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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 […]

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 […]

In the next issue of WIE (i.e., the one after the brand new issue soon to be at Borders, Chapters, Whole Foods, and Barnes & Noble stores near you), we’ll be featuring an interview with Joel Primack, one of the pioneers of the theory of “cold dark matter,” the mysterious invisible substance that supposedly makes […]

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. :)

While researching ideas for a potential little section called “Atheists with Attitude” for the next issue of WIE, I came across this awesome deconstruction of Richard Dawkins’ book The God Delusion. It’s called, fittingly, “The Dawkins Confusion” and was written by Alvin Plantinga, a philosophy professor at Notre Dame. His ripping conclusion beautifully dovetails off […]

I was just looking at the cover of the October issue of Scientific American, sitting here on my desk, and was intrigued by this metaphysically loaded cover line:

CONSCIOUSNESS
Scientists Debate How
Neurons Make Us Aware

Now, does that cover line even make sense in a materialistic framework? How neurons make “us” aware? Are “we” the physical […]

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