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Rabbi Yehuda Berg of The Kabbalah Centre speaks about the mythic origins and contemporary significance of this once recondite mystical path.

Aboriginal Australian educator Lillian Holt hails the virtues of genuine authenticity in this conversation about the search for identity beyond ethnicity.

Join author, cultural scientist, and raconteur extraordinaire Howard Bloom as he radically redefines the significance of consumer culture.

Robert Wright, evolutionary thinker and author of Nonzero, speaks with WIE's Carter Phipps about creating higher integration in a polarized world.

Founder of What Is Enlightenment? magazine and pioneering teacher of Evolutionary Enlightenment Andrew Cohen speaks before a live audience in London about the critical and cosmic necessity for our wholehearted engagement at the leading edge of human development—spiritually, philosophically, and culturally.

Author Dennis Ford and WIE’s Elizabeth Debold explore the most fundamental of human needs—the quest to find meaning in life—in this fascinating exchange of ideas that ranges from the philosophy of Plato to the contemporary postmodern condition.

Integral ecologist Michael Zimmerman speaks with WIE editor Ross Robertson about the “bright green” movement, a transformative approach to environmentalism that offers a fuller and more hopeful way to respond to the global ecological challenges we face.

Three feminist commentators—award-winning author of The Vagina Monologues Eve Ensler, media studies professor and author Laura Kipnis, and whistle-blowing feminist Ariel Levy—weigh in on the status of women’s liberation in a world where much has changed for women yet many things remain the same.

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.

Harvard University’s Harvey Mansfield gives his controversial take on men, masculinity, and the gender-neutral society.

In this fascinating interview with WIE's Carter Phipps, innovative Christian minister Erwin McManus paints a picture of what a spiritually enlightened man might look like in the 21st century.

Spiritual guide Mother Clare Watts and developmental psychologist Jenny Wade speak with senior editor Elizabeth Debold about the next steps for men as part of our recent investigation into the emergence of a new expression of masculinity (see issue 41).

Psychology researcher Jean M. Twenge explores the startling cultural trend toward self-obsession in her new book, The Narcissism Epidemic: Living in the Age of Entitlement.

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.

EnlightenNext’s Elizabeth Debold reads her classic article "Spiritual but Not Religious: Moving Beyond Postmodern Spirituality," in which she assesses the growing trend to seek the sacred outside of religious traditions.

WIE's Carter Phipps speaks with Fred Turner, author of From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network and the Rise of Digital Utopianism, about the origins, evolution, and promise of social change in the digital age.

In the second part of a two-part dialogue, WIE founder Andrew Cohen and spiritual teacher Arjuna Ardagh explore the subtler aspects of deeksha, a simple technique for transmitting energy that is sweeping the globe and has the potential, its enthusiasts say, to usher in a new age of unity consciousness.

Arjunah Ardagh, author of Awakening to Oneness, gives WIE’s founder Andrew Cohen an insider’s account of deeksha, a technique for transmitting spiritual energy that is sweeping the globe and has the potential, its enthusiasts say, to usher in a new age of unity consciousness.

De Zengotita's take-no-prisoners first book exposes our postmodern culture of narcissism like you've never seen it before.

In an exclusive preview of his new book, Howard Bloom inspires us to consider capitalism—the heart of Western civilization—as “the most creative and potentially idealistic bio-engine this planet has ever seen.”

A New Spiritual Canon

As Evan ascends Jacob's Ladder, Ella fears the worst and considers becoming a nun.

The Tarantinian Way

WIE editor Jessica Roemischer traverses four decades of postmodernity and life with her philosopher father, in an autobiographical odyssey replete with the freedoms, disappointments, and newfound potential of a world beyond tradition.

The importance of a moral context for spiritual experience occupies the attention of Wilber and Cohen in this riveting exchange. They confront the ethical ambiguities of our time and re-insert morality into the discussion of postmodern spirituality.

How do we make the right choices in a globalizing, pluralistic society? WIE looks beyond our postmodern “do-your-own-thing” ethos to explore the emerging edge of an evolutionary morality.

One of our editors peers deep into Narcissus' mirror to reflect upon the spiritual implications of a pervasive cultural virus called boomeritis—the subject and title of Ken Wilber's recent novel.

The West's foremost cartographer of consciousness joins the founder of WIE to discuss the anatomy of modern spiritual transformation. Together, they confront the prevailing cultural disposition that must be challenged if humans are to take the next evolutionary step.

Join Stacey, WIE's newest correspondent (and loosest cannon), to find out just what makes the neo-advaita world tick!

A review of two new releases: After the Ecstasy, the Laundry by Jack Kornfield and Yoga and the Quest for the True Self by Stephen Cope

“American” and “spiritual” may seem to be antithetical terms. But to the cofounder of Omega Institute and author of The New American Spirituality, the democracy and diversity of this modern materialistic nation may prove to be fertile ground for a new, world-embracing spiritual path.

“Transcendence, to me, is a relative term.” A provocative inquiry into the nature of enlightenment with the renowned scholar and author of Buddhism without Beliefs.

The editor of Tricycle, America's most popular Buddhist review, discusses the secularization of Buddhism in a culture “aggressively antagonistic to the pursuit of the unknown.”

Are the great enlightenment teachings being watered down to appeal to our Western consumerist mentality? Includes an original article by Ken Wilber and interviews with Georg Feuerstein, Dr. Laura Schlessinger, Deepak Chopra and NPR commentator Andrei Codrescu.

A Romanian exile, social critic and poet talks about consumerism, spiritual subversion and the dangers of the seemingly real.

Meeting the authors of The Guru Papers

A poignant excerpt from A Guide for the Perplexed, E. F. Schumacher's compelling reckoning with the loss of meaning and value in the wake of the scientific revolution.