When we become aware of the vastness of the entire evolutionary process—from the big bang to the present moment—that is called awakening to Deep Time. It means having the capacity to assume a perspective that is nothing less than cosmic and being able to see whatever’s happening to us personally from its lofty vantage point. [...]
Awakening to Deep Time (Quote of the Week)
November 17th, 2009 by Andrew Cohen· 5 Comments · Cosmology, Evolutionary Enlightenment, Evolutionary Spirituality, Quote of the Week
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One Between Two
November 10th, 2009 by Andrew Cohen· 5 Comments · Cultural Evolution, Evolutionary Enlightenment, Quote of the Week
The goal of Evolutionary Enlightenment is the emergence of a miraculous potential that I call “intersubjective nonduality.” What does that mean? “Nonduality” is most commonly used to mean oneness, or not-two-ness. It points to the perennial spiritual revelation that there is no other. And “intersubjective” means between subjects. So “intersubjective nonduality,” to put it simply, [...]
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A Shift of Identity (Quote of the Week)
November 3rd, 2009 by Andrew Cohen· 5 Comments · Evolutionary Enlightenment, Evolutionary Spirituality, Quote of the Week, Spirituality
When the evolutionary impulse is manifesting in our experience as either an inspired act of creative genius or as a surge of spiritually illuminated wisdom or insight, it temporarily becomes the self, the Authentic Self of the individual. In those moments, we become animated by that same inspired energy and intelligence that initiated the creative [...]
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A New Home (Quote of the Week)
October 26th, 2009 by Andrew Cohen· 9 Comments · Evolutionary Enlightenment, Evolutionary Spirituality, Idealism, Quote of the Week, Spirituality
When you awaken to the evolutionary impulse behind the entire cosmos as your very own Authentic Self, you find yourself living in a new world. It’s not the small, personal world that your ego or separate self-sense has lived in since the day you were born. You may still exist and function in that world, [...]
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Spiritual Transformation Is Not a Psychological Process (Quote of the Week)
October 19th, 2009 by Andrew Cohen· 18 Comments · Consciousness, Evolutionary Enlightenment, Evolutionary Spirituality, Idealism, Integral Philosophy, Quote of the Week, Spirituality
Authentic spiritual or mystical transformation is not a psychological process. Mystical teachings go deeper than that—they refer to the nature of consciousness and the structure of our deepest interiors. They are not just helpful psychological principles and practices invented by the human mind—they point us to the discovery of natural or inherent laws that become [...]
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The Universe Is Interested in You (Quote of the Week)
October 12th, 2009 by Andrew Cohen· 17 Comments · Consciousness, Cosmology, Cultural Evolution, Evolutionaries, Evolutionary Enlightenment, Evolutionary Spirituality, Quote of the Week
The universe is more interested in you than you are in it. Why? Because the universe is trying to evolve, at the level of consciousness, and consciousness can only develop through you. Human beings are the vehicles through which consciousness can take the next step. From this perspective, we are merely pawns in a much [...]
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No Going Back (Quote of the Week)
October 6th, 2009 by Andrew Cohen· 4 Comments · Cultural Evolution, Evolutionary Enlightenment, Postmodernism, Quote of the Week, Spirituality
When we experience a profound awakening to the evolutionary impulse, we can never really go back to the way things were before we tasted its magnetic and ecstatic promise. We can’t go back to the unenlightened values and convictions of the personal self, nor can we continue to be spiritually inhibited by the powerful materialist [...]
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One Process (Quote of the Week)
September 21st, 2009 by Andrew Cohen· 3 Comments · Consciousness, Cosmology, Cultural Evolution, Culture, Evolutionary Biology, Evolutionary Enlightenment, Evolutionary Spirituality, Integral Philosophy, Philosophy, Quote of the Week
In Evolutionary Enlightenment, the perennial revelation that there is only One is interpreted as the recognition that we are all part of One Process—a singular cosmic unfolding that began fourteen billion years ago and is still evolving, in this very moment, as you and as me. Every aspect of your experience in every moment, from [...]
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A Mysterious Summons (Quote of the Week)
September 14th, 2009 by Andrew Cohen· 7 Comments · Consciousness, Cosmology, Evolutionary Enlightenment, Evolutionary Spirituality, Quote of the Week
Why is it that some of us are driven blindly, madly, and passionately to struggle to transcend our own limitations? And to do so not merely for our own sake but for the sake of a higher purpose that we feel yet can barely see? Why is it that in those precious moments when we [...]
Tags:Big Bang·Eros·Evolutionary Impulse·longing for liberation·spiritual seeking·transcendence
An Evolutionary Life (Quote of the Week)
September 8th, 2009 by Andrew Cohen· 2 Comments · Consciousness, Cultural Evolution, Evolutionary Enlightenment, Evolutionary Spirituality, Quote of the Week, Spirituality
[The following is spiritual teacher and EnlightenNext founder Andrew Cohen's latest "Quote of the Week." To sign up to receive these weekly quotations and teaching excerpts by email, and to read past quotes, visit his website here.]
What motivates us to make the important choices that we make? Are these choices informed by the deepest insights [...]
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