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Amir Aczel - Exploring Pierre Teilhard de Chardin's Scientific Roots
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Pierre Teilhard de Chardin is considered by many to be the godfather of evolutionary spirituality. And the influence of this early twentieth-century Jesuit priest and paleontologist, who kept a picture of Christ right next to a picture of Galileo on his bedside table, can be found just about ... more
Amit Goswami - Creative Evolution
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In the mysterious world of quantum physics, nothing is quite as it seems. And for those unschooled in the ways of tangled hierarchies, retrocausality, and collapsing wave functions, it can be a rather disorienting place. But this complex and subtle territory is where theoretical physicist Amit ... more
Andrew Newberg - Bridging the Gap: Science and Spirit in Search of Common Ground
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Dr. Andrew Newberg, director of research in nuclear medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, and coauthor of Why God Won't Go Away, is one of the world's foremost experts in the study of mystical states and the mind. His research seeks to uncover the physical correlates—if any actually ... more
Bernard Haisch - Mysteries of the Universe: Dark Matter and Dark Energy
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Science and spirituality are two sides of the same cosmic coin, proposes astrophysicist Bernard Haisch in his recently published book, The God Theory. Haisch, who once set his sights on becoming both a Catholic priest and a professional astronomer, is among the few scientists today who are willing ... more
Brian Swimme - The Story of the Universe
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Evolution isn't something that only happened in the past—it's a dynamic force that continues to rule the universe and everything in it. Cosmologist Brian Swimme tells the real story of cosmic evolution starting with the Big Bang itself. He traces the miraculous path of genesis from its ... more
Bruce Greyson - Death, Rebirth, and the Nature of the Soul
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For his March-May 2006 feature article, “Death, Rebirth, and Everything in Between,” EnlightenNext magazine's Carter Phipps interviewed a variety of leading researchers and theorists in the fields of parapsychology, near-death experiences, and reincarnation in a search for the truth ... more
Carlos Alvarado - A Different Space, A Different Time
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Carlos Alvarado, PhD, is an assistant professor of research in psychiatric medicine of the Division of Personality Studies at the University of Virginia. For over 16 years he has been studying the paranormal and collecting accounts of episodes of nonbiological consciousness that range from ... more
Carol Bowman - Death, Rebirth, and the Nature of the Soul
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For his March-May 2006 feature article, “Death, Rebirth, and Everything in Between,” EnlightenNext magazine's Carter Phipps interviewed a variety of leading researchers and theorists in the fields of parapsychology, near-death experiences, and reincarnation in a search for the truth ... more
Carter Phipps & Joel Pitney - Atheists with Attitude
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Does God exist? Is religion merely a superstition? Does anyone even care in an era when scientific rationalism has become, for many, a sufficient explanation for just about everything under the sun? These are some of the questions raised in our May-July 2008 issue in an article entitled ... more
Chris Bache - The Individual and Matrix Consciousness
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Could our collective potential for learning be almost unlimited? This religious studies professor describes his discovery that the courses he taught had a “mind” of their own. Not only did a group field develop between himself and his students in each class, but every year, students ... more
Craig Hamilton - The Mind, Matter, and Time conference
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EnlightenNext is pleased to present the complete audio recordings from Mind, Matter, and Time, a three-day conference held in May 2005 at the Omega Institute in Rhinebeck, NY. The workshop provided an introduction to the cutting-edge ideas and groundbreaking research of four preeminent voices in the ... more
David Chalmers - The Problem of Consciousness
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David Chalmers may be philosophy of mind's token bad-boy, but his preference for long hair, faded jeans, and t-shirts, hasn't hurt his credibility. He is one of today's leading figures in the quest for a comprehensive theory of consciousness. Best known for articulating what he calls the hard ... more
David Peat - Synchronicities and Epiphanies
