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In Search of Sacred India, Pt. 5: Ecstatic Overwhelm

March 11th, 2010 by Joel Pitney· 7 Comments · Consciousness, Cultural Evolution, Culture, EnlightenNext magazine, Evolutionary Enlightenment, Evolutionary Spirituality, Hinduism, Postmodernism, Religion, Spirituality

Overwhelmed. Ecstatically overwhelmed. These are the only words I can come up with to describe the experience that I’ve had over the past couple of weeks traveling in India with Andrew Cohen and our roving evolutionary sangha. Fourteen days ago, boarding my flight from JFK to New Delhi, I was expecting to experience what most [...]

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In Search of Sacred India, Part I: “What a Place to Wake Up!”

February 24th, 2010 by Tom Huston· 3 Comments · Consciousness, Culture, EnlightenNext magazine, Evolutionary Enlightenment, News, Religion, Spirituality

Twenty-four years ago next month, the founder of EnlightenNext, Andrew Cohen, underwent a spiritual transformation in India that forever changed the course of his life. This week, Andrew has returned to the subcontinent to engage in a series of private meetings, TV and newspaper interviews, and public talks about his work as the editor in [...]

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Climate & Consciousness: EnlightenNext in Copenhagen

December 21st, 2009 by Joel Pitney· 1 Comment · Bright Green, Business, Consciousness, EnlightenNext magazine, News, Science

Over the past week, EnlightenNext’s Ross Robertson joined tens of thousands of activists, politicians, business leaders, and concerned citizens from literally every corner of the planet in Copenhagen for the COP15 United Nations Climate Change Conference. Robertson was invited to give several presentations at the non-profit conference, Klimaforum09: Peoples Climate Summit, which paralleled the main [...]

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EnlightenNext magazine en Español

December 15th, 2009 by Joel Pitney· 3 Comments · EnlightenNext magazine, News

An online version of EnlightenNext magazine, “la revista de los Evolucionarios,” has just been launched in Spanish. A collaboration with some EnlightenNext partners in Chile, the site will translate our latest issue, a selection of our back issues, our Editors’ Blog, Quotes of the Week from EnlightenNext founder Andrew Cohen, and publish them all on [...]

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Peace Is Not Enough: Thoughts on Obama’s Nobel Speech

December 12th, 2009 by Carter Phipps· 86 Comments · Buddhism, Culture, EnlightenNext magazine, Hinduism, News, Politics, Religion

Obama accepted the Nobel Peace Prize yesterday, and his acceptance speech, a forum in which legendary statements are often made, was a bit of a dud—at least that’s the impression I got from the media. “War President Accepts Peace Prize” said the headlines…or “President Accepts Peace Prize, Defends War.” Even the Huffington Post headline was [...]

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Spiritual Activism on a Global Scale

December 9th, 2009 by Joel Pitney· 1 Comment · Buddhism, Culture, EnlightenNext magazine, News, Politics, Religion, Spirituality

Today is the closing day of the 2009 Parliament of the World’s Religions. Over the past week, our team (EnlightenNext founder Andrew Cohen, director of education Jeff Carreira, and former EnlightenNext magazine editor Amy Edelstein) have spoken to many of the world’s leading religious voices gathered in Melbourne about how the religious traditions can begin [...]

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EnlightenNext Wins Two Folio Awards! (Think About This #77)

December 8th, 2009 by Joel Pitney· 24 Comments · Cosmology, Cultural Evolution, EnlightenNext magazine, Evolutionary Spirituality, Religion, Spirituality, Think About This

And the Oscar goes to . . . EnlightenNext! Well, not quite. But this past week EnlightenNext magazine did receive two of the prestigious annual Folio awards for excellence in magazine editorial and design. Chosen from over 2,000 entries in a variety of categories, our Dec 2008 – Feb 2009 issue was awarded a Bronze [...]

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Sein und Zeit . . . und Sünde

November 16th, 2009 by Tom Huston· 2 Comments · Culture, EnlightenNext magazine, Integral Philosophy, Philosophy

As you may have noticed, there’s been a flurry of discussion over the past couple of weeks about the 20th-century German philosopher Martin Heidegger and his involvement with the Nazis before and during WWII. While Heidegger’s Nazi connections are no secret, an occasional book pops up now and then to fan the flames of an [...]

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The Men Who Stare at Goats

November 13th, 2009 by Joel Pitney· 3 Comments · Culture, EnlightenNext magazine, News, Pop Culture

I wonder if the people who made the blockbuster film The Men Who Stare at Goats (in theatres now) read EnlightenNext magazine? We don’t want to flatter ourselves, of course :), but the editorial team here at EnlightenNext was happy when we found out that a movie was being made about the same group of [...]

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Certainty

October 22nd, 2009 by Joel Pitney· 125 Comments · EnlightenNext magazine, Evolutionaries, Evolutionary Spirituality, Idealism, Philosophy, Postmodernism, Religion, Think About This

One of the most challenging virtues for any smart, progressive, sophisticated person to cultivate today may be the quality of inspired conviction, or the utopian belief that something radically new and different is possible. In fact, we live at a time when the ideal of living passionately for anything beyond our own personal happiness or [...]

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