Integrity: the Foundation of an Integral Life

August 22, 2008 | Leave a 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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

BIG THINK Features Andrew Cohen

May 31, 2008 | 3 Comments

A few weeks ago Andrew Cohen, founder of What Is Enlightenment? magazine and its parent organization, EnlightenNext, was invited to the BigThink.com studios in New York, where he was interviewed on a number of different topics. I featured BigThink in our “Sites & Blogs” section in WIE’s current issue, and when I wrote the blurb, […]

Beyond the Mind

May 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment

The latest Quote of the Week from my spiritual teacher, Andrew Cohen:
“From the perspective of the rational mind, a human life is a linear, limited event, defined by the movement of time. But when you penetrate beyond the mind through the serious practice of meditation, you get glimpses into a mystery that transcends time in […]

Ken Wilber Interviewed by Salon.com

May 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment

It’s long, it’s comprehensive, it’s accessible, and it’s awesome: “You Are the River: An Interview with Ken Wilber.”
From the intro:
Ken Wilber may be the most important living philosopher you’ve never heard of. He’s written dozens of books but you’d be hard-pressed to find his name in a mainstream magazine. Still, Wilber has a passionate […]

The Authentic Self

April 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment

Here’s the latest production from our A/V department at EnlightenNext, providing one of the simplest and coolest explanations to date of a key component of Andrew Cohen’s teaching of Evolutionary Enlightenment: the Authentic Self.

You can get another explanation of the Authentic Self here — or, for the more direct revelation, just take a moment […]

Freedom Is Not a Feeling

March 2, 2008 | 7 Comments

I started spiritually seeking when I was 16 years old, after it suddenly became impossible for me to continue functioning in “daily life” without knowing, beyond a shadow of a doubt (and beyond religious and scientific dogma), why my life, this planet, or anything else existed at all. Since that time, I’ve tasted pretty […]

The Secret of Enlightenment

September 28, 2007 | Leave a Comment

Here are two quotes that would’ve surely eased my soul a decade ago, when existential angst tormented me day and night (particularly of the “Why is there something rather than nothing?!” variety). Though separated by centuries, the quotes point to a dimension of reality that is eternally untouched by the torments of time, confusion, and […]

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