EnlightenNext Editors’ Blog home
Subscribe to
EnlightenNext
View Our
Current Issue

Entries Tagged as 'Consciousness'

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. [...]

[Read more →]

Tags:······

Spiritual Transformation Is Not a Psychological Process (Quote of the Week)

October 19th, 2009 by Andrew Cohen· 18 Comments · Consciousness, Evolutionary Enlightenment, Evolutionary Spirituality, Idealism, Integral Philosophy, Quote of the Week, Spirituality

Authentic spiritual or mystical transformation is not a psychological process. Mystical teachings go deeper than that—they refer to the nature of consciousness and the structure of our deepest interiors. They are not just helpful psychological principles and practices invented by the human mind—they point us to the discovery of natural or inherent laws that become [...]

[Read more →]

Tags:·······

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 [...]

[Read more →]

Tags:············

The Universe Is Interested in You (Quote of the Week)

October 12th, 2009 by Andrew Cohen· 17 Comments · Consciousness, Cosmology, Cultural Evolution, Evolutionaries, Evolutionary Enlightenment, Evolutionary Spirituality, Quote of the Week

The universe is more interested in you than you are in it. Why? Because the universe is trying to evolve, at the level of consciousness, and consciousness can only develop through you. Human beings are the vehicles through which consciousness can take the next step. From this perspective, we are merely pawns in a much [...]

[Read more →]

Tags:······

Robert J. Sawyer, ABC’s “FlashForward,” and the Large Hadron Collider

October 8th, 2009 by Tom Huston· 1 Comment · Consciousness, EnlightenNext magazine, Pop Culture, Science

On Thursday, September 24, a new TV series debuted on ABC (in the U.S.) called FlashForward, based on a novel by the renowned Canadian science fiction writer Robert J. Sawyer. Revolving around a mysterious event in which every person on the planet, at the exact same moment, experiences their consciousness leaping six months into the [...]

[Read more →]

Tags:·······

Live from New York: The Singularity Summit

October 3rd, 2009 by Tom Huston· 6 Comments · Atheism, Consciousness, Cultural Evolution, Culture, Materialism, Science, Technology

This year’s Singularity Summit has begun, and I’m here at the 92nd St. Y on Manhattan’s Upper East Side with my EnlightenNext senior editor Carter Phipps to learn about the latest thinking in artificial intelligence, quantum computing, human brain emulation, nanorobotics, and other trippy transhumanist topics. Below you’ll find a running update of my own [...]

[Read more →]

Tags:············

The Pull of the Possible (Think About This #71)

September 29th, 2009 by Megan Cater· No Comments · Consciousness, Cultural Evolution, Culture, EnlightenNext magazine, Evolutionary Enlightenment, Evolutionary Spirituality, Think About This

The following excerpt is from the latest blog post by EnlightenNext magazine’s editor in chief, Andrew Cohen. Reflecting on 23 years of experience building a movement dedicated to ongoing spiritual and cultural evolution, Cohen describes the inner commitment necessary to transform inspired visions into new actualities:
Creating the future at the leading edge is a unique [...]

[Read more →]

Tags:···

Bearing Witness (Quote of the Week)

September 29th, 2009 by Andrew Cohen· 5 Comments · Consciousness, Cultural Evolution, Culture, Evolutionary Enlightenment, Evolutionary Spirituality, Philosophy, Quote of the Week, Spirituality

The “rational” values of the culture that we live in may have freed us from the myths of the past, but unfortunately they have also undermined our capacity to have any faith in the unseen metaphysical domains of our innermost interiors. In the ancient premodern world, that unseen dimension was validated by shared myths and [...]

[Read more →]

Tags:·······

Perspectives on Integral Ecology—4

September 24th, 2009 by Michael E. Zimmerman· 2 Comments · Bright Green, Consciousness, Integral Philosophy, Spirituality

For an introduction to this series of dialogues between EnlightenNext magazine’s Ross Robertson and environmental philosopher Michael Zimmerman, see this post. For the previous blog in the series, click here.
Ross,
Your marvelous account of how profoundly affected you were by your first visit to Yosemite reminds me of what happened to my wife at the same [...]

[Read more →]

Tags:·········

Kosmic Concepts: Interiority

September 21st, 2009 by Tom Huston· No Comments · Consciousness, Cosmology, EnlightenNext magazine, Evolutionaries, Evolutionary Enlightenment, Evolutionary Spirituality, Integral Philosophy, Philosophy

Here is the “Kosmic Concept” I wrote for Issue 44 of EnlightenNext — our definition of a term that every evolutionary should know:
INTERIORITY n.
1. The inner depth dimension of the manifest evolving Kosmos.
2. Subjective consciousness as distinguished from objective matter.
From the third-century Greek sage Plotinus to the twentieth-century English mathematician and philosopher [...]

[Read more →]

Tags:·······

One Process (Quote of the Week)

September 21st, 2009 by Andrew Cohen· 3 Comments · Consciousness, Cosmology, Cultural Evolution, Culture, Evolutionary Biology, Evolutionary Enlightenment, Evolutionary Spirituality, Integral Philosophy, Philosophy, Quote of the Week

In Evolutionary Enlightenment, the perennial revelation that there is only One is interpreted as the recognition that we are all part of One Process—a singular cosmic unfolding that began fourteen billion years ago and is still evolving, in this very moment, as you and as me. Every aspect of your experience in every moment, from [...]

[Read more →]

Tags:·······

A Mysterious Summons (Quote of the Week)

September 14th, 2009 by Andrew Cohen· 7 Comments · Consciousness, Cosmology, Evolutionary Enlightenment, Evolutionary Spirituality, Quote of the Week

Why is it that some of us are driven blindly, madly, and passionately to struggle to transcend our own limitations? And to do so not merely for our own sake but for the sake of a higher purpose that we feel yet can barely see? Why is it that in those precious moments when we [...]

[Read more →]

Tags:·····