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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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The Pull of the Possible (Think About This #71)

September 29th, 2009 by Megan Cater· No Comments · Consciousness, Cultural Evolution, Culture, EnlightenNext magazine, Evolutionary Enlightenment, Evolutionary Spirituality, Think About This

The following excerpt is from the latest blog post by EnlightenNext magazine’s editor in chief, Andrew Cohen. Reflecting on 23 years of experience building a movement dedicated to ongoing spiritual and cultural evolution, Cohen describes the inner commitment necessary to transform inspired visions into new actualities:
Creating the future at the leading edge is a unique [...]

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Bearing Witness (Quote of the Week)

September 29th, 2009 by Andrew Cohen· 5 Comments · Consciousness, Cultural Evolution, Culture, Evolutionary Enlightenment, Evolutionary Spirituality, Philosophy, Quote of the Week, Spirituality

The “rational” values of the culture that we live in may have freed us from the myths of the past, but unfortunately they have also undermined our capacity to have any faith in the unseen metaphysical domains of our innermost interiors. In the ancient premodern world, that unseen dimension was validated by shared myths and [...]

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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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On Being & Becoming—1: The Ecstasy of Emptiness

August 31st, 2009 by Tom Huston· 21 Comments · Consciousness, EnlightenNext magazine, Evolutionary Enlightenment, Evolutionary Spirituality, Integral Philosophy, Religion, Spirituality, meditation

It’s been just over a week now since I returned to the States after participating in EnlightenNext’s first “Being and Becoming” retreat in Florence, Italy. And I’m still reeling from the experience in the best possible way. Andrew Cohen—who is both my spiritual teacher and my editor-in-chief—has been leading people into the mystical [...]

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Kosmic Concepts: Eros

August 24th, 2009 by Megan Cater· 2 Comments · Consciousness, Cosmology, Evolutionaries, Evolutionary Enlightenment, Evolutionary Spirituality, Integral Philosophy, Philosophy, Spirituality

Here’s a sneak peek from the new issue of EnlightenNext — our definition of a term that every evolutionary should know:
EROS n.
The creative energy and intelligence that drives the evolutionary process at all levels of existence.

In the mythical pantheon of ancient Greek gods, Eros was commonly portrayed as a young winged archer whose golden [...]

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An Important Message from the Founder of EnlightenNext

August 20th, 2009 by Andrew Cohen· 56 Comments · EnlightenNext magazine, Evolutionaries, Evolutionary Spirituality

Like just about everyone else these days, we at EnlightenNext are undergoing a period of enormous transition. Eighteen years ago, I came up with an intriguing idea: Produce a second-to-none spiritual magazine that would play a significant role in helping to make better sense out of the complex journey that Eastern enlightenment was taking as [...]

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Our Summer Vacation

August 7th, 2009 by Joel Pitney· 1 Comment · Consciousness, EnlightenNext magazine, Evolutionary Enlightenment, meditation

While many natives of the northern hemisphere head off on their summer getaways, our summer months have been anything but relaxing! And that’s not a bad thing! In fact, at EnlightenNext we’re taking advantage of the summer months to make some serious leaps in the future of our organization (that’s why, as you may have [...]

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Genpo Roshi & Andrew Cohen on the Teacher-Student Relationship

July 2nd, 2009 by Tom Huston· 6 Comments · Consciousness, Evolutionary Enlightenment, Spirituality

In this excerpt from a two-hour dialogue conducted last week at the EnlightenNext World Center, Andrew Cohen, spiritual teacher and founder of EnlightenNext, and Genpo Roshi, a modern American Zen master, discuss the dynamics of spiritual hierarchy in the teacher-student relationship:

To read more about Genpo Roshi’s visit to EnlightenNext HQ, see my earlier post.

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