Posts tagged Andrew Cohen
Change—Why we might fear it
The drive towards perfection has permeated our relationship to the experience of life. Have we forgotten, or ever really known, that all of this is only true upon mutual agreement? As the creator you are free to introduce any element to the story, and all of your creations are subject to judgement. Yet fear of judgement is no reason to halt or slow the process—it is the nature of this stage of manifestation’s perspective. We fear change because of its unknown qualities. Because in our familiarity with today we face a loss of navigation, if we change the status quo for tomorrow. As a society we have grown comfortable with a way of knowing life, and the kind of changes we need to make will require us to let most of that go and simply be with the uncertainty… the imperfection of learning to walk again.
In authentic truth and judgement there is pure uncertainty. Even at the very edges of the explosion that is continually giving birth to life, there exists no glance of future, only imagination. The explosion is the birth of time, and all else that follows. The only moment, for sure, is happening right now. Perfection is Nirvana. Yet if life is never-ending, Nirvana is limited only to our relationship to life—but life itself will always be imperfect. Embrace this, and embrace change.
MEDITATION MARATHON
Some folks run marathons, walk them… I’m meditating my still self through 10 hours! The marathon is a fundraising campaign for EnlightenNext, a non-profit dedicated to catalyzing a shift in consciousness, in culture. If this purpose needs no further explanation please don’t hesitate to reblog and like this post.
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Why I Meditate—
Meditation is the art of stillness. In stillness, inner and outer, I am free. Rather than simply being free from something. A person who meditates frees themselves for something. The kind of clarity a person achieves through meditation is ever-expansive and enduring, I think what the Universe needs now more than ever is for those who have the ability to make a choice, to do so.
Meditation makes it possible for me to see beyond the chaos. The mind is a chatter box of ideas, and more often then not, fears that keep us from imagining a world of potential. Meditation is a gateway to faith and trust.
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On The 4th Order of Consciousness; How Cultures go Counter & Revolutionize
Cultural sign posts like the on-going “Occupy Wall Street” here in NYC, provide the objective relevancy for this short series of essays I’ve been working on. I think what is going on down there is beyond a protest. It may lack a bullet point agenda, but if the gathering can sustain effectively and safely I think and agenda will come. However, one may not come, and that could also be because of the new territory which the individual is entering. The individual can awaken to time, place, and circumstance but that doesn’t mean they know absolutely what is going on.
It is here in the fourth order of consciousness when all that we have done is revealed. The revelation is of the self and not of otherness. The face of God, as it were, revels in the bliss of knowing its Being—and in that knowing of Beingness, that something has been done, with this turns back to look and indeed. The constant explosive and creative ever-bursting forward is Being.
Being in this fourth order is our moment of reflection. It is the first time we have seen what this is—the construct of culture. In turn subject becomes object of which we hold strict dominion over, and with that a sphere of judgement, and opinion. One might say you become aware, cognizant of Karma. And what are the circumstances that created that Karma? Relationships, gender, ethnicity, history, and today we find the ever-present condition and concern for the ecological environment. However, we are not these things. Although they have all layered us with personality, we can see the psychological conditionings as just that, layered on top of the I who speaks to Douglas.
The fourth order is a very beautiful period of development, for the first time at a deep cognitive level a human no longer lives affected by these conditionings unknowingly, rather they become seeable, graspable, knowable—Object. Yet it is the most challenging level humanity has come to be in. And that is because we can see our psychological sufferings; we can see how prevalent they are, how deep they go in our psyche.
Unlike the third order we now have to make meaning on the fringe or exterior of dominant cultural and societal structures. The meaning-making (the making sense of the developmental qualities of the fourth order); the psychological awareness, are all one activity and constitute the palingenesis into the fifth order of consciousness.
