Dr. Michael Wayne

The Countercultural Implications of Radical Spirituality: Awakening a Vision to Transform the Future

Andrew Cohen, the internationally respected spiritual teacher of evolutionary enlightenment, will be giving an evening talk on Friday, May 18 and then an all-day workshop on Sat., May 19 in Saratoga Springs, NY.

The title of both programs are “The Countercultural Implications of Radical Spirituality: Awakening a Vision to Transform the Future.”

Andrew Cohen

The May 18 evening talk takes place at 7pm at Yoga Mandali, 454 Broadway in Saratoga Springs. The all-day May 19 workshop takes place from 10am – 6pm at the Spring Street Gallery, 110 Spring St., in Saratoga Springs, NY

You can register for both programs here: Andrew Cohen in Saratoga Springs, NY.

About the Programs:

Today there are yoga centers almost on every street all over the western world. Meditation and mindfulness are no longer countercultural. They are accepted and understood as being healthy and life-positive practices.

Yet even in this relatively new cultural world space, there resides a deep fear of what may happen if we go too far. We live in a postmodern “flatland” culture in which truly deep interiority is still perceived to be threatening. Despite our growing acceptance and appreciation of spirituality and interiority, they are nevertheless still seen as a threat to the status quo if taken too seriously.

But for spiritually inclined souls, to be unobstructed by the heavy shadow of cultural materialism is a huge and ecstatic relief. To be able to dive into profound and limitless depth, unconstrained by postmodernism’s irrational fear of anything too absolute, can be the door to liberation.

Andrew Cohen at Yoga Mandali in June 2017

Radical spirituality is truly countercultural. It challenges everything we think we are, both personally and culturally. Through access to dramatic mystical episodes, we wake up and glimpse the shocking truth that for most of our lives we have been sleepwalking. We see how little of our relationship to life has been freely chosen. We see how deeply conditioned we all are and have been.

But living the spiritual life is not just about waking up to the deepest part of ourselves; it’s about staying awake to that part. Andrew Cohen offers a perspective that inspires us to awaken and respond to this deepest and best part of ourselves. He shows that it is possible not only to awaken to this depth, but to become so inspired by it that we remain there.

When we give ourselves permission to do this, the lens through which we see reality literally shifts to another dimension. Through this lens, we begin to see a vast cosmic process in which we play a very significant role; we discover and awaken to a much deeper self-sense that Andrew calls the Evolutionary Impulse.

When we awaken to the Evolutionary Impulse, the discovery is both liberating and deeply empowering. We are in touch with the creative energy and intelligence of the universe itself. Inspired from the deepest part of ourselves, we are miraculously compelled to create a better future for all of life.

You can register for both programs here: Andrew Cohen in Saratoga Springs, NY.

About Andrew Cohen:

Andrew Cohen is an internationally respected spiritual teacher and the founder of Evolutionary Enlightenment. Raised in a secular Jewish family in New York City, he experienced a spontaneous revelation of cosmic consciousness at the age of sixteen, and embarked on a lifelong spiritual journey.
 
A fateful meeting with the revered master H.W.L Poonja in 1986 sparked a life-changing awakening in him, and he quickly began developing a unique spiritual teaching. Departing radically from a traditional Eastern approach, Evolutionary Enlightenment calls not for transcendence of the world, but for a deep and heroic responsibility for its evolution. Cohen has become known for his willingness to boldly cast aside the sacred cows of the spiritual world. His teaching work grapples with the challenges of bringing the revelation of enlightenment to a contemporary Western audience, integrating postmodern cultural and scientific understanding with an original and sophisticated non-dual philosophy.
 
In nearly three decades of teaching work, he has engaged with thousands of seekers worldwide, evolving his teaching in response to direct dialogue with students, teachers, scholars and philosophers. The community that formed around him eventually became known as EnlightenNext, with centers in seven countries. From 1991 to 2010 he was the editor-in-chief of the award-winning EnlightenNext magazine, a publication that explored the deepest spiritual questions of our time with some of the world’s most noted thought leaders. In 2013 he went on a sabbatical, and at the end of 2016, after a period of introspection and deep inquiry, returned to public teaching. 
 
You can learn more about Andrew at his website, www.AndrewCohen.com
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