Consciousness

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Meditation+Evolution Podcast – Consciousness and Cosmos

January 7th, 2012 by Blake Ludwig· No Comments · Uncategorized

How would a scientist prove or disprove the existence of God? What could they possibly be looking for? Bernard Carr and Chris Parish held a public dialogue late last year at EnlightenNext titled “Consciousness and Cosmos”. Having traversed widely differing pathways, Carr and Parish draw on their insights borne of a lifetime of enquiry. Parish [...]

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The Compelling Nature of Tuesday Evenings

November 13th, 2011 by Blake Ludwig· 1 Comment · Uncategorized

This blog was submitted by Andrew Poulson: I’ve been coming to the Tuesday night ‘meditation and evolution’ evenings at EnlightenNext for a couple of years now and find them an opportunity to explore in depth and detail significant aspects of the nature of Enlightened Awareness. In an audio clip we listened to this past week, [...]

The Significance of Non-Duality

October 30th, 2011 by Blake Ludwig· No Comments · Uncategorized

For weeks now we have been collectively inquiring into the importance of meditation and what we find when we have no relationship to the content of consciousness. This Tuesday evening we went further. Patrick Bryson led us in a discovery of Non-Duality and the incredible significance of recognising that there is only One, not two. [...]

Deeper than Darwin: The Further Evolution of Consciousness

October 29th, 2011 by Dave Pendle· No Comments · Uncategorized

Deeper than Darwin: The Further Evolution of Consciousness. Why the seemingly esoteric subject of the evolution of consciousness actually couldn’t be more relevant for our lives We’re pleased to announce the second in our ongoing series of Evolutionary Worldview dialogues — conversations that bring together original thinkers visionaries and cultural innovators – David Lorimer and [...]

What is Freedom from the Mind?

October 9th, 2011 by Ingrid· No Comments · Uncategorized

On Tuesday evening we continued with our weekly inquiry into the relationship between meditation and enlightenment with Patrick Bryson. This time we were inquiring into the nature of Mind, a very interesting subject and key to understanding and developing one’s meditation. (On previous weeks we learnt how to meditate and explored the qualities that are [...]

The Nature of Consciousness is Lightness of Being and Joy

September 30th, 2011 by David Leckenby· 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 [...]

Meditation & Enlightenment are One and the Same

September 25th, 2011 by Blake Ludwig· 2 Comments · Uncategorized

What if we could, at will, access that which is ever-new, so that our lives can be a reflection of the perfect unity that lies at the heart of life? Patrick Bryson, a long time student of Andrew Cohen, posed this question at the start of Tuesday’s Evolutionary Enlightenment Evening as one way to understand [...]

Being & Beyond

September 7th, 2011 by Patrick Bryson· 2 Comments · Uncategorized

On Tuesday evening we had our first public event at EnlightenNext London after Andrew Cohen’s annual Being & Becoming retreat in Tuscany. Inspired by this powerful event Chris Parish introduced and transmitted the foundational understanding that underpinning everything that is, there is an infinite ground from which we all have originated. Drawing on his 40 [...]

Enlightened Communication: A Three-Part Article – Part 3

June 29th, 2011 by Willa Geertsema· No Comments · Uncategorized

Other States of Emergence In the last decades, other pioneering work has been done by David Bohm and Otto Scharmer, whose methodologies you might know from their wide application in business and corporate settings. Twentieth-century theoretical physicist David Bohm pioneered what is now called “Bohmian Dialogue”. Bohm described this as “an arena in which collective [...]

Enlightened Communication: A Three-Part Article – Part 2

June 27th, 2011 by Willa Geertsema· 8 Comments · Uncategorized

The Enlightened Intersubjective and its Properties In my last post, I wrote about Enlightened Communication. But this way of communicating invokes a very specific state, which I call the Enlightened Intersubjective, and which has very specific properties. First of all, it is an intersubjective state. This means that it does not occur in one individual, [...]