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A Note from Andrew Cohen

Posted on Jul 7th, 2007 by Jeff : Director of Education Jeff
I recently put up a video on my zpro page. (http://eewebpage.zaadz.com) the video was recorded during a live conference call that I conduct each week with my friend and colleague Katherine Miller. On that particular call I mentioned a note that my teacher Andrew Cohen had sent to me in response to a letter that I had sent to him after seeing him teach for the first time. I thought to put a copy of that letter up here. As you can see from the video, I never forgot the sentiment that he was sharing with me in the note...even if I did forget the exact words.

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The Law of Volitionality Podcast

Posted on Jul 16th, 2007 by Jeff : Director of Education Jeff

The Law of Volitionality

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The second of Andrew Cohen’s Five Fundamental Tenets of Evolutionary Enlightenment is called The Law of Volitionality and it points directly at the human capacity to choose. In this call, we will look into this utterly mysterious capacity. What is choice? How do we do it? At the more basic levels of purely physical consciousness it appears that the ability to choose does not exist. A tree doesn’t choose to grow leaves any more than we chose to grow arms. As consciousness, and the organisms it expresses itself through, become more complex, the capacity for choice begins to emerge. We as human beings are making choices constantly. Not just choices about what to do, but choices about where to put our attention, what thoughts to believe in, and what feelings to respond to. Understanding that our lives are constructed exclusively by the choices that we make unleashes the highest possibility for creativity imaginable—the possibility of creating a fully conscious human existence.

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Free Will, Victimization and Karma

Posted on Jul 21st, 2007 by Jeff : Director of Education Jeff

Free Will, Victimization and Karma

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In the end we either believe in free will or we don’t, and most of us don’t. Certainly we believe that we have some free will, but we also believe that there are extenuating circumstances that sometimes make a free choice impossible. Because of this we feel victimized by the experience of being alive and trapped in cycles of behavior that we are fundamentally helpless to liberate ourselves from. Is the part of us that makes choices – what Andrew Cohen calls the choosing faculty – free or not? What could possibly stop us from making the choice we want to? Don’t we always make exactly the choice that we choose? Are there some choices that aren’t choices? Do we have free will or not? These are the complex questions that we will explore on this week’s call.

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