Next week, I will have the pleasure to join Sharday Mosurinjohn, Daan Oostveen, Li Chun Marina Lin in an online discussion on the intersections between spirituality, conspiracy thinking and psychedelics in contemporary quests for meaning: www.crowdcast.io/c/conspiritu...

Conspirituality: Seeking (Hidden) Truths in the Post-Truth Era

Register now for Conspirituality: Seeking (Hidden) Truths in the Post-Truth Era on crowdcast, scheduled to go live on August 26, 2026, 12:00 PM PDT.

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In May, I will moderate another dialogue between Swami Sarvapriyananda and Bernardo Kastrup. Join live at the Oosterkerk in Amsterdam, or tune in online. For more information and tickets, go to: www.samsarabooks.com/agenda/ Watch my first interview with them here: www.youtube.com/live/BnrTxXr...

A Dialogue on Consciousness | Swami Sarvapriyananda and Bernardo Kastrup

YouTube video by Vedanta Society of New York

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In 2010, I left my job in management to pursue a career in academia. After an RMA at the UvA, I did my PhD at the RUG. My dissertation has been downloaded nearly 20,000 times and was published by BRILL (2018). Yesterday, I received the Mallinckrodt Prize for it. A cherry on top of my career change.

My book, _Say Hello to Metamodernism!_ has been reviewed in the journal _English Studies_, which I understand is a rather prestigious European journal. It's overall a positive review, with a few gentle critiques, which I like because it makes it feel more real. www.tandfonline.com/eprint/FTKAC...

Say Hello to Metamodernism!: Understanding Today’s Culture of Ironesty, Felt Experience, and Emphatic Reflexivity

Published in English Studies (Ahead of Print, 2025)

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Mijn nieuwe boek komt eraan in november. Hier is alvast de cover. Wat de inhoud betreft: ik duik in de bronteksten van verschillende tradities en ga te rade bij grote wijsgeren om te verhelderen wat er werkelijk schuilgaat onder woorden als ‘God’, ‘Allah’ of ‘Brahman’.

Today’s metamodern spiritualities are not simply reviving or rejecting “secular” and “religious” traditions, but weaving them into new sources of meaning. Curious to find out where spirituality is headed, but cannot access my article? 50 free online copies here: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/8YGWZ...

The meaning of metamodern spirituality: beyond modern and postmodern perspectives on the religious and the secular

Is contemporary spirituality a modern, postmodern or metamodern category? This article claims that contemporary spirituality is a metamodern category because it clearly shows both modern and postmo...

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What is metamodern spirituality? Find out in my latest articles: The Meaning of Metamodern Spirituality www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... Reconsidering “Secular Religion” brill.com/view/journal... Dialectical Thinking in Contemporary Spirituality journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...