This is an awakenedTV talk with Amy Edelstein, a senior teacher of Evolutionary Enlightenment. Amy is an Executive Assistant to Andrew Cohen and a founding member of EnlightenNext. The Awakened Campaign is my Conscious Service, and I thought it would be appropriate to share my luck with all...
I (Eagle de Botton) Was lucky to be introduced to the teaching of Evolutionary Enlightenment, about 3 years ago. A lot has happened since then, because it was opening for me a door to the understanding of the... purpose of life.
If you want to evolve and live awakened life, you would wish to read Evolutionary Enlightenment!

For more about Andrew Cohen, and the teaching of Evolutionary Enlightenment, visit EnlighenNext.net and andrewcohen.org

"The Evolution of Response" by Miles Kessler Sensei, the founder and director of Integral Dojo in Tel Aviv, Israel. An Evolutionary Aikido and Dharma Teacher, and a dear spiritual friend.
Miles spent a few hours in Zurich, on his way to teach in a Europe. It was a beautiful spring day, and we took a walk by the lake. I asked Miles to talk a little about Aikido. I had no idea... Aikido is indeed a Martial Art, just like I already knew, but it is also a lot more.
In Aikido, you shift your perspective to where you are actually at one with the other person. Aikido happens in relationship. It is about Awakened Relationship, eventually creating an awake and aware system. A system with its own intelligence. It is like awakened inspired musical jam session, creating an inter subjective space...

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Aikido Sensei, Miles Kessler, is a Dharma Teacher, and the director of the Integral Dojo, Tel-Aviv. Miles is also a good spiritual friend. On his latest teaching tour, he visited Zurich, and I was lucky to enjoy a short walk with him, on a sunny afternoon...
We were talking about life, evolution, the future, spiritual practice, music, and of course Aikido. Someone happened to have had an awakenedTV video camera... :) I will share it all!
This video clip is an excerpt of our conversation. Miles explain the need to integrate levels of development. Not only accept but embrace and integrate. As an example he ask me to tell him about my feeling when going to a synagog.

Spring 2012 - My spiritual friend Aikido Sensei Miles Kessler, the director of the new Tel Aviv Integral Dojo, came to Switzerland for a short teaching tour. We took a walk by the lake of Zurich enjoying the beautiful day, talking about Integral, the future of humanity, and the Integral Dojo in Tel Aviv. We decided to video for awakenedTV a short introduction to Aikido.
So, me and Miles got ready for the talk, the camera was rolling, and... my son Reuven was passing by the lake, and joined us for a few minutes. A few days before, both of my sons came back from a 5 month study in Israel. Both took the time to visit Integral Dojo activities in Tel Aviv.
The conversation with Reuven turned to be a good example for the good work done in Israel by Miles and the Integral Dojo.
The future coming ahead with the open mined young generation, and the teaching by the older guys, planting the seeds, looks great.

In this excerpt from an interview with Eagle de Botton, Jessica Roemischer speaks about the approach she uses to piano duet improvisation. She describes how, in duet at the piano, she creates for another human being an experience of trust and discovery which transcends any limitation or self-doubt. Jessica places this experience in an evolutionary context, and reveals why it has significance because it frees us from the fear which has characterized the span of our individual and collective human history.

Their work is about developing the individual and collective "consciousness" of a class of children. Nick Drummond and Joan Berland developed a learning program based on recognizing consciousness as always being a primary part of our experience. Although it is not easily seen or widely recognized, it is something that can be pointed to, described and developed. "As educators, this means learning how to give attention to the interior as well as the exterior dimension of the classroom environment..."
For more information about the work of Nick and Joan, please go to http://www.goodreality.org/education/dynamicdevelopment.html

This is an awakenedTV talk about Meditation. In this video dialogue, Eagle de Botton speak with Igal moria, about Meditation and its importance in the 21 century. Meditation provides the key to an unconditioned, wholesome, and profoundly free relationship to life.
At the end the dialogue, Igal Moria conduct a short session of guided meditation.

The Introduction starts with a radical distinction between conceptual-free-will and conscious-free-will, which forms the basis for the entire book. This sets the stage for your awakening to flourish as you integrate the unfolding perspectives into your current ways of being.

The Four Insights are the cornerstones of The Uncommon Path. This chapter prepares you for the exercises included later in the individual chapters on each of the Four Insights . This chapter is an overview of the Four Insights of Awakening that create and sustain the conditions for the awakened life. They guide you in identifying concealed
conditioning that may be affecting the outcome of your quest to awaken.
It will also show you how to unhinge the effects of shadow and concealed conditioning from your decision-making process, thus ending their reappearance in your future.

