Podcasts about evolutionary enlightenment

Andrew Cohen is a spiritual teacher, cultural visionary, and founder of the global non-profit EnlightenNext and its award-winning publication EnlightenNext magazine. After the collapse of EnlightenNext in 2013, Cohen took several years off from public teaching. In 2020, he and a group of collaborators launched Manifest Nirvana, a sanctuary for deep transformation, where 21st century spiritual explorers and integral pioneers will find their home. The author of several books, including Evolutionary Enlightenment, and his latest, When Shadow Meets the Bodhisattva - The Challenging Transformation of a Modern Guru, he lives in India.To listen to all our XZBN shows, with our compliments go to: www.spreaker.com/user/xzoneradiotv.The current edition of The 'X' Chronicles Newspaper is available at www.xchronicles.net.This episode of The ‘X' Zone with Rob McConnell is brought to you by BEAUTIFUL MIND COFFEE - For the coffee that your brain will love, visit Beautiful Mind Coffee, www.beautifulmindcoffee.ca. It's Brainalicious!

Recently, we released a discussion titled, "Things That Integral Has Not Done Well," looking at a number of missteps the integral community and leadership has made, and at some of its most controversial associations with spiritual figures. Among the figures discussed was Andrew Cohen, and he joins us today to respond to that video, to offer some counter critiques, and to discuss possible things both he and the integral community can do going forward to correct for those mistakes and to open possible ways forward for greater transformation and integral flourishing. Andrew Cohen is an American-born, internationally known spiritual teacher and writer, and the founder of Evolutionary Enlightenment. He has been teaching meditation for over three decades, and created the magazine, What is Enlightenment?, one of the most successful publications ever in its genre. His teaching work grapples with the challenges of bringing the revelation of enlightenment to a contemporary Western audience, integrating postmodern cultural and scientific understanding with an original and sophisticated non-dual philosophy. After his organization, EnlightenNext, dissolved in 2013, he went on sabbatical for several years, but now has returned to teaching and is leading an online spiritual community called Manifest Nirvana. Links and Resources Personal Website https://www.andrewcohen.com/

For the 30th episode of the Integral Stage Authors series, Layman sits down with evolutionary enlightenment teacher, Andrew Cohen, to talk about his most recent book, "When Shadow Meets the Bodhisattva: The Challenging Transformation of a Modern Guru." Ten years after his public fall from grace and the dissolution of his spiritual community, Andrew talks about the lessons learned -- his understanding of what went wrong; his confrontation with shadow and the need to take responsibility for what transpired; the shame and regret of failing those who had counted on him; the wise counsel he sought and received from others; and the personal and spiritual insights, and the new vision of spirituality, he developed through this process. Andrew Cohen is an American-born, internationally known spiritual teacher and writer, and the founder of Evolutionary Enlightenment. He has been teaching meditation for over three decades, and created the magazine, What is Enlightenment?, one of the most successful publications ever in its genre. His teaching work grapples with the challenges of bringing the revelation of enlightenment to a contemporary Western audience, integrating postmodern cultural and scientific understanding with an original and sophisticated non-dual philosophy. After his organization, EnlightenNext, dissolved in 2013, he went on sabbatical for several years, but now has returned to teaching and is leading an online spiritual community called Manifest Nirvana. Links and Resources When Shadow Meets the Bodhisattva https://www.amazon.com/When-Shadow-Meets-Bodhisattva-Transformation/dp/1644115905/ Personal Website https://www.andrewcohen.com/

Andrew Cohen, international spiritual teacher and founder of Evolutionary Enlightenment, a community which became a proper cult, joins us today to discuss the death and rebirth of his community and self.

Layman is joined by evolutionary enlightenment teacher, Andrew Cohen. Andrew recounts his early experiences with his teacher, H.W.L. Poonja, and he explores with Layman the questions of what factors might serve to amplify transmission in certain people or places; the nature and role of subtle energy in relation to transmission dynamics; transmission in intersubjective or group contexts; the role of pomp and mythopoetic symbology in postmodern and metamodern transmission contexts; evolutionary enlightenment and the evolutionary impulse; the relationship dynamics of enlightened teachers with one another, and what might be done to overcome competitive ego dynamics and foster greater collaboration; Andrew's experiences with American Baul spiritual teacher, Lee Lozowick; and much more. Andrew Cohen is an American-born, internationally known integral spiritual teacher and writer, and the founder of Evolutionary Enlightenment. He has been teaching meditation for over three decades, and created the magazine, What is Enlightenment? -- one of the most successful publications ever in its genre. His teaching work grapples with the challenges of bringing the revelation of enlightenment to a contemporary Western audience, integrating postmodern cultural and scientific understanding with an original and sophisticated non-dual philosophy. After his organization, EnlightenNext, dissolved in 2013, he went on sabbatical for several years, but now has returned to teaching and is leading an online spiritual community called Manifest Nirvana. Links and Resources https://www.andrewcohen.com/ https://www.manifest-nirvana.com/

