Transcendence & Transformation (Harvard Divinity School)

Transcendence and Transformation is an initiative to study religious and spiritual traditions and practices—ancient and modern, global in reach—that aim to transcend our normal states of being, consciousness, and embodiment, and thus to transform the individual, community, and society.

This initiative affirms the existence of the sacred, different levels of reality, seen and unseen, and different modes of access to them. This initiative will investigate what might be called “metaphysics and mysticism,” by which is meant the traditions across time, people, and place that have cultivated practices of transcendence and transformation, and have articulated scaffolded worldviews to make sense of those practices.

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