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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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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 [...]

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Evolution Is an Internal Event

February 8th, 2010 by Andrew Cohen· 24 Comments · Consciousness, Evolutionary Enlightenment, Evolutionary Spirituality, Philosophy, Quote of the Week, Spirituality

From our contemporary perspective, the process of evolution tends to be seen only as an external event, happening “out there somewhere”—either in the cosmos or in nature. For most of us, it’s not yet accepted that evolution is both an external and an internal event. Internally, at the level of consciousness, evolution takes place in [...]

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How to Keep Your New Year’s Resolutions

January 1st, 2010 by Tom Huston· 3 Comments · Consciousness, Cultural Evolution, Evolutionaries

When we received the following special New Year’s message from our good friend (and EnlightenNext contributor) Peter Ragnar, we just had to share it with our readers:
Do You Have Goals or Plans?
by Peter Ragnar
My sleepy head rested against the frosty window as Dad drove us home. The Christmas lights twinkled and danced from icy [...]

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Why Are We Here? (Quote of the Week)

December 14th, 2009 by Andrew Cohen· 9 Comments · Consciousness, Evolutionary Enlightenment, Quote of the Week, Spirituality

When we awaken to the evolutionary impulse, we realize a completely new relationship to what it means to be alive and what it means to be ourselves here and now. Not only do we discover a freedom to be ourselves that we’ve never known before, but even more importantly, we find a reason for living [...]

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The Universe Is Interested in You (Quote of the Week)

October 12th, 2009 by Andrew Cohen· 24 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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