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Latest Posts from the EnlightenNext Editors' Blog
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Performance, Feedback, Revision
by Joel Pitney
Vancouver-based rap artist Baba Brinkman is adding a new twist to a genre usually characterized by gangsters, sex, and money. A former tree-planter with a Masters degree in Medieval Literature, Brinkman’s favorite subject to rhyme about isn’t drive-by’s, drug deals,Sep 02, 2010 | 0 comments | Read Post
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Cultural Evolution, Gypsy-Punk Style
by Joel Pitney
Sometimes new revolutions start in the most unlikely places. Take the “Gypsy Punk” band Gogol Bordello for instance. While they look pretty rough and wacky on the surface, this multicultural rock and roll tribe may be one of the leadingSep 01, 2010 | 5 comments | Read Post
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A Live Meeting of Global Evolutionary Leaders
by Joel Pitney
Over the past two years, EnlightenNext’s Executive Editor Carter Phipps has been participating in a kind of global think tank for conscious evolution called the Evolutionary Leaders group. This meeting of what was initially 38 people, including Deepak Chopra,Aug 31, 2010 | 6 comments | Read Post
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The Evolution of EnlightenNext Magazine
by Joel Pitney
Since its inception as a small semiannual publication in 1992, EnlightenNext magazine has spent nearly two decades tracking and shaping the leading edge of contemporary spiritual thought. Initially bearing the name What Is Enlightenment?, the magazine was founded by spiritual teacherAug 30, 2010 | 4 comments | Read Post
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Best of the Editors' Blog
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Awakening to Deep Time (Quote of the Week)
by Andrew Cohen
When we become aware of the vastness of the entire evolutionary process–from the big bang to the present moment–that is called awakening to Deep Time. It means having the capacity to assume a perspective that is nothing less than cosmic and being able to see whatever’s happening to us personally from its lofty vantage point. [...]
Nov 17, 2009 | 12 comments | Read Post
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What Do We Mean by “Masculine” and “Feminine,” Anyway?
by Elizabeth Debold
Quick: “masculine”–take ten seconds and say the words that come to mind that describe masculine. Next, do the same with “feminine.” That was the first exercise that my friend and colleague Cindy Wigglesworth and I asked participants to do in the breakout session that we led at the Integral Leadership in Action conference (October 15-18). [...]
Nov 08, 2009 | 20 comments | Read Post
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Buckminster Fuller Was A Mystic
by Joel Pitney
Have you ever had a mysterious attraction to a particular historical figure without really knowing why. . . until one day you find out something about their life and “bam!” it all makes sense? I recently had this experience with the twentieth century design pioneer Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983) .
I always knew “Bucky” was amazing.Nov 06, 2009 | 10 comments | Read Post
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Certainty
by Joel Pitney
One of the most challenging virtues for any smart, progressive, sophisticated person to cultivate today may be the quality of inspired conviction, or the utopian belief that something radically new and different is possible. In fact, we live at a time when the ideal of living passionately for anything beyond our own personal happiness or [...]
Oct 22, 2009 | 135 comments | Read Post






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