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.
The Law of Volitionality
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The second of Andrew Cohen’s Five Fundamental Tenets of Evolutionary Enlightenment is called The Law of Volitionality and it points directly at the human capacity to choose. In this call, we will look into this utterly mysterious capacity. What is choice? How do we do it? At the more basic levels of purely physical consciousness it appears that the ability to choose does not exist. A tree doesn’t choose to grow leaves any more than we chose to grow arms. As consciousness, and the organisms it expresses itself through, become more complex, the capacity for choice begins to emerge. We as human beings are making choices constantly. Not just choices about what to do, but choices about where to put our attention, what thoughts to believe in, and what feelings to respond to. Understanding that our lives are constructed exclusively by the choices that we make unleashes the highest possibility for creativity imaginable—the possibility of creating a fully conscious human existence.
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