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The Men Who Stare at Goats

November 13th, 2009 by Joel Pitney· 1 Comment · Culture, EnlightenNext magazine, News, Pop Culture

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 [...]

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Caster Semenya: When Gender is Not Sex

October 23rd, 2009 by Elizabeth Debold· 1 Comment · Cultural Evolution, Culture, Gender, News, Postmodernism, Uncategorized

Imagine what it must be like for Caster Semenya, the top South African female runner who was in the news recently because her sex has recently been challenged. By “sex” I am not referring to her sexuality, but to the physical, biological characteristics that determine whether one is male or female. That basically comes down [...]

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What Does EnlightenNext Mean to You?

August 28th, 2009 by Joel Pitney· 6 Comments · Culture, EnlightenNext magazine, News, Science

Recently, I’ve encountered a variety of different stories about how the ideas and perspectives presented in EnlightenNext magazine are making their way into people’s lives and work and having an impact on culture. When I studied environmental science in college, we might have called this discovering our spiritual and philosophical (rather than ecological) footprint. I [...]

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Women, Courage & Dignity

June 21st, 2009 by Elizabeth Debold· 12 Comments · Culture, Gender, News, Politics

I was just sitting down to write a memorial for Jacqueline Péry D’Alincourt (1919-2009), whose courage during the Nazi occupation of France in World War II was beyond measure, when I read Carter Phipp’s most recent blog post that contained a quote from a young Iranian woman on the eve of the June 20 protests against the election of [...]

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President Obama: The Birth of a Moral Leader

June 13th, 2009 by Carter Phipps· 103 Comments · Idealism, News, Philosophy, Politics

A few years ago, in 2004, I wrote an article called “Is God a Pacifist?” It was a wide-ranging piece that covered many areas—peace, religious violence, nonviolent activism, etc. But it also was a philosophical analysis of the moral issues involved with the use of power and force. And one of the many interesting realizations [...]

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The Genie’s Out of the Bottle (Think About This #57)

May 20th, 2009 by Joel Pitney· 3 Comments · Cultural Evolution, News, Politics, Think About This

In the midst of our current financial crisis, many are calling into question the benefits of Western-style economic globalization. But Thomas Barnett, author of Great Powers: America and the World After Bush, believes that the virtues that globalization has brought to the world far outweigh its negative consequences. In the following excerpt from a feature [...]

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Heaven, Hell, or Prevail?

May 19th, 2009 by Joel Pitney· No Comments · Cultural Evolution, EnlightenNext magazine, News, Technology

For our upcoming issue (which ships out on Wednesday!), we’re focusing on a very big topic: the future. More specifically, what does the seeming minefield of contemporary global crises say about our current trajectory? Are we nearing some sort of end times, as many seem to believe, or are we simply experiencing the inevitable growing [...]

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Issue 44: Envisioning the Future

May 19th, 2009 by Tom Huston· No Comments · EnlightenNext magazine, News

Here it is, folks, the latest issue of EnlightenNext . . . coming soon to a mailbox or newsstand near you:

And here’s a brief description from the table of contents:

We live in one of the most tumultuous and exciting times in human history. With our cultural, political, economic, and spiritual systems colliding, breaking down, and [...]

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How to Be a Man

May 5th, 2009 by Joel Pitney· 12 Comments · Culture, EnlightenNext magazine, Gender, News, Pop Culture

What does it mean to be a man? Strong and brave? Sensitive and sweet? Unfortunately, this is a question that gets little attention in the public sphere today, leaving so many of us gentlemen unenlightened. In my experience, growing up in a solidly progressive area of the US (the Pacific Northwest) during the 80s and [...]

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Sri Aurobindo: Man or Messiah?

May 1st, 2009 by Carter Phipps· 6 Comments · Culture, Evolutionaries, Evolutionary Spirituality, Hinduism, News, Spirituality

Readers of this blog may have heard of the great Indian sage Sri Aurobindo. We have often acknowledged him in the pages of EnlightenNext magazine as one of the pioneers of evolutionary spirituality. Recently, we reviewed a fascinating new book by long-time Aurobindian scholar Peter Heehs called The Lives of Sri Aurobindo, published last year [...]

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Good Times

April 28th, 2009 by Tom Huston· No Comments · Atheism, Buddhism, Culture, Evolutionary Biology, News

There have been some great articles in the New York Times in the past few days that are right up our EnlightenNext alley:

A Tiny Hominid With No Place on the Family Tree
Six years after their discovery, the extinct little people nicknamed hobbits who once occupied the Indonesian island of Flores remain mystifying anomalies in human [...]

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An Ode to Ken Wilber

April 27th, 2009 by Tom Huston· No Comments · Evolutionary Spirituality, Integral Philosophy, News

In case you haven’t seen it yet, Ode magazine just did a great short piece on Earth’s foremost integral authority, Ken Wilber, giving a nice overview of the philosopher and his philosophy. Here’s a taste:
Wilber’s apartment reflects the integral approach that is the theme of his books. Modern technology and sleekly designed furniture seamlessly blend [...]

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