Editorial

Letter from Founder and Editor in Chief

Andrew Cohen

THE GURU AND THE PANDIT

Eros, Buddha, and the Spectrum of Love

Andrew Cohen and Ken Wilber

Love is a hot topic in the world of progressive spirituality, but you haven’t heard anyone discuss it like the Guru and the Pandit. Distinguishing between love’s personal, cultural, and cosmic dimensions, they explore how this primordial force gives rise to every new emergence in the evolutionary process.

The Powers of the Universe

Where does your self end and the universe begin? A popular cosmologist defines the eleven principles of cosmic evolution that have led from the fiery cataclysm of the Big Bang to the human intelligence now perceiving this page.

by Brian Swimme

Dreams of an Eco-Spiritual Futurist

A conversation with British sustainability strategist Hardin Tibbs
From nuclear energy and geoengineering to breakthrough technologies and the spiritualization of twenty-first-century environmentalism, a visionary whole-systems thinker tackles some of the biggest questions and controversies in the green world today.

by Ross Robertson

PLUS: Buckminster Fuller: First Poet of Technology

The Inimitable Madame B.

In the mysterious universe of esoteric spirituality, no figure looms larger than the legendary Madame Blavatsky. Occult scholar Gary Lachman explores the amazing life and times of this globetrotting, nineteenth-century psychic, circus performer, cultural revolutionary, and spiritual pioneer.

by Gary Lachman

The Mother’s Evolutionary Vision

In 1926, India’s renowned evolutionary sage Sri Aurobindo declared a French woman named Mirra Alfassa—a.k.a. “the Mother”—to be his spiritual equal. Aurobindian expert Peter Heehs tells the tale of how the Mother became one of the most intriguing woman mystics of the last century.

by Peter Heehs

On Spiritual Leadership

What does it mean to take a stand for Spirit in an often disbelieving world? Two evolutionary pathfinders discuss the dynamic challenges of stepping far beyond the status quo to pioneer a post-traditional, post-secular spirituality.

by Andrew Cohen and Deepak Chopra