Andrew Cohen Interviewed in Israel part 2

During his Israeli tour in September of 2006 to inaugurate the new EnlightenNext center in Tel Aviv, Andrew Cohen was interviewed by Itay Mautner, a journalist from Mahut Hachayim (Essence of Life), a spiritual website.

They spoke about the nature of enlightenment, or spiritual freedom, and how the life conditions in Israel are not conducive for such freedom because Israelis are naturally preoccupied with survival. Cohen spoke about the urgent need to create a new moral and philosophical context for Israeli culture in order to overcome the materialism, narcissism, and cynicism that characterized secular society there at present. He emphasized the need to see life not in a limited national/cultural context, but as part of a very vast perspective—a 14-billion-year process.

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[cspace1234nz]

Took a whole 3 minutes before he bought up the "post modern" shit.

What a little wanker !

[aalam0044]

TRUE WORDS OF WISDOM FROM ANDREW !

[wattaaa]

I differ somewhat from Andrew Cohen in that I feel that if people could understand these truths, they would already. I think experience is paramount; dialogue can only do so much.

[MaBu888]

However, regression in spiritual evolution can be stopped, thusly, speeding up and effectivizing the process, if you know what I mean?

[MaBu888]

I disagree with your sentiment.

[MaBu888]

I agree with that. I've experiened alot during the last 3 months. These last three months, after becoming integral (you know who Ken Wilber and his philosophy is right?) in my aspiration towards everything. I found how to have peak expreiences and how to sustain them. Always there is much more mindfulness of what is going on, in every situation. That could server as an example of a common ground with Andrew Cohen and my current level of development, although I'm much more familiar with Wilber.

[JEFFHAPTONSTALL]

Cohen speaks of Einstein, saying that a problem has to be solved from a higher perspective than the problem began. Is anyone seeking Heaven anymore?

Rhetorical question.

[MNZofPimlico]

What Cohen is saying usually requires a person to have some kind of peak experience: some lind of life-changing 'vision' of our spiritual state (like he himself has had, apparently). Without this most people's growth will be slow and hampered by personal concerns. But that's okay too. Sometimes you need to spiritually develop 'bottom-up' first before you can take on board the 'weight of the world'. The important thing is that people BEGIN.

[MNZofPimlico]

This was very frustrating to watch because they seemed to be at cross purposes. The interviewer has a very good point when he uses the example of a little baby: PHYSICAL growth is a process which cannot be speeded up, and spiritual growth is very much the same. Cohen wants us to just simply 'wake up' to a cosmos-wide sense of context, and focus on the issues facing the world, but how is that worked out on a day-to-day basis? Especially if your own life is a mess?

[deltaMazz]

If you are confused, you're not understanding.