In this episode of The Future Faces of Spirit, Andrew Cohen joins Bruce Alderman & Layman Pascal for a trialogue on his pioneering efforts in developing an integrative, evolutionary spirituality that is responsive to the unique challenges of our times. Andrew is candid about the successes and shortcomings of his earlier work with the EnlightenNext community, and focuses in our conversation here on working productively with the genuine insights, breakthroughs, and lessons learned over the past 30 years, emphasizing the ongoing importance of spiritual awakening, the nature of intersubjective nonduality, the challenges of our contemporary meaning crisis, the indispensability of clear intention and earnestness in transformative practice, and the value of an evolutionary understanding and a metaphysics of becoming for engaging *with* the world instead of pursuing a mystical retreat from it. Andrew Cohen is an American-born, internationally known integral spiritual teacher and writer, and the founder of Evolutionary Enlightenment. He has been teaching meditation for over three decades, and created the magazine, What is Enlightenment?, one of the most successful publications ever in its genre. His teaching work grapples with the challenges of bringing the revelation of enlightenment to a contemporary Western audience, integrating postmodern cultural and scientific understanding with an original and sophisticated non-dual philosophy. After his organization, EnlightenNext, dissolved in 2013, he went on sabbatical for several years, but now has returned to teaching and is leading an online spiritual community called Manifest Nirvana. https://www.andrewcohen.com https://www.manifest-nirvana.com/

This conversation is part of a series exploring the personal journeys people have taken with a holistic approach to transformational practices integrating body, heart, mind and spirit. In this episode I speak with Nick Osborne about his journey. Topics covered are: his work helping the effectiveness of groups dedicated to social and environmental change, his tour of 30 eco-villages and intentional communities in Europe and North America, permaculture, the Transition Town movement, Extinction Rebellion, the Occupy movement, Deep Adaptation, Craig Hamilton and Evolutionary Enlightenment, how to prevent our egos from hijacking group work, psychotherapy, and meditation.    For more information on Nick's work please visit www.evolvingorganisation.co   For more information about my work please visit www.bodyheartmindspirit.co.uk   To hear more of my music please visit my soundcloud page https://soundcloud.com/ralphcree   My YouTube channel is https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUfQp5jM16pPB7QX2zmMYbQ   My Facebook page is https://www.facebook.com/bodyheartmindspirituk/

Tara is a love activist, author, spiritual luminary, speaker, and evolutionary leader in transformation. She inspires people to come home to the deepest, most Divine Truth of their beingness. https://www.linkedin.com/in/tarabianca/

Andrew Cohen (@andrewzcohen) is a spiritual teacher since 1983 and the founder of EnlightenNext magazine.. We talk about Andrew's amazing story and the development and application of the concept of Evolutionary Enlightenment. I consider Evolutionary Enlightenment as the next step in Peaceful Creativity: the union of the Stillness of Now and the explosive Creativity of Next. This interview blew my mind and if you're a creator, it might do the same for yours. => This episode is brought to you by The PeaCreaTribe (https://peacefulcreativity.com/jointhetribe/). This podcast is available ad-free for PeaCreaTribe members. Go to peacefulcreativity.com/jointhetribe, enter your name and email and get free access to: the full catalogue of podcast episodes ad-free the "3 steps-method to find peace of mind now" ebook Creativity Tools to find ideas, get rid of writer’s block and complete your projects A tribe of creative, successful and mindful Rock Stars, just like You If you want to support this podcast: Please subscribe, rate and write a review to the PeaCreaPod on Apple Podcast, Spotify or wherever you listen to podcast. It helps more people discover the show. => Show Notes available at: https://peacefulcreativity.com/andrew-cohen-balancing-stillness-creativity-peacreapod-207

