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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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A Messy Process (Quote of the Week)

February 1st, 2010 by Andrew Cohen· 37 Comments · Cultural Evolution, Evolutionary Enlightenment, Quote of the Week, Spirituality

Evolution is a messy process. So anybody who really wants to make the effort to strive for something new is going to have to be willing to make mistakes, take wrong turns, even to fail, but never give up. The simple truth is this: if not failing is more important to you than genuinely succeeding, [...]

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Engaging in Creative Friction (Quote of the Week)

January 19th, 2010 by Andrew Cohen· 49 Comments · Cultural Evolution, Culture, Evolutionary Enlightenment, Evolutionary Spirituality, Quote of the Week

In an inspired spiritual context where the evolution of consciousness and culture is the goal, coming together with others is not just about sharing an experience of peace, bliss, and harmony. It is about what I call creative friction. In fact, to me, the presence of ongoing creative friction is what indicates deep spiritual, psychological, [...]

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In Memory of George Leonard (1923-2010)

January 19th, 2010 by Joel Pitney· 14 Comments · Cultural Evolution, Evolutionaries, Evolutionary Spirituality, Integral Philosophy, Spirituality, Think About This

On January 6th, 2010, George Leonard—the man who coined the term “human potential movement”—passed away at the distinguished age of eighty-seven. With his death, the world has lost a true giant in the field of spiritual evolution. There’s so much to say about Mr. Leonard. And much of it has already been said. So [...]

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Time Is All We’ve Got (Quote of the Week)

January 6th, 2010 by Andrew Cohen· 3 Comments · Evolutionary Enlightenment, Evolutionary Spirituality, Quote of the Week, Spirituality

From the perspective of evolution, time is all we’ve got. Evolution only happens in and through time, so we can only affect change in the cosmos in and through time. Therefore, if we care about making a difference, we need to have the courage to look directly at our own lives in relationship to time. [...]

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A New Year’s Address for 2010: Making a Statement

December 28th, 2009 by Andrew Cohen· 37 Comments · Evolutionary Enlightenment, Evolutionary Spirituality, Quote of the Week, Spirituality

When you look at spiritual life in an evolutionary context, you cannot see yourself and your own development as separate from the entire cosmic continuum of the life process. And this creates a profound moral context for your own spiritual evolution—a moral imperative to transform yourself. Why? Because you and the process are one.
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Leave the Door Open for That Which Is New (Quote of the Week)

December 21st, 2009 by Andrew Cohen· 12 Comments · Consciousness, Cultural Evolution, Evolutionary Enlightenment, Evolutionary Spirituality, Quote of the Week, Spirituality

Without being aware of it, many of us tend to base our sense of what’s possible now, in this present moment, upon what has or has not happened in the past. But if we want to be spiritually liberated, indeed, if we want to be an expression of evolution-in-action, we have to dare to look [...]

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Inner and Outer Journeys

December 17th, 2009 by Andrew Cohen· 6 Comments · Consciousness, Culture, Evolutionary Enlightenment, News, Spirituality

The last couple of months have been a whirlwind of travel! Recent trips have included a visit to Paris and a conference in the South of France (followed by a surprise birthday tour of the Palace of Versailles with my European students), a book launch event in New York for my friends Ed and Deb [...]

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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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