Carter Phipps is the executive editor of EnlightenNext magazine. His first book, “Evolutionaries,” a manifesto for the emerging evolutionary spirituality, will be published by Harper Perennial in spring 2011. Phipps’s areas of expertise range from metaphysics to politics to science and technology, and his in-depth features reflect the careful rigor of contemporary journalism and a passionate concern for the development of human culture. He regularly represents EnlightenNext magazine at conferences and leadership gatherings, including Deepak Chopra’s Evolutionary Leaders Forum, the invitation-only Assembly of Leaders prior to the 2004 Parliament of the World’s Religions, the 2008 Edinburgh Festival of Spirituality and Peace, at educational institutions including Brown University, JFK University, and the Institute for Transpersonal Psychology, and conferences sponsored by Praxis Peace Institute, Wisdom University, and Integral Institute. Phipps has appeared on BBC Radio’s “Reporting Religion” and on New Dimensions radio, and he is a regular guest on Deepak Chopra’s Wellness Radio on Sirius. Phipps is featured in “The Shift,” an upcoming documentary, alongside global spiritual leaders and activists including the Dalai Lama, Al Gore, and Desmond Tutu.

We live in one of those rare moments in human history when the deepest metaphysical questions are being turned over and examined as we search for a new orientation that will serve us for the next millennium. It would be hard to find a better guide into this fascinating conversation than Carter Phipps.


Brian Swimme, PhD
California Institute of Integral
Studies, author of The Universe Story


www.enlightennext.org

Blog Entries by Carter Phipps

The Good, the Bad, & the Mediated

Posted July 30, 2009 | 02:38 PM (EST)


Mediated, by Thomas de Zengotita

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...

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Evolutionary Psychology Under Attack?

3 Comments | Posted July 14, 2009 | 11:02 AM (EST)


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.

evo-psychThe war over evolutionary psychology seems...

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President Obama: The Birth of a Moral Leader

5 Comments | Posted June 18, 2009 | 12:38 PM (EST)


Obama's Cairo Speech


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...

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Nuclear-Tipped Pakistan and Stone Age Afghanistan

Posted June 2, 2009 | 02:28 PM (EST)


durandline-764355There 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...

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My Mind Is Like My Mother

2 Comments | Posted May 18, 2009 | 03:43 PM (EST)


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...

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What Ever Happened to Truth?

15 Comments | Posted April 30, 2009 | 12:52 PM (EST)


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...

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