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The Enlightened Intersubjective – Part 2

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…

Understanding the Creative Process

Understanding the Creative Process, an audio clip from an evening dialogue between Rupert Sheldrake and Andrew Cohen Listen to Rupert Sheldrake and Andrew Cohen speak about the creative process in this extract from their public dialogue entitled ‘Freeing the Spirit of Enquiry’, hosted at the EnlightenNext UK Centre in London on June 20, 2012. Listen here: Understanding the…

A context free of dogma

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…

A context free of dogma

From time to time we get asked, what it is that 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…

The tension between “certainty” and “uncertainty”

Andrew Cohen introduced his dialogue “Freeing the Spirit of Enquiry” with Rupert Sheldrake at the EnlightenNext Centre last week in an intriguing way. He suggested framing the discussion in the context of the tension between “certainty” and “uncertainty”. At first I didn’t get what he was pointing to, and it’s tricky… Click below to hear…

Scientific heresy and creative enquiry

It’s amazing how hard it is to find anyone today speaking about the degree to which Science has now replaced Religion as the new orthodoxy. If anyone attempts to question this holy beast, there are immediately cohorts of reverent believers who will leap to its defense. That is why we are so fortunate that the…

It’s the dance of ideas and insights

If you are interested in the big questions about the nature of life and the human experience, the evolving Universe and our own potential role in creating the future, then look out for Andrew Cohen’s dialogues with the likes of Ken Wilber, Deepak Chopra and on June 20th at the EnlightenNext Centre, experimental biologist Rupert…

Freeing the Spirit of Enquiry

Rupert Sheldrake and Andrew Cohen in Dialogue: 7:00 – 9:00 pm, Wednesday, 20 June, EnlightenNext Join Rupert Sheldrake and Andrew Cohen as they probe the definable and indefinable, the temporal and the infinite. With their years of research, wit and irrepressible curiosity, they are shaping a new frontier where the truths of spirituality and science…

Enlightened Communication: A Three-Part Article – Part 2

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,…

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…

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