The Highest Form of Spiritual Practice (Quote of the Week)
by Andrew CohenThe highest form of spiritual practice, for those of us who aspire to create Heaven on Earth, is our relationships with one another. That means being willing to sacrifice anything and everything so that the intersubjective world of our shared culture becomes the stage on which the spiritual reality of who we really are, beyond our separate egos, comes to the fore. Think about it: If Spirit always comes before self, then the self that we are will always manifest as Spirit first. What could be more important than this if we want to change our world?
Last week, EnlightenNext’s founder and editor in chief, Andrew Cohen, traveled to Europe for a whirlwind tour of talks and dialogues about his teachings of 
I am currently attending the 
Is it possible to have multiple perspectives on oneness or nonduality? While the answer to this paradoxical question might seem to be, “No, by its very nature, nonduality can only mean one thing,” there are actually many different interpretations of what this perennial spiritual revelation actually means. And that interpretation, in my opinion, makes all the difference in determining just how this realization will be expressed in the world. 
connections I have discovered between the “one-with-nature” nonduality of the great American philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson and the “one-with-evolution” nonduality of Andrew Cohen. The following post compares these two philosophies more deeply and gives you a snapshot of what I’ll be presenting at the conference next weekend. 
Calling all consciousness researchers, neo-mystics, and anyone else interested in finding out just how far the conversation between science and spirit has come. The annual Science & Nonduality will be held in San Rafael, California, on October 20-24. The goal of the conference, which brings together a diverse lineup of spiritual teachers, consciousness researchers, psychologists, artists, philosophers, and more, is to explore the implications of nonduality, or oneness, from as many angles as possible. 
Apocalyptic thinking has been in the noosphere lately. I don’t mean headlines about the potentially devastating effects of climate change or another economic collapse. In the past week, I’ve seen a couple of blogs and articles online that take a very critical look at the extreme ways that we often tend to view the future: either naively utopian or cynically apocalyptic, and suggest that we need to find a more mature way to approach both the challenges and potentials facing humanity today. Right on!