Jeff Carreira is a member of the Evolutionary Leaders circle, a project of the Source of Synergy Foundation that brings together visionaries committed to the acceleration of the conscious evolution of humanity in these critical times.  Transformation educator and spiritual teacher, Jeff Carreira, embarked on a life devoted to awakening in 1992 when he met spiritual teacher Andrew Cohen and embraced the perspective of Evolutionary Enlightenment. A series of life-changing experiences led Jeff to become a prominent member of a global spiritual movement, where he created educational programs that supported the on-going spiritual growth of thousands of people around the world. Jeff presently co-leads the Evolutionary Collective, which explores the transformative possibilities of a higher order of human relatedness. He is also the author of two books, “The Miracle of Meditation” and “Philosophy Is Not a Luxury” and co-author of “Mutual Awakening: Opening into a New Paradigm of Human Relatedness.”  Visit http://evolutionarycollective.com. “When we face mounting challenges and overwhelming crises, we are tempted to see philosophy as a luxury item that we can no longer afford. It’s not! In fact, in the face of overwhelming difficulties, philosophy, which is the pursuit of truth, becomes more important, not less.” – Jeff Carreira Like America Meditating.  Visit our website at www.AmericaMeditating.org. Download our free Pause for Peace App for Apple or Android.

An interview on Evolutionary Enlightenment

An interview on Evolutionary Enlightenment

In Episode #57 on The Jen Mavros Show we sit down to chat with Spiritual Teacher, Andrew Cohen.  During our time together we discuss Evolutionary Enlightenment, where Mr. Cohen redefines spiritual awakening for our contemporary world—a world characterized by exponential change and an ever-expanding appreciation for the processes of evolution. “Evolutionary enlightenment is about the ecstasy that compels us to create the future. And it's not a future that's going to unfold by itself while we go back to sleep. It's a future that we forge the hard way through direct, conscious, intentional engagement with the life-process itself.” Cohen's message is simple, yet profound: Life is evolution, and enlightenment is about waking up to this fundamentally creative impulse as your own deepest, most authentic self. Evolutionary Enlightenment will show you how to play an active role in shaping the world of tomorrow. An spiritually liberating episode for deeper contemplation. 

Andrew Cohen is a leading spiritual teacher, a pioneer of Evolutionary Enlightenment- Integral, post-postmodern enlightenment. He is founder of EnlightenNext Magazine and EnlightenNext, a global network of centres of students and people who follow his teachings. Andrew teaches that Life is evolution and enlightenment is about waking up to this fundamentally creative impulse as your […]

Tara Sutphen will interview Andrew Cohen, known as a spiritual teacher, bestselling author, and founder of the global nonprofit EnlightenNext. His original teaching of Evolutionary Enlightenment redefines spiritual awakening within the context of cosmic evolution and highlights a new understanding of God or Spirit as the creative impulse toward change in both self and culture

I am a relative newcomer to the movement that goes by such titles as “Evolutionary Enlightenment,” “Conscious Evolution,” “Emergence,” or simply “The Shift.” It has been galvanized by the “end-of-an-era” prophecies of the expiration of the Mayan Calendar, but it has been around for much longer in the writings of Ken Wilber, Andrew Cohen, Deepak Chopra, Craig Hamilton, and of my latest hero, 83-year-old dynamo Barbara Marx Hubbard.

Science is usually focused on more specific issues, but with the recent discovery of the Higgs Boson, or “God Particle,” the global conversation about science is expanding to include bigger, more philosophhical questions, like “Where did we come from?” ... “How did something come from nothing?” ... and causing many to ponder anew the meaning of existence.Science and spirituality are often thought to be at odds, but Julie Ann's ConsciousSHIFT guest Andrew Cohen shares that Evolutionary Enlightenment is a spirituality that is informed by the latest discoveries in science, like the Higgs boson, particularly in relationship to the evolution of the cosmos.More than that, it is often through these “big science” projects like the Large Hadron Collider that scientists discover unimaginable things - and these discoveries, in turn, inevitably spark philosophical questions - questions that only a more evolutionary spiritual view may encompass - and resolve within a higher harmony and wholeness.Julie Ann and Andrew will explore these fascinating questions in this thought-provoking ConsciousSHIFT Show.Moreover, Andrew redefines spiritual awakening for our contemporary world — a world characterized by exponential change and an ever-expanding appreciation for the processes of evolution, as he reveals in his latest book, Evolutionary Enlightenment.The message Andrew shares with Julie Ann - and you - is simple, yet profound: Life is evolution, and enlightenment is about waking up to this fundamentally creative impulse as your own deepest, most authentic self. You'll want to join Julie Ann and Andrew in this dynamic conversation - as it not only makes deep sense of life today, it will show you how to play an active role in shaping the world of tomorrow.

