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It will take a new level consciousness…or a catastrophe.
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Andrew Cohen:
Andrew Cohen is an American spiritual teacher, bestselling author, and founder of the global nonprofit EnlightenNext and its award-winning publication, EnlightenNext magazine. His original teaching of Evolutionary Enlightenment redefines spiritual awakening within the context of cosmic evolution and highlights a new understanding of God or Spirit as the creative impulse toward change in both self and culture.
His bestselling book, Evolutionary Enlightenment: A New Path to Spiritual Awakening is the product of his 26 years of work and has garnered praise from some of today’s leading spiritual and cultural figures as one of the most important spiritual works of our time. Andrew lives and works at the EnlightenNext headquarters in Western Massachusetts and spends much of his time travelling around the world giving retreats, seminars, and public talks about Evolutionary Enlightenment.
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Question: What will it take to shift society from materialism?
Andrew Cohen: Well, I think two things and I don’t know which order they come in. One would have to do with awakening to the deeper spiritual dimension of life, awakening to consciousness itself, which has a very strong-- When that happens, when we awaken directly to consciousness, our deeply ingrained materialistic values and perspectives begin to shift in a very- at the most fundamental level. So that would be one and the other I think will be- would be some kind of catastrophe in which we simply wouldn’t be able to live in the kind of abundance that many of us are used to. That would kind of force us to discover a very different relationship to life.
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