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Andrew Cohen - A Passion for Evolution
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Andrew Cohen, founder of EnlightenNext magazine, is a spiritual teacher widely recognized as a defining voice in the emerging field of evolutionary spirituality. In this presentation recorded live in New York City, Cohen sets a bold course, declaring at the outset his intention to impart an ... more
Andrew Cohen - Being and Becoming
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Andrew Cohen, founder of EnlightenNext magazine, is pioneering a new and radical vision of human spirituality called Evolutionary Enlightenment, in which he casts the ultimate nature and purpose of human life within a vast developmental context—all the way from the creation of the ... more
Andrew Cohen - Living at the Edge
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In this talk at EnlightenNext Boston, spiritual teacher and founder of EnlightenNext Andrew Cohen introduces a new framework for pursuing a spiritual life at the beginning of the twenty-first century. With expansive vision and meticulous precision, he traces the developmental process that has ... more
Andrew Cohen - Redefining the Spiritual Impulse
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Through his ceaseless investigation into the nature of enlightened consciousness, spiritual teacher and visionary philosopher Andrew Cohen has become a defining voice in the field of evolutionary spirituality. In this talk recorded live in Chicago, he methodically and cogently articulates the ... more
Andrew Cohen - Striving for Unreachable Perfection
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Andrew Cohen, editor in chief of EnlightenNext magazine, and internationally recognized leader in the field of evolutionary spirituality, discusses the ultimate predicament, goals, and purpose of human existence in a context of cosmic evolution. Encompassing the future of life in the universe ... more
Andrew Cohen - The Miraculous Impulse to Evolve
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Spiritual teacher and EnlightenNext founding editor Andrew Cohen describes a vision of human history, life, and destiny that is as thrilling as it is challenging, utterly cosmic, and absolutely relevant. Based on his contemporary reconception of enlightenment, called “Evolutionary ... more
Andrew Cohen - The Peril and Promise of Individuation
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In our contemporary age of the individual, there has never been so much personal freedom and choice available to so many people on the planet. But while the benefits of increasing independence and autonomy are numerous, many have also identified the concurrent tendency toward increasing narcissism ... more
Andrew Cohen – Creating an Enlightened Culture
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In this seminal talk from his October 2009 retreat in California, Andrew Cohen recounts how he first discovered what he calls "intersubjective nonduality"-enlightened consciousness between individuals. He takes listeners back to the earliest days of his teaching career, evoking the ecstatic state of ... more
Barbara Marx Hubbard - A Fusion of Genius
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Barbara Marx Hubbard has dedicated her life to the exploration of a uniquely inspired school of evolutionary thinking called Conscious Evolution. Based on the idea that evolution itself is evolving—from unconscious matter to conscious life and beyond—this particularly compelling ... 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 Sanguin - What Color Is Your Christ?
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Was Christ the one and only son of God or was he simply one of history’s many significant spiritual leaders? Was he a miracle worker who walked on water and rose from the dead, or are these stories about his life simply metaphors imbued with timeless spiritual and moral truths? In this ... more
Carter Phipps - A Brief History of Evolutionary Spirituality
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The philosophical origins of history’s greatest cultural movements can often be traced back to visionaries who dared to think in ways far ahead of their time. The seeds of modernism that flourished during the Enlightenment, for example, were sown by the philosophers of ancient Greece. The ... more
Carter Phipps - The Cosmos, the Psyche and You
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Have you ever wondered what goes into creating an EnlightenNext (formerly What is Enlightenment?) magazine feature article? With our new series, EnlgihtenNext Editors Live, you can now find out firsthand what makes the creative process at EnlightenNext so unique. Inaugurating the series, executive ... 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
Chris Parish - Exploring the Landscape of a New Consciousness
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In this audio Chris Parish, a pioneer of a new discussion forum called “Enlightened Communication,” describes the extraordinary creativity that emerges when an entire group of people reaches beyond what they know to collectively explore the frontier of consciousness. Based on the ... more
Chris Parish - The Ultimate Adventure
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For almost two decades, Chris Parish has been studying and introducing people to the Evolutionary Enlightenment teachings of spiritual teacher Andrew Cohen. In association with Cohen (who is also the founder and editor in chief of EnlightenNext magazine), he has been developing an accessible, ... more
Don Beck & Andrew Cohen - A Perspective That Changes Everything
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Don Beck and Andrew Cohen are two visionaries deeply concerned about the state of the world and passionately interested in change. They have each pioneered distinct and original frameworks for personal and social transformation. In this talk, Beck and Cohen draw on years of experience catalyzing ... more
Dr. Ervin Laszlo - Information and Memory in Cosmos and Consciousness
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Ervin Laszlo is the perennial maverick. Thirty years ago his radical ideas presented a bold challenge to the academic community. Today, these same ideas are considered defining contributions to late twentieth-century scientific thought. This talk on the “informed universe” places Dr. ... more
Duane Elgin - The Promise Ahead
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Duane Elgin, author, educator, and media activist, delivered this inspired introduction to his work in a seminar, recorded live at the Foxhollow Forum in Lenox, Massachusetts. Elgin’s presentation centers around the contents of his acclaimed book, Promise Ahead: A Vision of Hope and Action for ... 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
Eric Weiss - Sri Aurobindo, Soul Evolution, and the Astral Realms
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Picture the way you think about reality—who you are, how you exist, the ground beneath your feet, and the sky overhead. Then, forget all that and listen to Dr. Eric Weiss, philosopher and cosmologist, in this captivating conversation about the evolution of the soul and the nature of astral ... more
Frank Poletti - Defining the Cosmology of the Future
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Why is it that despite the growing body of evidence for metaphysical phenomena, like reincarnation and out-of-body experiences, mainstream academia remains unconvinced? Professor Frank Poletti of the Esalen Center for Theory and Research (CTR) says that it has to do primarily with the scientific ... more
George Leonard - Evolution and the Future of Us
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George Leonard, icon of the Human Potential movement, award-winning journalist, author, and Aikido master, posits that the purpose of life is to consciously engage in our own evolution until we express spiritual awakening in every action. Of course, evolving ourselves isn't always that easy. ... more
Jeff Carreira & Carter Phipps - A Collective Experiment in Conscious Evolution
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EnlightenNext magazine—formerly What Is Enlightenment?—is more than just a magazine. Over the past two decades, editor in chief and spiritual teacher Andrew Cohen and a group of his students have been involved in an ongoing exploration into what it takes to live a truly enlightened life ... more
Jeff Carreira: The American Philosophical Roots of Evolutionary Spirituality
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Nineteenth-century American philosophers like Ralph Waldo Emerson and William James are often credited with planting the philosophical seeds of the postmodern revolution that exploded into culture during the 1960s. Indeed, their embrace of Eastern spirituality, reverence for nature, and emphasis on ... more