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After setting up my profile at the new, just-launched Integral Life website, I’ve been visiting the nascent discussion forums and have started to engage with other members a bit. In the section headed “What does an Integral Life mean to you?” I responded enthusiastically to one member’s suggestion that integrity seems to be an essential […]

My wife snapped this cell-phone pic of London’s famous statue of Eros, the Greek god better known as Cupid (his Roman derivative), while we were walking through Piccadilly Circus on Saturday. There were lots of people sitting around the base of the distinctive landmark, but hardly anyone seemed interested in the statue itself. […]

“You ask, how can we know the Infinite? I answer, not by reason. It is the office of reason to distinguish and define. The Infinite, therefore, cannot be ranked among its objects. You can only apprehend the Infinite by a faculty superior to reason, by entering into a state in which […]

Today at the main EnlightenNext center in Lenox, Massachusetts, we had what we call a “practice day” — meditating together from dawn to dusk. Our colleagues at the London center did the same. Meanwhile, our spiritual teacher, Andrew Cohen, was leading two hundred people through the finer points of Evolutionary Enlightenment for the last day […]

What does it mean to be “Kosmocentric”?
That’s the question I want to explore over the coming weeks on this blog. It’s something that, as a student of Andrew Cohen’s teachings of Evolutionary Enlightenment, I think about all the time, and it’s also a clear line of inquiry that I think may finally […]

My teacher Andrew Cohen’s latest Quote of the Week:

Q: Traditionally, enlightenment has often been described as “ego-death.” Is it possible to attain a state where the ego actually dies?
A: Well, I’ve met one or two people in my life in whom it appeared that the ego had literally died. But in those rare cases, I […]

Now, I’m sure everyone and his brother has seen this by now, in one iteration or another, but we were watching the latest edition of “Where the Hell Is Matt?” at the end of our WIE editorial meeting the other day, and this morning I woke up thinking it would be a nice counter-post to […]

A few weeks ago Andrew Cohen, founder of What Is Enlightenment? magazine and its parent organization, EnlightenNext, was invited to the BigThink.com studios in New York, where he was interviewed on a number of different topics. I featured BigThink in our “Sites & Blogs” section in WIE’s current issue, and when I wrote the blurb, […]

The John Templeton Foundation’s “Big Questions” series of ads have recently appeared in a number of major publications — such as The Economist, The Atlantic Monthly, The New Republic, and The New York Times — featuring responses by renowned scholars, scientists, and philosophers to some truly thought-provoking questions. In one of the ads, Georgetown University […]

The latest Quote of the Week from my spiritual teacher, Andrew Cohen:
“From the perspective of the rational mind, a human life is a linear, limited event, defined by the movement of time. But when you penetrate beyond the mind through the serious practice of meditation, you get glimpses into a mystery that transcends time in […]

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  • Welcome to the personal blog of Tom Huston, one of the editors at What Is Enlightenment? magazine. Arising from the cultural milieu of late 20th-century America, armed with the combined powers of Integral Theory and Evolutionary Enlightenment, he has become … Kosmic Tom.
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