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A New Home (Quote of the Week)

October 26th, 2009 by Andrew Cohen· 9 Comments · Evolutionary Enlightenment, Evolutionary Spirituality, Idealism, Quote of the Week, Spirituality

When you awaken to the evolutionary impulse behind the entire cosmos as your very own Authentic Self, you find yourself living in a new world. It’s not the small, personal world that your ego or separate self-sense has lived in since the day you were born. You may still exist and function in that world, [...]

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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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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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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A Progressive Revelation of the Absolute (Think About This #51)

April 8th, 2009 by Tom Huston· No Comments · Evolutionaries, Evolutionary Spirituality, Idealism, Philosophy, Think About This

As the world continues to celebrate the 150th anniversary of Darwin’s Origin of Species, which to many people also signifies the origin of the idea of evolution itself, it seems worth noting—as we did in our article “A Brief History of Evolutionary Spirituality”—that the general concept of evolution began cooking in human consciousness long before [...]

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