Andrew Cohen led his annual summer retreat at the mountaintop monastery of Montserrat. Against a backdrop of breathtaking scenery, he guided those who attended from around the world into the fundamentals of his teaching of Evolutionary Enlightenment. This special series of posts features teaching excerpts, audio, and photographs taken from over the course of the retreat.
1: “Beyond the Personal Sphere”
Andrew is delving into the fundamentals of his teaching with those who have traveled from around the world to attend this Evolutionary Enlightenment Intensive. Read an excerpt from the first session of the week.
2: “Conscious Evolution Requires Renunciation”
Andrew gave a passionate teaching on meditation as a practice of renunciation—an invaluable tool for learning how to transcend narcissism, the evolutionary predicament of the postmodern human being. Read an excerpt from this talk.
3: “When Something Contemplates Nothing”
For the first few days of the retreat, before moving into the evolutionary dimension of his teachings, Andrew wanted everyone to start where everything began—before anything ever happened . . .
4: “The Outer Reaches of the Big Bang”
On the sixth day of the retreat, Andrew gave a powerful talk introducing what he calls the Authentic Self, “the same energy and intelligence that originally inspired and initiated the entire creative process.” With audio excerpt.
5: “On the Wings of the Authentic Self”
On the sixth day of the retreat, Andrew laid out the context for not only understanding or experiencing the teaching of Evolutionary Enlightenment, but actually putting it into practice.
6: “Clarity of Intention”
In the final few days of the retreat, Andrew took everyone through his Five Tenets, which are the fundamental tools for individual transformation in the context of evolutionary enlightenment.
7: “Enlightening the Choosing Faculty”
Toward the end of his ten-day summer retreat, Andrew gave a powerful talk about the second tenet of his teaching, which is called the Law of Volitionality.
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