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 [...]
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The Revolt Against Materialism
October 7th, 2009 by Joel Pitney· 3 Comments · Cultural Evolution, Evolutionaries, Evolutionary Biology, Evolutionary Spirituality, Idealism, Philosophy, Spirituality
Tags:creative evolution·creativity·elan vital·Evolution·french·god·Henri Bergson·life·Philosophy
The Onion’s Spiritual Side
July 14th, 2009 by Tom Huston· No Comments · Humor, Pop Culture, Postmodernism
Here at EnlightenNext, we’ve always been big fans of The Onion, which was America’s foremost source for “fake news” — and the incisive cultural satire that comes with it — long before Stewart and Colbert staked their claim to the terrain. And it’s probably no surprise that their more spiritually and philosophically inclined pieces have [...]
A Progressive Revelation of the Absolute (Think About This #51)
April 8th, 2009 by Tom Huston· No Comments · Evolutionaries, Evolutionary Spirituality, Idealism, Philosophy, Think About This
As the world continues to celebrate the 150th anniversary of Darwin’s Origin of Species, which to many people also signifies the origin of the idea of evolution itself, it seems worth noting—as we did in our article “A Brief History of Evolutionary Spirituality”—that the general concept of evolution began cooking in human consciousness long before [...]
Tags:Evolutionary Spirituality·History·Integral·Nonduality·Philosophy
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