Posts tagged ‘Eros’
God’s Choice
It is my firm conviction that Spirit as the Uncreated, Unborn, Unmanifest, timeless Ground of Being “chose” to create the universe. How do I know this? Because from our vantage point in the 21st Century, we can look back and see where we all came from, which is no-thing whatsoever. God or absolute Spirit must
A Ceaseless Creative Striving
When we awaken to the evolutionary impulse, as the urge toward higher creativity, it becomes apparent to us that the energy that is driving the process as a whole is inherently spiritual or divine. Spirit created and is creating the universe. What is this ceaseless creative striving in matter, nature, and culture? And where does
A Utopian Idealism
When one’s own self evolves, deepens, becomes more whole, then one naturally begins to seek for that same depth and wholeness in one’s relationships with others. As we awaken to higher states of consciousness, as we begin to see our own presence here in this unfolding process in a larger context, and especially as we
VIDEO: What Is Love?
This is an excerpt from a dialogue that I did in Boulder, Colorado with friend and integral philosopher extraordinaire Ken Wilber: Join Andrew Cohen and Ken Wilber on June 2nd for a free broadcast exploring sex and sexual ethics. Register here.
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
One Big Yes (Quote of the Week, 6/28)
What is our very own personal experience of the evolutionary impulse? And what is its unique quality as it expresses itself in our physical bodies, in our urge to innovate, and in our spiritual aspirations? If we examine the movement of this impulse at different levels of our own being, what we become aware of
Dare to Be a Spiritual Hero (Quote of the Week, 6/21)
What does it mean to be a spiritual hero? It is a bold and audacious idea, but I think that especially in our time, when there are many people looking for ways to step forward and make the world a better place, more and more of us are going to have to be willing to
A Force to Be Reckoned With (Quote of the Week)
There is more to enlightenment than the liberating discovery of the inherent perfection of the absolute, or nondual, nature of all things. And that more is the emergence of a powerful imperative to evolve. When something came from nothing, and the explosion in motion that is all of life came into being, a perpetual state
No Going Back (Quote of the Week)
When we experience a profound awakening to the evolutionary impulse, we can never really go back to the way things were before we tasted its magnetic and ecstatic promise. We can’t go back to the unenlightened values and convictions of the personal self, nor can we continue to be spiritually inhibited by the powerful materialist
A Mysterious Summons (Quote of the Week)
Why is it that some of us are driven blindly, madly, and passionately to struggle to transcend our own limitations? And to do so not merely for our own sake but for the sake of a higher purpose that we feel yet can barely see? Why is it that in those precious moments when we
Evolutionary Enlightenment 101: Part I
Part I — 51%: The Magic Number Do you know what the magic number is in spiritual physics? I’m talking about that all-important equation that makes it possible for us to understand how radical spiritual transformation actually happens. Radical spiritual transformation, in the way that I teach, means significant and demonstrable evolution beyond ego. Once
Andrew Cohen is a spiritual teacher, cultural visionary, founder of EnlightenNext, and the author of 
