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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 [...]

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In Memory of George Leonard (1923-2010)

January 19th, 2010 by Joel Pitney· 14 Comments · Cultural Evolution, Evolutionaries, Evolutionary Spirituality, Integral Philosophy, Spirituality, Think About This

On January 6th, 2010, George Leonard—the man who coined the term “human potential movement”—passed away at the distinguished age of eighty-seven. With his death, the world has lost a true giant in the field of spiritual evolution. There’s so much to say about Mr. Leonard. And much of it has already been said. So [...]

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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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The Parliament of the World’s Religions & the Future of Buddhism (Think About This #76)

November 25th, 2009 by Joel Pitney· 12 Comments · Buddhism, News, Religion, Spirituality, Think About This

Starting next week, Andrew Cohen and a small team from EnlightenNext will fly to Melbourne, Australia, to participate in the Parliament of the World’s Religions, made possible by a generous donor who underwrote this initiative. They’ll join more than 10,000 religious leaders, scholars, and activists from all over the world to explore the role that [...]

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Women & The Evolution of Culture (Think About This #74)

October 27th, 2009 by Joel Pitney· 107 Comments · Cultural Evolution, Divine Feminine, Gender, Think About This

In the following excerpt from her groundbreaking article, “The Divine Feminine Unveiled,” EnlightenNext magazine senior editor Elizabeth Debold describes the challenging and sacred role that women need to play in the evolution of culture:

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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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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 [...]

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The Pull of the Possible (Think About This #71)

September 29th, 2009 by Megan Cater· No Comments · Consciousness, Cultural Evolution, Culture, EnlightenNext magazine, Evolutionary Enlightenment, Evolutionary Spirituality, Think About This

The following excerpt is from the latest blog post by EnlightenNext magazine’s editor in chief, Andrew Cohen. Reflecting on 23 years of experience building a movement dedicated to ongoing spiritual and cultural evolution, Cohen describes the inner commitment necessary to transform inspired visions into new actualities:
Creating the future at the leading edge is a unique [...]

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The History of Evolutionary Spirituality (Think About This #70)

September 16th, 2009 by Megan Cater· 7 Comments · Cosmology, Evolutionary Spirituality, Philosophy, Spirituality, Think About This

Carl Gustav Jung and Pierre Teilhard de Chardin. One probed the collective unconscious. The other contemplated the cosmic nature of the human mind. In the following audio clip taken from a lecture on the history of Evolutionary Spirituality, EnlightenNext executive editor Carter Phipps brings together the ideas of this unconventional psychologist and controversial priest.

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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 [...]

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