Elizabeth Debold Quick: “masculine”–take ten seconds and say the words that come to mind that describe masculine. Next, do the same with “feminine.” That was the first exercise that my friend and colleague Cindy Wigglesworth and I asked participants to do in the breakout session that we led at the Integral Leadership in Action conference [ Read More ]
Archive for the ‘Evolutionary spirituality’ Category
Categories: Evolutionary spirituality, Sex & Spirituality
Suppose you knew you were going to be reborn after you died, and you could choose the time and place of your next birth—any time in human history up to the present day. Would you like to be born in the 21st century, or during some earlier period? Current societies are more complex and technologically [ Read More ]
Categories: AQAL & SDi, Evolutionary spirituality
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 [ Read More ]
Categories: AQAL & SDi, Evolutionary spirituality
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 [ Read More ]
Categories: Evolutionary spirituality, Social Collective
This article is featured on: Evolutionary Spirituality and Science & Consciousness 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 [ Read More ]
Categories: Evolutionary spirituality, Science & Spirituality
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 [ Read More ]
Categories: Evolutionary spirituality
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 [ Read More ]
Categories: Evolutionary spirituality
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 [ Read More ]
Categories: Evolutionary spirituality
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 [ Read More ]
Categories: Evolutionary spirituality
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 [ Read More ]
Categories: Evolutionary spirituality
