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Steve McIntosh on “Evolutionary Enlightenment”
Integral philosopher Steve McIntosh weighs in on EnlightenNext founder Andrew Cohen’s new book, Evolutionary Enlightenment: A New Path to Spiritual Awakening… Andrew Cohen’s important new book, Evolutionary Enlightenment, demonstrates spiritual evolution on every page. Rooted in the venerable soil of Eastern nondual teachings, while simultaneously expressing an emerging new form of evolutionary spirituality, Cohen’s insights [...] Related posts:- Spiritual Masters: Steve McIntosh on Jesus of Nazareth
- Evolutionary Enlightenment 101: Part II
- Evolutionary Enlightenment 101: Part I
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Integral Civic Consciousness (Think About This)
John Bunzl is a successful UK businessman with a simple yet powerful idea for how to practically address difficult international issues like climate change. It’s called Simultaneous Policy (“Simpol” for short), “a peaceful political strategy to democratically drive all the world’s nations to apply global solutions to global problems.” Sound interesting? It did to us, [...] Related posts:- The Power of Integral Consciousness (Think About This #52)
- Jean Gebser: Cartographer of Consciousness
- Perspectives on Integral Ecology–A Dialogue
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Discovering the Spirit of Fire (Think About This)
When it comes to the great founders of evolutionary spirituality in the twentieth century—individuals like Henri Bergson, Teilhard de Chardin, Sri Aurobindo, Jean Gebser, and Alfred North Whitehead—we have an inexcusable lack of good biographies to guide our appreciation of their pioneering work. The recent biography, The Lives of Sri Aurobindo, by scholar Peter Heehs [...] Related posts:- The Power of Evolutionary Spirituality with Ursula King — Live in London
- Spiritual Practice Is Spirit Lived
- Quote of the Week: Spirit In Action Is Freedom & Creativity
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A Modest Proposal (Think About This)
In anticipation of her appearance at the EnlightenNext Midsummer Renaissance Festival in London on July 30-31, 2011, Dr. Elizabeth Debold, senior editor of EnlightenNext magazine, wrote a short, provocative piece for The Guardian that began, somewhat pointedly and rather tongue-in-cheek, with her proposal that women are at risk of turning back the clock by participating [...] Related posts:- Are Women Leading the Way? (Think About This)
- Women & The Evolution of Culture (Think About This #74)
- Women and the Evolution of Culture (Think About This)
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Already Free (Quote of the Week)
Scientists tell us that when time began, fourteen billion years ago, something came from nothing. When you awaken to the ground of all Being, in a deep meditative state, you realize that when something came from nothing, the nothing didn’t disappear. That unmanifest, unborn dimension is the ever-present ground out of which everything is still [...] Related posts:- Enlightened Free Agency (Quote of the Week)
- One Process (Quote of the Week)
- The Key to Liberation (Quote of the Week)
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Women Creating the Future — Live in London
“Women are to blame for the ills of society!” “The UK doesn’t need a Minister for Women!” These provocative, ever-so-slightly “man bites dog” statements are the titles of Lee Chalmers’s recent blog entries on the new HuffPost UK. No wonder Arianna Huffington and her crew invited Lee as one of the kick off bloggers for [...] Related posts:- The Power of Evolutionary Spirituality with Ursula King — Live in London
- Are Women Leading the Way? (Think About This)
- Women and the Evolution of Culture (Think About This)
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Egoless Relatedness
When two or more people meet who have awakened to the evolutionary impulse, there is the potential for egoless relatedness. And that is what those of us at the leading edge who want to push the boundaries of our own spiritual development need to discover. We have to find a way to meet one another [...] Related posts:- Where There Is No Other (Quote of the Week)
- Steve McIntosh on “Evolutionary Enlightenment”
- One Process (Quote of the Week)
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The Power of Evolutionary Spirituality with Ursula King — Live in London
EnlightenNext London has created a summer festival that is going to be a flat out celebration of philosophy, dance, music, and Spirit–a tantalizing and uplifting combination designed to make the spirit soar. It’s the Midsummer Renaissance Festival on July 30-31. Most of the EnlightenNext editorial team will be there to engage in dialogue and interviews [...] Related posts:- Women Creating the Future — Live in London
- The History of Evolutionary Spirituality (Think About This #70)
- Discovering the Spirit of Fire (Think About This)
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The Future of Green – Live in London
For those of you who are within striking distance, EnlightenNext is going to be putting on a fantastic celebration called the Midsummer Renaissance Festival at our London center on the weekend of July 30-31. The editorial/creative team will all be traveling over to participate in the festivities, an intriguing blend of dialogues and performances with [...] Related posts:- Women Creating the Future — Live in London
- Counterculture Green
- The Power of Evolutionary Spirituality with Ursula King — Live in London
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Spiritual Maturity
Spiritual maturity is not a matter of how long you have lived or even how much life experience you have. The important question is: how much does any of us actually learn from our life experience? Those people who are more spiritually developed are people who have been deeply paying attention, who are sensitive and [...] Related posts:- Meditation Is Training for Life (Quote of the Week)
- A New Spiritual Orientation (Quote of the Week)
- The Spiritual Impulse (Quote of the Week)