{"id":12,"date":"2026-10-10T00:09:56","date_gmt":"2026-10-10T00:09:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/contemporaryenlightenment.org\/?page_id=12"},"modified":"2026-10-10T00:09:56","modified_gmt":"2026-10-10T00:09:56","slug":"all-about-enlightenment","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/contemporaryenlightenment.org\/?page_id=12","title":{"rendered":"All about enlightenment"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">and 18th-century European and American philosophical movement focused on reason, science, individual liberty, and natural rights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In contemporary contexts, organizations and movements use variations of the name depending on whether they refer to spiritual awakening or historical-philosophical ideals:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Spiritual &amp; Contemplative Organizations: Groups like the Center for Spiritual Enlightenment, which is affiliated with the National Spiritualist Association of Churches, focus on the science, philosophy, and religion of continuous life and mediumship. Other historical or modern groups\u2014such as the defunct global movement EnlightenNext (founded by Andrew Cohen in 1988)\u2014focused on bringing spiritual awakening and cultural evolution into modern dialogue.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Historical &amp; Philosophical Reference: Modern academic and public discourse frequently invokes Enlightenment principles (such as human rights, free speech, and the scientific method) through research institutions, universities, and civic forums rather than a single centralized \u201cEnlightenment organization\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>and 18th-century European and American philosophical movement focused on reason, science, individual liberty, and natural rights. In contemporary contexts, organizations and movements use variations of the name depending on whether they refer to spiritual awakening or historical-philosophical ideals:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-12","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/contemporaryenlightenment.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/contemporaryenlightenment.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/contemporaryenlightenment.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/contemporaryenlightenment.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/contemporaryenlightenment.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/contemporaryenlightenment.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13,"href":"https:\/\/contemporaryenlightenment.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12\/revisions\/13"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/contemporaryenlightenment.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}