Evolutionary Enlightenment & Unique Self Enlightenment: A Dialogue

With the launch of UniqueSelf.com, a wide range of dialogues have been published which cumulatively situate Unique Self within the context of Integral Spirituality and Evolutionary Spirituality. Over the next several months, the CWS blog — Spirit’s Next Move — will be highlighting this new material and inviting commentary and discussion.

On CWS today:

Perhaps no topic in contemporary spirituality is more discussed than the nature of enlightenment and how it relates to the modern, post-modern, and emerging integral world. Andrew Cohen is one of the most influential figures in the dialogue, bringing wisdom that is defining a movement called Evolutionary Spirituality, which identifies essence with the evolutionary impulse itself and issues a powerful call to shed limited identifications of the self. Cohen breaks from classical enlightenment thinkers in his description of spiritual realization as constantly evolving.

Marc Gafni, co-founder of CWS and the most influential voice defining Unique Self Enlightenment, offers a view of enlightenment which overlaps and also differs from Cohen’s vision in important respects. One of their public dialogues is now published on UniqueSelf.com and has also been the subject of an original article in the Journal of Integral Theory & Practice (6:1).

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