In this clip you will get a taste of the way that Andrew Cohen introduced the First Tenet of Evolutionary Enlightenment during the Becoming Retreat that is being held here in Colorado.
A Fresh Look at the First Tenet
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Evolving new pleasures and comforts.
It is indeed right that our western culture has become very oriented towards luxury and comfort. If we want to fight that, we have to know why it has become so and how it works. Here it is useful to see how comfort has been evolved in human beings. “Good feelings” like comfort has been created to guide the animal or the human being: Pain has been evolved to make you stop burning your hand or walk on a broken leg, pleasure has evolved to make you choose sweet fruit instead of bitter poison and so on. So we don’t live for pleasure or comfort, but the other way around: they were meant to help us.
Now where the evolution has been happening so fast our strive for comfort doesn’t suit the needs of the future no more. Therefore: rather than rejecting the positivity of good feelings, we should realize that there is “higher” / “better” pleasures or comforts that we have to make a shift into.
So now the work is to find out what structures that is still helpful and what kind of structures we need to change, and what is the positive outcome that we can learn to feel? How does the new positive feelings feel like, and what is making us happy?
We can not make it without feelings and passion helping us, which is also a point in the brain science of people like Damasio, who has discovered that no movement in the front brain (where self discipline ans compassion has evolved) can work without connection to the center of emotion. It must to go together.
WOW!!!!an amazing reorientation of Want to be free more than anything else . Its well related to the shift which took place within, two years ago after seeking of 30 years. This shift was the result of Evolutionary Enlightenment teachings of Andrew . Eternally in Gratitude n Love !