11 Days at the Edge: One Man’s Journey into Evolutionary Enlightenment is a new book that follows one man’s experience of a retreat with spiritual teacher Andrew Cohen. Through author Michael Wombacher’s compelling personal narrative, interspersed with extensive transcriptions of Cohen’s talks and dialogues, you will discover a new meaning for enlightenment—and your own life—in the twenty-first century.
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Listen to Michael’s inspiring talk about why he decided to write 11 Days at the Edge
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Inspired by a powerful awakening experience at age twenty, Michael Wombacher became a dedicated spiritual seeker. Like many of us, he embarked on what he described as an “odyssey of sampling the spiritual marketplace that was as strange as it was thrilling.” But when he eventually met spiritual teacher Andrew Cohen, founder of EnlightenNext and What Is Enlightenment? magazine, he knew he had found something rare and potentially life-transforming.
Andrew’s clear and piercing message was refreshingly different from the majority of spiritual teachings Michael had encountered:
While many saw enlightenment and spiritual development as a personal
endeavor, Andrew viewed enlightenment as a collective, or impersonal,
potential, one that holds tremendous social significance
for our times.
Andrew’s vision for spiritual life, Michael discovered, was one in which each human being was an integral player in bringing about a new and better future—in which the individual’s aspiration to evolve was seen as nonseparate from the inspiration behind the Big Bang itself.
11 Days at the Edge chronicles Michael’s experience of participating in a powerful eleven-day retreat with Andrew. And through extensive transcriptions of Andrew’s talks and dialogues during that retreat, it presents, for the first time in book form, a comprehensive overview of the teaching he calls Evolutionary Enlightenment.
What Respected Experts Are Saying About 11 Days at the Edge
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“Epic in scope and purpose.”
– Barbara Marx Hubbard |
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“Do you want to know what religion (the search for ultimate meaning) might look like in the year 2100? Then read this book. Are you spiritual but not religious, interested in spirituality but estranged from the mythologies, metaphysical doctrines, and cultural baggage of the spiritual traditions? Then read this book. Do you want to directly experience God? Then read this book. 11 Days is spirituality at the cutting edge of human evolution.”
–Jim Marion
Author of Death of the Mythic God: The Rise of Evolutionary Spirituality |
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“Michael Wombacher’s account of his 11-day experience is remarkable for its clarity and authenticity; it merits being read by whoever seeks a path to personal development and the evolution of consciousness.”
– Dr. Ervin Laszlo
Nobel Prize nominee and Author of Science and the Akashic Field |
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“11 Days at the Edge is an unusual narrative about evolution and enlightenment. The clarity, simplicity, and integrity of Andrew Cohen’s teaching offer important guidance for modern spiritual seekers. Michael Wombacher captures it in a lively, honest account.”
– John White
Author of The Meeting of Science & Spirit
and What Is Enlightenment? |
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“Michael Wombacher’s engaging account of his spiritual journey with Andrew Cohen is a beautiful and compelling read. His book conveys a palpable sense of the ‘transmission’ that an authentic spiritual teacher can give to his or her students. I highly recommend 11 Days at the Edge to anyone interested in the work of Andrew Cohen in particular, and evolutionary enlightenment in general.”
– Steve McIntosh
Author of Integral Consciousness and The Future of Evolution |
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“Michael Wombacher has given us a clear and beautiful story of eleven days spent with Andrew Cohen, an authentic American spiritual master. A delightful introduction to Evolutionary Enlightenment.”
– Allan Combs
Author of The Radiance of Being: Understanding the Grand Integral Vision & Living the Integral Life |
In 11 Days at the Edge, Michael introduces you to a new spirituality, from the inside out. Throughout the book, he guides you, day by day, telling the story of his own transformation and at the same time revealing the potential that Evolutionary Enlightenment holds for our culture and our world.
You feel what Michael feels; you see what he sees; you
experience what he experiences. In that, you also begin to awaken to
the enormous possibility for collective transformation that
is in our hands.
When you read 11 Days at the Edge, you will:
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Discover a new, overarching context of meaning and purpose for your life without having to abandon your rational faculties (or believe extraordinary claims) |
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Experience the transformative power of being on an eleven-day retreat with a twenty-first-century spiritual master |
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Discover where your own spiritual longing intersects with your care for the world, empowering both to heights neither could reach alone |
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Become inspired by a vision of total transformation that is devoid of wishful thinking and is surging with authenticity |
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Plunge inward to the source of your own Self, while simultaneously expanding outward to the ever-evolving edge of what’s possible |
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11 Days at the Edge is a groundbreaking book in the evolution of spiritual literature. With each chapter, the vision of Evolutionary Enlightenment unfolds with greater scope and profundity.
As you read, you will find yourself pulled ever more deeply into a new world, until you realize that the world you are discovering is actually the next step for human development, and that bringing it into being is entirely up to you. This deeply empowering and liberating realization redefines the spiritual path for anyone seeking to transform themselves and our world at this critical juncture in human history.
