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Dear Friend,

Most sensitive human beings understand that we’re living in a time of profound change, upheaval and crisis.

At this particular moment, of course, we’re most aware of the global pandemic. But this is happening in the context of other looming dangers – the threat of economic meltdown, climate change, and the destruction of our natural environment to name just a few.

What I’ve observed, both in myself and other people, is that when we become frightened there’s a profound contraction of the self. When our way of life and our familiar freedoms are threatened, there is not only an emotional contraction but an intellectual, philosophical, and spiritual contraction – a contraction of our capacity to think in big ways.

This is, of course, especially significant for people who are interested in a spiritually-inspired perspective. All forms of mystical spirituality are based on a direct experience or apprehension of limitlessness – a primordial freedom, an infinite expanse, the eternal Ground of all Being.

When we have this kind of peak experience, it affects the way we think about what it means to be a human being very dramatically. A mysterious and miraculous friction occurs. The inherently limited individual self-sense begins to awaken to a dimension of reality that is absolutely without limitation. This friction between the limited and the unlimited gives rise to spiritual ecstasy, inspiration and eventually a completely transformed perspective.

But when we are threatened at the level of our own survival – by war, disease, or global catastrophe – naturally there is a contraction. When survival becomes our central preoccupation, we tend to let go of a spiritually awakened perspective. We become concerned more or less exclusively with our own welfare, and lose touch with the light.

When we contract in this way, we lose touch with the infinite openness and inherent freedom of the Ground of Being. But even more importantly from my perspective, we lose touch with the awareness of our potential for infinite development – our potential to consciously evolve.

The instinct to survive comes naturally to us, because it’s been with us for hundreds of thousands of years. But the instinct to consciously evolve is very new. The spontaneous aspiration to become more conscious is only just beginning to reveal itself, and for most human beings it’s a barely emergent awareness.

This new instinct needs to be protected and nurtured. It’s vitally important, especially at moments of deep crisis, that we don’t allow it to become buried under the layers of fear that naturally arise when our survival seems to be threatened.

Easy to say, but how do we do this in practice? How do we anchor ourselves so that we don’t lose touch with these new and emerging capacities?

This will be the focus of my next talk, and I hope you’ll join me so that we can investigate this together.

Warmest wishes,

Andrew Cohen

Freedom in the Face of Fear

Saturday 9th May 2020

8am PST • 11am EST • 4pm UK • 5pm CET • 8.30pm India

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