Michael Lamport Commons,
Sara Nora Ross, and
Jonas Gensaku Miller
The first Beyond Formal Operations Symposium was held at Harvard in 1981. The resulting text Beyond Formal Operations (Commons, Richards, & Armon, 1984) was published by Praeger. There have been many subsequent publications on the subject. Occasionally people suggest that the postformal stages posited by theorists and empirical [...]

Paul Ehrlich w/ Seed Magazine
Does human culture evolve via natural selection, as our genes do?

Biologists have a pretty good idea of both how flies become resistant to DDT and how humans and primates have diverged over time. That’s because the mechanism underlying these processes is the same. Using evolution we can understand how organisms generally [...]

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An interview with Amit Goswami

Before you read any further, stop and close your eyes for a moment. Now consider the following question: for the moment your eyes were closed, did the world still exist even though you weren’t conscious of it? How do you know? [...]

An interview with Irvin Laszlo by Elizabeth A. Debold
Ervin Laszlo is a renaissance man for the world of the future. If that’s a bit of a mind-bender, then consider this: Laszlo started his career as a pianist; became the leading proponent of systems theory as a broad philosophical framework; went beyond Darwin to elaborate general [...]

Authored by Craig Hamiton
“But Sri Aurobindo is cool!” I exclaimed to Andrew Cohen, my spiritual teacher and editor-in-chief.
“Yes, we know that, but how are you going to communicate that to our readers?” he asked.
“Won’t it be enough for me to just tell them his incredible story? I mean, check it out: Controversial freedom fighter attains [...]

An interview with John White by Craig Hamilton

Introduction
Envisioning the earth’s future is an exercise in paradox. For while it’s hard to imagine a future planet earth dominated by anything other than Homo sapiens, it is perhaps equally hard, given our current course of multilateral destruction, to imagine just what kind of future the earth will [...]

A dialogue between Andrew Cohen & Ken WIlber

Dialogue VIII
What is enlightenment for the twenty-first century? In their eighth dialogue, guru and pandit trace the contours of cultural development and explore how the evolving forms of human worldviews affect the very experience and expression of the timeless spiritual revelation.
ANDREW COHEN: I’d like to talk about the [...]

Ken Wilber and Andrew Cohen inDialogue
Introduction
In this new WIE feature, Andrew Cohen, spiritual teacher and founder of What Is Enlightenment?, and Ken Wilber, the world’s most renowned integral philosopher, join together, guru and pandit, heart to heart and mind to mind, to push the limits of their (and our) experience and understanding and to chart [...]

An interview with Brian Swimme on Pierre Teilhard de Chardin by Susan Bridle
Brian Swimme has been a student of Teilhard’s work for many years. Himself a scientist with an abiding interest in the interface of science and spirituality, Swimme’s own passion and understanding have been deeply influenced by Teilhard’s ideas. Who better to bring to [...]

By Howard Bloom
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to witness the birth of the universe? To watch in slo-mo as matter and energy, space and time, explode and unfurl into being? Well, this might be your chance—as it was ours, one very surprising winter’s night, when a group from our editorial staff [...]