Bringing enlightenment to the street

"Oh, I see" one of the participants of the course on Evolutionary Enlightenment I am teaching said, as his eyes lit up, "my spiritual longing is the evolutionary impulse. I always thought it was my longing!"
Everyone in the room experienced this enlightening insight with him. His insight wasn’t just his insight, we were doing this together. Together we were expanding our perspective on life, on ourselves.
What would it be like if we would be able to share this inquiry with more and more people, expanding our consciousness because we know that life passionately wants it and the earth desperately needs it, and becoming enlightened in the process. Excuse me? Am I touching on a taboo subject here? Is enlightenment maybe something we are allowed to philosophize about but are not supposed to take seriously as something that our lives really revolve around? Maybe that is just me.
But doesn’t the world need more enlightened people? And if so, who? they?

I am on a mission; last night in a teleconference about meditation that I was conducting one woman said: "I am listening and enjoying it and successfully fighting my feelings of being evangelized." I loved it when she said that, because you are, as you are reading this blog, being evangelized. We all need to be evangelized with a new moral context for our human lives, don’t we? We all should reach for our highest, most enlightened potential right now, shouldn’t we? Should I not say ‘should’? Do we have time not to say ‘should’? I don’t think so.
If you are still reading this line and have not clicked away in repulsion or disinterest, I think we should work together. I am convinced that we have to take enlightenment out of the closet, out of the spiritual centers, out of the course class rooms. I think it has to hit the street, become the new way to be, ‘evolution is something you do’ Andrew Cohen’s new lecture series is called. And we need to do this together with all of us who can stand the pressure of being evangelized because there is so much to do, so much to discover and so much to learn from one another so that we can move this process forward!

Please join me on a conference call about this March 5 from 20.30 till 21.30. Mail me at info.amsterdam@EnlightenNext.org with ‘call march 5’ in the subject line and I will send you numbers and information. (the call will be in Dutch).