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The fifth in our series of conversations featuring WIE editor Carter Phipps and integral wunderkind Steve McIntosh explores the concept of global governance—with an integral twist.

Integral philosopher Steve McIntosh gives some unorthodox advice to the next U.S. President on how to approach the most pressing challenges of the next four years.

Jim Garrison describes his ambitious new plan to bring the world's socially and environmentally conscious citizens, or “cultural creatives,” together under a single unifying banner.

Pentagon insider Thomas Barnett draws on decades of experience as a strategic consultant to the world's most powerful military to paint a remarkably idealistic picture of what the world could look like in the twenty-first century.

EnlightenNext’s Carter Phipps speaks with occult scholar Gary Lachman about the rich and often overlooked relationship between Western esotericism, social change, and politics throughout history.

“Grand strategist” Thomas Barnett argues that despite its bad rap, the widespread globalization of Western-style capitalism and democracy may actually be the most unifying, progressive, and liberating force in human history.

In part two, Thomas Barnett challenges a common misconception found in many progressive, liberal circles today: that the rise and spread of modernity has created a more violent, unjust, and impoverished world.

Robert Wright, evolutionary thinker and author of Nonzero, speaks with WIE's Carter Phipps about moral values, national security, and his picks for President in 2008.

Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi · Jan Chozen Bays Roshi · Sheikh Tosun Bayrak · Father Basil Pennington · David Frawley

Will America be remembered as the architect of the world's first global democracy or as a power-hungry rogue nation that precipitates a tragedy of epic proportions?

From the far out to the close at hand, four futurists zoom out for a bird's eye view on the global changes we're experiencing now and can anticipate in the future—each outlining both the unprecedented challenges and mind-spinning opportunities humanity faces in the minutes and years to come

Change-wizard Don Beck guides us on a monumental and mind-bending journey through spiraling stages and “colors” of consciousness. Editor Jessica Roemischer explains why, when it comes to spiritual transformation, it ain't easy being “green.”