Kosmocentric
Fate, Synchronicities and Volitionality
Jun 11th
For some strange reason, perhaps because I’ve always lived very close to my dreams and authentic creative impulses, I’m someone who’s become accustomed over time to experiencing synchronicities on a regular and ongoing basis. It’s baffled me at times, thinking that there might be something out there talking to me and telling me what to do, yet over and over again, when I try to follow whatever these messages seem to be telling me, I’m usually left even more confused than when I started when I’m left empty handed in the end. Luckily I’ve developed the maturity and come to a place now where I generally just leave these events alone and let them pass, which is the same position that I cultivate in relationship to my thoughts while meditating (a practice I’ve developed through Andrew Cohen’s teaching of Evolutionary Enlightenment).
You can see the postmodern (individualistic ‘everything is about me’ way of being) conditioning I carry in those earlier responses, when I’ve thought synchronicities seem to be telling me something about myself. Within those interpretations, there’s also a sense that I am the star of a surreal mystery movie and everything that is happening is just part of a film I’m starring in. When I’m constantly faced with the fact that my imagination in relationship to these events simply ran wild into no man’s land, I’m confronted with the fact that everything actually isn’t about me at all, not even these synchronicities.
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Meditation as a means to Consciously Evolve!
Dec 16th
In an evolutionary context, meditation is seen as a means to a higher end. At the same time, paradoxically, we meditate for its own sake with no expectation to gain anything from our efforts. It becomes more and more apparent that over time, through our determined and dedicated practice, a greater purpose for meditating is awakened within us that absolutely transcends the personal. We start to see that as we go beyond our separate sense of self, or ego, it enables us to more fully align with and take responsibility for the part of us that is none other than the driving force of the Universe.
By transcending the limiting parts of ourselves in meditation that come in the form of thoughts, feelings, memories, and time, we awaken to a deeper dimension of the Self that is limitless. As we give more weight and attention to the Self Absolute, or the ever-present Ground of Being, it becomes our fundamental reference point for acting in the world. When we are no longer acting on behalf of the limited ego, we become vehicles through which the creative passion of the evolutionary impulse, or Authentic Self, that emerged from that empty Ground fourteen billion years ago, is free to express itself in this world. Read the rest of this entry »
A Kosmocentric Generation – Pt. 2
Oct 7th
Recently at Merge we asked some of our friends to respond to the question “Why is it so important that our generation awakens to a Kosmocentric perspective?” It was inspiring to get an inbox full of passionate responses! Some people wrote about the freedom of knowing that beyond the postmodern sense of isolation, many Gen-Yers feel we are one with the Kosmos; others wrote about how a Kosmocentric view can help solve our global problems; and still more wrote about the excitement of awakening to the evolutionary impulse that has driven the universe forward since the big bang and calls each of us to know, see, and become more and more and more. Here is the second batch of responses we received. We’d love to know what you think as well! (To read Part 1 of this blog, click here.) Read the rest of this entry »
A Kosmocentric Generation – Pt. 1
Oct 2nd
Recently at Merge we asked some of our friends to respond to the question “Why is it so important that our generation awakens to a Kosmocentric perspective?” It was inspiring to get an inbox full of passionate responses! Some people wrote about the freedom of knowing that beyond the postmodern sense of isolation, many Gen-Yers feel we are one with the Kosmos; others wrote about how a Kosmocentric view can help solve our global problems; and still more wrote about the excitement of awakening to the evolutionary impulse that has driven the universe forward since the big bang and calls each of us to know, see, and become more and more and more. So, here are some of the great responses we’ve received so far. We’d love to know what you think as well! Read the rest of this entry »
Spiritual Revolution
Sep 12th
I’ve always found it difficult to articulate why spirituality isn’t just something cool that I’m interested in but that it’s actually something important, an imperative for any individual interested in changing the world to understand and embrace. But last weekend that changed; I experienced something that I think can convey spirituality’s relevance in the 21st century.
Last Saturday I participated in a conference call with 21 other Gen Y’ers (people born between 1978 and 1996), from 7 different countries (America, Canada, Denmark, England, Holland, Iran, and Turkey), who are passionate about the spiritual teaching of Evolutionary Enlightenment. In fact, most of us on the call had just returned from a 21-day retreat with Andrew Cohen, the creator of Evolutionary Enlightenment, founder of EnlightenNext and inspiration for Merge. On this retreat all of us awoke to the fact that our deepest identity is not personal, national, or even earthly, but instead, Kosmic. We saw that every aspect of our life—our body, mind, culture and planet—is an expression of the evolutionary process that began 14 billion years ago with the big bang. But most importantly, on this retreat we realized that we have a very special role in this process because the universe is actually starting to become conscious and understand itself through us. Therefore we, as the highest expression of the Kosmic evolutionary process that we know of, are now in the drivers seat. Read the rest of this entry »
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