When Seekers become Finders; Dave Gold on retreat with Andrew Cohen pt. 2

David Gold, author of After the Absolute and 35 year student of enlightened spiritual teachers, recounts how his first retreat with Andrew Cohen radically transformed his perspective on spirituality - and life.

After 25+ years into a committed spiritual pursuit where enlightenment was the goal at all costs, and life was merely a sideshow, Dave Gold awoke, on retreat with Cohen, to a part of himself that was already free, radically unselfconscious, and passionately engaged in life--
a part himself that he previously assumed was reserved for those who had already "made the trip" into total realization.

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David Gold was the founding partner of Gold, Khourey, and Turak and a successful trial lawyer for over 15 years. During his legal career he lived and studied with West Virginia Zen teacher Richard Rose, and his experiences with Rose and the legal profession are chronicled in Golds first book, After the Absolute. In 1993 Gold sold his interest in the law firm and moved to North Carolina to work with the Self Knowledge Symposium (SKS), a cutting-edge spiritual group with chapters at Duke, North Carolina State, and the University of North Carolina. While in North Carolina he co founded a software company, which was sold in 2000, enabling Gold to devote himself full-time to spiritual pursuits.


Gold has taught at major universities, lectured to student and professional groups around the country, hosted weekly radio and television shows, and produced the award-winning documentary film The Prison Sutras. Since meeting spiritual teacher and evolutionary visionary Andrew Cohen in 2001, Gold has become a dedicated student of Cohens teachings, as well as an active participant in Cohens organization, EnlightenNext . Gold founded the EnlightenNext Center in Raleigh, North Carolina, where he currently resides, teaches Evolutionary Enlightenment courses throughout the United States, and serves on EnlightenNexts Board of Directors as Chair of the Development.


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To learn more about Andrew Cohen, EnlightenNext, and his upcoming Being and Becoming retreat in Tuscany: http://www.andrewcohen.org/retreats/t...

To learn more about Dave Gold and his experience with Richard Rose and Andrew Cohen: www.aftertheabsolute.com

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[kippercat123]

This is another example why Christians need to spread the gospel.

[MrFrothinger]

@JanIroth - I think you're bang on the money. Dave Gold has spent his life wringing his hands and chasing other people's spiritual shadows.  He's in thrall to Andrew Cohen, and incapable of 'being a light unto himself', as the buddha taught. It's a shame...

[wvClifton]

Great job, Dave. Thank you for reminding me of what I already know.

[JanIroth]

I think Dave, you are guru prone. Teachers have things to say but no more profound then you do. You are just as enlightened as Andrew Cohen. Just relax, let it come or not come.