As I was researching my book, Evolutionaries, I made an interesting observation: This is not a world built for generalists. It is a world built for specialists. What's valued intellectually is specialty knowledge -- expertise on the mechanics of eukaryotic cells or the chemistry of black holes or the life...
0 Comments | Posted December 14, 2009 | 2:24 PM
Obama accepted the Nobel Peace Prize on December 10th, and his acceptance speech, a forum in which legendary statements are often...
3 Comments | Posted July 30, 2009 | 2:38 PM
A few years ago, sometime in 2003, friend and colleague Dr. Don Beck, cofounder of Spiral Dynamics, turned the editors of EnlightenNext on to an article he...
3 Comments | Posted July 14, 2009 | 11:02 AM
The hot new field of evolutionary psychology is coming under attack from all sides. Let's just make sure we don't throw the baby of evolutionary thinking out with the bathwater of questionable science.
The war over evolutionary psychology seems...
5 Comments | Posted June 18, 2009 | 12:38 PM

A few years ago, in 2004, I wrote an article called "Is God a Pacifist?" It was a wide-ranging piece that covered many areas--peace, religious violence, nonviolent activism, etc. But it...
0 Comments | Posted June 2, 2009 | 2:28 PM
There are few issues in the political world right now more vexing than the problem of Afghanistan and Pakistan, the so called AfPak issue. In fact, it's probably not an exaggeration to say that the outcome of the AfPak issue over...
2 Comments | Posted May 18, 2009 | 3:43 PM
I recently finished a ten-day meditation retreat, a deeply enriching experience and one full of all kinds of insights and breakthroughs. But of all the many things that struck me during those powerful days of silence and stillness, one in particular really hit home ... and left me privately chuckling...
15 Comments | Posted April 30, 2009 | 12:52 PM
This was published a couple years ago in EnlightenNext magazine, but I wanted to put it here because it seems really relevant to what's going on in our culture right now and to many of the articles and posts on this site.
Last year, Der Spiegel, the German equivalent...

1 Comments | Posted April 26, 2012 | 3:49 PM