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Ego, Spiritual Transformation, and the Paradox of Transpersonal Psychology

August 17th, 2009 by Joel Pitney· 4 Comments · Culture, Pop Culture, Spirituality, Think About This

Over the past few weeks, I’ve been thumbing through old back issues of the magazine in an effort to touch up on my EnlightenNext history. Deepening my understanding of how the magazine’s inquiry has evolved over the past seventeen years always helps inform the projects and perspectives I’m actively working with today. While each and [...]

Evolution, Evolution, Where Art Thou?

July 5th, 2009 by Carter Phipps· 9 Comments · Evolutionary Biology, Science

The hot new field of evolutionary psychology is coming under attack from all sides. Let’s just make sure we don’t throw the baby of evolutionary thinking out with the bathwater of questionable science.
The war over evolutionary psychology seems to be escalating these days. And from the pages of the Nation to a recent [...]

What Do Women Want? Again…

June 1st, 2009 by Elizabeth Debold· 13 Comments · Cultural Evolution, Culture, Gender, Uncategorized

Sorry about using that tired question ”what do women want?” to start off this post. Freud asked it–likening women’s consicousness to a dark continent both unexplored and presumably unknowable–and every exasperated male writer and far too many marketers have used it since. But the question is popping up again. In a recent New York Times op-ed column entitled [...]