I wonder if the people who made the blockbuster film The Men Who Stare at Goats (in theatres now) read EnlightenNext magazine? We don’t want to flatter ourselves, of course :), but the editorial team here at EnlightenNext was happy when we found out that a movie was being made about the same group of [...]
Buckminster Fuller Was A Mystic
November 6th, 2009 by Joel Pitney· 4 Comments · Bright Green, Consciousness, Evolutionaries, Spirituality
Have you ever had a mysterious attraction to a particular historical figure without really knowing why. . . until one day you find out something about their life and “bam!” it all makes sense? I recently had this experience with the twentieth century design pioneer Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983) .
I always knew “Bucky” was amazing. [...]
Tags:architecture·awakening·Buckminster Fuller·enlightenment·geodesic dome·green design·mystic
Women & The Evolution of Culture (Think About This #74)
October 27th, 2009 by Joel Pitney· 102 Comments · Cultural Evolution, Divine Feminine, Gender, Think About This
In the following excerpt from her groundbreaking article, “The Divine Feminine Unveiled,” EnlightenNext magazine senior editor Elizabeth Debold describes the challenging and sacred role that women need to play in the evolution of culture:
Tags:Culture·divine feminine·elizabeth debold·Evolution·feminism·women·women's liberation
The Singularity Is Near (Think About This #73)
October 14th, 2009 by Joel Pitney· 38 Comments · Consciousness, Science, Technology, Think About This
Earlier this month, EnlightenNext magazine’s Carter Phipps and Tom Huston joined over 800 techies, futurists, and artificial intelligence buffs at the 2009 Singularity Summit in New York City to explore the latest thinking in quantum computing, robotic brains, and other “transhumanist” topics. One of the conference’s keynote speakers was inventor Ray Kurzweil — his 2005 [...]
Tags:AI·artificial intelligence·brain·Consciousness·Evolution·futurism·futurist·nueroscience·quantum computing·Ray Kurzweil·robotics·Technology·Transhumanism
The Revolt Against Materialism
October 7th, 2009 by Joel Pitney· 3 Comments · Cultural Evolution, Evolutionaries, Evolutionary Biology, Evolutionary Spirituality, Idealism, Philosophy, Spirituality
If you’ve never read anything by the French philosopher and scientist Henri Bergson (1859-1941), you are definitely missing out! Most famous for coining the term élan vital–or vital force–in his 1907 book Creative Evolution, Bergson was trying to reclaim the theory of evolution from the mechanistic and deterministic worldview that was starting to take hold [...]
Tags:creative evolution·creativity·elan vital·Evolution·french·god·Henri Bergson·life·Philosophy
The True Joy in Life
September 30th, 2009 by Joel Pitney· 2 Comments · Evolutionaries, Evolutionary Spirituality, Philosophy
I recently came across some powerful quotes from George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950), the great Irish playwright and winner of the 1925 Nobel Prize for literature. Shaw was among a distinguished group of philosophers, theologians, and artists living during fertile decades surrounding the turn of the 19th century, who all built upon the evolutionary work of [...]
Tags:Darwin·Evolution·George Bernard Shaw·god·hegel·schelling
The Narcissism Epidemic (Think About This #68)
September 2nd, 2009 by Joel Pitney· 145 Comments · Culture, Pop Culture, Postmodernism, Think About This
Starting in the sixties, teachers and parents began to believe that building self-esteem in children was the best way to develop confident happy adults. But psychology researcher Jean Twenge says that the truth is not so simple. In her latest book, The Narcissism Epidemic, she unveils some startling evidence that this cultural trend towards individual [...]
Ego, Spiritual Transformation, and the Paradox of Transpersonal Psychology
August 17th, 2009 by Joel Pitney· 4 Comments · Culture, Pop Culture, Spirituality, Think About This
Over the past few weeks, I’ve been thumbing through old back issues of the magazine in an effort to touch up on my EnlightenNext history. Deepening my understanding of how the magazine’s inquiry has evolved over the past seventeen years always helps inform the projects and perspectives I’m actively working with today. While each and [...]
Tags:ego·Freud·Kaisa Puhakka·Ken Wilber·psychology·transpersonal psychology
Andrew Cohen, Editor in Chief
Carter Phipps, Executive Editor
Elizabeth Debold, Senior Editor
Ross Robertson, Senior Assoc. Editor
Tom Huston, Senior Assoc. Editor
Joel Pitney, Associate Editor
Megan Cater, Assistant Editor