On Sunday 8th November over 20 people took part in a Being & Becoming Seminar at the EnlightenNext UK centre in Islington. This is what one of the participants said about the day.

“I was taken by surprise by the collective energy of the occasion: during the first meditation I experienced an extraordinary awareness of the Ground of Being that was very powerful and memorable. The small group sharing conversations were also very meaningful and helped us dive rapidly into deep and real places together.
Thank you again!”
- Jon

From the Big Bang to Self Reflection to Enlightenment

The Being & Becoming seminars are part of the Discovery Cycle that was launched with the first Being & Becoming Annual retreat with Andrew Cohen in Tuscany in August. The specific focus on the 8th was to expand the topics of our regular Tuesday evening events by deepening the experience and understanding of both the timeless ground of being and the dynamic freedom of the evolutionary impulse.

Along with my two friends and colleagues, Chris Parish and Kyrsten Perry we led the day by sharing our understanding of Evolutionary Enlightenment which comes from our combined 53 years of practice!

Through meditation followed by discussion everyone expressed their deepest, most peaceful or most meaningful discoveries. This quickly created an atmosphere of intimacy and trust, making the day very meaningful and allowed everyone to deepen their understanding of ‘Being’, taking this beyond a purely meditative experience.

Next we went on a philosophically and experientially creative journey, tracking the story of the universe as an unceasing explosion in motion of exterior and interior development. This led into a shift in perspective from seeing ourselves merely as individual human beings to seeing ourselves as the universal process self-reflecting and awakening to itself through matter and consciousness.

From this point we launched into a thrilling engagement with the creative impulse that drives us all in some way or other to create, learn, know and seek for higher meaning and purpose.

This clip below is a great example in case you are in any doubt what the creative impulse looks like!

In our final session we listened to Andrew Cohen speak on the absolute positivity and creativity of the authentic self from Gods point of view. The discussion that followed left us in a state of awe and humility at the sacred nondual nature of Being & Becoming.

Listen to the audio:

More testimonials

“It’s amazing to contemplate life’s deepest and most meaningful questions, having our own humanity in the very middle of the inquiry, with others in such an open and authentic environment. Everything that a sensitive and relatively sophisticated post-modern westerner has learnt in terms of what’s true and real can be contextualised, strengthened and taken further with others on these days…and absolutely with a good dose of personal inspiration and life positive spirit!!”
- David

“The day was a good and accessible introduction to the Discovery Cycle using the basic structure of EnlightenNext’s Tuesday night meditations but gave us a chance to go much deeper, especially when we broke into groups of five or six. This ‘experiential’ aspect of the seminar – the chance to engage intersubjectively with the others and the leaders – is where the real value lay for me. We practiced speaking about the ground of being and the evoluionary impulse, and then practised speaking from them, which made for the most interesting shift of the day for me. Attempting to speak as the evolutionary impulse really helped bring home to me the no-separation between what we are doing and what we are.”
– Andrew P

“I experienced real moments of deep connection beyond ego. It stirs within me a compelling focus to grow this consciousness together, with the collective passion I witnessed between us all! A moving event.”
– Mark