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 'Hinduism'
In Search of Sacred India, Pt. 4: The New Delhi New Age
March 2nd, 2010 by Tom Huston· 12 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
In Search of Sacred India, Pt. 3: What Is and What Is Possible
March 2nd, 2010 by Tom Huston· 4 Comments · Consciousness, Culture, Evolutionary Enlightenment, Evolutionary Spirituality, Hinduism, Spirituality
During his two days in New Delhi, EnlightenNext founder Andrew Cohen was constantly on the move, meeting with a popular teacher of Kriya Yoga, a renowned Indian statesman and evolutionary thinker, a respected authority on Indian arts and culture, and one of the country’s most significant media moguls. In the midst of this whirlwind tour, [...]
Tags:Andrew Cohen in India·Evolutionary Spirituality·morning talk show·New Delhi·Pragya TV·the new enlightenment·traditional enlightenment
The Law of Karma (Think About This)
March 2nd, 2010 by Joel Pitney· 33 Comments · Consciousness, Culture, Evolutionary Enlightenment, Hinduism, Philosophy, Religion, Spirituality, Think About This, Uncategorized
This past week, EnlightenNext’s editor in chief Andrew Cohen gave a series of talks at the headquarters for the Divine Life Society in the holy Indian city of Rishikesh. Established on the banks of the Ganges River in 1936 by Swami Sivananda, this ashram has been home to several of India’s most revered saints of [...]
Tags:Andrew Cohen·Chidananda·Divine Life Society·enlightenment·Evolutionary Enlightenment·India·karma·Kumbha Mela·pilgrimmage·Rishikesh·Swami Chidananda·Swami Sivananda
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 [...]
Tags:BMW·Colonel Sanders·Fareed Zakaria·globalization·India·Krishna·Mahatma Gandhi·mega-malls·New Delhi·sacred cows·Sri Aurobindo·Swami Chidananda·Thomas Friedman·Westernization
A Day in the Life at the Parliament of the World’s Religions
December 10th, 2009 by Joel Pitney· 3 Comments · Culture, Hinduism, News, Religion, Spirituality
It has been a whirlwind adventure this past week at the Parliament of the World’s Religions (POWR). As I write this post, our on-the-ground team of EnlightenNext founder Andrew Cohen, director of education Jeff Carreira, former EnlighenNext editor Amy Edelstein, and Cohen’s wife Alka Arora are on their way home somewhere between sunny Melbourne, Australia [...]
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Satsang at the Parliament of the World’s Religions
December 8th, 2009 by Joel Pitney· No Comments · Evolutionary Enlightenment, Evolutionary Spirituality, Hinduism, Religion, Spirituality
During one of the evenings at the Parliament of the World’s Religions, EnlightenNext founder Andrew Cohen was invited to participate in a special Satsang (teachings given by spiritual teachers) at the ashram of Swami Shankarananda just outside of Melbourne. In what turned out to be a very magical evening, seven different Hindu masters each gave [...]
Tags:advaita vedanta·Evolutionary Enlightenment·guru·Hinduism·Parliament of the world's religions·satsang·Spirituality·swami shankarananda·vedanta·yoga·yoga vedanta
Sri Aurobindo: Man or Messiah?
May 1st, 2009 by Carter Phipps· 6 Comments · Culture, Evolutionaries, Evolutionary Spirituality, Hinduism, News, Spirituality
Readers of this blog may have heard of the great Indian sage Sri Aurobindo. We have often acknowledged him in the pages of EnlightenNext magazine as one of the pioneers of evolutionary spirituality. Recently, we reviewed a fascinating new book by long-time Aurobindian scholar Peter Heehs called The Lives of Sri Aurobindo, published last year [...]
Tags:controversy·Evolutionaries·fundamentalism·gurus·mythology·Peter Heehs·Sri Aurobindo·The Mother
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