2026 MSR Research Colloquium, The Mystical and Research: Dwelling at the Threshold of Knowing

The 2026 MSR Research Colloquium, The Mystical and Research: Dwelling at the Threshold of Knowing, brings together a global community of scholars and practitioners to explore how mystical experience may be embodied, researched and taught, and how it may inform leadership, management, and organizational life.

Through a 36-hour around-the-clock virtual gathering on June 11–12, 2026, the colloquium invites participants to engage research not only as argument, analysis, or evidence, but also as encounter: a way of attending to embodied experience, inner voice, higher consciousness, and nondual wisdom. Sessions weave together thinking, doing, and being through scholarly presentations, contemplative and embodied practices, and collective inquiry.

The program explores a wide range of topics, including science and mystical experience; dreams, divination, and timelessness; spiritual transformation and ontological shift; forgiveness and gratitude; sacred leadership; healing and empowerment; spiritual research paradigms, methodologies, and evaluation criteria; the ethics of researching the transcendence; the researcher’s inner journey; communal wisdom and higher consciousness in higher education; and more.