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. [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Evolutionaries'
Buckminster Fuller Was A Mystic
November 6th, 2009 by Joel Pitney· 4 Comments · Bright Green, Consciousness, Evolutionaries, Spirituality
Tags:architecture·awakening·Buckminster Fuller·enlightenment·geodesic dome·green design·mystic
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 [...]
Tags:Andrew Cohen·conscious evolution·enlightenment·Evolutionary Enlightenment·Kosmocentric·perspective·process
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
Kosmic Concepts: Eros
August 24th, 2009 by Megan Cater· 2 Comments · Consciousness, Cosmology, Evolutionaries, Evolutionary Enlightenment, Evolutionary Spirituality, Integral Philosophy, Philosophy, Spirituality
Here’s a sneak peek from the new issue of EnlightenNext — our definition of a term that every evolutionary should know:
EROS n.
The creative energy and intelligence that drives the evolutionary process at all levels of existence.
In the mythical pantheon of ancient Greek gods, Eros was commonly portrayed as a young winged archer whose golden [...]
Tags:Andrew Cohen·Authentic Self·Cupid·Eros·Greeks·Issue 45·Ken Wilber·Kosmic Concepts·Kosmos·Peirce·Plato·teleology·telos·the evolutionary impulse·Whitehead
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 [...]
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