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In Search of Sacred India, Part 2: The New Face of India

February 25th, 2010 by Joel Pitney· 10 Comments · Business, Consciousness, Cultural Evolution, Culture, Hinduism, Materialism, Politics, Spirituality, Technology

The last time I traveled to India was over six years ago—on my honeymoon. My new wife, Christiana Briddell, wanted me to meet the great Indian saint, Swami Chidananda, who had been her family’s Guru since her parents first met him during the West to East migration of the late 1960s. So rather than spending [...]

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“I’ve Been to the Mountaintop . . .”

January 18th, 2010 by Joel Pitney· 1 Comment · Cultural Evolution, Culture, News, Politics, Postmodernism, Religion, Spirituality

In honor of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, here’s an excerpt from his final speech–a sermon known by its most famous line “I’ve been to the Mountain Top,” that he gave at Mason Temple in Memphis, Tennessee on April 3rd, 1968, the day before he was assassinated. He nestles all of his Civil Rights work [...]

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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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Requiem for the Age of Oil (Think About This #63)

July 1st, 2009 by Joel Pitney· 10 Comments · Culture, Politics, Think About This

All of the footage coming out of Iran over the last few weeks has revealed to the world, in living color, a new generation of web-connected young people foretelling radical change making its way to the Middle East. In the current issue of EnlightenNext magazine, we interview Elza Maalouf, CEO of the Center for [...]

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Women, Courage & Dignity

June 21st, 2009 by Elizabeth Debold· 12 Comments · Culture, Gender, News, Politics

I was just sitting down to write a memorial for Jacqueline Péry D’Alincourt (1919-2009), whose courage during the Nazi occupation of France in World War II was beyond measure, when I read Carter Phipp’s most recent blog post that contained a quote from a young Iranian woman on the eve of the June 20 protests against the election of [...]

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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 [...]

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President Obama: The Birth of a Moral Leader

June 13th, 2009 by Carter Phipps· 107 Comments · Idealism, News, Philosophy, Politics

A few years ago, in 2004, I wrote an article called “Is God a Pacifist?” It was a wide-ranging piece that covered many areas—peace, religious violence, nonviolent activism, etc. But it also was a philosophical analysis of the moral issues involved with the use of power and force. And one of the many interesting realizations [...]

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Peace, Violence, & the Future of Religion (Think About This #58)

May 26th, 2009 by Joel Pitney· 17 Comments · Culture, Integral Philosophy, Politics, Pop Culture, Religion, Think About This

In July, 2004, EnlightenNext sent a team to Barcelona, Spain for the Parliament of the World’s Religions, an international event that hosted over nine thousand religious leaders, teachers, activists for a fascinating week of dialogues and discussions exploring the future of religion. While we were there, we conducted twenty-six video interviews with leading religious figures, [...]

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Nuclear-tipped Pakistan and Stone Age Afghanistan

May 24th, 2009 by Carter Phipps· 1 Comment · Politics

There are few issues in the political world right now more vexing than the problem of Afghanistan and Pakistan, the so called AfPak issue. In fact, it’s probably not an exaggeration to say that the outcome of the AfPak issue over the coming decades could have a profound effect on the development and stability of our [...]

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