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 'Spirituality'
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
A Shift of Identity (Quote of the Week)
November 3rd, 2009 by Andrew Cohen· 5 Comments · Evolutionary Enlightenment, Evolutionary Spirituality, Quote of the Week, Spirituality
When the evolutionary impulse is manifesting in our experience as either an inspired act of creative genius or as a surge of spiritually illuminated wisdom or insight, it temporarily becomes the self, the Authentic Self of the individual. In those moments, we become animated by that same inspired energy and intelligence that initiated the creative [...]
Tags:Authentic Self·enlightenment·Evolution·Evolutionary Enlightenment·Evolutionary Impulse
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, [...]
Tags:Andrew Cohen·cosmos·ego·Evolutionary Enlightenment·Evolutionary Impulse·process·purpose
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 [...]
Tags:Andrew Cohen·Consciousness·Kosmic grooves·non-psychological·process·spiritual transformation·subtle structures·transcendence
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
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 [...]
Tags:Andrew Cohen·Eros·Evolutionary Enlightenment·Materialism·Modernism·Modernity·Postmodernism·postmodernity·Values
Perspectives on Integral Ecology—4
September 24th, 2009 by Michael E. Zimmerman· 2 Comments · Bright Green, Consciousness, Integral Philosophy, Spirituality
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.
Ross,
Your marvelous account of how profoundly affected you were by your first visit to Yosemite reminds me of what happened to my wife at the same [...]
Tags:Annapurna·Consciousness·Environment·Integral Ecology·interiority·John Muir·Kant·Michael Zimmerman·transcendence·yosemite
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.
Tags:Carl Jung·carter phipps·Cosmology·cosmos·Culture·Evolution·History·Intersubjective·Pierre Teilhard de Chardin·psyche
An Evolutionary Life (Quote of the Week)
September 8th, 2009 by Andrew Cohen· 2 Comments · Consciousness, Cultural Evolution, Evolutionary Enlightenment, Evolutionary Spirituality, Quote of the Week, Spirituality
[The following is spiritual teacher and EnlightenNext founder Andrew Cohen's latest "Quote of the Week." To sign up to receive these weekly quotations and teaching excerpts by email, and to read past quotes, visit his website here.]
What motivates us to make the important choices that we make? Are these choices informed by the deepest insights [...]
Tags:Andrew Cohen·Evolutionary Enlightenment·spiritual transformation
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
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