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Join 3rd millenium renaissance man, genius raconteur, author, and former rock and roll starmaker Howard Bloom to find out what the American king of pop and the Saudi prince of jihad have to do with collective intelligence, Darwinian reproduction strategies, and the future of human culture.

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

Robert Godwin, author of the metaphysical thriller One Cosmos Under God speaks with Elizabeth Debold and Andrew Cohen about the evolution of consciousness, culture, and the cosmos.

Carol Flinders, medieval scholar and pioneer at the intersection of feminism and spirituality, speaks with WIE about the women's liberation movement, its individual, cultural, spiritual, and political evolution—yesterday, today, and in the future.

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.

Sean Esbjörn-Hargens, founder and chair of JFK University’s Integral Theory Department, gives WIE’s Joel Pitney the lowdown on the current state of the integral movement.

Steven Vedro speaks to WIE’s Carter Phipps about his recent book, Digital Dharma: A User’s Guide to Expanding Consciousness in the Infosphere, and discusses the unique role that technology plays in the evolution of consciousness.

Editor in chief Andrew Cohen and integral philosopher Ken Wilber—the Guru and the Pandit—explore the “fascinating, complex, and infinitely subtle” relationship between evolution and enlightenment.

“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.

Mary Evelyn Tucker, author, educator, and leading voice in the religion and ecology movement, speaks with WIE editors Carol Raphael and Ross Robertson about re-envisioning our humanity in a cosmic context, embracing not just our care for planet earth but the great responsibility inherent at the leading edge of consciousness itself.

WIE editors Jessica Roemischer and Ross Robertson speak with Fritizie P. Manuel: art historian, scholar, and co-author of Utopian Thought in the Western World, a definitive history of the human propensity to visualize and create the future.

Integral philosopher Steve McIntosh and WIE editor Carter Phipps explore the patterns and mechanisms through which human consciousness and culture develop. 

In this new series of interviews with WIE’s own editors, Carter Phipps speaks about his motivations and discoveries in writing The Cosmos, the Psyche, and You (Issue 39), an exploration of the many impacts of Carl Jung and Pierre Teilhard de Chardin on postmodern life and culture.

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.

Christopher Cooke, core member of the Global Spiral Dynamics Group and leading international consultant in the application of whole-systems thinking, offers anecdotes and examples to illustrate his use of Clare Graves' theory of value memes and levels of development to catalyze positive change in individuals, groups, and corporations.

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

WIE Unbound presents Mind, Matter, and Time, a three-day conference on consciousness sponsored by WIE and the Omega Institute in Rhinebeck, NY. The conference presented the work and ideas of WIE's managing editor Craig Hamilton, Masaru Emoto, Joseph Chilton Pearce, and Fred Alan Wolf.

Islamic scholar Dr. Munawar Anees traces the history of Islam from the Middle Ages to the present day, touching on its defining and defaming moments as he outlines a progressive path forward for the fastest growing religion in the world.

Andrew Cohen’s twenty years of experience as a spiritual teacher provides dynamic counterpoint to Ken Wilber’s comprehensive integral theory. The result is more than an exchange of ideas, as “guru and pandit” bring their rigorous inquiry and passion to this lively exploration of Wilber’s new manifesto.

Noting the surprising absence of women at the leading edge of cultural change, Debold asks what happened to the revolution that women started in the last half of the 20th century—and calls women to once again aspire to transform the status quo.

The author of The Headless Way points to eleven exits from the prison of the unenlightened state.

From AIDS in Africa to the war in Iraq, Don Beck provides surprising insight into the cultural forces driving the news of the day.

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

WIE calls on some of today's most pioneering evolutionary minds in geopolitics, cosmology, organizational development, and spirituality to help us understand how humanity can move forward amidst the multifaceted challenges of our moment in history.

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.”

Founder of Visa International and self-made philosopher Dee Hock invokes the new science of complexity theory to show how human organizations can become powerful agents for evolutionary transformation.

The insightful author of The Moral Animal and Nonzero reflects on the dynamics of evolution and speculates about an emerging global consciousness.

Is peace the answer to a world in chaos? Against the backdrop of 9/11 and Iraq, WIE asks the hard questions about just wars and religious violence, and explores the relationship between our deepest spiritual principles and the politics of an evolving global society.

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.

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.

Hear what the Bahá'í Faith, one of the newest additions to the world's religious canon, has to say about the unique evolutionary potential of our time.

Enter a multidimensional journey through history, cyberspace (and small-town America) as a broad spectrum of religious authorities takes on the burning question: How can the world's great traditions cope with the complexities of human life in the 21st century and beyond?