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From time to time someone asks me about what it is we do at EnlightenNext. It’s a good question because, unlike many spiritual organisations, we offer more than a robust spiritual practice and meaningful answers to life’s most fundamental questions: who am I and why am I here? At EnlightenNext another big part of our…
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…
On last Tuesday’s Meditation+Evolution session, Patrick encouraged us after a period of meditation to explore how the experience was and if we had any other questions about it. In this podcast a young woman is explaining that her problem was attachment to wanting things to be a certain way – and this opened up a…
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…
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…
Every once in a while we get to experience real magic. A moment when a multitude of elements come together to create something that is far greater than the sum of it’s parts; a moment that you may have been a part of, but where it really isn’t about you in the small sense, but…
I started seeking for spirit in the late seventies like many people after a personal crisis (brought on by the clash between my strict Irish catholic upbringing and too many mind expanding drugs!). When I look back now, I can see that in a simple way I was looking for confidence, a deeper confidence in…
We are now up to the last class in our five-week course of ‘Living Enlightenment’ and it’s been a tremendous journey for all of us. In the first class we looked at where we are as a culture generally, and a lot of our conditioned beliefs, and in the second where we are attempting to…
Over a recent long Bank Holiday weekend here in the UK, integral author and prominent presenter on all things integral, Terry Patten, stopped off in London on his way back to the US to have an open dialogue with EnlightenNext UK Centre managing director Chris Parish. (To get a flavour of their exchange, watch this…
We have just finished a very successful event here in Edinburgh. Andrew Cohen delivered a fantastic talk in the presence of over one hundred people, in the immaculate venue of St Johns church on Princess St Edinburgh. In two hours Andrew laid out his Kosmocentric vision for who we are, where we have been, and…
