EnlightenNext Editors' Blog

Reaching for the Future (Quote of the Week)

Andrew Cohen — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 18:32:30 +0000

What I am interested in is not what has already happened, but what is possible. What is the next possibility? That’s what Evolutionary Enlightenment is all about. So your attention is not on what is but on what could be. You are not concerned with the present moment, with being in the Now; you are [...]

In Search of Sacred India, Pt. 5: Ecstatic Overwhelm

Joel Pitney — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 21:34:37 +0000

Overwhelmed. Ecstatically overwhelmed. These are the only words I can come up with to describe the experience that I’ve had over the past couple of weeks traveling in India with Andrew Cohen and our roving evolutionary sangha. Fourteen days ago, boarding my flight from JFK to New Delhi, I was expecting to experience what most [...]

Where There Is No Other (Quote of the Week)

Andrew Cohen — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 16:38:59 +0000

When two or more individuals who have awakened to what I call the Evolutionary Impulse, or Authentic Self, come together in deep dialogue and focused conversation, the experience is something akin to thinking aloud with yourself. Why? Because there is only one Authentic Self. The ego can only have a relationship with other separate individuals, [...]

In Search of Sacred India, Pt. 4: The New Delhi New Age

Tom Huston — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 15:50:44 +0000

Does everything happen for a reason? Are angelic beings guiding us on our life’s journey? Many of the mainstays of New Age philosophy, which have become commonplace in spiritual-but-not-religious circles in the West, are now taking hold among some of the more progressive thinkers in India. And during an impromptu backstage dialogue between Andrew Cohen [...]

In Search of Sacred India, Pt. 3: What Is and What Is Possible

Tom Huston — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 15:00:34 +0000

During his two days in New Delhi, EnlightenNext founder Andrew Cohen was constantly on the move, meeting with a popular teacher of Kriya Yoga, a renowned Indian statesman and evolutionary thinker, a respected authority on Indian arts and culture, and one of the country’s most significant media moguls. In the midst of this whirlwind tour, [...]

The Law of Karma (Think About This)

Joel Pitney — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 08:17:08 +0000

This past week, EnlightenNext’s editor in chief Andrew Cohen gave a series of talks at the headquarters for the Divine Life Society in the holy Indian city of Rishikesh. Established on the banks of the Ganges River in 1936 by Swami Sivananda, this ashram has been home to several of India’s most revered saints of [...]

You, Whoever You Are (Quote of the Week)

Andrew Cohen — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 08:19:18 +0000

People often ask me, What is the self? What is it that actually evolves? And I always answer, It’s you, whoever you are. I don’t just mean your ego or personality. But what I’m pointing to is the fact that beneath all of that there is some essential core of selfhood or agency that is [...]

In Search of Sacred India, Part 2: The New Face of India

Joel Pitney — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 06:45:05 +0000

The last time I traveled to India was over six years ago—on my honeymoon. My new wife, Christiana Briddell, wanted me to meet the great Indian saint, Swami Chidananda, who had been her family’s Guru since her parents first met him during the West to East migration of the late 1960s. So rather than spending [...]

In Search of Sacred India, Part I: “What a Place to Wake Up!”

Tom Huston — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 21:24:14 +0000

Twenty-four years ago next month, the founder of EnlightenNext, Andrew Cohen, underwent a spiritual transformation in India that forever changed the course of his life. This week, Andrew has returned to the subcontinent to engage in a series of private meetings, TV and newspaper interviews, and public talks about his work as the editor in [...]

You Are Culture (Quote of the Week)

Andrew Cohen — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 18:17:35 +0000

You are not just an individual. You are culture incarnate. As an evolving self, you are the manifestation of a collective conditioned way of seeing and responding to life. This is why your conscious evolution matters so much. When you, as an individual, start using your own will to activate higher potentials within yourself, in [...]