Andrew Cohen: You Are It

this particular teaching is all about the horrible exhilarating Awakening to the fact that you're it and and you see to get the the the postmodern self at the Leading Edge to Grapple with this absolute fact this absolute truth I am it is really what this teaching is all about you know and it's not theoretical especially when you really get into it it's like are and because if you are it you know oh my god really I resign no but you can't resign because you're here see when you really realize it you can't resign because you are already here and the point is either what I'm saying is true or it's not true either you are it or you're not if you're not it then you don't you can forget everything I've been saying for 3 hours doesn't really matter anyway it's irrelevant but if you are it then that means the future depends upon you because you are it you're the only one who's really in the driver's seat anyway you're the only one who ever has been if that's the great great post postmodern Awakening or Enlightenment if that's what it is then you will you will suddenly feel like on the spot I'm sure in a way that you never have in your life because you can't possibly be more on the spot than this that's about as on the spot as any human being could ever be that for you actually to be it see and that's when the stakes get about as big as they can possibly be that's when the ego is experiences the the an literally an absolute threat to its dominance or dominion over the vehicle which is what this is and that's when yourself at the level of the soul is facing is is is is sees its biggest challenge am I willing to embrace you know the ultimate challenge of being that the only one who can possibly take this NE Next Step because it really is on my shoulders am I willing to be that heroic am I be really being willing to be the one to create the future am I willing to to transcend the individual Collective ego and narcissism and all the inherent materialistic and narcissistic values that are part and parcel of that worldview am I willing to make any and all effort to Step Beyond all that so I can authentically be that one without a second that I am in order to create the future or not and then and then what your face but is a is a moral dilemma and then then your spiritual practice or your relationship life gets really real because and this in in terms of seeing all this as processed is is this is the it's one of the very unique things I've been trying to do with this teaching for a long time and to be completely honest with you up until only very recently most of the people who have been my students haven't understood it because it's when you get the individual to begin to to Grapple with the mor the inherently moral implications of being a cosmos centrically aware and awakened human being at the beginning of the 21st century you know the The evolutionary tension which is a posit The evolutionary tension that's experienced all is all inspiring it's overwhelming the ego doesn't want to have anything to do with it the ego says leave me alone I want to go back to my own life I have my own problems already what are you dumping the future of the cosmos on my own shoulders for that's how that's how the ego feels about it and which is true but that's when you see that but that's when the evolving self it um can begin to authentically discern the the difference between what it means to be a world centrically aware awake individual versus one who's cosmocentric awake and aware in a way that's not merely cognitive then you begin to experience emotionally psychologically and existentially and at any and every other level of yourself what what you're actually dealing with here what you're facing with which is the future of this whole process