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We are very pleased to announce that Andrew Cohen’s book Evolutionary Enlightenment has just been awarded the Silver Medal in the Body, Mind & Spirit category in Foreword magazine’s 2011 . These are the most prestigious literary awards in the independent publishing industry, and titles are recognized for a combination of factors, from cover design…
The Guru and the Pandit are of course spiritual teacher Andrew Cohen and Integral philosopher Ken Wilber, as many will know from their ground-breaking dialogues in EnlightenNext magazine. Now the magazine is no longer in print, what better news than to hear they are back in 2012 with a new series of four live Guru…
I’m fascinated by developmental models, particularly those that clarify complex processes and reduce them to elegant truths. The most powerful of them can point the way to new and exciting perspectives on challenging situations. But can that clarity of vision lead to real and lasting change? As an ecologist with an interest in human development,…
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,…
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…
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,…
