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. […]

Quote of the Day, brought to you by Plotinus

August 11, 2008 | 2 Comments

“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 […]

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 […]

What’s Conditioning You Today?

May 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment

Karma: can’t live with it, can’t live without it.

Ken Wilber Interviewed by Salon.com

May 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment

It’s long, it’s comprehensive, it’s accessible, and it’s awesome: “You Are the River: An Interview with Ken Wilber.”
From the intro:
Ken Wilber may be the most important living philosopher you’ve never heard of. He’s written dozens of books but you’d be hard-pressed to find his name in a mainstream magazine. Still, Wilber has a passionate […]

The Authentic Self

April 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment

Here’s the latest production from our A/V department at EnlightenNext, providing one of the simplest and coolest explanations to date of a key component of Andrew Cohen’s teaching of Evolutionary Enlightenment: the Authentic Self.

You can get another explanation of the Authentic Self here — or, for the more direct revelation, just take a moment […]

Freedom Is Not a Feeling

March 2, 2008 | 7 Comments

I started spiritually seeking when I was 16 years old, after it suddenly became impossible for me to continue functioning in “daily life” without knowing, beyond a shadow of a doubt (and beyond religious and scientific dogma), why my life, this planet, or anything else existed at all. Since that time, I’ve tasted pretty […]

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