I’ve just returned from an extraordinary weekend in western Massachusetts, USA, where the world headquarters of EnlightenNext are located. I was there to celebrate the 25th Anniversary of Andrew Cohen’s, the founder of EnlightenNext, meeting with his spiritual teacher. This seminal event marks the time when Andrew began to teach and the birth of what [...]

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What is the nature of the non-relative dimension of reality, of ourselves? Is it emptiness or fullness? Not something which many of us tend to ask ourselves. Through my initial years of Buddhist practice, I tended to always think of the truth as being of the nature of emptiness, infinite space, sunyata, transparency, no self (anatta),and [...]

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What a day at EnlightenNext this Sunday! EnlightenNext partnered with the Vegetarian Society for an open day of talks, cookery demonstrations, veggie tastings, featuring all manner of stalls representing the leading edge of healthy living. It was held on all five floors of the EnlightenNext centre in London and we had almost 600 people come [...]

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Our regular Tuesday evening train picked up speed last night. I call it a moving train because it feels like we are engaging each week with a movement in consciousness which is developing as we give this our attention. There must have been about 40 people and quite  a number hadn’t been before and what [...]

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Some of you reading this might have attended Andrew Cohen’s recent day seminar in London, sponsored by Alternatives. It was an exciting and uplifting day, as it invariably is with Andrew. There were a number of high points in the workshop and one that stuck in my mind was Andrew’s response to one participant’s down-to-earth [...]

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‘Self is culture’ is an apparently simple yet very profound statement which Andrew Cohen has often made.  The deeper I go with an evolutionary view of life over the years, the more I am coming to see for myself how deeply my sense of self is formed by culture. The good news is of course [...]

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Borrowing from Lord Kitchener’s famous WW1 poster, I’m broadening it to something which I’m sure we all feel affinity for and care about. And I want to share a new initiative here at EnlightenNext UK that I’m thrilled about, which I feel enables us to actually serve the evolutionary process in a tangible way. We [...]

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Integral to the livelihood and well-being of EnlightenNext UK is our trading arm The Window, an events venue service. This business supports EnlightenNext, which is a UK charity and enables us to provide our events at low cost. My partner Kyrsten Perry and her staff run The Window with great professionalism and creative entrepreneurship. As [...]

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‘Order Out of Chaos: Possibilities for Transformation’, the title of the 33rd annual Mystics and Scientists conference proved apt in unexpected ways right from the start. I was at this conference, organized by the Scientific and Medical Network (SMN) and held at the University of Winchester in Southern England. But chaos intervened in the form [...]

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