Co-creating a new culture...for real...

What is it like to be a close student of spiritual visionary Andrew Cohen? With 80 of us we spent the weekend in Lenox, Massachusetts where we have our main center. We spent the two days, for which people came from all over the world, in one big dialogue with Andrew about the evolutionary changes and actions that arise out of the perspective of enlightenment and about the moral framework that we develop in, once we stop denying the big evolutionary context we exist within.

What does that mean for how to live? What does that mean for those of us that are interested in creating an egoless culture, like you might, since you are reading this? It means that we have to come together, because it is between us, that, if the ego is not expressed, enlightenment comes to life. Than we can experience this perspective and see everything and everyone through enlightened eyes. We cannot do this alone, but together we can create this higher consciousness by collectively exploring our interest in freedom and evolution.

In his upcoming book Cohen writes: ‘if we can't share this new perspective with others, it is only a matter of time before we lose it'. That is so true, isn't it? He goes on to explain that it is very difficult to keep new structures in consciousness alive in yourself if the culture around you is of an earlier stage. You will fall back in the old because it is all you have to fall back on...

Now, from that shared perspective, (which I also recently found, is something you need to keep alive with others at all times if you don't want to fall back in the illusion of ego), what do you do?

You see, it is not just about being together and exploring something infinitely thrilling, it is about how you live, what you eat, how you move, how you raise your children, how and where you work, etc. Enlightenment is a perspective that changes literally everything.

The point of the 80 of us exploring this with our teacher this weekend is so that a core of people that have dedicated their lives to this possibility, actually create it together and then keep venturing further into this new territory, like a group of revolutionary thinkers starting the Western Enlightenment. Because if a group of people live this way, the revolution in consciousness and culture that we are endeavouring to bring to this world with our organisation EnlightenNext, exists. And when it exists as a living structure between people, this new consciousness can develop and spread. We can start exploring and living this with more and more people without necessarily having to do things that those initial pioneers had to... That is how these changes always happened throughout history, did they not? And if we, you and I, are successful, we will prove the ego to be the outdated dinosaur that it actually already is... Wouldn't that be great?