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You, Whoever You Are (Quote of the Week)

March 1st, 2010 by Andrew Cohen· 12 Comments · Consciousness, Evolutionary Enlightenment, Evolutionary Spirituality, Quote of the Week, Spirituality, meditation

People often ask me, What is the self? What is it that actually evolves? And I always answer, It’s you, whoever you are. I don’t just mean your ego or personality. But what I’m pointing to is the fact that beneath all of that there is some essential core of selfhood or agency that is [...]

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Leave the Door Open for That Which Is New (Quote of the Week)

December 21st, 2009 by Andrew Cohen· 12 Comments · Consciousness, Cultural Evolution, Evolutionary Enlightenment, Evolutionary Spirituality, Quote of the Week, Spirituality

Without being aware of it, many of us tend to base our sense of what’s possible now, in this present moment, upon what has or has not happened in the past. But if we want to be spiritually liberated, indeed, if we want to be an expression of evolution-in-action, we have to dare to look [...]

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Why Are We Here? (Quote of the Week)

December 14th, 2009 by Andrew Cohen· 9 Comments · Consciousness, Evolutionary Enlightenment, Quote of the Week, Spirituality

When we awaken to the evolutionary impulse, we realize a completely new relationship to what it means to be alive and what it means to be ourselves here and now. Not only do we discover a freedom to be ourselves that we’ve never known before, but even more importantly, we find a reason for living [...]

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Spiritual Transformation Is Not a Psychological Process (Quote of the Week)

October 19th, 2009 by Andrew Cohen· 19 Comments · Consciousness, Evolutionary Enlightenment, Evolutionary Spirituality, Idealism, Integral Philosophy, Quote of the Week, Spirituality

Authentic spiritual or mystical transformation is not a psychological process. Mystical teachings go deeper than that—they refer to the nature of consciousness and the structure of our deepest interiors. They are not just helpful psychological principles and practices invented by the human mind—they point us to the discovery of natural or inherent laws that become [...]

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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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Robert J. Sawyer, ABC’s “FlashForward,” and the Large Hadron Collider

October 8th, 2009 by Tom Huston· 1 Comment · Consciousness, EnlightenNext magazine, Pop Culture, Science

On Thursday, September 24, a new TV series debuted on ABC (in the U.S.) called FlashForward, based on a novel by the renowned Canadian science fiction writer Robert J. Sawyer. Revolving around a mysterious event in which every person on the planet, at the exact same moment, experiences their consciousness leaping six months into the [...]

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Live from New York: The Singularity Summit

October 3rd, 2009 by Tom Huston· 6 Comments · Atheism, Consciousness, Cultural Evolution, Culture, Materialism, Science, Technology

This year’s Singularity Summit has begun, and I’m here at the 92nd St. Y on Manhattan’s Upper East Side with my EnlightenNext senior editor Carter Phipps to learn about the latest thinking in artificial intelligence, quantum computing, human brain emulation, nanorobotics, and other trippy transhumanist topics. Below you’ll find a running update of my own [...]

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Perspectives on Integral Ecology—4

September 24th, 2009 by Michael E. Zimmerman· 2 Comments · Bright Green, Consciousness, Integral Philosophy, Spirituality

For an introduction to this series of dialogues between EnlightenNext magazine’s Ross Robertson and environmental philosopher Michael Zimmerman, see this post. For the previous blog in the series, click here.
Ross,
Your marvelous account of how profoundly affected you were by your first visit to Yosemite reminds me of what happened to my wife at the same [...]

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Kosmic Concepts: Interiority

September 21st, 2009 by Tom Huston· No Comments · Consciousness, Cosmology, EnlightenNext magazine, Evolutionaries, Evolutionary Enlightenment, Evolutionary Spirituality, Integral Philosophy, Philosophy

Here is the “Kosmic Concept” I wrote for Issue 44 of EnlightenNext — our definition of a term that every evolutionary should know:
INTERIORITY n.
1. The inner depth dimension of the manifest evolving Kosmos.
2. Subjective consciousness as distinguished from objective matter.
From the third-century Greek sage Plotinus to the twentieth-century English mathematician and philosopher [...]

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One Process (Quote of the Week)

September 21st, 2009 by Andrew Cohen· 3 Comments · Consciousness, Cosmology, Cultural Evolution, Culture, Evolutionary Biology, Evolutionary Enlightenment, Evolutionary Spirituality, Integral Philosophy, Philosophy, Quote of the Week

In Evolutionary Enlightenment, the perennial revelation that there is only One is interpreted as the recognition that we are all part of One Process—a singular cosmic unfolding that began fourteen billion years ago and is still evolving, in this very moment, as you and as me. Every aspect of your experience in every moment, from [...]

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