Reid Higginson
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Posts by Reid Higginson
Reflecting on The Great Stupa
August 25, 2010 - 9:52 am
Posted in Uncategorized | 2 comments
Right before we left Shambhala Mountain Center we went up to the Great Stupa of Dharmakaya, an incredibly powerful sacred monument that blew everyone on the retreat away with it’s meditative current. Here’s a video that we took reflecting on the significance and wonder of the stupa.
Creating Heaven on Earth
August 25, 2010 - 9:12 am
Tags: Andrew Cohen, being & becoming, Gen Y, road trip
Posted in Andrew Cohen, EnlightenNext, Evolutionary Enlightenment, Gen Y | 1 comment
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 [...]
From X to Y: Tracking the Evolution of Gen Y Consciousness Through Music
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 [...]
There’s Nothing Virtual About It!
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 [...]
Context is Everything!
January 13, 2010 - 10:45 am
Tags: context, Gen Y, ken wilber, perspective, poetry
Posted in Culture, Gen Y, Uncategorized | 2 comments
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 [...]
Spiritual Struggle Is Not a Bad Thing
December 30, 2009 - 1:08 pm
Tags: challenge, effort, entitlement, monks, narcissism, objectivity, struggle
Posted in Culture, Evolutionary Enlightenment, Gen Y, Postmodernism | 4 comments
I was recently reading through the back posts on this blog and was struck by how many of them are about entitlement, narcissism and the need to be making serious effort. Because these topics aren’t talked about too often, the experience of reading all these posts was a little bit like getting yelled at without [...]
MGMT on The Youth
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 [...]
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