In late 1825, a group of reform-minded Russian military officers believed the time was ripe to end the rule of the czars.

Dive into the fascinating world of wealth distribution within monasteries and how it influenced enlightenment! Discover the ...

Enlightenment. The E word. The state of consciousness all spiritual seekers hope for. And yet wishing for enlightenment is a wonderfully paradoxical experience: craving the state of non-craving ...

The Nirvana Express: How the Search for Enlightenment went West. By Mick Brown. Hurst; 400 pages; $34.95 and £25 For decades India has mostly run a current-account deficit, unable to export as ...

1. The Enlightenment wasn’t restricted to France. Despite many of the Enlightenment’s most influential thinkers—René Descartes, M. de Voltaire, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, the Baron de ...

Once you zap — or sonicate — someone into a brain state associated with deep-end meditation, enlightenment doesn’t simply lock into place. He said that “psychedelics and brain stimulation ...

1 Books in Review Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia By David Graeber Buy this book Graeber also put his ideas into practice. He was active in the anti-globalization protests and direct ...