The Evolution of Enlightenment Pt 6 - Andrew Cohen

so so I feel very much that for the postmodern self that um that when we realize how important we are it's G to it's going to it's going to help in in a way that nothing else had to liberate ourselves from being trapped in our small selves and when I and the reason I'm saying that we're so important is because if we didn't exist in the highly developed form that we do now the energy and intelligence that initiated the creative process or God for lack of a better word which is who we all really are anyway would be would would not be able to not only behold what he she created but even more importantly wouldn't be able to take responsibility for for the for the very process that he or she created because if God created the universe if right if if he she it is the energy and intelligence that initiated the creative process imagine what happened was something like something like you're going to do something but you know once you do it you're going to fall into a state of unconsciousness so once once that energy and intelligence took the leap from formlessness into form like a big deep breath was taken and then and when then that's when the Big Bang happened there was this big leap from formlessness into form and then all of manifestation emerged but the energy and intelligence that created it went into an unconscious State there's like energy and intelligence can work uncons consciously your heart is beating right there there's your heart's being monitored your lungs are working your all your Biologicals you're never thinking about it you're not aware of it right so in the same way The evolutionary process has been evolving in unconsciously but now as we awaken to it the process awakens to itself so the whole evolutionary process the co the cosmos awakens to itself through us and that's why you're important that's why I'm important that's why we're important and believe me when you discover this not just theoretically or intellect seually but but authentically you know when these are not just mere words it changes your life because then you know a lot of spiritual teachers like tell people you know you are unique you are wonderful but this is just to me this is the worst thing you can tell a narcissist you're because because that's what people want to hear anyway and it and and it's not necessarily true I mean how you know some people are more wonderful than others a lot of people aren't that wonderful oops sorry but but when you begin to realize that the reason why you're so important is because of the because of Your Capacity not only to cognize the whole process but even ultimately take responsibility for where it's going that makes you really important do you get my point I mean it could not get bigger it could not get bigger it could not get more profound it could not get more significant and so the um the Awakening or the kind of the awaken or the new Enlightenment you know that's is really going to be very much about this because really if you can understand this nothing else really makes sense you see because so much of the postmodern uh post-traditional spirituality is really about how can I find a way to cope to feel better about my Neurosis about my fears about my anxieties about all the things that we experience which might be okay but it's still very much all about the individual the whole point of this new Awakening is that is that you realize that this that the life experience you're having now is not really about you never has been it's not about your experience and your process and your journey I mean that's part of it but that's not the point that's all by the way it's and and it and it becomes very obviously by the way when you begin to get who you really are when you begin to cognize and grasp how big this process is and how dependent the evolution of the process is on you because if you don't take responsibility for where the process is going what's going to happen cuz if you remember if there's nobody up there who's driving the who's if the image I like to use the picture I like to use or image I like to use to kind of explain this to people if you imagine that you were asleep and then you began to wake up you began to open your eyes and then s and you and then you realize that you were in the back of a car you know and the car was moving but as you were awakened you realized there was nobody in the driver's seat right so that's kind of where we are because you remember in the premodern era we thought you know there was there was there was a Divine being who was in the driver's seat but now we realize there is no Divine being in the driver's seat or so let me put it this way there has been a Divine being in the driver's seat up until somewhere around now which is true because because you know because you know we didn't we didn't end up here by by accident you know we didn't end up here by when you really get it see when you really get it it totally destroys your ego because you it terrifies you it's frightening and it's also the most thrilling kind of Awakening you can have because you real you really realize in the biggest possible way that this is really that it's completely up to you it's completely up to you that you and also you realize and this is hard to get but it's true that from a non-relative or absolute or non-u perspective from who else could have decided to create the universe except you if all would all the mystics have said from you know from ever since human beings had the capacity for mystical Awakening they all say the same thing there's only one it's it's a perennial mystical Awakening is is is that there is that there's only one so if there if so and if they all say the same thing they must be on to something so if it's true that there's only one then that means that you have to be and could not be other than that one without a second you you beyond the beyond the ego beyond the experience or sense of separateness you have to be that one without a second because who else could you be who else could any of us be so if you are that one without a second that means you have to be the only one that could have made the audacious decision to create the universe in the first place right who else could have done it there is no just one second just one second I don't know if I'm gonna make it but I'll be just I I just want to finish I promise if I don't if I if I have time I'll answer in here and I promise if I don't I'll be outside what if all this is wrong see I know let me finish I knew this just let me finish that so the point is anything's possible but um so so if you realize if there's only one without a second then you have to you have to go and if even if you only get there by pure by pure deductive reasoning you have to know if it's true there's only one that means from an absolute or non-relative point of view you have to be one one with the what whatever however that you that that decision was made by by by who you who you were to do all this the point is it's you it's you and you alone that made the choice to make all this happen way back then and remember when the universe was created what the first remember in the first whatever it was billions of a second all the matter in the universe could fit on the head of a pin so we were all there together we were all very coly all there together before this all split up but the point is not not only are we this we the we we the that one without a second that chose to create the universe but we are that same one and that same only one right now that are in a position to take responsibility for where it's all going because we're the only ones that have the capacity especially at very high levels of development in deeply expanded States Of Consciousness to be able to cognize the whole process that's what God is God is the energy and intelligence created the the the the the whole process and also it's you it's It's Your Capacity to cognize become aware of it all when you awaken to that Godlike perspective that's what God is God doesn't exist Beyond Your Capacity to cognize him or it there is no God separate from you and you have to realize how profound that is because what that means is and why that's so important is if it's true then then we all have to take responsibility or strive to take responsibility for what that means you know and that's awesome it's overwhelming it's terrifying it's big it's it's the biggest it's the biggest possible predicament we could be in but it's so positive