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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
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
Allan Combs - The Evolution of We
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Contemporary theories of evolution span the extremes, from pure materialist science to purely subjective experience—and everything in between. Not surprisingly then, some of the most creative work in this burgeoning field is found in the high ground where science and spirit meet in a ... more
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
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
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
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
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
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
Arianna Huffington - The Better Angels of Our Nature
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In our highly polarized political climate, it is rare to find an individual who is as familiar with both sides of the aisle as Arianna Huffington is. A bestselling author, a nationally syndicated columnist, and named by Time magazine as one of the one hundred most influential people in 2006, ... 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
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
Audrey Kitagawa - Stepping into Global Citizenship
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Audrey Kitagawa works as a full-time volunteer for the United Nations in the rescue and rehabilitation of child combatants forced to fight in civil wars and insurgencies throughout the developing world. Formerly a successful attorney in Honolulu, Kitagawa is also the sole heir to the spiritual ... more