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Ajja In Memoriam: Ajja, the Self-Realized Saint of Puttur
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Ajja, born Ramachandra Bhat in Nettar, India, was a modest farmer and family man until he underwent a spontaneous and dramatic awakening. From that day on, he declared himself “dead,” no longer the owner of his own body. He eventually abandoned his farm, his family, and all the ... 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
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 – 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
Archbishop Desmond Tutu - When God Smiles
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In this audio, Archbishop Desmond Tutu transforms the daily routine of the press interview into a magnificent and heartrending sermon on the transfiguration of adversity. He conveys his powerful conviction that God presides over a moral universe in which the good and the just shall always be ... more
Archimandrite Dionysios - The Enemy Within
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Ego is and has always been the arch enemy of enlightenment. So when EnlightenNext set about creating an entire issue of the magazine dedicated to this perennial nemesis of truth and goodness, Craig Hamilton traveled to the spiritual seat of the Greek Orthodoxy in Mt. Athos, Greece. Once the home of ... more
Arjuna Ardagh - Deeksha: The Oneness Blessing
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At least since the sixties, many spiritual seekers in the West have been searching for a fast track to enlightenment. Have they finally found one? For Arjuna Ardagh, author of Awakening into Oneness, and many thousands of others around the world, the answer may now be yes. It’s called ... more
Barbara Marx Hubbard - The Future Feminine
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Is sex evolving? Barbara Marx Hubbard, renowned “evolutionary visionary,” and author of Conscious Evolution: Awakening the Power of Our Social Potential, speaks with EnlightenNext's Elizabeth Debold about the emerging new potentials of an evolving human sexuality. According to ... more
Brother Wayne Teasdale - Is God a Pacifist?
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For his August-October 2004 feature article, EnlightenNext magazine’s Carter Phipps asked the controversial question, ”Is God a pacifist?” Speaking to a variety of theologians, political adepts, and activists he explored the history of philosophical and spiritual foundations of ... more
Bruce Sanguin - An Evolving Faith
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This interview features Bruce Sanguin, a minister in the United Church of Canada and a leading voice in the emerging field of evolutionary spirituality. Inspired by many of the most progressive Christian figures of the twentieth century, including Pierre Teilhard de Chardin and Father Thomas Berry, ... 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
Cheri Huber - Back to Basics: Monastic Practice and the Path to Enlightenment
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Renunciation. Ego death. Not very popular concepts these days, even among the spiritual set. But popular or not, they still rank high among the perennial pillars of spiritual practice. That’s why Cheri Huber, Zen teacher, author, and founder of the Mountain View Zen Center, trains monks and ... 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
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
Cynthia Bourgeault - Silence is the Language of God
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The Rev. Dr. Cynthia Bourgeault is an author, lecturer, hermit, priest, and scholar. In her ardent pursuit of a renewal of the Christian contemplative path, she has worked closely with Friars Thomas Keating and Bruno Barnhart and has studied Sufism, the teachings of G.I. Gurdjieff, and the inner ... 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 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
Deepak Chopra & Andrew Cohen - Mythic Life and Times
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In this audio interview from the May-July 2008 issue of EnlightenNext, editor in chief Andrew Cohen sits down with Deepak Chopra and takes an in-depth look at the remarkable life of this world-renowned spiritual teacher. As Cohen writes in his introduction from the magazine: “Over the last ... more
Deepak Chopra - The Life of the Buddha
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In an exclusive interview, EnlightenNext's Carter Phipps speaks with Deepak Chopra, world-renowned expert on mind-body medicine, about his new book, Buddha: A Story of Enlightenment. The novel is an insightful re-imagining of the tumultuous early life, the formative experiences with family, ... 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