Van: "Integral World" Aan: Onderwerp: Evolutionary Endarkenment Datum: maandag 22 juli 2013 8:28 Newsletter Nr. 458 Amsterdam, July 22th, 2013 EVOLUTIONARY ENDARKENMENT - Review of Andrew Cohen's "Evolutionary Enlightenment" - Frank Visser In his popular book Evolutionary Enlightenment: A New Path to Spiritual Awakening (2011), Andrew Cohen delineates his new view of spirituality. In this view it is no longer a matter of transcending the world, but of transforming it. Specifically, this will happen by aligning oneself with the "evolutionary impulse" Cohen sees at work in the Universe at large, culminating in self-conscious human beings. By aligning oneself in this way, one can transcend the ego—which Cohen sees as the ultimate goal of all spirituality. Read more: http://www.integralworld.net/visser58.html “SOMETIMES I FEEL LIKE A GOD” - (ANDREW COHEN) - GEOFFREY FALK Andrew Cohen was born in New York City in 1955. He spent his formative years—either from ages five to fifteen (Cohen, 1992), or from age three into his twenties (Tarlo, 1997), depending on whom you choose to believe—undergoing psychoanalysis. When Cohen was sixteen years old, he experienced a spontaneous expansion of consciousness “in all directions simultaneously” into infinite space, along with a “revelation” concerning the interconnectedness and inseparability of all life. Read more: http://www.integralworld.net/falk8.html To SUBSCRIBE to this Integral World Newsletter or change your email address, click here: http://www.integralworld.net/pommo/user/subscribe.php To UNSUBSCRIBE, update your account by logging in. For explanation, see: http://www.integralworld.net/nl_faq.html