The new issue of Watkins Mind Body Spirit magazine, featuring the 2025 list of the '100 Most Spiritually Influential Living People in the World', has just been published and Charter for Compassion founder, Karen Armstrong is Number 56 in the new list.
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We are delighted to share with you Watkins’ 2025 list of the 100 Most Spiritually Influential Living People – spiritual teachers, activists, authors and thinkers that change the world. The list came out in print in issue 80, the Winter 2025 edition of Watkins Mind Body Spirit magazine on January 10th and you can get a copy of this issue or take out a full year’s subscription.
Watkins Bookshop in London has been encouraging spiritual discovery and providing seekers with esoteric knowledge for over 120 years. In 2011, we started publishing the 100 list with the goal of celebrating the world’s living spiritual teachers. Our special magazine issue features 16 pages dedicated to interesting details, bios, photos and highlights about each person on the list. As you read through this list, we hope that you feel as inspired as we are by each individual’s significant impact.
There are several factors that were taken into account when compiling the list. The main three criteria are:
1) The person has to be alive as of November 2024.
2) The person has to have made a unique and spiritual contribution on a global scale
3) The person is frequently googled, appears in Nielsen Data, has a Wikipedia page, and is actively talked about throughout the Internet. By taking into account the amount of times that a person is googled or how many times their Wikipedia profile is viewed, the list gains a highly democratic and transparent parameter. Additionally, we were highly selective in creating this list
and did our best to remove candidates who spread messages that were hateful or intolerant.
Ultimately, this list is meant to celebrate the positive influence of today’s spiritual teachers.
To discover more about each spiritual teacher, pick up a copy of issue 80, Winter 2025.
See the Watkins’ Spiritual 100 List for 2025!
