Announcing the First-Ever Being and Becoming Virtual Retreat
Saturday and Sunday, February 13-14, 2010
Accessible by Phone and Computer Everywhere
For the first time ever, Andrew Cohen, founder of EnlightenNext and globally recognized authority on evolutionary spirituality, will teach a two-day virtual retreat to participants all over the world. You’re invited to be one of them.
The transformation and growth you’ll experience, however, will be anything but virtual. So register now at the bottom of this page to secure your seat immediately, or call (413) 551-7138 for more information.
Over the past 23 years, thousands of people have participated in retreats with Andrew Cohen. Many of them describe the experience as transformational—a thrilling journey into the leading edge of what’s possible for humanity.
In the past, to work intensively with Andrew, you’d have to travel to get to the retreat—and that’s not always possible.
But today, with the advent of advanced conference call and web technologies, you don’t have to travel—in fact, you can go on retreat right from your own home.
Which is why I’m so thrilled to announce that, for the first time ever, ThoughtLead, in partnership with EnlightenNext, is offering to offer a two-day, full-immersion Being and Becoming Virtual Retreat.
How does it work? You simply call in via phone or tune in using your computer and an Internet connection. It’s that simple.
Hi. My name is Sam Rosen, and I’m the co-founder and CEO of ThoughtLead, a company that provides online platforms for evolutionary pioneers. We work with organizations and individuals committed to creating a better future for humanity.
I’ve been working with EnlightenNext for several years now, and have been amazed by the growth and transformation that can occur between a group of committed Evolutionaries around the world.
For several years, EnlightenNext has been pioneering the most powerful ways to use today’s technology in the service of spiritual development. Every week, the organization uses conference call technologies to connect groups of Evolutionaries all over the world to engage in spiritual inquiry. And each month, EnlightenNext hosts virtual workshops and seminars for hundreds of people.
Without exception, each event proves to be transformational and developmental for everyone involved. And this is the first virtual weekend retreat EnlightenNext has offered to a public audience.
So the point is, you don’t need to be at a retreat in person in order to have a life-changing transformational experience. In fact, I think you’ll be surprised by just how much spiritual development—for yourself and for everyone involved—can happen over the phone or the web. I know I always am.
The Being and Becoming Virtual Retreat will guide you through one of the most powerful and leading-edge models for spiritual development and cultural transformation available today: the path of Evolutionary Enlightenment.
Using the perspective of Evolutionary Enlightenment, Andrew Cohen will show you that the experience you’re having right now is part of a breathtakingly large and universal context. You will find that who you truly are, at the deepest level, is not separate from the force of evolution itself, the creative impulse behind the entire universe.
Here is a video of Andrew Cohen speaking about the very purpose of life itself from the perspective of Evolutionary Enlightenment:
In fact, during this weekend, you will find how Evolutionary Enlightenment can help you discover the profound significance of realizing your potential to act as an evolutionary agent of change.
But, more importantly, it enables not just you, but all of us to come together beyond the dividing boundaries of the ego…and awaken to who we truly are as evolution in action, liberating our own potential to evolve…
….and simultaneously making it possible for each individual to experience a deep oneness and unity that we glimpse only in the rarest of spiritual insights… and create the launching pad for a new culture.
That’s exactly what the Being and Becoming Virtual Retreat will give you: not only a profound awakening to your own potential as an evolving human being, but also the rare opportunity to consciously create a new culture of fellow Evolutionaries, bound together by a passion for spiritual development—and the vision of a constantly evolving, enlightened future.
For over a decade, Cohen has been one of the world’s most respected authorities and defining voices in the emerging fields of integral and evolutionary spirituality.
He founded the award-winning EnlightenNext magazine—formerly known as What Is Enlightenment?—and has published pioneering dialogues with today’s leading spiritual and social luminaries, from Ken Wilber and Eckhart Tolle to Jean Twenge, Barbara Marx Hubbard, and Deepak Chopra.
Cohen also founded EnlightenNext, Inc., a global non-profit “spiritual think tank” dedicated to exploring and creating the next step in human development. He’s the creator of Evolutionary Enlightenment—the very teaching to which the entire Being and Becoming Virtual Retreat will be dedicated.
Countless leaders have praised his work. Listen to what some of them say below:
“Andrew Cohen is an important voice that needs to be heard. He brings a fresh and profound approach to spirituality grounded in his own awakened awareness, and he seeks nothing more than to awaken others to a freedom and fullness that is their own inherent condition.” Ken Wilber, World’s Foremost Teacher of Integral Philosophy
“Andrew Cohen has arrived at an insight that is crucial for our historical situation. . . . Rarely have I encountered such simple, searing wisdom connecting religious ideas about enlightenment with the scientific understanding of an evolutionary cosmos.” Brian Swimme, PhD, Author of The Universe Story
“Andrew Cohen invites us to awaken from our mental hut and ego’s prison, and enter into the mansion of freedom, self-knowledge and completeness.”Lama Surya Das, author of Awakening the Buddha Within
“In some rare cases the fullest illumination occurs spontaneously to some fortunate being. Such a being blesses the generation in which he or she happens to live and act. Andrew Cohen is one such being. He is a modern mystic who shines like a light in darkness.”His Holiness Swami Chidananda, Divine Life Society
For 23 years, Andrew Cohen has worked with thousands of individuals around the world as spiritual teacher, mentor, and guide. He is endlessly inspired by the possibility of a better future… and works with the one-pointedness, passion, and leadership necessary to bring that future about now, in our lifetime.
