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Alex Grey - Sacred Art, Sacred Space
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What makes a work of art spiritual? How do you make a building transmit the uplifting qualities of the sacred? What is the relationship between the evolution of culture and the creation of sacred objects and structures? To find out, EnlightenNext's Ross Robertson speaks with acclaimed visionary ... more
Aliya Haeri - An Unlikely Path to Liberation
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What could drive a contemporary woman, born and raised in the West, to enter a polygamous marriage with a spiritual master from an ancient Islamic tradition? In this fascinating interview for Issue 45, EnlightenNext senior editor Elizabeth Debold speaks with Sufi master Aliya Haeri about her ... more
Andrei Codrescu - The Living Conditions of the Gods
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Humor, it is said in mystical Hebrew texts, is the highest form of spiritual communication. American poet and journalist Andrei Codrescu is employing this higher principle to write some of the most wry, penetrating, and creative cultural critiques of our time. His NPR commentaries, his poetry, ... more
Anodea Judith - Evolution of the Divine Feminine
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Anodea Judith, Ph.D. is known worldwide for her books and workshops dealing with the integration of the eastern Chakra system and the western psychological/therapeutic model. Less known perhaps, is her scholarly grasp of Jungian psychology, Spiral Dynamics, ancient mythology, cultural history, ... more
Anthony Robbins - “In Cahoots with God”
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If you're interested in what the relationship between self-mastery and enlightenment might be, you're going to want to listen to this interview with famed self-improvement guru and bona fide force of nature, Tony Robbins. Excerpted from a longer piece recorded for EnlightenNext magazine's "The ... more
Ariel Levy - On Being a Liberated Woman
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What is liberation for women today? As you know, we've been probing this simple yet compelling question in recent months in other audios and in our landmark issue on women. To gauge the state of women's consciousness as the new century gets underway, we spoke with twenty-four remarkable women, ... more
Arielle Ford - What Is a Soul Mate?
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When acclaimed publicist and author Arielle Ford started to date her future husband, Brian Hilliard, something very peculiar happened. One morning she woke up in a rage after having a “past life vision” of a love affair that she and Brian had over 2,000 years ago—an affair that he ... more
Barry Long - A Tantric Master
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A meeting of the masters, this 1997 conversation between spiritual teachers Andrew Cohen and Barry Long (1926–2003) centers around an exploration of Long's teachings on sexual tantra. In a shared passion for the truth, these two spiritual pioneers delve into the heart of Long's tantric ... 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
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
Carol Lee Flinders - The Spirit of a Revolution
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In this audio, EnlightenNext's Elizabeth Debold speaks with medieval scholar and feminist author Carol Flinders about the history and possible future of feminism and the spiritual liberation of women. Flinders draws us into the world of medieval women saints and the Beguine, a lay sisterhood ... more
Carter Phipps - Death, Rebirth, and Everything In Between
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With everyone and her mother claiming to have been Cleopatra in a past life, the New Age has given reincarnation a bad name. But what if there were scientific evidence to support this ancient belief? In this presentation, EnlightenNext senior editor Carter Phipps presents the amazing stories and ... more
Chris Parish - Cynicism: the British Disease
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Britain is a country rich in the creativity, intelligence and multicultural savvy of its people. But what is the way forward for the Brits in these post-industrial, post-colonial times where irony and cynicism have taken over and become the main channels of communication? Listen to Chris Parish in ... more
Corrado Rustici - Integral Music and the Hierarchy of Spirit
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Corrado Rustici is a pioneering guitarist in both progressive and fusion rock. He has performed with a range of artists, from Whitney Houston to Miles Davis to Zakir Hussein, and has acted as producer for some of the best selling musicians of all time, including Eric Clapton, Sinead O'Connor, ... more
Cynthia Bourgeault - A Liberation Beyond Gender
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In this audio, EnlightenNext Magazine's Jessica Roemischer asks Cynthia Bourgeault, author, Episcopal priest, and internationally recognized teacher of contemplative prayer, “What is liberation for women today?” Bourgeault, who divides her time between a hermitage off the coast of ... more
Dan Millman - Way of the Peaceful Warrior
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Danny Goes To Hollywood? That's right, Dan Millman's classic spiritual saga, Way of the Peaceful Warrior, is now a major motion picture, starring Nick Nolte, Mark Mechlowicz, and Amy Smart. In our exclusive EnlighteNext interview Carter Phipps speaks with author Dan Millman about why bringing the ... more
David Johansen - Vox Humana
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In the early 1970s David Johansen made waves as the singer of the formative punk band The New York Dolls. Their raw, explosive expression of rock and roll verve laid the ground for punk music, and influenced bands from the Ramones, to the Talking Heads, and Guns n' Roses. Today, besides ... more
David Lynch - Catching the Big Fish
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David Lynch, filmmaker, painter, and author, has received three Academy Award nominations for best director and is unquestionably one of today's most respected and original film auteurs. He is also a serious spiritual seeker, a veteran of Transcendental Meditation (as taught by the Maharishi Mahesh ... 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
Dr. Anne Foerst - Gods and Humans and Androids, Oh My!
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What will it be like to coexist alongside intelligent robots? What will be the differences—and similiarities—between us and them? How does the emerging potential of AI (Artificial Intelligence) impact the way we need to think about spirituality and, indeed, what it means to be a ... more
Dr. Joel Hunter - Shift to the Left
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In November, 2006, Rev. Joel Hunter was named president-elect of the Christian Coalition, long a model of activism for the religious right. His stated intention—to broaden the focus of the socially conservative organization beyond the hot-button themes of abortion and same-sex marriage to ... more
Elizabeth Debold & Andrew Cohen - Liberation Without a Face
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What is an enlightened expression of gender? That question frames this compelling dialogue between spiritual teacher (and EnlightenNext founder) Andrew Cohen and gender theorist (and EnlightenNext magazine senior editor) Elizabeth Debold. Taken from a one-day virtual seminar entitled “The ... more
Elizabeth Debold - Spiritual but Not Religious
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Waged in isolated skirmishes for decades, the battle between progressive spirituality and traditional religion is exploding into mainstream culture like never before. And its outcome hinges on just one question: When it comes to navigating the spiritual life, who is the ultimate authority? The ... more
Elizabeth Debold - Where Are the Women?
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From the turn of the century to the cultural revolution of the 60s, the women's movement has radically changed just about everything we thought we knew about the female gender. Women are freer than they've ever been to reach higher, to achieve more—culturally, artistically, financially, and ... more
Erwin McManus - Awakening the Warrior Poet
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What does a spiritually enlightened man look like? Nurturing and compassionate? Fierce and uncompromising? Idealistic and visionary? History provides us with many different examples—from the sacrifice of Jesus and the compassion of the Buddha to the bold, nonviolent leadership of Gandhi and ... more