August 1, 2012
The Science of Consciousness
Here is the next installment of an interview Andrew did for Intent.com where he describes how the teaching of Evolutionary Enlightenment aligns with the deepest and most profound understandings of the cosmos that science is continuing to reveal to us:
Question: How does the concept of evolutionary enlightenment fit in with modern scientific notions about how the brain works?
Answer: Evolutionary Enlightenment is a new culturally relevant expression of what I call the “new mysticism.” It’s culturally relevant because it is very much in alignment with science’s most significant breakthroughs in the fields of cosmology, biology, and also the latest insights into how culture is created and how it evolves. It was only very recently that science discovered that the universe is 14 billion years old and that it burst into being in a flash of light and energy.
It’s only recently that we are beginning to understand the relationships between cosmic evolution, biological evolution, and cultural evolution. It is the great breakthrough of the western enlightenment and the liberation of our rational investigation into our origins that has made it possible for us to now have this Big Picture perspective on who we are and how we arrived here-and-now in the present moment.
Science is now observing the neural correlates of consciousness in our biological brain. They will never find the deepest and most fundamental dimension of who we are — consciousness — through the lens of a microscope, but it is consciousness that makes it possible for us to make the profound and significant breakthroughs that science is making in so many arenas, including neuroscience.
You can read the entire interview here.
The Guru & Pandit Virtual: Saturday, August 4th
In each issue of EnlightenNext magazine, the dialogues between spiritual teacher Andrew Cohen (the Guru) and integral philosopher Ken Wilber (the Pandit) delivered mind-expanding investigations that consistently broke new ground. Now we’re pleased to announce that the Guru and the Pandit are back: In partnership with Integral Life, we’ll be hosting four new dialogues between Cohen and Wilber in 2012—live and online, as a series of audio conversations broadcast for free to thousands of listeners worldwide. The next broadcast is on Saturday, August 4th at 2pm ET. Register here.
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“They will never find the deepest and most fundamental dimension of who we are — consciousness — through the lens of a microscope’
never say never with Science ( as with Enlightenment). YOu know , it all depends on what “microscope ” we talk about. Maybe in 1000 years there will be some “ microscopes of consciousness made of Living consciousnesses. After all the human development an exploration of our interiors real ease more and more subtle object outside of our unconsciousness to the Conscious world. Out of those objects, one day, maybe some sentient being will make a microscope and Science will be able to explore this realm further and further.