It’s a common experience: You go to a spiritual retreat and feel a surge of inspiration and expanded consciousness. And then you return to your familiar environment, your “everyday life” and find it difficult to sustain, let alone deepen and build upon, that most precious experience.
Indeed, living from our highest spiritual realization is no easy task. Yet if we are to create a life that is truly meaningful—one that makes an important contribution to our collective future—we must find a way.
In Awakening the Authentic Self, Andrew Cohen explains how those of us who find ourselves seeking new spiritual truths at the beginning of the twenty-first century can transform our lives into an expression of the pure positivity and potential that we have glimpsed in our highest moments.
As Cohen explains, when you begin to see that your own life is part of a vast cosmic process, you can gain the strength and wherewithal to become a true participant in conscious evolution. This CD set, recorded during a groundbreaking eight-day intensive in Tuscany, Italy, clearly shows you how your own yearning for spiritual transformation is not separate from the evolutionary impulse driving the entire cosmos—a powerful, creative force that Cohen calls the Authentic Self.
When you awaken to the Authentic Self, you
experience a profound inspiration to create
new possibilities for human life.
As inspiring as this experience is, the greatest challenge is actually living from that higher perspective. In Awakening the Authentic Self, Andrew Cohen addresses that challenge directly and presents a comprehensive path and vision for spiritual development in the twenty-first century.
Throughout eight CDs and more than 360 minutes of enlightening and transformative recordings, you will:
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Experience the life-changing power of an eight-day residential retreat, attended by over 250 people |
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Discover a meaning and purpose for being alive that transcends any sense of limitation |
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Learn how meditation can become the foundation for living a highly engaged and creative life |
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Find a new and higher understanding of your place in the evolving universe |
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Learn how to develop an enlightened relationship to life through the Five Tenets of Evolutionary Enlightenment |
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Find out what it means to become an example of evolutionary possibility yourself |
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Awakening the Authentic Self picks up where Cohen’s previous 7-CD set, The New Enlightenment, left off: It speaks directly to what the individual must do to truly evolve beyond self-concern and become an expression of the evolutionary impulse itself.
“When you awaken to your own Authentic Self, which is the spiritual or evolutionary impulse, what begins to emerge is the dawning recognition that each one of us, at our highest level, is actually not separate from the energy and intelligence that originally inspired the entire creative process. You begin to intuit and feel directly connected to the very impulse that initiated the whole event fourteen billion years ago and is driving it right now.
— Andrew Cohen
To see your own life as the leading edge of the big bang itself is a monumental shift in perspective. But it is also perhaps the only way we can embrace a life that reflects the miraculous nature of the universe in which we live.
That perspective is deeply affecting those who have already listened to Awakening the Authentic Self. Here is what some of them had to say:
Awakening the Authentic Self showed me how to live a radically engaged, passionate, and constantly evolving life. I’ve never been so inspired before—both for my own potential to give to the evolutionary process and for the future of humanity itself.
— Christiana B., Lenox, MA
In Awakening the Authentic Self, nothing is left to theory. Andrew pinpoints the heart of our spiritual predicament and tells us exactly what we need to do to not only get ourselves out of this evolutionary cul-de-sac, but to truly thrive as a human culture. And he says that we are the only ones that can do it, which is a profoundly positive message because that means I can dedicate my life to a truly important and significant endeavor: the evolution of consciousness, beginning with my own transformation.
— Jody P., London
You may have noticed that these testimonials are uncommonly passionate and inspired. That is because of the rare and life-changing perspective found in Awakening the Authentic Self: The Path and Practice of Evolutionary Enlightenment.
Cohen covers an extraordinary spectrum of material in these eight CDs, grounding it all in the realization that our individual spiritual development is entirely nonseparate from the evolution of the cosmos itself.
What’s Inside Awakening the Authentic Self
Here’s a quick overview of each CD, along with free audio samples:
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Disc 1 - A Cosmic Purpose for Spiritual Development The goal of spiritual development has been defined differently at different times in history. In the first talk of this series, Cohen describes a new purpose for enlightenment in our twenty-first-century context—one that is based upon the understanding that we live in an evolving universe.
