Gen Ys road tripping the Being & Becoming Retreat
On Monday, we finished the second annual Being & Becoming Retreat with spiritual teacher Andrew Cohen. On the first day of this retreat, Andrew told all 300 people there was an audacious goal for the ten days that we would spend together—to create heaven on earth. Andrew [...]
What is it to be me, a Gen Y? What do I see in myself and others who share my age that is not found in those who fall outside of that specific category of our experience and perspective? What do I share with my other generational siblings, be they culturally, nationally, different, at another [...]
Hipsters have been on my mind lately. Not because I’m particularly interested in the edgy, ironic music and fashion trends that these millennial generation rebels are known for. I’m curious about the deeper cultural predicament that this strange youth movement seems to represent—one that I think has some serious implications for the future of humanity.
So [...]
April 2, 2010 - 12:18 am
Tags: Christianity, Gen Y, Obama, politics
Posted in Culture, Gen Y | 2 comments
Recently I saw a fascinating documentary about a real example of someone to admire and look up to. And someone our age no less!
The documentary is about Jon Favreau, and he is the 27-year-old writer of Obama’s amazing speeches. We don’t get to see Favreau live in the documentary, but on account on what we know [...]
March 27, 2010 - 9:00 am
Tags: Culture, depth, Gen Y, generation, mediation, music, superficial, virtual reality
Posted in Culture, Gen Y, Pop Culture, Uncategorized | 5 comments
One of the things we are trying to investigate with this blog is the question, who are we? And because all of us writing on this blog are 30 or under, we’ve naturally been interested in what it means to be Gen Y– how the time period and cultural context we’ve grown up in have [...]
January 31, 2010 - 8:05 pm
Tags: Andrew Cohen, retreat, virtual
Posted in Andrew Cohen | 3 comments
For those of us whose lives have been touched by Evolutionary Enlightenment and have been inspired by the spiritual impulse to change the world, we often feel the desire to share what’s had such a big impact on us with others. So let’s use this blog post to brainstorm ideas of how get people excited [...]
By Jonas Schnor, Martin Norddahl & Christian Claudi
Hopenhagen – a shift in consciousness?
About a month ago, all the world leaders were gathered in Copenhagen at the COP15, to find a solution to the immediate climate crisis. The climate crisis is one of the largest and most profound problems the world society as a whole has [...]
One of the most amazing and important things about the way we experience and think about the world is that, in the words of the American philosopher Ken Wilber, “context is everything.” The perspective through which you look at something can completely determine what you see… and I think this inspiring video is a [...]
December 12, 2009 - 7:48 pm
Tags: Gen Y, hipster, irony, music, optimism, progressivism, youth
Posted in Culture, Pop Culture, Postmodernism, Uncategorized | 2 comments
Starting as a little-known college band, MGMT made it big when their alternative single, “Kids,” became a pop hit, followed by the even more popular “Electric Feel.” Hailing from hipster-loving Brooklyn and my liberal arts alma mater, Wesleyan University, their super-catchy songs are a great expression of what the most-progressive, well-educated Americans are thinking and [...]
Many Americans haven’t heard of the young Gen-Y pop singer Lily Allen, but my British compatriots tell me she’s huge in the UK–right up there with that other poster girl for the state of our generation, Amy Winehouse. I discovered her a few months ago and still find her song, “The Fear,” simultaneously highly catchy [...]
