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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One Between Two
November 10th, 2009 by Andrew Cohen· 5 Comments · Cultural Evolution, Evolutionary Enlightenment, Quote of the Week
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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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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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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
Courage Under Fire in Iran
June 20th, 2009 by Carter Phipps· 6 Comments · Culture, Politics
As we watch events in Iran unfold, it is hard not to come to the conclusion that we may be seeing the beginning of the end of the current regime. I’m not saying that an overthrow or coup is imminent. But the general sense of popular legitimacy that the regime in Iran has had over [...]
The Good, the Bad, & the Mediated
May 31st, 2009 by Carter Phipps· 2 Comments · Cultural Evolution, Culture, Pop Culture, Postmodernism
A few years ago, sometime in 2003, friend and colleague Dr. Don Beck, cofounder of Spiral Dynamics, turned the editors of EnlightenNext on to an article he had recently read in Harper’s magazine. The article, which he felt was indicative of a change in cultural values and attitudes, was by media theorist and scholar Thomas [...]
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What It Means to Be Human (Think About This #50)
April 1st, 2009 by Tom Huston· No Comments · Science, Think About This
These days, everyone is talking about the potentially devastating effects that climate change and the economic crisis may have on society. But according to Washington Post reporter Joel Garreau, whom we interviewed for the upcoming issue of EnlightenNext, there’s an evolutionary X factor that most pundits fail to account for when making their linear predictions [...]
The Goldilocks View (Think About This #47)
March 11th, 2009 by Tom Huston· No Comments · Cultural Evolution, Think About This
According to some interpretations of the ancient Mayan calendar, the year 2012 may mark the end of the world as we know it. And in the midst of our global economic crisis, many are starting to take such doom and gloom claims seriously. But do things have to fall apart completely before they can get [...]
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