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David Peat, scientist, writer, and cultural explorer, is more interested in finding a good question than in discovering an ultimate answer. Trained as a theoretical physicist, Peat's intellectual independence and natural curiosity took the reigns of his career, leading him far beyond the ... more
David Sloan Wilson - The Unselfish Gene
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“Social order is the vessel that keeps us afloat in a sea of chaos and entropy,” states David Sloan Wilson, professor of evolutionary biology and author of Darwin’s Cathedral: Evolution, Religion and the Nature of Society and Unto Others: The Evolution and Psychology of ... more
Dean Radin - Where Science Meets Psi
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This EnlightenNext interview features Dr. Dean Radin, senior scientist at the Institute of Noetic Sciences and author of The Conscious Universe: The Scientific Truth of Psychic Phenomena. He provides a broad overview of the current climate and investigative work being done in parapsychology and ... more
Deborah Blum - Ghost Hunter
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In this audio Science writer and Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Deborah Blum speaks with EnlightenNext Magazine's Tom Huston about her book, Ghost Hunters: William James and the Search for Scientific Proof of Life After Death. Blum's work brings to life the still unresolved struggle ... more
Dennis Ford - The Quest for Meaning
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In this engaging exchange with EnlightenNext senior editor Elizabeth Debold, author Dennis Ford explores the perennial human quest to find order and meaning in an often chaotic world. Touching on a wide range of philosophical, religious, and scientific approaches to the search for meaning throughout ... more
Deno Kazanis - Mysteries of the Universe: Dark Matter and Dark Energy
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Deno Kazanis is a rarity among scientists. As a biophysicist who is also a serious spiritual practitioner, he has the unusual ability to see the wisdom of both the scientific approach to truth and the spiritual experience of truth. Even more important, he is able to see a relationship between these ... more
Dr. Ervin Laszlo - The Bifurcation Point: World at the Crossroads
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Google these cutting edge science topics—evolutionary cosmology, consciousness theory, systems theory, quantum holography, or the Akashic field theory—and Ervin Laszlo's name will dominate the first ten hits every time. In fact, no serious discussion of these topics can fail to consider ... more
Duane Elgin - The Living Universe
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Duane Elgin is no stranger to the conscious evolution movement. His 1981 classic, Voluntary Simplicity, inspired a generation of people to start to approach their lives and choices with the entire planet in mind. And since that time, he has been a tireless advocate for helping humanity awaken to a ... more
Edgar Mitchell - The Quantum Hologram
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When Edgar Mitchell, the sixth man to have walked on the moon, was returning to earth, the sight of its blue-green brilliance piercing the blackness of space triggered in him an epiphany so profound that the course of his life would be forever altered. Since then, he has dedicated his time, talents, ... more
Elisabet Sahtouris - Confessions of a Creationist Evolution Biologist
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In this thrilling talk, Sahtouris portrays traditional biology as a science out of step with its time. While modern physics and astronomy underwent a radical reshaping after Einstein introduced his theory of relativity almost 100 years ago, biology and the earth sciences still rest on the antiquated ... more
Elisabet Sahtouris - Evolution Without Darwin
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Dr. Elisabet Sahtouris recasts the classic, mechanistic view of the universe and refutes the basis for Darwin's theory of natural selection with her unique revisioning of biology, evolution—and creation itself—as the product of self-organizing intelligent systems. In Sahtouris' view, ... more
Eric Chaisson - Life in Flux: Energy, Evolution, and Ethics
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“Evolution's just another word for nothing-stays-the-same...” Okay, so that's not quite the way the famous song goes, but for Dr. Eric Chaisson, it goes right to the heart of the matter—all matter, in fact. In this dialogue with EnlightenNext's Elizabeth Debold, Dr. Chaisson, ... more
Fred Alan Wolf - The Mind, Matter, and Time conference
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EnlightenNext is pleased to present the complete audio recordings from Mind, Matter, and Time, a three-day conference held in May 2005 at the Omega Institute in Rhinebeck, NY. The workshop provided an introduction to the cutting-edge ideas and groundbreaking research of four preeminent voices in the ... more