Integrity: the Foundation of an Integral Life

August 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment

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 […]

The Kosmocentric Stage - Part 2

August 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment

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. […]

The Kosmocentric Stage - Part 1

August 4, 2008 | 1 Comment

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 […]

BIG THINK Features Andrew Cohen

May 31, 2008 | 3 Comments

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, […]

Does the Universe Have a Purpose?

May 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment

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 Law of Complexity-Consciousness

January 25, 2008 | 1 Comment

There’s a great interview on Salon.com with the brilliant evolutionary theologian John F. Haught — who was featured in WIE Issue 35 — on his new book, God and the New Atheism: A Critical Response to Dawkins, Harris, and Hitchens. I haven’t seen the book yet, but the publisher has assured us a […]

Physics: Platonic Laws or Kosmic Habits?

November 24, 2007 | Leave a Comment

Rupert Sheldrake dukes it out with Freeman Dyson, Daniel Dennett, and Stephen Toulmin on the radical, cosmology-crushing possibility that the laws of nature, like everything else, evolve over time . . .

For more on the topic of morphic fields or kosmic habits, Ken Wilber is always a good place to start. :)

The Curve

November 15, 2007 | Leave a Comment

An awesome quote from Radical Evolution by Washington Post reporter Joel Garreau:
“From the formation of the Earth to the first multi-cellular organisms it took perhaps 4 billion years. Getting from tiny organisms to the first mammals took 400 million years. Getting from mammals to the first primitive monkeys took 150 million years. Getting from monkeys […]