Evolutionary Enlightenment

Why Mysticism Matters

Andrew Z. Cohen | Posted 05.23.2012

Read More: Mystics, Meditation, Mystical Experience, Consciousness, Mystical Insight, Evolutionary Enlightenment, Mysticism, Interfaith, Prayer and Meditation, Religion News

The transformative power of mystical experiences is that they can convey to us that no matter what happens to our bodies and personalities in the world of time and space, mysteriously, everything is always OK.

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When All Our Problems Disappear

Andrew Z. Cohen | Posted 05.16.2012

Read More: Spiritual Path, Spirituality, Evolutionary Enlightenment, Buddhism, Spiritual Journey, Mindfulness, Religion News

Highly educated, thoughtful, sensitive men and women are gradually becoming more and more aware of the fact nobody seems to know how human life is supposed to be lived in this second decade of the 21st century.

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Globalization Isn't Just For Economists

Andrew Z. Cohen | Posted 05.01.2012

Read More: Spirit, Evolutionary Enlightenment, Andrew Cohen, Globalization, India, Enlightenment, Spirituality, Buddhism, Religion News

If 50 years ago you were to tell somebody that Americans would teach Enlightenment in India and that Asian seekers would come to California to learn about what the Buddha taught from an American Jew, they would never have believed you.

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Do We Need Faith To Believe In Progress?

Andrew Z. Cohen | Posted 04.25.2012

Read More: Mysticism, Matt Ridley, Spiritual Teacher, The Economist, Consciousness, Earth Day, Peter Diamendes, Gps-Soul, Evolutionary Enlightenment, Andrew Cohen, Steven Kotler, Steven Pinker, Faith, Spirituality, Religion News

When it comes to telling us how to relate to some of our biggest global challenges, I wonder if the most spiritually enlightened among us might be missing the boat right now.

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Are You Thinking Your Own Thoughts?

Andrew Z. Cohen | Posted 04.12.2012

Read More: Andrew Cohen, Masters, India, Independence, Spirituality, Evolutionary Enlightenment, Religion News

Are you thinking your own thoughts? Are you living your own lives?

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A Meditation On The Indefinable Nature Of The Divine

Andrew Z. Cohen | Posted 05.16.2012

Read More: Meditation, Being, Evolutionary Enlightenment, Andrew Cohen, Spirituality, Becoming, God, Love, God Is Love, Spiritual Practice, Mysticism, Religion News

God is love. The reason the love that is God can set us free is because that unquatifiable peace was the very nature of existence before the universe was born.

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What Is Love?

Andrew Z. Cohen | Posted 05.09.2012

Read More: Evolution, Love, Spirituality, Evolutionary Enlightenment, What Is Love, Religion News

Are we referring to our unique tastes and preferences? Are we referring to our experience of deep personal bonds and emotional attachments? Or are we referring to our connection to a higher spiritual Truth?

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Piercing The Romantic Illusion

Andrew Z. Cohen | Posted 05.01.2012

Read More: Evolutionary Enlightenment, Youth, Illusion, Romance, Spirituality, Sex, Happiness, Prayer and Meditation, Love, Religion News

If romantic ecstasy is what it appears to be, why does it, in almost every case, turn out to be transient, impermanent and ephemeral?

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Trust Is More Difficult (And Powerful) Than Love

Andrew Z. Cohen | Posted 04.22.2012

Read More: Valentines Day, True Love, Trust, Spirituality, Evolutionary Enlightenment, Valentine's Day, Mysticism, Love, Religion News

Have you ever deeply thought about what love is? Have you ever considered where it comes from and why we feel drawn to be with certain people over others? Love is indeed a complex and multidimensional subject.

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Evolutionary Mysticism For Living In An Infinite Universe

Andrew Z. Cohen | Posted 04.14.2012

Read More: Evolutionary Enlightenment, Mysticism, Comsology, Chapel of Sacred Mirrors, Evolution, Bob Berman, Enlightenment, Infinite Universe, Spirituality, Alex Grey, Religion and Science, Buddhism, Religion News

I'm not asking if we've had moments when we've experienced that which is infinite. That's one thing. I'm asking if our relationship to existence itself is infinite.

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"I Have Seen the Mountaintop:" A Vision of the Possible

Andrew Z. Cohen | Posted 03.17.2012

Read More: Andrew Cohen, Visonary, Martin Luther King, Evolutionary Enlightenment, Martin Luther King Jr., Religion News

Visionaries are living for what has not yet occurred because their attention is riveted by the promise of the possible.

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Inspiration Is Liberation: New Year's Reflections On The Nature Of Existence

Andrew Z. Cohen | Posted 03.14.2012

Read More: Liberation, Andrew Cohen, New Beginning, Inspiration, New Year, Spirituality, 2012, Evolutionary Enlightenment, Mindfulness, Spiritual Resolutions, Religion News

When human beings are in touch with this powerful creative positivity and inspiration it provides the boundless energy source from which we have historically been able to move mountains.

