What's Your Favorite WIE Interview?

here's one of my favorites:

Flow with Soul

An interview with Dr. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
by Elizabeth Debold

Dr. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Creativity—his own, others', and that of life itself—has been the entry point into evolution for Dr. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (pronounced “chick-sent-me-high-ee”). Truly an international renaissance man, born in Hungary, a graduate of the classical gymnasium “Torquato Tasso” in Rome, and an artist, Csikszentmihalyi earned his Ph.D. in psychology in 1965 from the University of Chicago, where he would eventually teach. Yet the bounds of psychology could contain neither his creativity nor his desire to find a greater order: “Somehow I always gravitated to the people in various disciplines—whether it's psychology, sociology, anthropology—who saw a certain unity in their field, who were not what later became known as postmodern reductionists,” he explained, speaking on the telephone from his office at the Claremont Graduate University. Influenced by Carl Jung and reading widely in religion, Csikszentmihalyi found himself intrigued by “people who kind of stepped back and tried to say, 'What is it that's going on in this messy and confusing pattern of human behavior over time?' And I was influenced greatly, for instance, by Teilhard de Chardin, the Jesuit who developed this notion of evolution.” Even his current position as a professor at Claremont's Drucker School of Management is a new evolutionary turn in a life lived with passion and curiosity.

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Congratulations to WIE? and many thanks for 15 years of support especially during times when there was very little of that out there…

WIE? has been a necessary read for me since 1996, so I have a lot of favorites articles.  The continuing dialogue between Andrew and Ken always rock, and the Transformation and Morality Bites issues are still my favorites.  However, the articles that really opened my eyes, affecting me profoundly and giving me direction were:

Awakening to Total Revolution: Enlightenment and the World Crisis
Vimala Thakar

Is The Ego An Illusion?
by Andrew Cohen

~Jo

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I recently started reading WIE, so far the KW dialogue has been fabulous. The online information re: Don Beck and Spiral Dynamics has been ofgreat interest to me as well.

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Who is Ajja
http://www.wie.org/j14/ajja.asp

Makes it all so simple!!

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Nile!  Thanks for posting the link to that article!!  It's one I've been trying to track down for months now but couldn't remember Ajja's name.  It was yet another hugely pivotal one for me.

~Jo

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not an interview, but this article has been really helpful in my work with groups:
“Come Together, The Power of Collective Intelligence”

http://www.wie.org/j25/collective.asp

kate

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WIE, I find, is blast to read.  It just my kinda thing…nuff said.  But anyway my article of note isn't necessarily my favorite but what it let to is most favorable.

It was an article about Barry Long the now deceased teacher of Enlightenment from Australia.  The article is about Long's Tantric teachings which are remarkable and insightful as it gives, for me at least, a very concise, direct, and simple application of Tantra that Wisdom Traditions tend to be vague and secretive about because they had to.  ANYWHO….

What got me in the article by Andrew Cohen was his comments how he read excerpts of Long's book, “Stillness is the Way,” and got some direct transmission from it.  I thought that was kinda interesting.  I don't really know Cohen's teachings other than he is a teacher of Enlightenment.  I just found it something of import so I got the book.

BAM!!  I, too, got a direct transmission from reading it and like most incidents of spirituality it's sort of ineffable and difficult to put into words but something coalesced in me from reading this book.  Something rather profound.   

Here's the link
http://www.wie.org/j13/barrylong.asp?page=2
Lookout though Long is an audacious and confronting cat but full of love too.  And it's the book I'm suggesting.

LOVE ONE ANOTHER

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here's another favorite of mine which i consider to be a classic :)

Ripples on the Surface of Being

An interview with Eckhart Tolle
by Andrew Cohen

Eckhart Tolle

ANDREW COHEN: Eckhart, what is your life like? I've heard that you're a bit of a recluse and that you spend a lot of time in solitude. Is that true?

ECKHART TOLLE: That was true in the past, before my book The Power of Now came out. For many years I was a recluse. But since the publication of the book, my life has changed dramatically. I'm now very much involved in teaching and traveling. And people who knew me before say, “This is amazing. You used to be a hermit and now you are out in the world.” Yet I still feel that inside nothing has changed. I still feel exactly the same as before. There is still a continuous sense of peace, and I am surrendered to the fact that on an external level there's been a total change. So it's actually not true anymore that I am a hermit. Now I'm the opposite of a hermit. This may well be a cycle. It may well be that at some point this will come to an end and I will become a hermit again. But at the moment, I am surrendered to the fact that I'm almost continuously interacting. I do occasionally take time to be alone. That is necessary in between teaching engagements.

AC: Why is it that you need to take time to be alone, and what is it that happens when you take the time to be alone?

ET: When I'm with people, I'm a spiritual teacher. That's the function, but it's not my identity. The moment I'm alone, my deepest joy is to be nobody, to relinquish the function of a teacher. It's a temporary function. Let's say I'm seeing a group of people. The moment they leave me, I'm no longer a spiritual teacher. There's no longer any sense of external identity. I simply go into the stillness more deeply. The place that I love most is the stillness. It's not that the stillness is lost when I talk or when I teach because the words arise out of the stillness. But when people leave me, there is only the stillness left. And I love that so much.

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THank you for sharing this, it is truely beautiful. There is transmission.
I am enying all these sharings I love to read WIE but only discovered it a year or so ago, so these older issues are gems to me.

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~C4Chaos-

I've read the Tolle one a couple times.  Well said.  I agree, it's a CLASSIC.

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I enjoyed the Tolle interview too!

I think all of the interviews have been part of a growth and discovery process for me. WIE has taken me on a journey to so many places I did not know existed. I truly enjoy every interview for what I can discern.

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Perfect! we just selected it as one of our editor's picks from the last 15 years … so if you haven't read it you'll get to read it very soon. Issue 34 should start arriving at you doorsteps any day now. Also Carter Phipps one of our senior editors writes an intro addressing why it was such a significant  interview… it brings up some challenging questions & is well worth reading

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nice! can't wait to get my hands on that issue.

btw, the podcast for that Tolle interview rocks more though! :)