When we become aware of the vastness of the entire evolutionary process—from the big bang to the present moment—that is called awakening to Deep Time. It means having the capacity to assume a perspective that is nothing less than cosmic and being able to see whatever’s happening to us personally from its lofty vantage point. [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Evolution'
Awakening to Deep Time (Quote of the Week)
November 17th, 2009 by Andrew Cohen· 5 Comments · Cosmology, Evolutionary Enlightenment, Evolutionary Spirituality, Quote of the Week
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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
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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The Singularity Is Near (Think About This #73)
October 14th, 2009 by Joel Pitney· 38 Comments · Consciousness, Science, Technology, Think About This
Earlier this month, EnlightenNext magazine’s Carter Phipps and Tom Huston joined over 800 techies, futurists, and artificial intelligence buffs at the 2009 Singularity Summit in New York City to explore the latest thinking in quantum computing, robotic brains, and other “transhumanist” topics. One of the conference’s keynote speakers was inventor Ray Kurzweil — his 2005 [...]
Tags:AI·artificial intelligence·brain·Consciousness·Evolution·futurism·futurist·nueroscience·quantum computing·Ray Kurzweil·robotics·Technology·Transhumanism
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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The True Joy in Life
September 30th, 2009 by Joel Pitney· 2 Comments · Evolutionaries, Evolutionary Spirituality, Philosophy
I recently came across some powerful quotes from George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950), the great Irish playwright and winner of the 1925 Nobel Prize for literature. Shaw was among a distinguished group of philosophers, theologians, and artists living during fertile decades surrounding the turn of the 19th century, who all built upon the evolutionary work of [...]
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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.
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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