Quick: “masculine”–take ten seconds and say the words that come to mind that describe masculine. Next, do the same with “feminine.” That was the first exercise that my friend and colleague Cindy Wigglesworth and I asked participants to do in the breakout session that we led at the Integral Leadership in Action conference (October 15-18). [...]
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A Glimpse of Nonduality
July 11th, 2009 by Elizabeth Debold· 77 Comments · Consciousness, Evolutionaries, Spirituality, Uncategorized, meditation
We are in the throes of completing the next issue of EnlightenNext. (Doesn’t it seem like you just got the last one??) I’m currently editing an interview that we did with the spiritual teacher, Aliya Haeri, a Western convert to Sufism, which is Islam’s mystical side.
Recently, Haeri was interviewed by Chris Parish and Kyrsten Perry, from [...]
Jun Po Roshi, Zen Renaissance Man
June 30th, 2009 by Ross Robertson· 5 Comments · Buddhism, Consciousness, Spirituality, Uncategorized, meditation
Jun Po Roshi—dharma heir of Rinzai Zen Master Eido Shimano Roshi, founder of a lay Buddhist order called Hollow Bones, and originator of a modern form of Rinzai known as Mondo Zen—came to meet with EnlightenNext founder Andrew Cohen yesterday. During Jun Po’s visit, some of Andrew’s students and colleagues also had the opportunity to [...]
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What Do Women Want? Again…
June 1st, 2009 by Elizabeth Debold· 13 Comments · Cultural Evolution, Culture, Gender, Uncategorized
Sorry about using that tired question ”what do women want?” to start off this post. Freud asked it–likening women’s consicousness to a dark continent both unexplored and presumably unknowable–and every exasperated male writer and far too many marketers have used it since. But the question is popping up again. In a recent New York Times op-ed column entitled [...]
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Will Androids Ever Feel Real? The Turing Test and Cultural Autism
May 25th, 2009 by Elizabeth Debold· 4 Comments · Atheism, Consciousness, Culture, Materialism, Philosophy, Pop Culture, Religion, Science, Spirituality, Technology, Uncategorized
Have you ever heard of the Turing test? Years ago, I encountered it in Daniel Dennett and Douglas Hofstadter’s 1981 book The Mind’s I: Fantasies and Reflections on Self and Soul. It’s bugged me ever since. Put forth by Alan Turing in a 1950 paper on computing and intelligence, Turing proposed a simple and apparently straightforward way to assess whether [...]
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