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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:

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Certainty

October 22nd, 2009 by Joel Pitney· 89 Comments · EnlightenNext magazine, Evolutionaries, Evolutionary Spirituality, Idealism, Philosophy, Postmodernism, Religion, Think About This

One of the most challenging virtues for any smart, progressive, sophisticated person to cultivate today may be the quality of inspired conviction, or the utopian belief that something radically new and different is possible. In fact, we live at a time when the ideal of living passionately for anything beyond our own personal happiness or [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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The History of Evolutionary Spirituality (Think About This #70)

September 16th, 2009 by Megan Cater· 7 Comments · Cosmology, Evolutionary Spirituality, Philosophy, Spirituality, Think About This

Carl Gustav Jung and Pierre Teilhard de Chardin. One probed the collective unconscious. The other contemplated the cosmic nature of the human mind. In the following audio clip taken from a lecture on the history of Evolutionary Spirituality, EnlightenNext executive editor Carter Phipps brings together the ideas of this unconventional psychologist and controversial priest.

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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True Jihad

July 30th, 2009 by Joel Pitney· 94 Comments · Culture, EnlightenNext magazine, Integral Philosophy, Pop Culture, Religion, Spirituality, Think About This

One of the most popular EnlightenNext magazine issues of all-time was our Spring/Summer 2000 edition (#17), which we lovingly call “the Ego Issue.” For it, the editorial team interviewed a wide mix of Buddhist monks, contemporary spiritual teachers, orthodox priests, transpersonal psychologists, and even a movie producer, asking them to weigh in on the question, [...]

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Brian Swimme on Emptiness and the Quantum Vacuum

July 21st, 2009 by Joel Pitney· 4 Comments · Consciousness, Cosmology, EnlightenNext magazine, Science, Think About This

In the production of every issue of EnlightenNext, there are difficult moments when the editor’s job calls for some hard decisions. Whether due to space constraints, subject matter, or other factors, inevitably there are some fascinating dialogues that we are unfortunately unable to present in the pages of the magazine. The following excerpt was [...]

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Big Wave Surfing (Think About This #64)

July 7th, 2009 by Megan Cater· 27 Comments · Pop Culture, Think About This

For a “Beyond Limits” article in our June–August 2006 issue of EnlightenNext magazine, contributing editor Maura O’Connor investigated the exciting subculture of big wave surfing to find out why extreme sports like these have become, for many, a kind of modern-day spiritual practice. As surfer Dave Kalama says of his experience riding these enormous waves, [...]

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Requiem for the Age of Oil (Think About This #63)

July 1st, 2009 by Joel Pitney· 10 Comments · Culture, Politics, Think About This

All of the footage coming out of Iran over the last few weeks has revealed to the world, in living color, a new generation of web-connected young people foretelling radical change making its way to the Middle East. In the current issue of EnlightenNext magazine, we interview Elza Maalouf, CEO of the Center for [...]

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The Moral Obligation to Evolve (Think About This #61)

June 18th, 2009 by Megan Cater· 4 Comments · Consciousness, Evolutionary Enlightenment, Evolutionary Spirituality, Think About This

In addition to being the founder and editor in chief of EnlightenNext magazine, Andrew Cohen is also the pioneering spiritual teacher of Evolutionary Enlightenment. The following clip is from a talk Cohen gave during an eight-day retreat in which he describes the moral obligation that is inherent in awakening to what he calls the “Kosmocentric [...]

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