Integrity: the Foundation of an Integral Life

August 22, 2008 | 1 Comment

After setting up my profile at the new, just-launched Integral Life website, I’ve been visiting the nascent discussion forums and have started to engage with other members a bit. In the section headed “What does an Integral Life mean to you?” I responded enthusiastically to one member’s suggestion that integrity seems to be an essential […]

The Kosmocentric Stage - Part 2

August 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment

My wife snapped this cell-phone pic of London’s famous statue of Eros, the Greek god better known as Cupid (his Roman derivative), while we were walking through Piccadilly Circus on Saturday. There were lots of people sitting around the base of the distinctive landmark, but hardly anyone seemed interested in the statue itself. […]

Quote of the Day, brought to you by Plotinus

August 11, 2008 | 2 Comments

“You ask, how can we know the Infinite? I answer, not by reason. It is the office of reason to distinguish and define. The Infinite, therefore, cannot be ranked among its objects. You can only apprehend the Infinite by a faculty superior to reason, by entering into a state in which […]

Blissed and Gone

August 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment

Today at the main EnlightenNext center in Lenox, Massachusetts, we had what we call a “practice day” — meditating together from dawn to dusk. Our colleagues at the London center did the same. Meanwhile, our spiritual teacher, Andrew Cohen, was leading two hundred people through the finer points of Evolutionary Enlightenment for the last day […]

Ordinary Terrestrials Putting Crop Circles to Shame

August 9, 2008 | 4 Comments

Mac Tonnies’ blog tipped me off to “the largest sand drawing on Earth.” Check it out!

Very impressive stuff…though not quite as impressive as the Olympics opener yesterday. That three-hour spectacular display of epic magnitudes of machinelike human precision and techno-majestic creativity almost made me want to enroll in the Communist Party. (I kid!) It was […]

The Kosmocentric Stage - Part 1

August 4, 2008 | 1 Comment

What does it mean to be “Kosmocentric”?
That’s the question I want to explore over the coming weeks on this blog. It’s something that, as a student of Andrew Cohen’s teachings of Evolutionary Enlightenment, I think about all the time, and it’s also a clear line of inquiry that I think may finally […]

An Attainable Goal

August 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment

My teacher Andrew Cohen’s latest Quote of the Week:

Q: Traditionally, enlightenment has often been described as “ego-death.” Is it possible to attain a state where the ego actually dies?
A: Well, I’ve met one or two people in my life in whom it appeared that the ego had literally died. But in those rare cases, I […]