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EnlightenNext’s Jeff Carreira and Carter Phipps give a fascinating history of the magazine and how its ongoing inquiry has both informed and been informed by their collective spiritual practice.

Spiritual teacher Aliya Haeri speaks about her unconventional marriage to the Sufi master Shaykh Fadhlalla Haeri, and the insight she’s gained into women’s spiritual development.

UN activist and spiritual leader Audrey Kitagawa makes an impassioned plea for moral responsibility.

WIE's Elizabeth Debold spoke with systems theory pioneer Dr. Ervin Laszlo about his vision for the future of the planet and of a new paradigm of universal interconnectedness.

This contemporary Christian contemplative, passionate scientist, and philosopher speaks about the creative impulse behind the evolutionary design of the universe.

A visionary cosmologist explains why this may be the most critical yet potentially transformative time on the planet in 65 million years.

The Dalai Lama explains why we need to create a new form of ethics based on the reality of our interdependence.

“The spiritual power of the universe is not a morally neutral force,” declares revolutionary spiritual activist Michael Lerner in this provocative dialogue with Andrew Cohen on Judaism, enlightenment, and saving the world.

A Carmelite monk speaks passionately about the joys of living the holy life and the fulfillment found in renouncing what he calls the e'M'pire—the world of manipulation, mendacity, and mediocrity.