Recent Posts in ‘Philosophy’
Why It’s Important to Lose Your Mind (at least twice a year)
I just got back from leading a 9-day meditation retreat in the wild and cactus-filled desert of Arizona. And I feel exuberant, inspired, and powerfully awake to the presence of immanent and seemingly infinite potential–simply because I took a sustained break from our modern world and its unspoken cultural agreements and assumptions about what’s real
The Meaning of Your Life
The Huffington Post has recently launched a new platform called ‘TED Weekends’, to which Andrew recently contributed an article. For those of you unfamiliar with ‘TED Talks’—”riveting talks by remarkable people, free to the world”—be sure to check out their website here. The ‘TED Weekends’ platform consists of a variety of contributors responding to
Road to the Apocalypse: Series
With all of the talk about December 21, 2012 heralding a major change for the world – whether that be the final Apocalypse that will result in the end of humanity or a great global shift of consciousness that will usher in an era of unprecedented peace – it seemed to be the ideal time
The Via Positiva and Evolutionary Enlightenment – Part Five
This is the final installment in our series of guest posts from British artist, engineer, graphic designer, and philosopher, Mike King, introducing the Via Positiva – a spiritual orientation that is life-positive and interested in engagement with the world – and exploring its historical roots and discussing the direction he feels it’s pointing us to
The Via Positiva and the Arts – Part Four
This is the fourth installment in a series of five weekly guest posts from British artist, engineer, graphic designer, and philosopher, Mike King, introducing the Via Positiva – a spiritual orientation that is life-positive and interested in engagement with the world – and exploring its historical roots and discussing the direction he feels it’s pointing
The Via Positiva, the Enlightenment and Science – Part Three
This is the third installment in a series of five weekly guest posts from British artist, engineer, graphic designer, and philosopher, Mike King, introducing the Via Positiva – a spiritual orientation that is life-positive and interested in engagement with the world – and exploring its historical roots and discussing the direction he feels it’s pointing
The Renaissance and the Western Via Positiva – Part Two
This is the second installment in a series of five weekly guest posts from British artist, engineer, graphic designer, and philosopher, Mike King, introducing the Via Positiva – a spiritual orientation that is life-positive and interested in engagement with the world – and exploring its historical roots and discussing the direction he feels it’s pointing
The Via Positiva – Part One
Do you love life? Are you passionate about the very existence of existence? Does the natural world as you encounter it directly and unmediated in meadows, mountains, forests, seas and skies inspire you to awe? If you answered yes to one of these questions, then you’re probably seeing the world through the lens of what
Taking God Seriously
It’s a big challenge being a spiritual teacher in a secular culture. What could be more disconcerting than being a religious authority in a world where there is no consensus about whether God actually exists! In traditional cultures at least, there was some agreement as to who God was and where He lived and how
VIDEO: Faith, Progress & Evolution
Here’s a video excerpt from a talk that I gave at the Rubin Museum of Art last summer. It’s a dialogue with my brilliant visionary friend Howard Bloom (author of Genius of the Beast) about faith, progress, and evolution. Enjoy!
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
In Honor of Ken Wilber: The Philosopher of Everything
Today is the birthday of my good friend and collaborator, the great integral philosopher Ken Wilber. To honor him I wanted to share an article that we published in EnlightenNext magazine in 2006 called “A Philosopher of Everything,” written by Carter Phipps. It’s several years old, but it stands as a great introduction to Wilber’s
AUDIO: Rabbi Michael Lerner on Abraham Heschel
Last March, I interviewed more than 25 different spiritual and cultural luminaries about their mentors, teachers, and Gurus as part of a celebration of the 25th anniversary of my meeting my last teacher, H.W.L. Poonja, who changed my life forever. One of my favorite accounts was from Rabbi Michael Lerner about his mentor, Abraham Heschel–the
VIDEO: The King of Love is Dead
Here’s a heartbreaking and deeply moving musical tribute to the late Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr, by the great jazz singer Nina Simone:
“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
Q&A: Reincarnation, Sangha & Stephen Hawking
Below is a list of questions that people have posted on Andrew’s Facebook page and this blog over the past week, including his answers. If you have any questions, please post them as comments. From Renato Cesar Carvalho: Q: Could you be more specific on what you mean by “let go of everything?” Dear Renato,
A Portal for Creation (Quote of the Week)
In the way that I use the term, God is the energy and intelligence that created the universe and is driving the process forward in every moment. And that energy and intelligence cares desperately about change and innovation and the release of potentials that have not existed before. So it is constantly looking for portals
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
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
A Spiritually Inspired Moral Imperative (Quote of the Week)
When you begin to recognize that your own presence here in this world is part of something infinitely bigger than yourself, you feel a sense of obligation awakening within you—a spiritually inspired, soul-level moral imperative to evolve for the sake of the future of the evolutionary process itself. The way you respond to that obligation
Andrew Cohen is a spiritual teacher, cultural visionary, founder of EnlightenNext, and the author of 
