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What Is Christianity?

INDEX Editorial · 6 min read · Christianity

Christianity is the religion centred on Jesus of Nazareth — held by his followers to be the Christ, God made human. This collection reads the tradition from its first-century origins to its contemplative depths, across scripture, scholarship, and the books that shaped the faith.

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What Is Christianity? 01
The Christian tradition
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What Is Christianity?

The world's largest religion, read from the inside out — its origins in Jesus of Nazareth, its spread across the Roman world, and the contemplative depth its mystics never stopped mining. Scholars, teachers, and the texts that have defined the faith.

  1. 01 N.T. Wright: What Is a Christian? N.T. Wright
  2. 02 Bart D. Ehrman: How Did Christianity Take Over the Roman World? Bart D. Ehrman
  3. 03 The Bible Various
  4. 04 Mere Christianity C.S. Lewis
  5. 05 A Confession Leo Tolstoy
Presence & The Now 02
Eckhart's thread
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The Watch List 03
On screen
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The Watch List

Documentaries and feature lectures — the work that holds up at full attention.

  1. 01 The Most Basic Truths: Gateways to Freedom Jack Kornfield
  2. 02 Two Dimensions of Self: The Historical Person and the Underlying You Eckhart Tolle
  3. 03 Personal and Collective Adversity, and the Shift in Consciousness Eckhart Tolle
  4. 04 The Peaceful Heart Jack Kornfield
  5. 05 Human Consciousness, Smartphones and Why AI Is Not Awareness Eckhart Tolle
The Long Conversations 04
For the road
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The Long Conversations

Multi-hour podcast and lecture interviews — the genre where teachings can actually unspool.

  1. 01 The Most Basic Truths: Gateways to Freedom Jack Kornfield
  2. 02 Two Dimensions of Self: The Historical Person and the Underlying You Eckhart Tolle
  3. 03 Personal and Collective Adversity, and the Shift in Consciousness Eckhart Tolle
  4. 04 The Peaceful Heart Jack Kornfield
  5. 05 Human Consciousness, Smartphones and Why AI Is Not Awareness Eckhart Tolle
Astrology in Depth 06
Sky and self
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Astrology in Depth

Forecasts, transits, and the astrological lens as a contemplative framework — Pam Gregory and lineage-aware practitioners.

  1. 01 Astrology: Uranus Enters Gemini, April 2026 – 2033 Pam Gregory
  2. 02 Astrology: Saturn Sextile Pluto, March 28 – April 5 Pam Gregory
  3. 03 2026: Year of the Fire Horse — Pam Gregory Pam Gregory
  4. 04 Astrology Masterclass with Debra Silverman Aubrey Marcus
  5. 05 Pam Gregory and Lee Harris: 2026 With the Zs Pam Gregory
Meditation as Practice 07
Sit with it
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Meditation as Practice

Not theory — practice. Guided sittings, instruction, and reflections on the daily discipline of returning attention to itself.

  1. 01 She Meditated for 7 Days and Healed Her Past — Dr. Joe Dispenza Joe Dispenza
  2. 02 A Beginner's Guide to Dark Retreat with Andrew Holecek Andrew Holecek
  3. 03 Why There Is Only the Now — and What That Means for Consciousness Eckhart Tolle
  4. 04 Did the Buddha Really Teach That There Is No Self? Thanissaro Bhikkhu
  5. 05 Beyond Good and Bad: Energy, Flow and the Selectivity of Perception Alan Watts
New Thought & Manifestation 08
The American tradition
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New Thought & Manifestation

From Neville Goddard and Ernest Holmes to the contemporary law-of-attraction lineage — teachings on imagination, assumption, and reality-shaping.

  1. 01 Reading: 'If—' by Rudyard Kipling (1910) Master Key Society
  2. 02 Sadhguru and Alia Bhatt on Parenting, Failure and the Drama of Life Sadhguru
  3. 03 Sadhguru's Five-Minute Fix for Excess Body Heat Sadhguru
  4. 04 A Kabbalistic Practice for Receiving Through Miracles, Not Suffering David Ghiyam
  5. 05 Allow Your Life to Unfold — Wayne Dyer on Verse 29 and Divine Perfection Wayne Dyer
Esoteric Currents 09
The hidden tradition
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Esoteric Currents

Hermeticism, mystery schools, and the philosophical undercurrents that shaped mystics from antiquity through the Renaissance and into now.

  1. 01 Reading: 'If—' by Rudyard Kipling (1910) Master Key Society
  2. 02 Astrology: Saturn Sextile Pluto, March 28 – April 5 Pam Gregory
  3. 03 The Danger of Astral Spirits — How Disembodied Souls Influence Earthly Power Hans Wilhelm
  4. 04 In the Presence of the Master — Unreleased Sadhguru Talk, Chicago 2004 Sadhguru
  5. 05 Sadhguru's Address to the Delaware State Senate Sadhguru
The Science of Mind 10
Where it meets the lab
608 entries · ▶ ❒ ◉ 283 voices