and the paycheque, and…


Falling into the Season

“There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven,” goes Ecclesiastes 3:1. “To everything, turn, turn, turn,” piped up The Byrds a few years later, on a more secular note. Both are right, and none more poignantly so than at this time of year, when nature sheds its summer clothes…


What Spiritual Type are You?

The question of what your religion is, arguably among the most historically simple of queries, takes on new complication in today’s increasingly complex spiritual landscape. However, because human beings find life so much simpler when we can put ourselves in a box, we persevere with the line of inquiry. It’s why myriad tests have emerged…


Enlightened Takes Spirituality to the Small Screen

Mascara streaks down her cheeks and rage gathers in her heart, Laura Dern’s character Amy Jellicoe nearly mows down a coworker in an emotion-fueled march down an office hallway in one of the early scenes of the new show, Enlightened. “Amy!” implores another employee. “You look insane!” Jellicoe doesn’t miss a beat with her furious…


Think Different: The Spirituality of Steve Jobs

When Steve Jobs died, the world reeled in elaborate and extravagant response. The passing of a man who had been CEO of a company inspired such poignant, world-sweeping sorrow among a legion of strangers that it was kind of a miracle. Clearly, this man Steve Jobs was something more than one more corporate whiz with…