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You, Whoever You Are (Quote of the Week)

by Andrew Cohen

People often ask me, What is the self? What is it that actually evolves? And I always answer, It’s you, whoever you are. I don’t just mean your ego or personality. But what I’m pointing to is the fact that beneath all of that there is some essential core of selfhood or agency that is making choices. If you want to become an evolutionarily enlightened human being, your ability to succeed depends upon accepting the simple fact that you are the one who is making the choices. You are the chooser. Continue reading…

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Mar 01, 2010 | 16 comments | View Post

In Search of Sacred India, Part 2: The New Face of India

by Joel Pitney


The last time I traveled to India was over six years ago—on my honeymoon. My new wife, Christiana Briddell, wanted me to meet the great Indian saint, Swami Chidananda, who had been her family’s Guru since her parents first met him during the West to East migration of the late 1960s. So rather than spending an extended vacation sitting on some Caribbean beach, we spent two incredible months living at the Sivananda Ashram on the banks of the Ganges river in the holy city of Rishikesh—meditating, singing traditional kirtans, and listening to Swamiji give his morning talks on various aspects of Yoga Vedanta and the quest for Enlightenment. Continue reading…

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Feb 25, 2010 | 12 comments | View Post

In Search of Sacred India, Part I: “What a Place to Wake Up!”

by Tom Huston

Twenty-four years ago next month, the founder of EnlightenNext, Andrew Cohen, underwent a spiritual transformation in India that forever changed the course of his life. This week, Andrew has returned to the subcontinent to engage in a series of private meetings, TV and newspaper interviews, and public talks about his work as the editor in chief of EnlightenNext magazine and as the teacher of an original spiritual path he calls Evolutionary Enlightenment. Throughout this trip, two members of the magazine’s editorial team, Joel Pitney and myself (who are also fulltime students of Andrew’s teachings), will be covering the journey right here on the Editors’ Blog. And we’ll be chronicling our own adventures and insights as well. After a long flight from JFK, we arrived at our hotel in Delhi today, exhausted but excited, and can’t wait to get going!

To kick things off, I thought a good place to begin would be with a classic piece that Andrew wrote a few years back, shortly after his last major teaching trip here in December 2005. Continue reading…

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Feb 24, 2010 | 3 comments | View Post

You Are Culture (Quote of the Week)

by Andrew Cohen

You are not just an individual. You are culture incarnate. As an evolving self, you are the manifestation of a collective conditioned way of seeing and responding to life. This is why your conscious evolution matters so much. When you, as an individual, start using your own will to activate higher potentials within yourself, in a small but not insignificant way cultural evolution starts happening through you. A momentum is generated—a vertical momentum toward that which is new. And when the individual feels that momentum, it’s experienced as liberation. Continue reading…

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Feb 22, 2010 | 25 comments | View Post

Sex, Romance, and Conscious Evolution (Quote of the Week)

by Andrew Cohen

The arena of sexuality and romance is one of the easiest places to get lost and confused. This is of the utmost importance to understand for those individuals who are serious about higher spiritual development, and who are personally committed to the evolution of consciousness and culture. That being said, it is also a potentially joyful and liberating part of the human experience. Continue reading…

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Feb 15, 2010 | 11 comments | View Post

Evolution Is an Internal Event

by Andrew Cohen

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 the subjective and the intersubjective domains. When you realize that this is true, that’s when real magic starts happening. Continue reading…

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Feb 08, 2010 | 24 comments | View Post

The Fresh Prince of Self-Mastery

by Joel Pitney

I always knew that Will Smith was a great actor…and a pretty good musician too. I’ve also always admired the positive down-to-earth spirit that he conveyed on and off camera–a rare quality among Hollywood megastars. But I never knew what made the Fresh Prince so fresh until this week when I came across this video compilation of TV interviews with Smith in which he waxes eloquent on his spiritual philosophy towards life. He’s a true self master. Check it out: Continue reading…

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Feb 05, 2010 | 12 comments | View Post

A Messy Process (Quote of the Week)

by Andrew Cohen

Evolution is a messy process. So anybody who really wants to make the effort to strive for something new is going to have to be willing to make mistakes, take wrong turns, even to fail, but never give up. The simple truth is this: if not failing is more important to you than genuinely succeeding, you’re never going to make it. If you really want to succeed, you have to have the big heart, heroic will, tenacity, courage, and commitment to fearlessly engage with the evolutionary process until something profound, mysterious, and extraordinary happens that cannot be undone.

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Feb 01, 2010 | 40 comments | View Post

Seek Until You Find (Quote of the Week)

by Andrew Cohen

You must seek until you find. Only when you find what you have been looking for will you be able to truly stop seeking. Better not to stop seeking energetically until then. It is imperative that you do not stop seeking until you reach the goal of Enlightenment. Do not allow yourself to stop until you’ve come to the absolute end of all seeking. Only when you have come home forever and you know without any doubt that it is all over should you allow yourself to stop.

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Jan 27, 2010 | 65 comments | View Post

The Rings of Earth

by Tom Huston

What would the skies above our cities look like if the Earth had Saturn’s rings? That’s the question posed in beautiful precision by this fascinating little video created by graphic artist Roy Prol, which has been appearing all over the net in the past few weeks. You may have noticed that astronomers’ list of known planets beyond our solar system continues to grow at a stunning rate (the number is up to 424 now), and they say that the exciting possibility of finding an Earthlike world looms larger every day. So I’m sure we’ll be seeing scientifically sound, speculative visualizations like this one cropping up more and more all the time. As Avatar’s success might attest, cool-looking planets have never been more popular…


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Jan 25, 2010 | 4 comments | View Post
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