As you may have noticed, there’s been a flurry of discussion over the past couple of weeks about the 20th-century German philosopher Martin Heidegger and his involvement with the Nazis before and during WWII. While Heidegger’s Nazi connections are no secret, an occasional book pops up now and then to fan the flames of an [...]
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Sein und Zeit . . . und Sünde
November 16th, 2009 by Tom Huston· 1 Comment · Culture, EnlightenNext magazine, Integral Philosophy, Philosophy
Tags:deep ecology·Emmanuel Faye·Integral Ecology·Integral Philosophy·Martin Heidegger·Michael Zimmerman·Nazis·philosophical controversy·WWII
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 [...]
Tags:Aquarian·evolutionary warrior·Ewan McGregor·George Clooney·Jeff Bridges·jim channon·Jon Ronson·Kevin Spacey·military·Movie·new age·paranormal·psychic·The Men Who Stare At Goats·war
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 [...]
Tags:belief·Charles Sanders Peirce·conviction·Eros·Evolution·faith·Friedrich Nietzsche·George Bernard Shaw·Henri Bergson·Postmodernism·postmodernity·Terry Eagleton
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 [...]
Tags:Consciousness·FlashForward·LHC·quantum physics·Robert J. Sawyer·science fiction·time travel·TV
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 [...]
Tags:Andrew Cohen·Discovery Cycle·Evolutionary Enlightenment·Think About This
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 [...]
Tags:Consciousness·Discovery Cycle·interiority·Kosmic Concepts·Kosmic evolution·Plotinus·Teilhard·Whitehead
Attention: EnlightenNext is Evolving
September 17th, 2009 by Carter Phipps· 3 Comments · EnlightenNext magazine, Evolutionaries
As you may have read on the blog over the past couple of weeks, EnlightenNext is in the midst of an exciting evolution. Last Thursday I had a chance to speak about some of the changes that are underway when I appeared as a guest on an episode of the EnlightenNext Weekly Webcast. The show [...]
Tags:carter phipps·elizabeth debold·EnlightenNext·Evolution·Jeff Carreira·magazine·media·webcast
On Being & Becoming—1: The Ecstasy of Emptiness
August 31st, 2009 by Tom Huston· 21 Comments · Consciousness, EnlightenNext magazine, Evolutionary Enlightenment, Evolutionary Spirituality, Integral Philosophy, Religion, Spirituality, meditation
It’s been just over a week now since I returned to the States after participating in EnlightenNext’s first “Being and Becoming” retreat in Florence, Italy. And I’m still reeling from the experience in the best possible way. Andrew Cohen—who is both my spiritual teacher and my editor-in-chief—has been leading people into the mystical [...]
Tags:Andrew Cohen·being and becoming·emptiness·enlightenment·freedom·Ground of Being·pure consciousness·retreat
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 [...]
Tags:carter phipps·debate·douglas todd·Evolution·media·vancouver sun
EnlightenNext Factoids
August 23rd, 2009 by Tom Huston· 4 Comments · Cultural Evolution, EnlightenNext magazine, Evolutionary Spirituality
Many of our readers don’t realize that EnlightenNext magazine is a labor of love that has been operating a significant loss for years. As a 501c3 nonprofit organization, we depend on generous donations from our readers to keep moving forward, and at a time when magazine sales are plummeting across the newsstand, we need your [...]
Tags:501c3 nonprofit status·donations·EnlightenNext facts·Issue 45
An Important Message from the Founder of EnlightenNext
August 20th, 2009 by Andrew Cohen· 56 Comments · EnlightenNext magazine, Evolutionaries, Evolutionary Spirituality
Like just about everyone else these days, we at EnlightenNext are undergoing a period of enormous transition. Eighteen years ago, I came up with an intriguing idea: Produce a second-to-none spiritual magazine that would play a significant role in helping to make better sense out of the complex journey that Eastern enlightenment was taking as [...]
Tags:Andrew Cohen·Consciousness·Culture·EnlightenNext·Evolution·Evolutionary·fundraising·Spirituality
Our Summer Vacation
August 7th, 2009 by Joel Pitney· 1 Comment · Consciousness, EnlightenNext magazine, Evolutionary Enlightenment, meditation
While many natives of the northern hemisphere head off on their summer getaways, our summer months have been anything but relaxing! And that’s not a bad thing! In fact, at EnlightenNext we’re taking advantage of the summer months to make some serious leaps in the future of our organization (that’s why, as you may have [...]
Tags:Aliya Haeri·Andrew Cohen·bernie glassman·Discovery Cycle·Genpo Roshi·italy·jun po kelly·meditation·retreat·tuscany
Andrew Cohen, Editor in Chief
Carter Phipps, Executive Editor
Elizabeth Debold, Senior Editor
Ross Robertson, Senior Assoc. Editor
Tom Huston, Senior Assoc. Editor
Joel Pitney, Associate Editor
Megan Cater, Assistant Editor