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After his very public fall from grace in 2013, renowned spiritual teacher Andrew Cohen vanished from view and underwent a dark night of the soul. After years of intense introspection and soul-searching, Cohen shares his insights into the failure of his organisation EnlightenNext, including his own responsibility for its downfall, as well as a new vision for modern spirituality based on the wisdom of the lessons he learned.
The author details his spiritual initiation, his rapid rise to guruhood, the explosive growth of his spiritual community worldwide, and then--right at the height of its spiritual and creative emergence--its dramatic collapse, which left his students lost, bitter, angry, and confused. He shares his gripping spiritual odyssey from the heights of illumination, down into the existential ashes of failed aspirations, to the underworld of inner darkness, and back again into the light.
Building upon the lessons he learned, including the need to deal thoroughly with one's own shadow, Cohen explains the necessity of the guru in spiritual practice, while also exposing the dysfunctions of the traditional guru-disciple model. He shares insights from his discussions with spiritual leaders, including Ken Wilber, Diane Musho Hamilton, Doshin Roshi, Jeffrey Kripal, and Patricia Albere, revealing how the issues he faced are profoundly relevant to the spiritual community as a whole. He also shares how his teachings have evolved and sheds light on the art of communicating beyond ego and unleashing the co-creative power of our shared collective intelligence--the key to initiating enlightened change in this world in crisis.
Contents
Foreword
by Allan Combs, Ph.D.
Prologue: My Fall from Grace
PART 1
The Rise and Fall of Our Spiritual Community
1 Overnight Guru
2 A Radical Heart
3 The Ecstatic Urgency of Evolution
4 A Higher We Emerges
5 Dark Release
6 Two Hands Are All You Need
7 Let My Heart Be Broken
8 Awakening to the Truth of Suffering
PART 2
Exploring the Spirituality of Tomorrow
9 The Owl of Minerva Flies Only at Dusk
10 Death of the Mythic Guru
11 When Shadow Meets the Bodhisattva Impulse
12 Why EnlightenNext Collapsed and the Narrative Reversed
13 Triple Gem Integral
Epilogue
Acknowledgments
Appendix:
An Open Letter to My Former Students
Notes
