Andrew Cohen’s latest blog on LOVE is nothing less than mind-blowing and heart-expanding. A ‘must read’ for anyone interested in finding out a radically sane view on the most powerful motivation that lies in each and every human being. But how much do we really understand the inner motivations present in our experience of being a human [...]
“I Just Called to Say I Love You”: a new blog by Andrew Cohen – by Faheem Nusrat
July 19th, 2010 by Carol Raphael· No Comments · Uncategorized
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‘Listening in’ on the Living Enlightenment course
July 2nd, 2010 by Carol Raphael· 2 Comments · Uncategorized
Currently, we’ve got a Living Enlightenment course—a fantastic introduction to the philosophy and practice of Evolutionary Enlightenment—underway at the UK Centre. It’s being taught by Lovena Vencatakistnen and David Leckenby. David is keeping a blog about what is transpiring in the class. It offers insight into what is opening up among everyone in the class, including [...]
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Taking a Bow: We’re Winning Awards
June 26th, 2010 by Carol Raphael· No Comments · Uncategorized
EnlightenNext and its business arm, The Window Venue Hire, have proudly won two awards from Ecovate, sponsors of the Green Business Innovators 2010 awards programme. Wanting to align our actions with our values, we’ve been implementing a number of sustainable environmental practices over the last few years and now we’re getting recognized for our efforts.
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Getting Britain’s Creative Juices Flowing Again: Chris Parish Takes on his Country’s Love Affair with Cynicism
June 22nd, 2010 by Carol Raphael· No Comments · Uncategorized
At the EnlightenNext UK Centre in London, Chris Parish gave a rousing follow-up recently to his popular talk which took place last autumn on the British penchant for cynicism. In this, his more recent foray into British ways entitled Our Potential Beyond British Cynicism, Chris’s take on the British propensity for the cynical view and [...]
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Celebrating Vegetarianism
June 7th, 2010 by Carol Raphael· 1 Comment · Uncategorized
In honour of National Vegetarian Week, which took place 24 – 30 May in the UK, EnlightenNext’s business arm, The Window Venue Hire, hosted a vegetarian food fair to celebrate the delights of vegetarianism on 27 May. Joined by London’s foremost purveyor of organic foods, Planet Organic, and by Europe’s first organic and vegan Japanese [...]
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Truth Heals: from trauma to new strength & responsibility 65 years after WWII
June 5th, 2010 by Carol Raphael· No Comments · Uncategorized
On 24 April 2010 the fourth Truth Heals conference was held in Berlin, Germany. This moving video by Renata Keller captures the events of the day, from organizer and inspiration behind the conference Thomas Huebl’s motivations for gathering people together to address this difficult chapter in German and world history to Andrew Cohen’s stirring [...]
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Integral vs. Evolutionary: What’s the Difference?
June 5th, 2010 by Carol Raphael· 8 Comments · Uncategorized
Over a recent long Bank Holiday weekend here in the UK, integral author and prominent presenter on all things integral, Terry Patten, stopped off in London on his way back to the US to have an open dialogue with EnlightenNext UK Centre managing director Chris Parish.
(To get a flavour of their exchange, watch this video [...]
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Speaking the Truth in Berlin
May 13th, 2010 by Carol Raphael· 3 Comments · Uncategorized
I recently returned from a day in Berlin, where I was one of more than 900 people, mostly German, who attended the Truth Heals conference held at the Free University, where many of the student protests in the 60’s first erupted. I was there because Andrew Cohen was addressing the group, because many people [...]
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An Evolutionary Day of Consciousness and Culture
November 27th, 2009 by Carol Raphael· No Comments · Uncategorized
On a bright, warm, end-of-summer day in central London, the EnlightenNext UK Centre was ablaze with conviviality, cultural inquiry, spiritual practice, music, song and more. On Saturday, 12 September, we opened our doors and celebrated the launch and continuation of the Discovery Cycle in the British Isles.
The day began with a gathering of practitioners of [...]
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