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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, [...]

Ego, Spiritual Transformation, and the Paradox of Transpersonal Psychology

August 17th, 2009 by Joel Pitney· 4 Comments · Culture, Pop Culture, Spirituality, Think About This

Over the past few weeks, I’ve been thumbing through old back issues of the magazine in an effort to touch up on my EnlightenNext history. Deepening my understanding of how the magazine’s inquiry has evolved over the past seventeen years always helps inform the projects and perspectives I’m actively working with today. While each and [...]

True Jihad

July 30th, 2009 by Joel Pitney· 94 Comments · Culture, EnlightenNext magazine, Integral Philosophy, Pop Culture, Religion, Spirituality, Think About This

One of the most popular EnlightenNext magazine issues of all-time was our Spring/Summer 2000 edition (#17), which we lovingly call “the Ego Issue.” For it, the editorial team interviewed a wide mix of Buddhist monks, contemporary spiritual teachers, orthodox priests, transpersonal psychologists, and even a movie producer, asking them to weigh in on the question, [...]

Evolutionary Enlightenment 101: Part I

June 16th, 2009 by Andrew Cohen· 4 Comments · Consciousness, Cultural Evolution, Evolutionary Enlightenment, Evolutionary Spirituality, Integral Philosophy, Spirituality

Part I — 51%: The Magic Number
Do you know what the magic number is in spiritual physics?
I’m talking about that all-important equation that makes it possible for us to understand how radical spiritual transformation actually happens. Radical spiritual transformation, in the way that I teach, means significant and demonstrable evolution beyond ego.
Once you see the [...]