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What Is Enlightenment? Content Directory
Media Files
Brian Swimme The Story of the Universe
Mathematical cosmologist Brian Swimme is both scientifically grounded and spiritually inspired in this portrayal of human consciousness as the end result and leading edge of 13.7 billion years of cosmic evolution.
Edgar Mitchell The Quantum Hologram
Astronaut and founder of the Institute of Noetic Sciences, Edgar Mitchell, discusses the nature of consciousness and its place in the cosmic scheme of things past, present, and future.
Joseph Chilton Pearce The Mind, Matter, and Time conference
Recorded live at the WIE & Omega Institute conference on consciousness
Best known for his studies in the development of consciousness in children, Pearce suggests that the culmination of three billion years of evolution lies untapped within our neural structures.
Fred Alan Wolf The Mind, Matter, and Time conference
Recorded live at the WIE & Omega Institute conference on consciousness
Fred Alan Wolf studies the relationship of quantum physics to consciousness. He appeared in the popular film, What the Bleep Do We Know!? and is the author of The Yoga of Time Travel and other books.
John Haught God, Faith, and the Atheist Delusion
WIE’s Carter Phipps speaks with evolutionary Christian theologian John Haught about his sharp critiques of the “New Atheism”—a highly-publicized attempt to debunk religious faith led by Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett, Christopher Hitchens, and Sam Harris.
Craig Hamilton The Mind, Matter, and Time conference
Recorded live at the WIE & Omega Institute conference on consciousness
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.
Dr. Anne Foerst Gods and Humans and Androids, Oh My!
What will it be like to coexist alongside intelligent robots?
Find out in this fascinating discussion with ethicist and
futuristic theologian Anne Foerst about the moral, social, and
philosophical implications of creating artificial human
life.
Deborah Blum Ghost Hunter
WIE's Tom Huston speaks with Pulitzer
Prize–winning journalist and author Deborah Blum about
Ghost Hunters, her historical narrative about the life
and times of nineteenth-century psychologist-philosopher William
James and his search for proof of life after death.
Lynne McTaggart Can Thoughts Change the World?
WIE’s Elizabeth Debold speaks with investigative reporter Lynne McTaggart about the much publicized and mysterious power of thought and intention—what it can accomplish, how it’s been proved, and why you should know about it.
Rupert Sheldrake & Andrew Cohen Changing Kosmic Habits - Part One
In part one of this special two-part release, pioneering British biologist Rupert Sheldrake and WIE founder Andrew Cohen engage in a free-spirited dialogue about the nature and evolution of consciousness, exploring the habits or structures that shape our culture and demand our attention if we want to consciously create an enlightened future.
Andrew Cohen & Rupert Sheldrake Changing Kosmic Habits - Part Two
In Part Two of this special two-part video, pioneering British biologist Rupert Sheldrake and WIE founder Andrew Cohen continue their free-spirited investigation into the nature and evolution of consciousness, exploring the phenomenon of interiority, the pursuit of higher potentials, and the urgent need to change our individual and collective habits to ensure an enlightened future.
Masaru Emoto The Mind, Matter, and Time conference
Recorded live at the Omega Institute
Masaru Emoto demonstrates in beautiful photographs that prayer and thoughts alter crystalline formations of frozen water. His work was featured in the movie, What the Bleep Do We Know!?
Marilyn Schlitz Embracing the Mystery
Vice President for Research and Education at the Institute of Noetic Sciences Dr. Marilyn Schlitz tells tales from the lab guaranteed to amaze believers and skeptics alike...
Susan Blackmore Does Consciousness Exist?
Former psi researcher turned skeptic-with-an-open-mind asks the question, “What IF the entirety of our experience were reducible to chemical processes in the brain?”
Nancey Murphy Intelligence by Design
Christian theologian and philosopher Dr. Nancey Murphy speaks with WIE's Craig Hamilton about the demise of the soul, the existence of God, and the evolving relationship between science and religion.
Articles
Taking the Quantum Leap... Too Far?
Not Just a Movie Review of What the Bleep Do We Know!?
Merging science and spirituality in a docudrama blend What the #$*! Do We Know?! is taking moviegoers on a wild tour of the surprising interconnections between psychology, biology, physics . . . and God.
Issue 27
I'm Optimistic
This Internet entrepreneur and philanthropist has a dazzling vision of a 2050 society and some bold ideas to get us there.
Issue 19
The Divinization of the Cosmos
Brain Swimme in a discourse on the work and vision of Christian mystic, paleontologist, and pioneer of evolutionary spirituality Pierre Teilhard de Chardin.
Issue 19
Can Science Enlighten Us?
Science, Spirituality and the Revelation of the Unknown
Can scientific inquiry lead us to the same transcendent knowledge that the world's spiritual traditions speak of? Includes interviews with Huston Smith and Rupert Sheldrake, as well as articles by E. F. Schumacher and Fritjof Capra.
Issue 11
Scientific Proof of the Existence of God
This physicist explains how his mystical realization that consciousness is the ground of being helped him to solve the troubling paradoxes of quantum mechanics.
Issue 11
Where Do Your Loyalties Lie?
Huston Smith on the Sanctification of Science and the Dethroning of God
“In Descartes's fall, we sinned all.” A world-famous religious scholar and spiritual practitioner critiques science's overreach of its rightful grasp.
Issue 11
Look for Truth No Matter Where It Takes You
F. David Peat on David Bohm, Krishnamurti and Himself
David Bohm, renowned theoretical physicist and close associate of the great spiritual visionary J. Krishnamurti, is remembered by his friend, colleague, and biographer David Peat.
Issue 11
What Matters Most
Why do two equally passionate critics of the scientific-materialist worldview differ so fundamentally on the capacity of the “new science” to answer humanity's most important questions?
Issue 11
Encounter at the Edge of the New Paradigm
A Dialogue with E.F. Schumacher
Fritjof Capra's engaging account of his meeting with
Schumacher in 1977, excerpted from his book Uncommon
Wisdom, illustrates how two critics of the classical
scientific worldview—both of them ardent proponents of a
new vision for humankind—can differ so fundamentally about
exactly how to move ahead.
Issue 11
Maybe Angels
A Confluence of Imagination and Rational Inquiry
A controversial biologist explores the consciousness of the universe and dissects the materialist creed.
Issue 11
The Slenderest Knowledge
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.
Issue 11
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