Friday, Aug 31, 2007

Face Everything...Now

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Continuing on from the discussion of integrity that we began last week we will be discussing the third tenet of the teaching of Evolutionary Enlightenment “Face Everything and Avoid Nothing.” This tenet can be thought about in different ways. One way is that we must continually examine the consequences of our actions to discover our true motivations. But perhaps a more immediate sense of the tenet is the demand to face everything and avoid nothing now. Do you have the courage to face your own deepest realization about what is true and meaningful in human life and compare it to the life you are living? The courage to be this open and fearless is rare, but if we are to actualize our highest potential we must find the heroic spirit to be ruthlessly honest with ourselves.

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Tuesday, Aug 28, 2007

Soul Development II

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In this second call on soul development we continue to investigate the nature of the soul as Andrew Cohen presented it during his recent intensive in Italy. This time the emphasis is on integrity and recognizing the soul as our capacity for good - responding in alignment with our highest understanding and what we know is right, or our capacity for ill - acting in ways that we know are wrong. The urgency of our willingness to see our own personal level of integrity clearly, and to develop at that level, emerges full blown in the first question and the evolutionary pull and demand to do so only increases from there.

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Monday, Aug 20, 2007

The Development of the Soul

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The soul is the deepest part of the individual self. During his retreat this past week, Andrew Cohen spent a great deal of time discussing the soul as the seat of morality and the ways in which Evolutionary Enlightenment addresses the critical need for more of us to develop morally at the level of the soul. Katherine and I will be using this call to discuss the question of what the soul is and how we can develop at that level.

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Friday, Aug 10, 2007

The Miracle of Being

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This week’s call will surprise and delight you! Taken from a recent seminar called “Beyond the Individual,” this prerecorded talk will challenge your most fundamental ideas of self. The human experience of being some-one or some-thing is explored, challenged, and examined from many different angles. We guide participants to look into the nature of awareness prior to the experience of being a separate self. How are we aware? What is it that is aware? As the inquiry expands we all enter deliberately into unknown and uncharted aspects of who we really are. Focusing our attention on the qualities of awareness unifies us in the miracle of being—and reveals the collective aspects of consciousness.

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Friday, Aug 03, 2007

Evolutionary Nonduality

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On this week's call, you will hear a conference call dialogue that we had with a group of people in Israel in which we describe and take questions on the idea of Evolutionary Nonduality. Traditional enlightenment dharma is based on the transcendent recognition that the world of time and space is an illusion and that by piercing beyond the veil of that illusion, we will find that in reality, there is only Oneness, only Unity.
The teaching of Evolutionary Enlightenment takes the revelation of Oneness and merges it with our modern understanding of evolution in the recognition that if all is One, I must be, and have always been, the driving force of creation that is guiding and powering the evolutionary process of the entire universe.

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