On the last day of the 2010 Being & Becoming retreat, all of us met with our spiritual teacher, Andrew Cohen, to get his insight on the Gen Y condition and how to move forward. Andrew pointed out that his teachings of Evolutionary Enlightenment are the answer to our predicament, and that’s becoming absolutely clear in our few days together.

Spending time with people my age always immediately reveals my most intimate cultural values – the ones I don’t share with any other generation, and that no other age-group can really know. There is a natural ease and joyfulness in that, but the experience is otherwise a shortcut to cultural hell, in which me and my peers’ most negative traits come out for a party while we and all our intelligence & sensibility go for a nap… That’s, of course, not how it works, but a generation coming together uninhibited by other generational values does have a unexpectedly powerful effect on the individual psyche.

That’s what makes this roadtrip so significant; only by spending time together as Gen Y can we really recreate the values specific to our generation. Only by creating a culture in which Spirit is the highest & most important value between us will we be able to stand for Spirit in our age-group’s culture of extreme unbelievers. Being together in this way, we are creating our 7-person culture in which Spirit is the root and goal of all relationship. It’s is amazing to see the conditioning I thought in complete opposition with my highest aspirations fully to expressing them. This is so inspiring because it is a living proof for all of us that culture changes with absolute immediacy the second Spirit is Highest!

We’re going off to the Rocky Mountain National Park right now, so I’ll have to keep the rest of my thoughts of later. More soon in the evolution revolution!

Love, Emily