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Disc 2 - Being & Becoming: The Two Aspects of God The great mystical traditions have told us much about the nature of God in the timeless, formless realm of Being, but what does God look like in the manifest world of Becoming? In this talk, Cohen lays out the philosophical foundations for Evolutionary Enlightenment, which boldly embraces and integrates these two dimensions of reality.
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Disc 3 - From Egocentric to Kosmocentric: Taking On God’s Perspective What does reality look like from the perspective of the awakening universe? In this talk, Cohen articulates the difference between seeing the world through the eyes of the personal ego and seeing through the eyes of a vast cosmic process—and how this shift in perspective opens the door to a radically different future.
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Disc 4 - Cultivating a Godlike Intention to Evolve – The First Tenet: Clarity of Intention What if the evolution of the entire universe depended upon the strength of your own intention to become enlightened? In this teaching, Cohen introduces the foundational tenet of Evolutionary Enlightenment, Clarity of Intention, as the key to the evolution of consciousness.
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Disc 5 - The Development of the Soul – The Second Tenet: The Law of Volitionality Morality is not a popular topic in our post-traditional spiritual world. But in this talk, Cohen makes a case for why moral development—which he says is really the development of the soul—is necessary in order to take responsibility for the challenging task of conscious evolution.
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Disc 6 - The Ultimate Spiritual Practice – The Third Tenet: Face Everything and Avoid Nothing Spiritual practice has always been focused on the cultivation of awareness. In this powerful teaching, Cohen lays out the purpose and practice of awareness in Evolutionary Enlightenment and describes the fearless, undefended position of the Authentic Self.
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Disc 7 - You Are a Process: Piercing the Illusion of the Personal – The Fourth Tenet: The Truth of Impersonality What if no aspect of your own experience of being human—bad or good, mundane or profound—could be considered unique and personal to you? In this teaching, Cohen describes the impersonal perspective of the fourth tenet, which leads to a clear and liberating understanding of human life as part of a vast evolutionary process.
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Disc 8 - The Evolution of “We” – The Fifth Tenet: For the Sake of the Whole Ultimately, the goal of Evolutionary Enlightenment is not the transformation of the individual but the emergence of a higher form of collective human consciousness. In this final talk, Cohen lays out his vision for this emergence—the conscious creation of a new, enlightened culture.
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By the end of Disc 8, you will have a clear understanding of what you need to do to become, as Cohen puts it, a “worthy evolutionary pioneer.” You’ll discover how you can cultivate a strength and a passion that are not separate from the evolutionary momentum of the cosmos itself. And you will have had the opportunity to directly discover the timeless, spaceless, and eternal nature of your own deepest self.
You’ll also learn the following as you listen to Awakening the Authentic Self:
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What it means to “succeed” in a spiritual context |
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What the two fundamental dimensions of reality are and how understanding and embracing them can lead to a deeply engaged life |
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How you can discover and live from the part of yourself that is already free and inherently creative |
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Why now, more than ever, we need to take responsibility for the evolutionary process |
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How to see your own experience from a profound philosophical perspective |
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How narcissism inhibits consciousness from evolving—and what we need to do in order to evolve beyond it |
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How to develop an enlightened relationship to the totality of life |
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How caring about a process bigger than yourself can liberate you from being lost in your personal problems and enable you to handle them with dignity |
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How to identify the part of yourself that always has the power to choose |
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And much more |
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Awakening the Authentic Self can open up new vistas in your understanding of human life—and answer, in a surprisingly clear and direct way, the burning questions many of us are asking at the beginning of the twenty-first century.
The price for the entire 8 CD set is only $79.95. And as a special launch offer, we will ship the package to you for free* if you purchase today (continental U.S. only). If you prefer to download the MP3s the cost is only $59.95.
If you prefer to order by phone, or if you have any questions, call: 800-376-3210 (or +1-413-637-6018 from outside the United States).
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