The Evolution of EnlightenNext Magazine
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 teacher Andrew Cohen as a vehicle for making sense of often competing ideas about the nature and relevance of enlightenment in our time. Featuring interviews with hundreds of respected mystics, yogis, philosophers, activists, futurists, and scientists, it soon became known as one of the world’s most authoritative forums for serious spiritual inquiry, eventually evolving into an award-winning international quarterly published in multiple languages in print and online.
Over the last ten years, EnlightenNext has dedicated itself to helping define a truly comprehensive and progressive evolutionary spirituality for the twenty-first century. Bringing its unique perspective to bear on many different domains of contemporary life, from spirituality and religion to business, science, politics, the arts, and the environment, the magazine has sought to explore and illuminate the growing role we all can play as active participants in the continuing evolution of consciousness and culture.
This timeline display, organized into four distinct eras, illustrates the evolution of EnlightenNext over the past eighteen years and includes all forty-six issues of the magazine.
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Filed Under: Cultural Evolution • EnlightenNext Editors’ Blog • EnlightenNext magazine • Evolutionaries • Evolutionary Spirituality
It’s so impressive to see the evolution of the magazine over the years. And now with its engagement online, who knows what the next phase of EnlightenNext magazine will be! Looking forward to helping chart the territory with you.
That’s a great point Steve. The magazine has been evolving for 18 years and will continue to do so in the future. With so much moving online that’s a direction we’ll be going to. We’ve already started with this blog (which we started last spring), the virtual seminar that we held this past May 15th, and our first ever virtual course. I’m not sure what exactly it’s going to look like, but I do know that it will be much more participatory!
I think the magazine has done an incalculable service in opening many to the possibility of a larger, deeper understanding of evolution and man’s role in it. I look forward to it becoming what it needs to be.
Amazing to see how much EnlightenNext magazine has evolved over all these years. The Guru&Pandit in one of them, 4 years ago, opened my eyes, heart and soul for evolutionary spirituality. This magazine changed my life and of so many others! Looking forward to all the next steps to follow.