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.
Free Will, Victimization and Karma
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In the end we either believe in free will or we don’t, and most of us don’t. Certainly we believe that we have some free will, but we also believe that there are extenuating circumstances that sometimes make a free choice impossible. Because of this we feel victimized by the experience of being alive and trapped in cycles of behavior that we are fundamentally helpless to liberate ourselves from. Is the part of us that makes choices – what Andrew Cohen calls the choosing faculty – free or not? What could possibly stop us from making the choice we want to? Don’t we always make exactly the choice that we choose? Are there some choices that aren’t choices? Do we have free will or not? These are the complex questions that we will explore on this week’s call.
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