Beyond the issue of the clinical applications and psychedelic research, enormous issues of personal freedom are at stake. Researchers require academic freedom to choose the focus of their research and ...

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Among the religious rituals celebrating life’s milestones, those marking the passage from childhood to adulthood are especially important. This week’s clergy discuss life-cycle ceremonies observed by ...

When a soul crosses the river, a granddaughter’s journey through the Vedic art of saying goodbye.To everyone who loves quietly and loses suddenly. In the quiet, early hours of 4 November, before the ...

Harry Oxman’s bar mitzvah at the Society Hill Synagogue in Philadelphia looked much like the traditional Saturday morning event. He recited the customary prayers before and after the Torah reading. He ...