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In Search of Sacred India, Part I: “What a Place to Wake Up!”

February 24th, 2010 by Tom Huston· 3 Comments · Consciousness, Culture, EnlightenNext magazine, Evolutionary Enlightenment, News, Religion, Spirituality

Twenty-four years ago next month, the founder of EnlightenNext, Andrew Cohen, underwent a spiritual transformation in India that forever changed the course of his life. This week, Andrew has returned to the subcontinent to engage in a series of private meetings, TV and newspaper interviews, and public talks about his work as the editor in [...]

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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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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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Dharma, Dinner, and Debate at the Parliament of the World’s Religions

December 9th, 2009 by Joel Pitney· 2 Comments · Consciousness, Evolutionary Enlightenment, Philosophy, Religion, Spirituality, meditation

What happens when you put a group of Swamis and spiritual teachers together at a table for dinner? A nice, peaceful, quiet meal? Or a sophisticated and contentious debate over the subtler aspects of truth and Enlightenment? The following video clip has your answer. In it, EnlightenNext founder Andrew Cohen engages in the age-old tradition [...]

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Satsang at the Parliament of the World’s Religions

December 8th, 2009 by Joel Pitney· No Comments · Evolutionary Enlightenment, Evolutionary Spirituality, Hinduism, Religion, Spirituality

During one of the evenings at the Parliament of the World’s Religions, EnlightenNext founder Andrew Cohen was invited to participate in a special Satsang (teachings given by spiritual teachers) at the ashram of Swami Shankarananda just outside of Melbourne. In what turned out to be a very magical evening, seven different Hindu masters each gave [...]

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In the Driver’s Seat (Quote of the Week)

November 30th, 2009 by Andrew Cohen· 29 Comments · Evolutionary Enlightenment, Evolutionary Spirituality, Quote of the Week, Spirituality

The central tenet of Evolutionary Enlightenment is that a more enlightened future for our world depends on one thing and one thing alone—our very own higher development. The world around us changes for the better as much as we’re willing to change ourselves. If both you and I are committed to our own personal and [...]

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An Important Message from the Founder of EnlightenNext

August 20th, 2009 by Andrew Cohen· 60 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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True Jihad

July 30th, 2009 by Joel Pitney· 95 Comments · Culture, EnlightenNext magazine, Integral Philosophy, Pop Culture, Religion, Spirituality, Think About This

One of the most popular EnlightenNext magazine issues of all-time was our Spring/Summer 2000 edition (#17), which we lovingly call “the Ego Issue.” For it, the editorial team interviewed a wide mix of Buddhist monks, contemporary spiritual teachers, orthodox priests, transpersonal psychologists, and even a movie producer, asking them to weigh in on the question, [...]

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Evolutionary Enlightenment 101: Part II

June 16th, 2009 by Andrew Cohen· 69 Comments · Consciousness, Cultural Evolution, Evolutionary Enlightenment, Evolutionary Spirituality, Integral Philosophy, Spirituality

[Read Part I — 51%: The Magic Number]
Part II — A Higher We: The Real Meaning of Incarnational Nonduality
For millennia, mystics, spiritual masters, and teachers have been speaking about what they call “nonduality.” In the teaching of Evolutionary Enlightenment, I’ve come up with a new interpretation of that profound and subtle concept.
Nonduality means “not two” [...]

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