The Spiritual Impulse Ever my 27 years as a spiritual teacher, I’ve discovered something very important about spirituality that few people seem to know about: The spiritual impulse moves in two directions simultaneously. If we follow one direction, it will carry us far into the distant future. If we follow the other, it will take us back to before the beginning of time. The path that most mystics in the enlightenment tradition have taken is not the future-oriented one; it is the perennial meditative path that countless seekers have followed for millennia in pursuit of spiritual illumination. And this traditional approach is not future oriented—it is not time-oriented at all. Traditional enlightenment points us beyond the world, beyond time and space, toward what has been the perennial source, at least until now, of spiritual freedom and mystical liberation: the ground of Being. But I believe that those of us in the twenty-first century at the leading edge of consciousness and culture urgently need a mystical spirituality and a source of soul liberation that points us not beyond time but toward the future that we need to create. I believe the spiritual impulse today is calling us not away from the world but toward that big next step we need to take in our world. That next step will not emerge by itself—it must be consciously created by human beings who have awakened to the same impulse that is driving the process. Awakening to that energy and intelligence is the source of the new enlightenment.—Andrew Cohen The author is an internationally respected spiritual teacher, cultural visionary, and founder of the global nonprofit EnlightenNext Published Date: Aug 19, 2013 (DNA)
Posted on: Mon, 19 Aug 2013 04:48:42 +0000
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