Overwhelmed. Ecstatically overwhelmed. These are the only words I can come up with to describe the experience that I’ve had over the past couple of weeks traveling in India with Andrew Cohen and our roving evolutionary sangha. Fourteen days ago, boarding my flight from JFK to New Delhi, I was expecting to experience what most [...]
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Where There Is No Other (Quote of the Week)
March 8th, 2010 by Andrew Cohen· 9 Comments · Consciousness, Cultural Evolution, Evolutionary Enlightenment, Evolutionary Spirituality, Quote of the Week, Spirituality
When two or more individuals who have awakened to what I call the Evolutionary Impulse, or Authentic Self, come together in deep dialogue and focused conversation, the experience is something akin to thinking aloud with yourself. Why? Because there is only one Authentic Self. The ego can only have a relationship with other separate individuals, [...]
Tags:Andrew Cohen·Authentic Self·communication·conversation·egoless passion·enlightened communication·Evolutionary Impulse·inspiring quote·Intersubjective·Nonduality·quote·Quote of the Week
In Search of Sacred India, Pt. 4: The New Delhi New Age
March 2nd, 2010 by Tom Huston· 11 Comments · Consciousness, Culture, Evolutionary Enlightenment, Evolutionary Spirituality, Hinduism, Postmodernism, Spirituality
Does everything happen for a reason? Are angelic beings guiding us on our life’s journey? Many of the mainstays of New Age philosophy, which have become commonplace in spiritual-but-not-religious circles in the West, are now taking hold among some of the more progressive thinkers in India. And during an impromptu backstage dialogue between Andrew Cohen [...]
Tags:angels·destiny·divine guidance·Haiti·natural disasters·new age·New Delhi·Pragya TV·rationality·superstition
In Search of Sacred India, Pt. 3: What Is and What Is Possible
March 2nd, 2010 by Tom Huston· 4 Comments · Consciousness, Culture, Evolutionary Enlightenment, Evolutionary Spirituality, Hinduism, Spirituality
During his two days in New Delhi, EnlightenNext founder Andrew Cohen was constantly on the move, meeting with a popular teacher of Kriya Yoga, a renowned Indian statesman and evolutionary thinker, a respected authority on Indian arts and culture, and one of the country’s most significant media moguls. In the midst of this whirlwind tour, [...]
Tags:Andrew Cohen in India·Evolutionary Spirituality·morning talk show·New Delhi·Pragya TV·the new enlightenment·traditional enlightenment
The Law of Karma (Think About This)
March 2nd, 2010 by Joel Pitney· 33 Comments · Consciousness, Culture, Evolutionary Enlightenment, Hinduism, Philosophy, Religion, Spirituality, Think About This, Uncategorized
This past week, EnlightenNext’s editor in chief Andrew Cohen gave a series of talks at the headquarters for the Divine Life Society in the holy Indian city of Rishikesh. Established on the banks of the Ganges River in 1936 by Swami Sivananda, this ashram has been home to several of India’s most revered saints of [...]
Tags:Andrew Cohen·Chidananda·Divine Life Society·enlightenment·Evolutionary Enlightenment·India·karma·Kumbha Mela·pilgrimmage·Rishikesh·Swami Chidananda·Swami Sivananda
You, Whoever You Are (Quote of the Week)
March 1st, 2010 by Andrew Cohen· 12 Comments · Consciousness, Evolutionary Enlightenment, Evolutionary Spirituality, Quote of the Week, Spirituality, meditation
People often ask me, What is the self? What is it that actually evolves? And I always answer, It’s you, whoever you are. I don’t just mean your ego or personality. But what I’m pointing to is the fact that beneath all of that there is some essential core of selfhood or agency that is [...]
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In Search of Sacred India, Part 2: The New Face of India
February 25th, 2010 by Joel Pitney· 10 Comments · Business, Consciousness, Cultural Evolution, Culture, Hinduism, Materialism, Politics, Spirituality, Technology
The last time I traveled to India was over six years ago—on my honeymoon. My new wife, Christiana Briddell, wanted me to meet the great Indian saint, Swami Chidananda, who had been her family’s Guru since her parents first met him during the West to East migration of the late 1960s. So rather than spending [...]
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You Are Culture (Quote of the Week)
February 22nd, 2010 by Andrew Cohen· 23 Comments · Cultural Evolution, Culture, Evolutionary Enlightenment, Evolutionary Spirituality, Integral Philosophy, Quote of the Week, Spirituality
You are not just an individual. You are culture incarnate. As an evolving self, you are the manifestation of a collective conditioned way of seeing and responding to life. This is why your conscious evolution matters so much. When you, as an individual, start using your own will to activate higher potentials within yourself, in [...]
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Sex, Romance, and Conscious Evolution (Quote of the Week)
February 15th, 2010 by Andrew Cohen· 11 Comments · Culture, Evolutionary Enlightenment, Evolutionary Spirituality, Quote of the Week, Spirituality
The arena of sexuality and romance is one of the easiest places to get lost and confused. This is of the utmost importance to understand for those individuals who are serious about higher spiritual development, and who are personally committed to the evolution of consciousness and culture. That being said, it is also a potentially [...]
Tags:conscious evolution·Evolution·Evolutionary Enlightenment·karma·marriage·relationship·romance·romantic·sex·spiritual evolution
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