Author: Andrew Cohen
Publisher: New Age Books
Year: 2003
Language: English
Pages: 106
ISBN/UPC (if available): 817822142X
Description
This book demonstrates a creative spiritual intelligence that breaks new ground in applying the spiritual wisdom of the East to the contemporary world. This innovative and energetic voice deserves out attention.
This book is a boon to the fearless, a gift to the sincere and a beacon to the lost. It reads like a modern upanishadic treatise. Andrew Cohen expounds his system of Gyana Yoga, the path if illumination through experiential knowledge, with great clarity and depth of understanding. The knowledge every illumines the hearts of yogic aspirants.
COMMENTS:
This rare gem of a book ends with a description of enlightenment’s purpose that may shock some traditionalists but will delight those who see the essential role of spirit in life’s further development.
=George Leonard
This work illuminates the prime purpose of consciousness at this stage of human development. Andrew has brought conscious evolution into the great tradition of spirituality. A profound work.
=Barbara Marx Hubbard
If you like to procrastinate and wait till you’re ready, don’t read this book. If you are ready to jump in and risk all, then Living Enlightenment is for you.
= Roshi Bernard Glassman
Rarely have I encountered such simple, searing wisdom connecting religious ideas about enlightenment with the scientific understanding of an evolutionary cosmos,.
= Brian Swimme
Contents
Foreword by Ken Wilber
Preface
What is Enlightenment?
That Which Was Never Born
The perfect Response
One Without a Second
The Status Quo Cannot Contain it
Revelation and Awakening
To Cast No Shadow
The Ultimate Challenge
A Straight Line to the Absolute
Grace is Not Enough
Mere Mortals
The End of Karma
True Conscience
The Only Obstacle
Liberation Beyond Gender
The Promise of Perfection
An Unbroken Universal Unfolding
Impersonal Enlightenment
The Complete Picture
The Imperative to Evolve