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 [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Evolutionary Impulse'
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
Tags:Authentic Self·enlightenment·Evolution·Evolutionary Enlightenment·Evolutionary Impulse
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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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
The Moral Obligation to Evolve (Think About This #61)
June 18th, 2009 by Megan Cater· 4 Comments · Consciousness, Evolutionary Enlightenment, Evolutionary Spirituality, Think About This
In addition to being the founder and editor in chief of EnlightenNext magazine, Andrew Cohen is also the pioneering spiritual teacher of Evolutionary Enlightenment. The following clip is from a talk Cohen gave during an eight-day retreat in which he describes the moral obligation that is inherent in awakening to what he calls the “Kosmocentric [...]
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Evolutionary Enlightenment 101: Part I
June 16th, 2009 by Andrew Cohen· 4 Comments · Consciousness, Cultural Evolution, Evolutionary Enlightenment, Evolutionary Spirituality, Integral Philosophy, Spirituality
Part I — 51%: The Magic Number
Do you know what the magic number is in spiritual physics?
I’m talking about that all-important equation that makes it possible for us to understand how radical spiritual transformation actually happens. Radical spiritual transformation, in the way that I teach, means significant and demonstrable evolution beyond ego.
Once you see the [...]
Tags:51%·Andrew Cohen·Authentic Self·Consciousness·ego·Eros·Evolutionary Enlightenment·Evolutionary Impulse·incarnational nonduality·interiority·spiritual transformation
The Evolutionary Impulse (Think About This #49)
March 25th, 2009 by Tom Huston· No Comments · Consciousness, Cosmology, Evolutionary Enlightenment, Evolutionary Spirituality, Think About This
In this compelling excerpt from his column in the last issue of EnlightenNext magazine, editor in chief Andrew Cohen describes the evolutionary impulse, which he believes has been propelling the cosmic process forward since day one:
I have no doubt that the evolutionary process—from the big bang to the present moment—is not merely a random, meaningless [...]
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