Posts tagged ‘creativity’
Why the World Needs More Spiritual Heroes
Here’s a published dialogue that I did with my friend Deepak Chopra in which we discuss the challenges of standing up for Spirit in a secular culture. Enjoy! __________________________________ ANDREW COHEN: What I wanted to speak with you about, Deepak, is what it really means to be a spiritual hero. This is kind of a
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 New Enlightenment
Andrew was recently interviewed for Intent.com about his teaching of Evolutionary Enlightenment. Here’s one of his answers where he speaks about why his teaching is different from Traditional Enlightenment teachings: Question: We wanted to begin by asking you about this concept of evolutionary enlightenment — What is it, and how does it differ from the
VIDEO: Higher Vibe by Kurt Elling
This is my new favorite tune: modern jazz great Kurt Elling singing “Higher Vibe” live in Tel Aviv. In case you can’t decipher the lyrics, here they are: Higher vibe live in me. Higher vibe set me free. Meditating on higher truth Is creating living proof In a peaceful way. Everything I do Everywhere I
Part 4 – God Is Love
A Meditation on the Indefinable Nature of the Divine God is Love. How many times have we heard the word “love” being used to define that which is ultimately indefinable? I suppose it is because that’s the only word that can even bring us close to grasping the ungraspable. When we use “love” to define
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
Redefining God
Using the word God is always tricky as it’s a very charged term that means different things to different people. I like to use that word to represent the idea of an absolute principle. In an evolutionary context, we could choose to describe that absolute principle as “the energy and intelligence that initially created and
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
The Awakening Creative Process (Quote of the Week)
What I call the “new enlightenment,” or Evolutionary Enlightenment, is based upon a growing recognition that the human experience is in fact a small but not insignificant part of a cosmic evolutionary process that began almost fourteen billion years ago. It’s the all-important awakening to the fact that this process is actually going somewhere. From
Evolution Is an Internal Event
From our contemporary perspective, the process of evolution tends to be seen only as an external event, happening “out there somewhere”—either in the cosmos or in nature. For most of us, it’s not yet accepted that evolution is both an external and an internal event. Internally, at the level of consciousness, evolution takes place in
Engaging in Creative Friction (Quote of the Week)
In an inspired spiritual context where the evolution of consciousness and culture is the goal, coming together with others is not just about sharing an experience of peace, bliss, and harmony. It is about what I call creative friction. In fact, to me, the presence of ongoing creative friction is what indicates deep spiritual, psychological,
Leave the Door Open for That Which Is New (Quote of the Week)
Without being aware of it, many of us tend to base our sense of what’s possible now, in this present moment, upon what has or has not happened in the past. But if we want to be spiritually liberated, indeed, if we want to be an expression of evolution-in-action, we have to dare to look
Andrew Cohen is a spiritual teacher, cultural visionary, founder of EnlightenNext, and the author of 
