Occupy Zero

December 4th, 2011 by · No Comments · Uncategorized

Yesterday in London, I traveled with friends Blake Ludwig, Ann-Mari Freebairn and Alan Smith to film us meditating near the protest site at St Paul’s cathedral. With specially designed “Occupy Zero” sweatshirts the three of us sat down motionless in the midst of a chaotic and restless demonstration scene. What happened then was really miraculous [...]

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Being and Becoming in Dorset

November 23rd, 2011 by · 2 Comments · Uncategorized

Last weekend, I travelled with Patrick Bryson, a senior student of spiritual teacher Andrew Cohen’s, from London to Dorset to facilitate a day event. This was a gathering of the South West Integral/Evolutionary group, organised very generously by Ralph Cree, so this day was organised for us to go into the teachings and practises of [...]

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The Nature of Consciousness is Lightness of Being and Joy

September 30th, 2011 by · 2 Comments · Uncategorized

This week’s Enlightened Evening topic that we looked into was “The Nature of Consciousness is Lightness of Being and Joy”. Patrick Bryson, one of Andrew Cohen’s senior students, led the group of us gathered in the EnlighenNext Centre in London into a deeply intimate investigation of consciousness and also more subtle and profound perspectives on [...]

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Authentic Self In Action

June 8th, 2011 by · 1 Comment · Uncategorized

At this time many of us here at EnlightenNext are thinking about and eagerly anticipating the upcoming long retreat with Andrew Cohen this August. The Being and Becoming Retreat is a major milestone in EnlightenNext’s yearly calendar. This year it will be held in the beautiful hills of Tuscany. You can read all the details [...]

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Embracing Life and Creativity

June 2nd, 2011 by · No Comments · Uncategorized

From Nothing Came Something – featuring Andrew Cohen , music by David Leckenby I love listening to and creating music. Ever since I was a boy playing classical guitar, to being in rock bands in my teens, to my many electronic music productions to date, I have as long as I can remember been inspired [...]

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A Faith that Comes from Knowing

March 18th, 2011 by · No Comments · Uncategorized

For the past several weeks on Tuesday evenings we’ve been exploring the topic of ‘spiritual self-confidence’. This collective conversation has yielded many rewards in terms of being able to discriminate between a confidence that comes from outside oneself and one that comes from a deeper awakening to or knowing of cosmic truth, of the nature [...]

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After an extraordinary seminar with Andrew Cohen at EnlightenNext in London

February 7th, 2011 by · No Comments · Uncategorized

The dining room was buzzing like an electric generator after an incredible day.

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January Shine Event – Freemind and EnlightenNext

January 25th, 2011 by · 2 Comments · Uncategorized

Yesterday I was fortunate enough to have been a part of an incredibly inspiring and uplifting event held at the EnlightenNext UK Centre in Islington, London . It was a collaboration between Freemind, with founder and visionary Tom Fortes Mayer, and EnlightenNext UK. I have known Tom for many years and consider him to be [...]

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Why should I meditate?….further developments on the Living Enlightenment course

July 14th, 2010 by · 1 Comment · Uncategorized

We are now up to the last class in our five-week course of ‘Living Enlightenment’ and it’s been a tremendous journey for all of us. In the first class we looked at where we are as a culture generally, and a lot of our conditioned beliefs, and in the second where we are attempting to [...]

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Speaking about evolution one recent Tuesday evening

July 2nd, 2010 by · No Comments · Uncategorized

This week Kyrsten Perry led the weekly Tuesday night session at the EnlightenNext UK Centre. In these sessions, people are introduced to the teachings of evolutionary enlightenment and, through discussing their experience with others, get a sense of what an evolutionary perspective on life means. I go almost weekly and the format isn’t always the [...]

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