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Enlightened Communication and the Enlightened Intersubjective: An article by Willa Geertsema Recently, EnlightenNext teacher Patrick Bryson and I finished the Spring 2013 Meditation & Evolution series with a beautiful session on Enlightened Communication. The evening gave all participants a real sense of the unusual experience in Enlightened Communication, and it raised more questions than could…
Chris Parish and Bernard Carr Thursday December 8th an eager London audience experienced a rich and very satisfying evening the third event in our Enlightennext Evolutionary WorldView conversation series, between Chris Parish and Bernard Carr on the topic of Cosmos and Consciousness. Bernard is a Professor of Mathematics and Astronomy at Queen Mary University in…
This blog was submitted by Andrew Poulson: I’ve been coming to the Tuesday night ‘meditation and evolution’ evenings at EnlightenNext for a couple of years now and find them an opportunity to explore in depth and detail significant aspects of the nature of Enlightened Awareness. In an audio clip we listened to this past week,…
For weeks now we have been collectively inquiring into the importance of meditation and what we find when we have no relationship to the content of consciousness. This Tuesday evening we went further. Patrick Bryson led us in a discovery of Non-Duality and the incredible significance of recognising that there is only One, not two….
On Tuesday evening we continued with our weekly inquiry into the relationship between meditation and enlightenment with Patrick Bryson. This time we were inquiring into the nature of Mind, a very interesting subject and key to understanding and developing one’s meditation. (On previous weeks we learnt how to meditate and explored the qualities that are…
This week’s Enlightened Evening topic that we looked into was “The Nature of Consciousness is Lightness of Being and Joy”. Patrick Bryson, one of Andrew Cohen’s senior students, led the group of us gathered in the EnlighenNext Centre in London into a deeply intimate investigation of consciousness and also more subtle and profound perspectives on…
What if we could, at will, access that which is ever-new, so that our lives can be a reflection of the perfect unity that lies at the heart of life? Patrick Bryson, a long time student of Andrew Cohen, posed this question at the start of Tuesday’s Evolutionary Enlightenment Evening as one way to understand…
On Tuesday evening we had our first public event at EnlightenNext London after Andrew Cohen’s annual Being & Becoming retreat in Tuscany. Inspired by this powerful event Chris Parish introduced and transmitted the foundational understanding that underpinning everything that is, there is an infinite ground from which we all have originated. Drawing on his 40…
Other States of Emergence In the last decades, other pioneering work has been done by David Bohm and Otto Scharmer, whose methodologies you might know from their wide application in business and corporate settings. Twentieth-century theoretical physicist David Bohm pioneered what is now called “Bohmian Dialogue”. Bohm described this as “an arena in which collective…
The Enlightened Intersubjective and its Properties In my last post, I wrote about Enlightened Communication. But this way of communicating invokes a very specific state, which I call the Enlightened Intersubjective, and which has very specific properties. First of all, it is an intersubjective state. This means that it does not occur in one individual,…
