Every Tuesday at the EnlightenNext UK Centre, Islington, 7:00 – 9:00pm

Enjoy a focused, joyful, spiritually infused environment like no other. Whether a first visit or a regular attendee, the current 20-week progressive programme provides you with an ever-new and on-going encounter with shared depth that points to new potentials within and without.

Format:

Introduction, audio/video, period of meditation followed by discussion. £5 (first visit free). Light dinner served afterwards £5.

Headlines may be dominated by the Global Financial crisis, hurricanes and terrorist plots, but at the same time a new movement is quietly sweeping across the globe: There has never been a better time to be alive!

Every Tuesday evening you can learn about this new movement through an authentic transmission of Evolutionary Enlightenment, the newly emerging form of contemporary spirituality developed over 25 years by spiritual teacher, philosopher and cultural pioneer Andrew Cohen and his students.

Learn how to practice meditation, the art and science of stillness, in order to access an unshakable confidence in life. And understand the profound difference between meditation for Enlightenment versus freedom from stress.

Each evening is part of a developmental programme and is introduced by senior students with a lifetime of spiritual experience and expertise in Evolutionary Enlightenment.

The two-hour sessions are both introductory and in-depth. One key aspect of enlightened awareness and practice is explored each week, leading to an experiential understanding that awakens you to two fundamental non-dual enlightened insights and experiences; Being/Becoming & Stillness/Joy.

Learn why, in a world characterised by exponential change, a philosophical appreciation of the process of evolution is as important as spiritual experience.

In these sessions you will discover the value of engaged dialogue and learn how to discern and develop through awakening to the positivity and creativity of the evolutionary impulse as your own Authentic Self.

Meet like-minded people who are interested in discovering and sharing the positivity of life and who want to participate in a cultural renaissance founded in meaning and purpose. All this will show you why there really has never been a better time to be alive!

You can listen to our new podcast series, created from dialogues on the Tuesday evenings, by clicking here.
 

Programme

Being

11 October
Primary freedom
Assume no relationship to the content of consciousness to discover the deepest dimension of our self, the nature of which is inherent freedom.

18 October
The Sign of Spiritual maturity is a Shift in Values
Emotional steadiness in one’s life comes from how profoundly we understand having no relationship to the content of consciousness.

25 October
The Significance of Non Duality: that there is only One, not two
The most fundamental shift from seeing oneself as a fragment to seeing oneself as never having been separate from the whole.

1 November
The Best Vacation You’re Ever Going to Have
Only in a context of absolute withdrawal from engagement can you be free of all problems. When you awaken to the deepest part of yourself, which has never been born you, experience the spiritual joy of unconditional freedom.

8 November
The Ground of Our Own Being is Infinitely Compelling
The nature of freedom itself: not freedom in relationship to anything else, or from anything. The overwhelming significance of awakening to the deepest dimension of our self, which cannot be grasped or understood by the mind.

15 November
Bearing witness to the Truth of Ultimacy
Experiences of ultimacy are given value and proved by our own transformation. Taking this radical position makes it real and creates traction in the world.

22 November
Practising the Art and Science of Stillness
In order to discover and rediscover the deepest nature of yourself is inherent freedom, and to keep rediscovering that the mind is a mechanical process.

29 November
SPECIAL EVENING
Review of the Being Cycle and overview of the upcoming Becoming Cycle with Chris Parish, MD of EnlightenNext UK & Senior teacher of Evolutionary Enlightenment.
 

Becoming

8 December
Emergence
Emergence means creating the conditions for higher potentials that never existed before to enter into time and space. Our Success depends upon you the individual.

13 December
Discovering a Source of Uncorrupted Motivation
A very big part of a transformational process is going back to before the beginning and discovering a source of pure motivation that is uncorrupted by ego.

10 January
A Natural State of Calm Abiding
In those times when we are undistracted by self-concern we fall into a natural state where there is a calm abiding, a lightness of being and spontaneous joy. What you are experiencing is the nature of your own consciousness as it already is.

17 January
The Nature of Spirit is Absolute
Spirit is both a pull all the way back to before the beginning and simultaneously, paradoxically also the desire to exist and to become.

24 January
A Philosophical Orientation
Big ideas need to accompany mystical insight in order to consciously embrace the developmental implications of what these insights reveal to us about the human experience and life as a whole.

31 January
It is in Your Hands
If you recognize that in order to achieve this particular goal you need to make a quantum leap in your own transformation, then you have to realize that it is in your hands.

7 February
The Soul in the Context of an Evolutionary Worldview
Do I have the moral courage and fortitude to be able to take on board that I am the eyes and the ears of the leading edge of a process that had a beginning fourteen billion years ago?

14 February
Using the Lens of Non-duality to embrace Evolution
From the perspective of evolutionary non-duality this is your project. When you let this in as absolute truth, your reason for being here is to give rise to that which is new.

21 February
Evolution is a Process that is Going Somewhere
In all of manifestation the greatest truth is that we are going somewhere.

28 February
How Evolution Works at the Level of Culture
We see this larger developmental process at work through a very big historical lens of cultural development, and we begin to see that something is really trying to happen here through the human experiment.