Awakening your full potential implies that you are a self-confident, self-reliant and an emotionally intelligent individual. Included in Chapter Two is a simple exercise on identifying and curing shadow. It is only when the 'I', or the Freudian Ego, is complete in you, that you are free to focus on the path of complete liberation. The second chapter goes on to help you identify the separate sense of-self and the ego - the part of humanity that is motivated by seemingly personal fear and desire, which is compounded by long-term interactions with family, media, culture and the world. Here, we also distinguish between the healthy and unhealthy aspects of the ego.
This chapter outlines several new perspectives on the independent force of conditioning, beginning with behaviors in which conditioning and unconsciousness are most obvious. Identifying the unhealthy-ego simultaneously reveals the awakened choices that allow you to transcend its influence in your life and relationships.

This chapter takes a lighthearted look at the origin of the separate sense-of-self and the ego-mind whose role it is to defend that concept. It explains how we unknowingly develop an attached to this 'me'-sense because of the natural process of development, which occurs between four to seven years of age.
Chapter 3 continues by describing the ways in which we craft and secure our separate sense-of-self and how we eventually are molded by the opportunities and limitations of our particular culture. We also discover that there are two ways to joy. This chapter explains what these two paths are, how to recognize them, and how to select the way for you that will allow the complete expression of your full potential. This chapter ends with a look at the ego's response to the process of dead and dying with a beautiful except from author and Diamond Way Buddhist teacher, Lama Ole Nydahl.

Trust in transformation transmutes turmoil into truth, and all limiting fears dissolve once you obtain objectivity on the opposition―the unhealthy-ego. Your suffTrust in transformation transmutes turmoil into truth, and all limiting fears dissolve once you obtain objectivity on the opposition―the unhealthy-ego. Your suffering, as well as the pain and distress you cause others, comes mostly from your inability to recognize resistance as the invitation of consciousness to evolve into a new direction in life for which you are already prepared.
We also see how anguish is not really caused by things that happen to you, but as a result of conscious or unconscious opposition to your evolution.
Chapter 4 reveals that often it takes more energy to pretend you are happy than it does to let go of unnecessary suffering. Stop resistance to change points the way to your release from all unnecessary suffering. ering, as well as the pain and distress you cause others, comes mostly from your inability...

Who you are is not just your thoughts!!!
The keys to acting, free of conditioned limitations, are to be revealed in Chapter 5 of The Uncommon Path. Our integral video series course, continue following the path to awakening. The ego loves a busy mind. Recognizing the unhealthy-ego's hand in your thinking, in esention for your liberation. Understanding that thoughts are a mechanical process of a healthy mind is the start to an awaken perspective.
A thought that is present in your awareness does not mean it has any significance for you or the world. It is your interpretation that is the key to freeing your mind from conditioned ways of thinking, and you can learn how to take control over it by disregarding thoughts that are not supportive to yopr desire to evolve.

Chapter 6 provides an applicable contemporary perspective on Karma. It outlines the relationship between action, intention, and karma.
Because of past deeds, we are all inclined to act in particular ways. So, we naturally assume that karma has to do with our actions. Important to understand that non action.
Chapter 6 also reveals the gift of karma. By recognizing that gift it can be transcended and we have the ability and choise to live awakened life free from creating Karma.

Words are the bridge between the the unmanifest and the manifest worlds.
It is you who has the power to create this bridge, and it is a tremendous power.
As we learn and understand, we have the a choice. The choosing faculty is to be used also here, and by using the right words we can create or degrade the conditions for awakened living and authentic joy.
Conversations can determine your destiny, and chapter 7 will show you how powerful words are.
Many so-called 'meaningful' conversations are nothing more than the ego in one person talking with itself in another person. This chapter provides dozens of ways and lots of examples to help you identify the presence of the unhealthy-ego in everyday conversations. The purpose is to show you where concealed conditioning is alive and thriving in dialogue so that you can transcend and include its influences there.
Our video dialog will give you the much needed worning signs, to avoid falling into the small ego trap. You will learn what are the favorite topics of the ego-mind so that you can be more mindfull before you step into that mine field. You will learn to identify the ego in another person as it speaks to you, and most important how to trancend conditioned conversation in your relevant relationships.
Last but not least, Chapter 7 will show you ways to empower your speech and listening with true compation. You will learn the difference between true awakened compation to idiot compation...