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 [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Postmodernism'
In Search of Sacred India, Pt. 4: The New Delhi New Age
March 2nd, 2010 by Tom Huston· 11 Comments · Consciousness, Culture, Evolutionary Enlightenment, Evolutionary Spirituality, Hinduism, Postmodernism, Spirituality
Does everything happen for a reason? Are angelic beings guiding us on our life’s journey? Many of the mainstays of New Age philosophy, which have become commonplace in spiritual-but-not-religious circles in the West, are now taking hold among some of the more progressive thinkers in India. And during an impromptu backstage dialogue between Andrew Cohen [...]
Tags:angels·destiny·divine guidance·Haiti·natural disasters·new age·New Delhi·Pragya TV·rationality·superstition
“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 [...]
Tags:civil rights·History·I've Been to the Mountaintop·Martin Luther King·Martin Luther King Jr·mason temple·memphis·MLK·religious·speech·spiritual
No Going Back (Quote of the Week)
October 6th, 2009 by Andrew Cohen· 4 Comments · Cultural Evolution, Evolutionary Enlightenment, Postmodernism, Quote of the Week, Spirituality
When we experience a profound awakening to the evolutionary impulse, we can never really go back to the way things were before we tasted its magnetic and ecstatic promise. We can’t go back to the unenlightened values and convictions of the personal self, nor can we continue to be spiritually inhibited by the powerful materialist [...]
Tags:Andrew Cohen·Eros·Evolutionary Enlightenment·Materialism·Modernism·Modernity·Postmodernism·postmodernity·Values
The Narcissism Epidemic (Think About This #68)
September 2nd, 2009 by Joel Pitney· 147 Comments · Culture, Pop Culture, Postmodernism, Think About This
Starting in the sixties, teachers and parents began to believe that building self-esteem in children was the best way to develop confident happy adults. But psychology researcher Jean Twenge says that the truth is not so simple. In her latest book, The Narcissism Epidemic, she unveils some startling evidence that this cultural trend towards individual [...]
The Spiritual Onion #2
July 27th, 2009 by Joel Pitney· No Comments · Atheism, Humor, Pop Culture, Postmodernism
Philosophy and professional football are a pretty unlikely combo. Growing up, I distinctly remember being chided (somewhat justifiably) by my fellow sports friends when I would bring up questions about the meaning of existence midway through a Superbowl party. On the other side of the spectrum, every time I would show the slightest interest [...]
Tags:Comedy·football·funny·Humor·jacksonville jaguars·Materialism·nihilism·satire·The Onion
The Onion’s Spiritual Side
July 14th, 2009 by Tom Huston· No Comments · Humor, Pop Culture, Postmodernism
Here at EnlightenNext, we’ve always been big fans of The Onion, which was America’s foremost source for “fake news” — and the incisive cultural satire that comes with it — long before Stewart and Colbert staked their claim to the terrain. And it’s probably no surprise that their more spiritually and philosophically inclined pieces have [...]
All Excellence Is Elitist
June 29th, 2009 by Tom Huston· 22 Comments · Culture, Evolutionary Enlightenment, Evolutionary Spirituality, Pop Culture, Postmodernism, Spirituality
This morning I opened my inbox and found the latest Quote of the Week from EnlightenNext founder (and editor in chief and spiritual teacher) Andrew Cohen, titled “Aspire to Be Great.” But before I quote it here, I want to mention what I’d been reading right before I saw it, which was a message that [...]
Tags:Andrew Cohen·authority figures·Billy Corgan·development·elitism·excellence·Ken Wilber·Michael Jackson·music·narcissism·The Smashing Pumpkins
Andrew Cohen, Editor in Chief
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