Evolutionary Enlightenment Podcast
This series of EnlightenNext Evolutionary Enlightenment podcasts is created from edited recordings of weekly conference calls. Evolutionary Enlightenment, an original teaching founded by Andrew Cohen, provides a philosophical framework for understanding humanity’s role in the vast forward march of evolution. It is also a system of personal and cultural development, rooted in the profound revelation of spiritual enlightenment that has fueled Andrew Cohen’s work for the past twenty years. Each week’s episode focuses on one of the fundamental aspects of Evolutionary Enlightenment, exploring topics that include meditation, authentic leadership, enlightened activism, soul development, and the evolution of consciousness.
Becoming Emotionally Rational
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In our last two calls, we spoke about choice as a faculty - a function of being alive and being human, and about free will and karma - how the momentum of choices we make, over and over again over many years, shapes our perception of what is possible, often giving us the impression that we don’t have free will. In this call we will grapple with one of the most basic human experiences in relationship to volitionality - our experience of emotion. When we are in the midst of the experience of strong emotions we often believe we have no choice. Think about it - what’s your most recent experience of fear or doubt, desire, or even happiness, and how did that influence the choices you made? The experience of fear can be as debilitating as running into a brick wall for many of us, stopping us in our tracks and rendering all our good intentions useless. But if our goal is to be free, so we can consciously change and evolve, we need to find a way to navigate by something more stable than whatever emotion happens to be on the horizon. To do that we need to develop an objective or rational perspective on our emotional experience.
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