REVIEW: Evolutionary Enlightenment

Evolutionary Enlightenment: A New Path to Spiritual Awakening

Nonfiction by Andrew Cohen

Up until recently, the sages of the past had a set formula and definition for enlightenment. Though the paths to enlightenment are varied and individualistic, the final goal is to transcend the ego and achieve unshakable peace. In Evolutionary Enlightenment Andrew Cohen proposes a new goal, a new awakened consciousness, expanding on the teachings of ancient sages.

According to Cohen, the first step is to awaken to a deeper, unmanifest reality, and transcend karma and accumulated conditioning of the ego. The second step is to follow the primordial creative force that manifested this entire cosmos to an evolved consciousness that wants to know itself and wants to keep creating. Cohen explains this awakening in easy to digest terms and proposes a path, a perspective shift, in order to ease the individual being into their destiny.

This is one of the most unique enlightenment perspectives I have come across. Depending on one’s ego, just like any spiritual teaching, the reader may see it as life-changing, or just an interesting read. Ultimately, the choice rests on each one of us.

— Helen Walker, Mount Pleasant Regional Library, Mount Pleasant, S.C.

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