Enlightennext Magazine

Here, in Mother India, was a society in which the intuition I'd been seriously pursuing since age 16--the sense that Spirit is higher and more important than anything else--was simply taken for granted.

After a wonderful and uplifting teaching trip to Mother India (to watch a short film about my trip to India, click here), last week I flew to Copenhag...

We must be ruthless in our rationality in order to authentically transmit the light of the trans-rational God in the twenty-first century. This is an enormous task, but our willingness to take it on will slowly but surely make a profound difference.

Zoltan Toery's major work of materialist science was inspired by a seemingly nonmaterial event -- a vision of literally cosmic proportions that came to him late one night during his weeks in a Sydney hospital bed.

Will embracing woman-centered spirituality take us beyond patriarchy? The goal is to create a new spiritual and ethical context that would balance and heal our hyper-masculine world.

The real challenge of enlightenment is egoless engagement in an intersubjective, creative context. That, to me, is the call of the future.

While women and men have become social equals by law, we are all still deeply conditioned by ancient survival patterns in which women are subordinate.

What is the purpose of being on a spiritual path for those of us who have grown up in an environment of unprecedented wealth, education, and personal freedom ?

We're terrified that in stepping above and outside of nature, we give ourselves license to use and abuse the biosphere for our own utilitarian ends.

In our cultural climate of hyper-individualism and autonomy, it may be more important than ever to make the effort to define what authentic spiritual practice and attainment are supposed to look like.

Some feel that allowing an evolutionary basis for bad behavior is akin to making a Stone Age excuse for current moral failures.

We are truly one with the mind of God--one with the original evolutionary impulse that chose to take that eternal leap from Being to Becoming fourteen billion years ago.

I'd like to challenge one of the most popular beliefs of our era: that women have a profoundly different value set than men, and that embracing these particularly feminine values will change the world.

When you do nothing for days you begin to see through the spell that the mind casts over the self and can recognize that so much of what goes on in our mental world is truly meaningless.

"Courage is knowing what not to fear," Arianna Huffington likes to say, attributing the quote to Socrates. To her, that means that we shouldn't fear o...