Steve McIntosh, Ewan Townhead, Jeff Salzman, and Calvin Phipps

Voices from the Integral Frontier

EnlightenNext magazine’s Joel Pitney speaks with a philosopher, an entrepreneur, a community organizer, and a CEO about what they think it will take to develop integralism into a full-fledged cultural and philosophical movement.

Ken Wilber & Andrew Cohen

Defining an Integral Approach to Enlightenment and Evolution

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.

Immaculée Ilibagiza

A Spiritual Awakening in the Midst of Genocide

Rwandan genocide survivor Immaculée Ilibagiza tells editors Joel Pitney and Carol Raphael the extraordinary story of her spiritual awakening during a three-month ordeal spent in hiding from her machete-wielding neighbors.

Mallika Chopra

Enlightening Main Street

Media entrepreneur Mallika Chopra (daughter of Deepak) speaks about the recent upsurge in mainstream media coverage of spirituality, consciousness, and the search for higher meaning.

Gustav Niebuhr

Words Are Stronger than Bullets

Gustav Niebuhr, a professor of religion and the media at Syracuse University, speaks with Elizabeth Debold about America’s particular interest in interfaith dialogue and its significance for the future of our religiously diverse global community.

Eckhart Tolle

Ripples on the Surface of Being

Enlightened minds meet when mystic and author of The Power of Now, Eckhart Tolle, speaks with spiritual teacher Andrew Cohen about the meaning and purpose of spiritual life.

Anthony Robbins

“In Cahoots with God”

Self-improvement guru Tony Robbins, speaks (shouts and raves) about the need to develop the spiritual and emotional muscles necessary to embrace life in the biggest possible way.

Dr. Ervin Laszlo

Information and Memory in Cosmos and Consciousness

Dr. Ervin Laszlo presents a radical new theory of our “informed universe” in which information is as elemental as energy but is perpetually created and forever retained.

Andrew Cohen

The Miraculous Impulse to Evolve

In this Voices talk from London, spiritual teacher and WIE founder Andrew Cohen deconstructs familiar conceptions of God, spirituality, and the meaning and purpose of human life to reveal a profound vision of enlightenment for the sake of evolution itself.

Karen Armstrong

An Uncloistered Mind

Karen Armstrong, former nun and author of the best-selling A History of God, speaks with WIE about the need to redefine spirituality and reaffirm its relevance for civilization in the twenty-first century.

Don Beck

An Introduction to Spiral Dynamics

“Spiral wizard” Don Beck describes the six stages of his dynamic theory of human social and cultural development

Rupert Sheldrake

The Extended Mind

Rupert Sheldrake, iconoclast, biologist, and author of The Sense of Being Stared At, brings his inquisitive, scientific mind to the exploration of intuition, precognition, and telepathy.

Yasuhiko Kimura

The Further Reaches of Human Consciousness

Yasuhiko Kimura, integral philosopher and social visionary, addresses the matter of consciousness, what it is, and what it means to move it forward. A Voices from the Edge presentation.

Eric Weiss

Sri Aurobindo, Soul Evolution, and the Astral Realms

Eric Weiss, Ph.D., discusses his research and ideas about astral realms, the nature of the soul, and the work of the great sage and pioneer of evolutionary spirituality, Sri Aurobindo.

Elisabet Sahtouris

Confessions of a Creationist Evolution Biologist

Dr. Sahtouris's life work is dedicated to putting God—in the form of life's miraculously complex yet ultimately logical evolution—back into the heart of science.

Swami Chetanananda, Master Charles Cannon, and Swami Shankarananda

The Predicament of the Postmodern Guru: the Gurus Speak Out

WIE founder Andrew Cohen gives us an unprecedented look at the life of the 21st-century guru in this candid dialogue with three fellow spiritual teachers.

Mary Rothschild & Dr. Martina Emme

Healing the Holocaust

Holocaust reconciliation activists Martina Emme and Mary Rothschild speak with WIE about healing the collective wounds of genocide one person at a time.

Salman Ahmad

Muslims in America: It's My Country Too

Salman Ahmad, lead guitarist of Junoon, South Asia's most popular rock band, official UN goodwill ambassador, and America's foremost Pakistani-American filmmaker, dialogues with the audience following the US premier of his film, It's My Country Too.

Helen Fisher

All About Eve

Helen Fisher, popular author (The First Sex, Why We Love) and media savvy anthropologist, speaks with WIE editor Jessica Roemischer about why women love to sleep with men at the top.

Jason D. Hill

12 Steps to Moral Evolution

Philosopher and author Dr. Jason Hill speaks about moral cosmopolitanism, a powerful new framework for understanding human development in the twenty-first century.