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Andrew Cohen quote from "Evolutionary Enlightenment: A New Path to Spiritual Awakening" (which strikes me as a benign oxymoron--new paths are the exception to the slow lifetime norm), p. 182, SelectBooks. my commentary, additions, and format changes are intended to cooperatively nuance Cohen's excellent and important work, to recommend him to you, not to discredit in any way.

Nuancing Andrew Cohen "If we are interested in learning how to engage with consciousness at higher and higher levels, to consciously facilitate its evolution within us and between us, we need to look more closely at the extraordinary phenomenon of [nondual co-arising] emergence in matter, in biological life, [in economic life, and in political systems,] and most importantly, at the level of [Anthro-mind/Earth-body] consciousness. We need to cultivate our capacity to visualize and to emotionally connect with what it would mean for [positive] emergence to occur within our own interiors [mind/body landscapes, co-dominant dipolar Left-Right bicameral Yang-Yin balance], within our subjective and intersubjective [peak-crown-head therapeutic and valley-root-sensory/sexual body] experience." We LeftHemisphere hear and eco-politically translate in orthodox paradigms of prior enculturation to speak and mind-0 zone body-1/0 co-empathically transpose co-engaging win/win bipartisan reformation.

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Date: 12/2/2015 8:59:00 AM
Great poem, skat
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