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A short video with visionary, Andrew Cohen about Evolutionary Enlightenment
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Very good analysis. I agree. Two authors come to mind with knowledge of Andrew’s psychospiritual pathology, M. Scott Peck, MD and Fr. Malachi Martin.
I’ll say no more for now.
Cohen exhibits all the typical features of narcissistic personality disorder, such as a grandiose sense of self-importance and uniqueness; a preoccupation with fantasies of unlimited success; a need for constant attention and admiration; a set of characteristic responses to threats to self-esteem; disturbances in interpersonal relationships; a preoccupation with grooming combined with frequent resorting to prevarication or outright lying; and a lack of empathy.
perfect… great way of explaining the truth …Thanks to Andrew Cohen.
‘as far as we know…’ and then Andrew you give your version is it is it true???? yes we are all part of that self…so what? There is no new understanding of enlightenment….it IS. Consciousness does not need anyone for its development….. nice video effects content is lacking
God created everything out of nothing. He did not create everything out of Himself. The matter of creation is not God in material form. Nor is it some eternally uncreated matter that took form. “Creatio ex nihilo”, means God made the universe out of nothing. No creature,angel nor man,will ever be able to create out of nothing, it is the sole power of God alone, st.Thomas Aquinas.
so.. lets begin to act on all levels of consciousness to recognize that we must in a sense accomodate the world for the creative energy that is trasforming it… I will say that to my that means doing away with the all the tyranies currently dominating world discourse.. My opinion of what the main culprits are would be capitalism, corporate globalization, and the rift between extremist Islam and Zionism. The ‘money’and flow of energy to either side of this insane conflict must stop.
Didn’t Sri Aurobindo claim he would bring the Supramental down to earth instead of just ascending up to it from earth? What does God have to evolve into?
What a bad openning.. a vacuum is not empty, there is no such thing as a totally void vacuum in nature. The better word is obviously void.
I like the rest of the video though, couldn’t agree more with the man. I think we have reached a point now where we need a quantum leap in evolution.. we need to unify to have any chance of surviving/not killing the planet also.
Its either the New World Order.. or some spectacular awakening/enlighenment as a result of nature itself, gifting it to us.
Perhaps you dont realize that both can be, and likely are, possible…
The big bang theory is just that…a theory! God is everything! That is no theory. Its the truth
Enlightenment is complete awareness of the impulses of the ego.
enlightenment is the stopping of striving,its about being,enlightenment is never future its now..enlightenment can not be taken seriously,it is just given…
Its difficult to explain if you are not enlightend,explainable if you are…peace
The idea that nothing existed contradicts everything human beings have ever experienced. We can not experience non-existence, so by definition it does not exist. Nothing does not exist, so for existence to come out of nothing is already a contradiction in the language. Black holes? What is your trouble with them?
Yes, I guess that the mentioned “nothing” is beyond the Big Bang theory, but it surely doesn’t contradict it in any way. Logic you say? then what is the logic of black holes for example?
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You don’t have to agree, but for me, it’s logical that some-thing came from no-thing – Exactly like I have a body, but it’s not that I’m Just my body. It seems there’s something else, that we’re still developing our language around it – You may call it consciousness.
Only logic dictates that something has always existed. If you have nothing, you don’t have anything, no logic, no reasoning, no existence. The Big Bang theory only describes the universe milliseconds “after” cosmic expansion begins. Those who claim that nothing existed before it are overstepping the theory’s limitations.
Is there any evidence that “something has always existed”? Science gave us the Big Bang theory, and (well I’m not a scientist but…) it says that the universe is expanding and emerged from one tiny dot, that’s pretty nothing for me… Nowhere to go, nothing to see…
ok. In this teaching, enlightenment is (strived to be) attained for, by and in the name of evolution (not for the fulfillment of the separate self sense).
Enlightenment is usually a future event & evolution is always now.
Also, it seems (at least) to me, that actually, they’re inherently connected: Conscious evolution can speed up enlightenment and enlightenment can boost evolution. It can be a VERY powerful (and meaningful) combination when one takes it seriously.
Cause i havent reach enlightenment yet. Simple. I difficult to explain to people who doesnt have third consciousness. Thanks
Right – “Once u attain enlightenment you don’t exist.” – but you’re still here, right? Here to do what? Well maybe the only thing that has been done during the last 14 billion years? Evolution?
I wonder what Andrew thinks of the evolution of governments.
Would he think that we need to go beyond the left-right-liberal-conservative paradigm?
Is libertarianism untried solution?
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Liberals want to be your Mommy.
Conservatives want to be your Daddy.
Libertarians want to treat you like an adult.
or, like when we awake from a dream in the morning, and i justin was talking and being with all these other people in the dream, technically, my mind produced the dream and created those people and how they would act, i was the creator, the producer, and the actor of the entire dream, and not just the kid justin. this can be a mirror to this world. we awake and realize i was the creator, i am producing this huge drama, and am playing all the parts, all at the same time. hope this helps
if we say (as Paramhansa yogananda said) the ego, is the soul identified with the body. the false-self or the mind made self transcends with its deeper realization that is is spirit, so its as if the spirit is born into and grows in a body and thinks its name is justin, it thinks it has this personality, and that is who i am, this mind made self, THAT self transcends into your higher self, the Self that is. the god self.
May I ask what part of yourself is no longer existent when you attain enlightenment? To exist means to have objective reality or being. To be enlightened (spiritually speaking) means you raise your awareness as a being. Evolution is inevitable in a world of reality.
Dear Alchemystix,
I love this blog, and appreciate all the different perspectives you post on enlightenment.
I’m writing to you today to let you know about a new book by Andrew Cohen (Evolutionary Enlightenment: A New Path to Spiritual Awakening), which will be published on September 27th.
Because of your interest in Andrew’s work, I thought you might like to participate in Andrew’s virtual book tour. To do so, we ask you to write something about the book on your blog (an excerpt, a review, or even a quote). You’d be one of many bloggers participating in the campaign and would be listed on our book tour page (www.evolutionaryenlightenment.com/tour). To give you a better sense of the book, I can send you a free chapter sample and a press release about it.
Please let me know if you’d be interested in participating and what you might have in mind for a post and I can provide you with any additional resources you’ll need.
Thanks for your time,
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