The miracle of commitment

This weekend the  the core group of Enlightennext in Europe  gathered together in London to talk between us and with our spiritual teacher  Andrew Cohen about where we are going in our endeavor to create a new integral and evolutionary culture. Many  of us in this core group are  together in this endeavor for  10 or 15 years. There is a deep friendship between all of us, but more than anything else there is a deep shared commitment.

One of the fundamentals of what Andrew Cohen is teaching in Evolutionary  Enlightenment is  the cultivation of intention.  And it is always a miracle for me when we come together as friends who have one clear priority in life, which is the evolution of consciousness itself. It is hard to describe, but it is so tangible when we see each other, that the place where we are meeting  is not  any particular personal relationship but a shared passion for something we have cultivated for such a long time. All the friendship, all the lightness of being, all the joy we are sharing is based on this deep relationship with consciousness itself – sounds maybe strange, but it is really true. I mean, first of all we are all heavy meditators (many 2 hours a day), but our real passion is what it means to be an active part of the evolution of consciousness on this planet, in this life. Since years we pursue this shared investigation of this creative impulse, that creates and evolves life itself. There are many ways to get a grasp of this evolutionary impulse, there is a theoretical understanding (like in Integral Theory or Spiral Dynamics)  but most excitingly there is a first hand understanding of this , where you grasp this impulse as a shared I and We.

When you come together with a bunch of people who are deeply committed to this ongoing creative emergence there is this explosive  atmosphere of “liberated evolution” That is really what I love about the culture between us.  And just to make it clear – this culture is  a hard fought for. It needs a deep understanding of both the evolutionary impulse and the Ego to be able to create this as a stable reality.  I guess it is Andrew Cohen’s historic achievement that he forged this since many years.

Right now I am sitting on the train from London back to Frankfurt, pondering about why these gatherings always tend to be so ecstatic. I really think the secret is the shared commitment. This  shared commitment creates this surge of trust.  When you just know (also because it is time proven) that everyone deeply shares this commitment to consciousness and its evolution as the shared ‘raison d’être’ than there is deep intimacy and joy of life, that just breaks open. I guess that is the miracle of commitment.