Why It’s Important to Lose Your Mind (at least twice a year)

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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

AUDIO: ‘Going Out of Your Mind’ with Ed and Deb Shapiro

Andrew recently spoke with irreverant spiritual teachers Ed and Deb Shapiro on their radio show ‘Going Out of Your Mind’ about a variety of interesting topics including: the evolution of the guru-disciple relationship within a postmodern context, Andrew’s recent trips to India, their own experiences with some of their respective past gurus, the significance of

Meditation is Training for Life

If we want to be free, it is important to learn how to directly experience the unbroken chaos and impersonal confusion of our own minds without being disturbed by any of it. Only if we can bear it will we be able to take responsibility for it. If we cannot calmly endure our own minds,

Foreword Magazine Book of the Year Award!!!

I’m happy to announce that Evolutionary Enlightenment was just awarded the Silver Medal in the Body, Mind & Spirit category in Foreword magazine’s 2011 Book-of-the-Year Awards! These are the most prestigious literary awards in the independent publishing industry and titles are recognized for a combination of factors, from cover design and writing tone to the

MEDIA: Going Out of Your Mind Radio With Ed & Deb Shapiro

This is an interview that I did with my friends Ed & Deb Shapiro who are bonafide spiritual pioneers and veterans of the 60s revolution. It’s fun and interesting because they were asking me why things continue to be so bad and on the contrary I made the controversial point that we’re making enormous progress