Recent Posts in ‘Evolutionary Spirituality’
Evolutionary Enlightenment in India
I arrived in India on Friday to launch the Indian edition of Evolutionary Enlightenment. Since landing three days ago, I’ve met audiences in Mumbai, Ahmedabad, and New Delhi, and talked to students in 900 colleges in a satellite broadcasted e-classroom (see mini updates and photos on Facebook). The Times of India is graciously supporting some
Evolutionary Enlightenment: A Poem
I found this beautiful poem written by Alan Nordstrom, PhD, a Professor of English at Rollins College in Florida and posted on his blog. It was inspired by Evolutionary Enlightenment and Alan was happy for me to share it here with all of you. EVOLUTIONARY ENLIGHTENMENT for Andrew Cohen Just think of it: for all
Love: A 4-Part Series
Love. This is a popular topic at this time of year, with millions of people around the world spending time with the one’s they love the most. Andrew Cohen has a lot to say about the subject, particularly on the relationship between love, truth, and spiritual evolution. For this Valentine’s Day, he has written a
AUDIO: Two Dimensions of the Infinite
The last two days I taught a Virtual Being & Becoming Retreat. Even though I’ve been leading virtual retreats for the past few years, before this one started I had no idea how I was going to speak for a few hours to retreatants all around the world who I couldn’t see . .
Living In An Infinite Universe
Last week I gave a talk at Alex and Allyson Grey’s Chapel of Sacred Mirrors (CoSM) in upstate New York. I based the talk on an interesting story that I had heard on NPR earlier that morning while I was brushing my teeth about some new scientific discoveries that support the surprising hypothesis that apparently
MEDIA: Interview on The Dr Molly Barrow Show
I recently appeared on “The Dr. Molly Barrow Show,” on the Progressive Radio Network. Our conversation explored Evolutionary Enlightenment with a particular emphasis on the need for a new source of meaning and purpose in today’s world. Enjoy! [Audio clip: view full post to listen]
“I Have Seen the Mountaintop”: A Vision of the Possible
Today is Martin Luther King’s birthday. This great soul was a visionary. What is a visionary? Visionaries are those rare and inspired individuals who see great promise and imminent potentials for human consciousness and culture that most of us haven’t even begun to imagine yet. They see far beyond the present to a future that
Inspiration Is Liberation: New Year’s Reflections on the Nature of Existence
Last Sunday, I gave my annual New Year’s Address. The post below is edited from that talk. Enjoy! A very warm Happy New Year to everybody! As we begin this new year, I want to share my reflections on what this day means to me, and to help all of us think more deeply about
Egoless Relatedness
When two or more people meet who have awakened to the evolutionary impulse, there is the potential for egoless relatedness. And that is what those of us at the leading edge who want to push the boundaries of our own spiritual development need to discover. We have to find a way to meet one another
A New Spiritual Orientation (Quote of the Week)
Evolution is a new spiritual orientation. Most of us with a Western education are familiar with the idea of cosmic evolution—we’re aware that the cosmos is in a process of ever-greater complexification and that we are part of that evolving process. We’re aware of the Darwinian notion of biological evolution and accept the scientific evidence
Beyond the Present Moment (Quote of the Week)
A big part of my job is getting people interested in creating the future at the level of consciousness. In order to do that, we have to suspend our concerns about how we’re going to get over certain very real problems that exist in the present moment. For at least a moment, we have to
Are You Moving? (Quote of the Week)
What gives me the greatest spiritual confidence is the knowledge that I’m moving. I know that I’m continuing to develop. Philosophically, spiritually, personally, I am not in the same place I was a decade ago, a year ago, or even six months ago. And as long as that’s the case, I will have the confidence
The World Is Not “Out There” (Quote of the Week)
If we are interested in the evolution of consciousness and culture, one habit that we need to break is the tendency to speak about the world as if it exists “out there.” From the perspective that I call evolutionary nonduality, we don’t want to separate our self from the world process because when we do
Spirituality in Public (Quote of the Week)
If you begin to evolve spiritually, at a certain point you awaken to a moral imperative. You discover an inner compulsion to live for a higher purpose and to actually to do it in public. This is quite a radical stance to take in the midst of postmodern culture. Much of postmodern popular spirituality is
No Guarantees (Quote of the Week)
In spiritual evolution, there are no guarantees. Life is unpredictable. So this path requires both an unconditional commitment to victory and enormous patience. If we are very serious about this endeavor, we have to become the exemplars ourselves. It has to start with our own unconditional commitment to victory, knowing that there are no guarantees.
What Does It Mean to Be a Finder? (Quote of the Week)
When we stop being a seeker and become a finder, we no longer have any doubt about who we really are and why we are here on Earth. In our own direct awakening to Spirit’s true face, existential doubt dies a sudden and irrevocable death, liberating an infectious confidence that is rooted deep within our
Evolutionary Becoming: A New Orientation (Quote of the Week)
The notion of evolutionary becoming, or evolutionary emergence, is a very new and unique orientation for the self. It’s hard to even conceive of how different this orientation is from the ways we have traditionally and culturally been conditioned to relate to the human experience. With the exception of very rare individuals, throughout history our
Evolutionary Tension (Quote of the Week)
Evolutionary tension is a heightened intensity that awakens your soul, and compels you to sit up straight, focus, and pay attention. It is an upward pull, a profound sense of urgency to bring into manifestation that which has not yet occurred. It is the relentless demand to become more, to reach for new and ever-higher
An Emergent Potential (Quote of the Week)
Evolutionary Enlightenment, and the new culture it promises, is something we can deliberately and consciously bring into being together, if we care deeply enough about the potential it is pointing to. But it is not something that can be simply manufactured through sitting in a circle and practicing a certain technique or generating a particular
Quote of the Week: Spirit In Action Is Freedom & Creativity
Unmanifest Spirit is freedom. Manifest Spirit is creativity. And when we realize that the process of life is Spirit in action, then ideally we would aspire for our lives to become an unceasing manifestation of its multidimensional nature. We would expect our actions to embody its most significant qualities. That means we would be expressing
Andrew Cohen is a spiritual teacher, cultural visionary, founder of EnlightenNext, and the author of 
