Join Andrew Cohen, a globally recognized authority on evolutionary spirituality and the founder of EnlightenNext, for a unique opportunity to radically transform your life—and help to create a better future for humanity.

This is a rare opportunity to spend an extended period of time cultivating the depth of awareness, intention, and spiritual momentum that can enable you to personally participate at the leading edge of conscious human evolution.

The third annual EnlightenNext Being & Becoming Retreat is a combination of two 10-day retreats held back to back. You can attend one or the other, or they can be taken together as one integrated spiritual journey.

Whichever option you choose, you will benefit from twenty-five years of Andrew Cohen’s experience charting the depths of spiritual enlightenment and the thrilling edge of conscious evolution. Together with others, you will explore the two core principles of Cohen’s teachings of Evolutionary Enlightenment: the discovery of pure being and the awakening of the evolutionary impulse to become.

We warmly invite you to participate in either or both of these retreats. If you are only able to participate in one retreat we recommend attending the Becoming Retreat from August 17–28.

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Find out more:
• Being Retreat (Part 1) : An Exploration at the Leading Edge of Consciousness
• Becoming Retreat (Part 2): An Exploration at the Leading Edge of Culture
• It’s not just a “retreat.”
• Why the Being and Becoming Retreat is such a rare and important opportunity.
• What some past attendees have said about retreats with Andrew Cohen.
• Resources for deeper understanding.

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(Note: you can choose to participate in either or both of these retreats. If you are only able to participate in one retreat, we recommend that you attend the Becoming Retreat.)

Retreat 1: Being
Immerse Yourself in Enlightened Awareness

The first retreat from August 6–17 will be spent largely in meditative silence, punctuated by periodic Q&A and dialogue sessions with Andrew Cohen. In an atmosphere of profound spiritual depth and support, you can sink into the awareness of pure consciousness itself, the Ground of Being.

The Ground of Being is the deepest part of who we are. It is beyond anything we can know, a vast and boundless experience of awareness that is utterly free from any sense of limitation or constraint. When you awaken to this part of yourself, you instantly feel the exhilarating joy and freedom of your own true and infinite nature—and recognize your own inherent wholeness, completeness, and perfection.

In the direct experience of total freedom from fear and doubt, you can gain access to a new and heightened perspective on life. And as you share your insights with Andrew Cohen and other retreat participants, you can discover that this free and open consciousness is available to each and every one of us. Indeed, this collective experience of “being” always generates a profound atmosphere of intimacy, connection, and oneness that reveals a possibility for unity and cooperation that can barely be imagined until you experience it.

In the video “Desire vs. Will” you can see previous retreat participants discuss their experience of meditation with Andrew Cohen.

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(Note: you can choose to participate in either or both of these retreats. If you are only able to participate in one retreat, we recommend that you attend the Becoming Retreat.)

Retreat 2: Becoming
Discover the Creative Call of Evolution

During the second retreat from August 17– 28, you will have the unique opportunity to engage in dialogue with Andrew Cohen and other retreat participants to identify, investigate, and directly experience the cosmic creative impulse—the Authentic Self.

The Authentic Self, as defined by Andrew Cohen, is the creative force of the universe that initiated the entire evolutionary process, and which you can directly experience in your own being as a surging “YES” to life and the whole creative process.

When this inspired energy is awakened between people, it releases an urgent desire to create a better future together. As the retreat deepens, you will experience a rarified level of engagement with others that generates a shared higher consciousness in which trust, openness, and mutual interest in what’s possible become available. This collective process facilitates the emergence of new values for human relationship, which in turn can help define a new cultural paradigm.

In the video “The Authentic Self in Action,” a previous retreat participant discusses her experience of the Authentic Self during a retreat with Andrew Cohen.

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(Note: you can choose to participate in either or both of these retreats. If you are only able to participate in one retreat, we recommend that you attend the Becoming Retreat.)

It’s Not Just a “Retreat”

The Being & Becoming Retreat is one part of a dynamic initiative called the EnlightenNext Discovery Cycle. This is an annual cycle of in-person and virtual forums of engagement informed by twenty-five years of pioneering work in the emerging field of evolutionary spirituality. It is a continually evolving process that enables all who are interested in changing the world to personally participate in the evolution of human consciousness and culture.

In Tuscany, Italy, in 2011 you will be joining the Discovery Cycle as it completes its second annual revolution, culminating in the third Being & Becoming Retreat. By becoming a part of this multifaceted, highly engaged co-creative process, you will be helping to build a seamless connection between the awakening of consciousness and the creation of a new culture.

The Discovery Cycle is the leading edge of the spiritual teachings of Evolutionary Enlightenment. Through your participation, you will benefit from a quarter of a century of cumulative development of these teachings, and you will find yourself in a unique position to begin developing and enacting new human possibilities through your very own life.

In the following video “Heaven on Earth,” retreat participants describe their experience of taking part in the Being & Becoming Retreat in Colorado 2010, as the culmination of the first annual revolution of the EnlightenNext Discovery Cycle.

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Why the Being and Becoming Retreat Is Such a Rare and Important Opportunity

When you consider that several hundred people will all be endeavoring to develop and transform in real time, together, you can start to see the explosive possibility that lies before us in the Being & Becoming Retreat. If you want to not only transform your own life but engage with hundreds of other like-minded individuals from around the world in the noble effort to evolve consciousness and culture, then join us!

If you have any questions or would like to speak to someone before deciding, please send an email to evolutionaries@enlightennext.org, or call 413.637.6058.

Read what last year’s participants said about the 2010 Being & Becoming Retreat

Resources for Deeper Understanding

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(Note: you can choose to participate in either or both of these retreats. If you are only able to participate in one retreat, we recommend that you attend the Becoming Retreat.)