In Andrew’s teaching, the ego has two dimensions. The positive ego, which is the coherent, emotionally healthy self-organising principle of the frontal self. This is contrasted with the negative ego - the unhealthy, neurotic, wounded and divided self.
The truth is that enlightenment does not simply depend upon transcending ego. It depends upon the fatal wounding and ultimate transcendence of a very specific dimension of what Andrew calls the negative ego.
In postmodernity, this particular dimension of self has been given an elevated status that is, tragically, creating an almost impenetrable barrier to authentic spiritual awakening or enlightenment for countless people.
This barrier to enlightenment has become a cultural phenomenon. It has stealthily crept into the spiritual conversation, in the process attaining a seemingly venerated and sacred status. If left unchecked and unexamined, Andrew Cohen argues, it will keep us all imprisoned - spiritually unfree - forever.
To discover how a specific dimension of self is keeping you apart from ultimate freedom - and most importantly how it is absolutely possible in this life, here and now, to transcend it - join Andrew Cohen, live and direct from the Manifest Nirvana campus in Tiruvannamalai.
12 сен 2024