Andrew Cohen is an internationally respected spiritual teacher, cultural visionary, and founder of the global nonprofit EnlightenNext and its award-winning publication EnlightenNext magazine. Since 1986, Cohen has been traveling the world giving public lectures and leading intensive retreats. Through his writings, teachings, and ongoing dialogues with leading philosophers, scientists, and mystics, he has become known as one of the defining voices of the new evolutionary spirituality. Born in New York City in 1955 and raised in a secular Jewish family, Cohen had his passion for spirit unexpectedly ignited at the age of sixteen, when a spontaneous revelation of  “cosmic consciousness” opened his eyes to a new dimension of life. Some years later, as a result of that experience, he gave up aspirations to become a musician and dedicated himself wholeheartedly to its rediscovery. After several years of intensive spiritual pursuit in the United States, including the study of martial arts, Kriya Yoga, and Buddhist meditation, Cohen followed the footsteps of a generation of Western seekers to India. It was there, in the land of the sages, that he met his last teacher H.W.L. Poonja, a disciple of the revered Ramana Maharshi, in 1986. In just a few short weeks, Cohen experienced a life-changing awakening, the story of which was told in his first book, My Master Is My Self. Shortly afterwards, with his teacher’s blessing, Cohen began to teach. Always an independent thinker, Cohen soon diverged from the traditional Eastern approach that had catalyzed his own awakening, with its emphasis on transcendence and the illusory nature of the phenomenal world. Grappling with questions and challenges that arose as he sought to bring the revelation of enlightenment to a contemporary Western audience, he gradually forged his own original spiritual teaching, Evolutionary Enlightenment. A modern-day equivalent of the ancient wisdom teachings, Cohen’s work is no footnote to tradition, but a distinct and innovative synthesis. He has brought the timeless depth of enlightened wisdom into the twenty-first century and significantly redirected its purpose and promise—calling not for transcendence of worldly attachment, or even for compassionate care and service, but for a deep and heroic responsibility for theevolution of the world. In this, he finds more in common with the great evolutionary visionaries of the last century, such as Sri Aurobindo and Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, than he does with the ancient Eastern enlightenment tradition in which his own awakening occurred. To both these streams of thought he adds a further element: a rich and nuanced understanding of the practical dynamics of individual and cultural transformation at our particular moment in history. Cohen’s interest in cultural evolution is much more than theoretical. For more than two decades he has been intensively engaged with committed individuals and groups from around the world who are striving to put his teachings into practice. This engagement has, in turn, informed his thinking, creating a dynamic and fertile interplay between vision and practice, ideal and reality. Among the many fruits of this work, perhaps the most significant has been a series of breakthroughs into collective or intersubjective higher states of consciousness, and the active translation of these insights into new values, perspectives, and principles that are enabling individuals to lay the foundations for a new cultural paradigm. The results of this living inquiry are embraced and shared by a growing global movement of “Evolutionaries.” In addition to his work as a teacher, Cohen is also dedicated to changing the cultural conversation about the purpose and significance of spiritual enlightenment in our time. This is best seen in the magazine he founded in 1991, EnlightenNext (formerly What Is Enlightenment?), which has become the premier forum for serious discussion at the intersection of spiritua...

.Andrew is an internationally respected spiritual teacher, cultural visionary, and founder of the global nonprofit EnlightenNext and its award-winning publication EnlightenNext magazine. Since 1986, Cohen has been traveling the world giving public lectures and leading intensive retreats. Through his writings, teachings, and ongoing dialogues with leading philosophers, scientists, and mystics, he has become known as one of the defining voices of the new evolutionary spirituality. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/abwmitchellrabin/support

Would you like more meaning in your life? Are you interested in discovering your real place and purpose on this earth? Would you like to become empowered to "get over yourself" and start to play an active role in shaping the future.? Why are we more enlightened than ever before? Find out the answers to these and more questions as Dr. Michelle interviews Andrew Cohen, author of "Evolutionary Enlightenment, A New Path to Spiritual Awakening." Find out more about Andrew Cohen and how to get his book at: evolutionaryenlightenment.com

The message Andrew shares with Julie Ann - and you - in this transformational show, is simple, yet profound: Life is evolution, and enlightenment is about waking up to this fundamentally creative impulse as your own deepest, most authentic self. Sharing 5 tenets for living an enlightened life, Andrew will empower you to wholeheartedly participate in the process of change as your own spiritual practice. Evolutionary Enlightenment not only makes deep sense of life today, it will show you how to play an active role in shaping the world of tomorrow.