Why We Need Ideals
Author: Sabine LeitnerAugust 13, 2026
A landmark study by the Harvard Graduate School of Education on Gen Z (ages 18 to 25) found that 58% reported experiencing ‘little or no purpose or meaning in their lives’. Half of the respondents explicitly stated that their mental health was being actively harmed by ‘not knowing what to do with their life’. This lack of meaning was directly connected to anxiety and depression rates [...]
In Search of Harmony: a Mythic Journey Across Cultures.
Author: Nataliya PetlevychJanuary 15, 2026
“Harmony is the source of manifestation, the cause of its existence, and the medium between God and man.” Hazrat Inayat Khan Throughout history and across civilizations, harmony has been an eternal companion to humanity. No age or culture has existed without its presence. It has taken form as a goddess – Harmonia, Concordia – or has been present as a divinity of truth, order and [...]
Myths of Africa: Deepening our Understanding of Life and Death
Author: Siobhan FarrarOctober 1, 2020
Africa is a vast continent with many different peoples and a diverse diaspora whose cultural and spiritual heritage has often been misunderstood and misrepresented through colonial and Western perspectives. The ability to move past assumptions and conditioning always presents a challenge, which requires that we aim to see the essence of human life and experience. The philosopher seeks this [...]
Plato’s Esoteric Teachings
Author: Julian ScottApril 17, 2020
Plato is typically thought of as a ‘respectable’ Greek philosopher who is widely taught at reputable universities around the world and admired for his original philosophical thinking. However, there is another side to Plato which is only explored by a minority of scholars, starting with Heinrich Gomperz in the 1930s and continuing with the ‘Tübingen School’ of today. In many of Plato’s [...]
Women in Myths
Author: Margarita DominguezJanuary 22, 2020
In myths we can find the archetypes that can guide our life and help us discover our soul. In the case of goddesses, these can reveal to women the primordial forces of the spiritual world and help us to understand the inner being that characterizes our female complexity. Jorge Angel Livraga, founder of New Acropolis, once wrote: “myths have the property of awakening certain aspects within [...]
Myths of the Starry Sky
Author: Natalya PetlevychOctober 19, 2017
The starry sky fascinates us with its beauty and mysteries. Its can also tell us many stories that we can relate to. The Pole Star is a symbol of the immovable centre around which everything revolves, a symbol of eternity that transcends the world of time and change in which we are born and live. It is around this axis mundi, the world tree, that an ancient stellar dragon whirled his massive [...]