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This series offers a comprehensive roadmap for navigating the complexities of modern spirituality, grounding ancient wisdom in the realities of the contemporary world. By engaging with these principles, we are invited to participate in a collective evolution, transcending traditional boundaries and embarking on a path of enlightened awareness that is both deeply personal and expansively universal. This series is not just a set of talks but a call to action, urging us to embody the principles of the Guru, Dharma, and Sangha in our lives, and to contribute to the creation of a more conscious, awakened world.

The dialogue critically assesses the notion that spiritual awakening is not merely a personal journey towards enlightenment but a crucial foundation for active engagement with the world’s pain and beauty. Daniela and Jon explore how true awakening involves confronting and embracing the world’s challenges, not as burdens, but as gateways to profound understanding and transformation.

Andrew Cohen presents the meta-crisis not as a barrier but as a crucial catalyst for vibrant living and urgent awakening. He urges us to see chaos as a call to action, propelling us toward transformation and enlightenment. This perspective encourages us to transcend passivity, embracing the present moment as a gateway to conscious evolution and a deeper communion with life. Through this lens, adversity becomes an invitation to live fully and purposefully, right here, right now.

Andrew Cohen illuminates the essence of forming a perfect relationship to reality, emphasizing the blend of active participation in life’s evolutionary dance and the deep interconnectedness with all of existence.

The Sovereign Self explores the shift in modern spirituality from traditional ego surrender to a pursuit of radical sovereignty, questioning whether true autonomy can be achieved without succumbing to the limitations of the ego.

Andrew Cohen looks at the difference between the solitary bliss of awakened awareness and the dynamic evolutionary resonance when individual enlightenment expands into a collective vibration.

Andrew speaks in depth about the difference between the cessation of seeking as an end in itself – the goal of traditional enlightenment – and becoming a finder as a starting point for perpetual conscious evolution: Evolutionary Enlightenment.

In this episode, there will be a reading from Andrew’s controversial new book When Shadow Meets the Bodhisattva. Andrew will talk candidly about his reasons for writing it, and about his vision, outlined in the later chapters, for a new post-postmodern spirituality of tomorrow. If you’ve read it and you’re inspired or intrigued by the subject matter, there will also be a rare and exciting opportunity to ask the author your questions. Don’t miss it!

In the next in our ongoing series of free talks, Andrew Cohen examines the many different dimensions of enlightenment through an integral lens. What are we fundamentally most preoccupied with, consciously or unconsciously? What does it mean to be truly awake in the 21st century? How can we upgrade our own sense of what enlightenment is and can be, as sophisticated and complex present-day human beings?

In this episode of our bi-weekly series, Andrew Cohen looks at the delicate tension between pragmatic realism and absolute idealism. Can we cultivate a mature and rational idealism rooted in temporal reality, while never losing sight of the most elevated reference point – the unmanifest perfection that reveals itself in higher state experiences – as our “true north”?