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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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
Tags:BMW·Colonel Sanders·Fareed Zakaria·globalization·India·Krishna·Mahatma Gandhi·mega-malls·New Delhi·sacred cows·Sri Aurobindo·Swami Chidananda·Thomas Friedman·Westernization
The Rings of Earth
January 25th, 2010 by Tom Huston· 4 Comments · Bright Green, Cosmology, Science
What would the skies above our cities look like if the Earth had Saturn’s rings? That’s the question posed in beautiful precision by this fascinating little video created by graphic artist Roy Prol, which has been appearing all over the net in the past few weeks. You may have noticed that astronomers’ list of known [...]
Tags:astronomy·awesomeness·exoplanets·ringed Earth·Saturn·space art
Parliament Update: Andrew Cohen & John Stewart
December 4th, 2009 by Joel Pitney· 1 Comment · Evolutionaries, Evolutionary Spirituality, Materialism, News, Philosophy, Religion, Science
On the day prior to the start of the Parliament of the World’s Religions, EnlightenNext founder Andrew Cohen and Jeff Carreira, EnlightenNext’s director of education, had the opportunity to meet with evolutionary philosopher John Stewart. John is a Melbourne native and the author of the book Evolution’s Arrow: The Direction of Evolution and the Future [...]
Tags:Andrew Cohen·australia·Evolution·Evolutionary Enlightenment·Evolutionary Spirituality·John Stewart·Materialism·melbourne·parliament·Parliament of the world's religions·telos
Awakening to Deep Time (Quote of the Week)
November 17th, 2009 by Andrew Cohen· 6 Comments · Cosmology, Evolutionary Enlightenment, Evolutionary Spirituality, Quote of the Week
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. [...]
Tags:awakening·cosmic·cosmocentric·cosmos·deep time·enlightenment·Evolution·Evolutionary Enlightenment·universe
The Singularity Is Near (Think About This #73)
October 14th, 2009 by Joel Pitney· 46 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 Universe Is Interested in You (Quote of the Week)
October 12th, 2009 by Andrew Cohen· 24 Comments · Consciousness, Cosmology, Cultural Evolution, Evolutionaries, Evolutionary Enlightenment, Evolutionary Spirituality, Quote of the Week
The universe is more interested in you than you are in it. Why? Because the universe is trying to evolve, at the level of consciousness, and consciousness can only develop through you. Human beings are the vehicles through which consciousness can take the next step. From this perspective, we are merely pawns in a much [...]
Tags:Andrew Cohen·conscious evolution·enlightenment·Evolutionary Enlightenment·Kosmocentric·perspective·process
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 [...]
Tags:creative evolution·creativity·elan vital·Evolution·french·god·Henri Bergson·life·Philosophy
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