The Six Principles of
Evolutionary Enlightenment

Introduction: The Goal

The emergence of the Six Principles is the goal of the teaching of Evolutionary Enlightenment. They are the very ground and unambiguous manifestation of the new consciousness and the new world that we can create through a radical individual and collective transformation. The six principles are cosmic laws that are self-revealing at the cutting edge of our evolutionary potential. They can be simply broken down into three pairs: purity of motive & integrity in action; autonomy & communion; and evolutionary tension & natural hierarchy.

The essential foundations for the emergence of the Six Principles are the Five Tenets, and that is why the tenets must be lived in earnest. That simply means that for the sake of this new consciousness, the individual must strive wholeheartedly to assume a truly enlightened relationship to his or her own experience in every moment. The goal in evolutionary enlightenment is not a personal attainment but a collective emergence. It is a leap in consciousness that is not for the individual but is entirely dependent upon the individual. When human beings who are living the five tenets come together for a purpose beyond themselves, this higher consciousness will begin to manifest spontaneously.

In an evolutionary context, the only reason that one would endeavor to live the five tenets is so that one could become a catalyst for the birth of this new consciousness and a vehicle for its miraculous potential to express itself in this world. The one and only obstacle to this emergence is the overwhelming force of inertia that is the individual and collective ego. But if the five tenets are lived impeccably, the movement of ego will always be contained, and the authentic self will spontaneously reveal itself as the living expression of the six principles in real time.

For the six principles to become stable, beyond brief, temporary eruptions, a tremendous degree of conscious cooperation and commitment is demanded from the individual. When the evolutionary process becomes aware of itself at the level of consciousness, from that moment on, continued development is entirely dependent upon the conscious intention of the awakening human. And this process is endless. The goal is not simply to bring these principles into being, but to use them, once they emerge, as a living ground of intersubjective enlightened awareness from which to literally create the future.