Eclipse

Meditation – We are not our thoughts or our feelings

Meditation is supposed to be enlightening, it’s supposed to lead to enlightenment, it’s supposed to he profound, that’s what is designed for. But how many of us approach it that way? Because that takes a certain amount of effort and focus. Enjoy this 3 minute clip of the most recent Meditation + Evolution session, where…

Romance

Piercing the Romantic Illusion

Like many people, I had my most powerful experience of romantic love during my adolescence. I was sixteen years old, and living in Rome at the time. I met a young Italian woman two years my senior and soon fell head over heels into the overwhelming ecstasy and unbearable longing of the romantic experience in…

Becoming a True Seeker

To become a true seeker requires a heroic willingness to suspend our most cherished beliefs. I’m not speaking about suspending our good judgment, discerning intellect, or common sense in any way, shape, or form. But I am saying that we have to be willing to let go, even if only temporarily, of whatever our deepest…

AUDIO: On Being & Becoming

On Sunday, April 1st, Andrew Cohen led a free call as part of the lead up to his two upcoming Being & Becoming retreats this August in Tuscany and this December in Arizona. The essence of Andrew’s teaching of Evolutionary Enlightenment is to enable people to come together in an egoless context and create a…

A Brief History of Non-Duality

During last Tuesday’s Meditation+Evolution evening, Chris Parish, MD at EnlightenNext UK, gave us an insightful evolutionary view of the history of Non-duality. The most poignant insight he gave is that only in the last few decades has meditation been associated with stress relief. Throughout the history of human civilisation, meditation has always been about the…

Meditation & Enlightenment are One and the Same

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…

Enlightened Communication: A Three-Part Article – Part 1

Introduction Over the last few decades, a very new insight has been gained: the fact that consciousness is not static, but emergent. Several methodologies have been developed that make use of this fairly newly discovered phenomenon, and I have been intrigued by these.  I have been a long-term participant and facilitator in one of them…

The Guru, the Pandit, Evolution, and a Half-Winged Bird

I just returned from two weeks that severely overflowed my cup. On the 25th of March, we celebrated the awakening of my spiritual teacher Andrew Cohen, which took place 25 years ago and started off the spiritual teaching of Evolutionary Enlightenment. After a weekend full of celebrations, webcasts and seminars, I stayed on at Foxhollow,…