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A Longing To Evolve

Andrew Z. Cohen | Posted 01.07.2012

Read More: Evolution, Inspiration, Purpose, Awakening, Meaning, Spirituality, Evolutionary Enlightenment, Spiritual Evolution, Spiritual Impulse, Enlightenment, Spirit, Conscious Evolution, Healthy Living News

I believe the spiritual impulse today is calling us toward that big next step we need to take in our world. That next step will not emerge by itself -- it must be consciously created by human beings.

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Why Are You Here?

Andrew Z. Cohen | Posted 12.25.2011

Read More: Meditation, Spirituality, Evolutionary Enlightenment, Big Bang Theory, Consciousness, Meaning of Life, Universe Creation, Healthy Living Spirit, Universe, Healthy Living News

When you take the perennial meditative journey to the depths of your own self, you discover what it was like before the beginning.

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What Is Conscious Evolution?

Andrew Z. Cohen | Posted 12.06.2011

Read More: Andrew Cohen, Spiritual Transformation, Spirituality, Choice, Free Will, Freedom, Evolutionary Enlightenment, Spiritual Development, Religion News

I believe that it is possible to take responsibility for the entirety of who you are in such a profound way that you can consciously choose who you want to be.

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A Moral Predicament

Andrew Z. Cohen | Posted 11.22.2011

Read More: Morality, God, Spirituality, Evolutionary Enlightenment, Ethics, Spiritual Evolution, Seeking Enlightenment, Spirit, Conscious Evolution, Healthy Living News

This, in a nutshell, is the evolutionary predicament of the postmodern narcissist: We don't want to make the effort to change. And from a cultural perspective, this is a moral issue.

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A Mysterious Compulsion To Evolve

Andrew Z. Cohen | Posted 10.15.2011

Read More: Awareness, Consciousness, Spiritual Journey, Ego, Evolutionary Enlightenment, Andrew Cohen, Evolution, Authentic Self, Enlightenment, Alive, Buddhism, God Impulse, Religion News

When time began, for an unknown reason, something came from nothing. Suddenly, an impulse emerged -- the impulse to become, to create, to evolve.

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Is Intuition Actually Your Ego Speaking?

Andrew Z. Cohen | Posted 10.08.2011

Read More: Enlightenment, Spiritual Path, Spirituality, Ego, Evolutionary Enlightenment, Authentic Intuition, Ego-Driven Narcissism, Authentic Self, Spirit, Consciousness, Healthy Living News

Unless we get over our ego-driven narcissism, the whole notion of intuition can become tangled up with our over-exaggerated sense of self-importance.

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The Path Of Evolutionary Enlightenment: From Minus One To Zero To Plus One

Andrew Z. Cohen | Posted 09.26.2011

Read More: Andrew Cohen, Spiritual Liberation, Positive, Ego, Evolutionary Enlightenment, Buddhism, Religion News

The path of transformation, reduced to its simplest terms, is the shift from the ego's negative relationship to life to the authentic self's positive relationship to life, which I call "plus one."

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Understanding Why We Are Here

Andrew Z. Cohen | Posted 09.10.2011

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Confidence can only be found through awakening to who you are and why you are here at the very deepest level of your being.

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Can Meditation Take You Beyond Time?

Andrew Z. Cohen | Posted 08.27.2011

Read More: Mindfullness, Andrew Cohen, Meditation, Spiritual Liberation, Meditation Practice, Spirituality, Evolutionary Enlightenment, Mindfulness, Healthy Living Health News, Healthy Living Spirit, Healthy Living News

When you go deeply into the meditative state, your awareness detaches itself from the thought-stream. Then your identification with emotion, memory, time and body begins to fall away.

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Shining Light On Your Unconscious Values

Andrew Z. Cohen | Posted 07.18.2011

Read More: Unconscious, Spiritual Transformation, Ego, Evolutionary Enlightenment, Andrew Cohen, Spiritual Path, Spirituality, Spiritual Practice, Healthy Living Spirit, Spiritual Development, Healthy Living News

If you want to know what your values are, just look at your own life. Your life looks like your values. A lot of us think we have higher or spiritual values, but those values are not necessarily reflected in our so-called personal lives.

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Spontaneous Revelation And Noble Effort

Andrew Z. Cohen | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Consciousness, Discipline, Evolutionary Enlightenment, Transformation, Andrew Cohen, Meditation, Healthy Living Spirit, The Inner Life, Healthy Living News

There are two ways that you can experience the intoxicating joy, profound peace and ecstatic wakefulness of the Ground of Being: spontaneously or through effort.

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Spirit Is Higher

Andrew Z. Cohen | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Andrew Cohen, Enlightenment, God, Higher Truth, Spiritual Life, Spirituality, Evolutionary Enlightenment, Religion News

If Spirit, or God, is that which is always Highest, how does that affect our perspectives and our judgments? Are they always informed by the natural hierarchy inherent at every level of the very fabric of the cosmos?

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Eternal Evolution And Reincarnation (VIDEO)

Andrew Z. Cohen | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Vow, Mahayana Buddhism, Reincarnation, Evolutionary Enlightenment, Ego, Andrew Cohen, Evolution, Bodhisattva, Enlightenment, Religion News

Here is a video from a seminar in London, in which I answer a participant's question about reincarnation.

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