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One Between Two

November 10th, 2009 by Andrew Cohen· 5 Comments · Cultural Evolution, Evolutionary Enlightenment, Quote of the Week

The goal of Evolutionary Enlightenment is the emergence of a miraculous potential that I call “intersubjective nonduality.” What does that mean? “Nonduality” is most commonly used to mean oneness, or not-two-ness. It points to the perennial spiritual revelation that there is no other. And “intersubjective” means between subjects. So “intersubjective nonduality,” to put it simply, [...]

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What Do We Mean by “Masculine” and “Feminine,” Anyway?

November 8th, 2009 by Elizabeth Debold· 10 Comments · Business, Cultural Evolution, Culture, Divine Feminine, Gender, Integral Philosophy, Uncategorized

Quick: “masculine”–take ten seconds and say the words that come to mind that describe masculine. Next, do the same with “feminine.” That was the first exercise that my friend and colleague Cindy Wigglesworth and I asked participants to do in the breakout session that we led at the Integral Leadership in Action conference (October 15-18). [...]

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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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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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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 [...]

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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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No Going Back (Quote of the Week)

October 6th, 2009 by Andrew Cohen· 4 Comments · Cultural Evolution, Evolutionary Enlightenment, Postmodernism, Quote of the Week, Spirituality

When we experience a profound awakening to the evolutionary impulse, we can never really go back to the way things were before we tasted its magnetic and ecstatic promise. We can’t go back to the unenlightened values and convictions of the personal self, nor can we continue to be spiritually inhibited by the powerful materialist [...]

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Live from New York: The Singularity Summit

October 3rd, 2009 by Tom Huston· 6 Comments · Atheism, Consciousness, Cultural Evolution, Culture, Materialism, Science, Technology

This year’s Singularity Summit has begun, and I’m here at the 92nd St. Y on Manhattan’s Upper East Side with my EnlightenNext senior editor Carter Phipps to learn about the latest thinking in artificial intelligence, quantum computing, human brain emulation, nanorobotics, and other trippy transhumanist topics. Below you’ll find a running update of my own [...]

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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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Bearing Witness (Quote of the Week)

September 29th, 2009 by Andrew Cohen· 5 Comments · Consciousness, Cultural Evolution, Culture, Evolutionary Enlightenment, Evolutionary Spirituality, Philosophy, Quote of the Week, Spirituality

The “rational” values of the culture that we live in may have freed us from the myths of the past, but unfortunately they have also undermined our capacity to have any faith in the unseen metaphysical domains of our innermost interiors. In the ancient premodern world, that unseen dimension was validated by shared myths and [...]

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One Process (Quote of the Week)

September 21st, 2009 by Andrew Cohen· 3 Comments · Consciousness, Cosmology, Cultural Evolution, Culture, Evolutionary Biology, Evolutionary Enlightenment, Evolutionary Spirituality, Integral Philosophy, Philosophy, Quote of the Week

In Evolutionary Enlightenment, the perennial revelation that there is only One is interpreted as the recognition that we are all part of One Process—a singular cosmic unfolding that began fourteen billion years ago and is still evolving, in this very moment, as you and as me. Every aspect of your experience in every moment, from [...]

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Perspectives on Integral Ecology—3

September 10th, 2009 by Ross Robertson· 4 Comments · Bright Green, Consciousness, Cultural Evolution, Integral Philosophy

For an introduction to this series of dialogues between EnlightenNext magazine’s Ross Robertson and environmental philosopher Michael Zimmerman, see this post. For the previous blog in the series, click here.
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I like the way you tied together the two core issues I brought up—anthropocentrism and interiority—so simply and directly in your last letter. I think my [...]

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