Often times spiritual teachers go soft on readers and students, with an obviously limiting green flavouring. Last night I read Andrew Cohen‘s Freedom Has No History: A Call to Awaken, and was thrilled to find a no-holds-barred presentation of the path of enlightenment. If you want genuine and absolute Freedom, you need genuine and absolute dedication to the tremendous surrender involved in discovering it, and Andrew pulls no punches in sharing his insights. Putting responsibility for evolution and enlightenment directly in our hands is so refreshing; as much as outside factors may influence us, we can not unfold with swiftness and grace without true, unwavering commitment to evolution.
The presentation of the book is a bit dry, especially compared with his recent blog entries, but what it lacks in style it more than makes up for in content and directness. For more on Andrew’s improved communication, check out ~C4Chaos‘ “Andrew Cohen On Enlightenment“.
Andrew Cohen is also the editor of my favourite magazine, What is Enlightenment, author of numerous books and a frequent contributor to Integral Naked.
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13 comments on “Freedom Has No History”
I’d like to comment,because I find your journal intellectually stimulating and profoundly wise in a holistic sort of way- nondual mysticism,worldwide social justice,nonviolence to all living beings,ecological responsibility and so on,but, since I mentioned anarchism-which I mean in the Tolstoyan,Gandhian, pacifist sense-I’ve never had any further response from you.Not wishing to offend you,I stopped commenting further.
I’m sorry if you thought I was ignoring your comment. I was sure I had replied to it. You certainly did not offend me, and I appreciate your comments.
Bless you! Thank you for your kind reply!
Next week = last chance to get your book before January! FYI 🙂
i’m sorry for not getting in touch with you sooner. I’ll be free Monday and Tuesday to meet up if you’re available.
No problem. I’ll just be away for Christmas, and exams are coming up – so I thought I ought to warn you. 🙂
Mondays and Tuesdays are fine after noon. What about Monday after 12 at the 10,000 Villiages (same place as last time)? No need to stay and chat if you’re short on time; I have lots of studying to do – so I may just swap and run off anyway.
Cheers!
Would Monday at 1:00 be okay?
Mmmn, yup!
I found these interesting-especially the last one mentioned-
http://www.cpwr.org/2004parliament/
http://www.barcelona2004.org/eng/contenidos/dialogos/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Parliament_of_Religions
http://www.weltethos.org/dat_eng/index3_e.htm
Thanks for sharing those; they’re interesting links. One thing I find so frustrating about much talk of interfaith and intercultural tolerance ignores developmental structures; it’s fact that all peoples develop through various stages of moral, cognitive and other lines. We can’t expect ego- or ethnocentric cultures and subcultures to suddenly behave in worldcentric ways; we must foster the conditions that allow people to develop into greater care and cognitive capacities before we talk of a genuine solution to violence and poverty. At the very least we need world leaders to embrace a worldcentric view and have an understanding of development.
A common second language would certainly help-not imposing our ludicrousy spelt English.I’ve examined lots-from Leibnitz’ Ars Combinatorio to Interlingua-but Esperanto is still my favourite-
http://www.esperanto-chicago.org/key.htm
I imagine enforcing a common second language would be nearly impossible, though. Most people wouldn’t see any benefit in it.
As an (A)narchist,I don’t believe in enforcing anything,but having a simple,regular,logical, international auxiliary language would benefit everyone.
Multe plaĉas al mi Esperanto.Ĝi estas tre simpla,logika kaj facila-la helplingvo internacia por la tuta mondo!