For more than two decades, Cohen has guided thousands of people into the timeless depths of enlightenment and awakened them to the transformative power of the Evolutionary Impulse.
Listen to what previous participants say about going on retreat with Andrew Cohen:
“Andrew brings participants with him on his fearless exploration of the leading edge of conscious evolution. There is nothing theoretical about the retreat. It is a direct experience of this revolutionary teaching!”
- George McAlpine
“Never have I felt so inspired to take action and assume responsibility in my own life in service to a greater whole.”
- Kinley Lyra Doucette
“Andrew’s teaching and, more importantly, time spent with Andrew on the retreat, drastically changed the way I look at my life. It gave me a great sense of freedom as well as a sense of unimaginable responsibility to change for the sake of the evolution of consciousness itself.”
- Vedran Peric
As you can see from these participants’ experiences, Andrew Cohen has create a powerful structure for retreats, one that inspires, empowers, compels individuals to meet the challenges of the 21st Century.
Your retreat will be broken up into two sections, which are also the two fundamental ideas in the teaching of Evolutionary Enlightenment: Being and Becoming.
The first day, Being, will be dedicated to the practice and perspective of meditation. You’ll learn about what Andrew Cohen calls the Ground of Being, which, as you will discover, is the deepest part of who you are. It is the empty ground of consciousness itself.
It is the liberating experience of enlightened awareness, utterly free from any sense of limitation or constraint. When you awaken to this part of yourself, you will instantly feel the exhilarating joy and freedom of your own true and infinite nature—and recognize your own inherent wholeness, completeness, and perfection.
You’ll devote the second day, Becoming, to identifying, investigating, and directly experiencing the cosmic creative impulse we refer to at EnlightenNext as the Authentic Self.
The Authentic Self is the very same creative force that initiated the entire process of evolution at the moment the universe began. It is the surging “YES” that we feel in our own experience when we realize our potential to grow, to change, to become better and more whole than we are now.
Each day will consist of two lectures, followed by Q&A with Andrew Cohen and, for phone participants, short discussion groups.
You’ll begin both days at 10:30am EST and break for lunch at 1pm EST. You’ll then resume the retreat at 2:30pm EST, and end at 5pm. That makes for 10 full hours of transformative engagement with Andrew Cohen over two days.
As I’m sure you’ll discover, even though the retreat is being held via phone and computer, there’s nothing “virtual” at all about the kind of development and awakening insight you can experience over these two days.
Because this retreat is being held via phone and computer only, we’re able to offer the most affordable and accessible two-day engagement with Andrew Cohen yet.
You can choose one of two levels engagement: phone or webcast. If you participate by phone, you’ll have the opportunity to ask Andrew questions live and explore the content of the sessions with your fellow participants. Webcast participants will be able to listen to the entire retreat, but won’t be able to ask questions or engage in discussion groups.
IMPORTANT: Due to the technology we’re using, we can only accept 200 phone participants total (sorry, no exceptions available). And remember, only phone participants will be able to ask Andrew Cohen questions in person and participate with each other in small peer discussion groups.
If you choose to participate via phone, your cost for the entire two days is only $285.
If you choose to participate via webcast, you’ll pay only $95. And if you’re a university student, you’ll be able to take advantage of a special webcast rate of only $45.
I’m sure you’d agree that both levels are entirely reasonable investments for the kind of depth and transformation that a weekend with Andrew Cohen can bring. Simply click on the appropriate button in the box below to register right away:
I understand that only phone participants will be able to speak directly with Andrew and their peers.
But if I choose to participate via webcast, I’ll still be able to access the entire two-day virtual retreat without exceptionand full MP3 recordings.
We have never offered the opportunity to engage online for such an extended period of time with Andrew Cohen.
Why should you register now? Well, if you want to participate via phone, you’ll want to register right away, due to the limited number of spots.
Even if you want to participate via webcast, there’s something powerful about committing to being there—and putting your stake in the ground. It can strengthen your own intention to transform and evolve.
So go ahead and register now for the retreat. I guarantee you’ve never experienced anything like it…and you’ll walk away with an energy and passion for life that you may not have known was inside you.
I hope to see (hear) you there,
Sam Rosen
CEO, ThoughtLead
P.S. Remember: we only have a limited number of phone spots available. Tens of thousands of people know about this event, so there’s a good chance the phone spots will sell out quickly. If you want to be able to participate live in this historic event, be sure to register right now.
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