Joseph Szimhart | When Shadow Meets the Bodhisattva: Andrew Cohen and Hegel’s totalism @josephszimhart9431 | Uploaded March 2023 | Updated October 2024, 1 hour ago.
Followup on previous comments on Andrew Cohen’s new book and evolution of consciousness project (cult?) called Manifest Nirvana. The latter project is based on two highly flawed if not outright false assumptions: that Andrew Cohen and company were ever “enlightened” and that “consciousness” evolves either according to K Wilber’s Spectrum of Consciousness scheme or in this generation’s lifetime.
Quoting George Steiner from his slim collection of essays, In Bluebeard’s Castle (1971): “There are currently, particularly in the United States, some fashionable, silly theories about total revolution of consciousness. Mutations of internal structure do not occur at such a rate.” (In a Post-Culture, p 91).
Manifest Nirvana is a hoax. The very language encourages techniques and religious strategies (hybrid Western Buddhism) to mentally force Nirvana or enlightenment. Darwin would be amused at this comical thought experiment as would Kierkegaard.
See my take on Hegel via Kierkegaard
youtu.be/mI0iv64FvIw
#kenwilber
#manifest.nirvana
Book review here:
jszimhart.com/reviews/when-shadow-meets-the-bodhisattva
Followup on previous comments on Andrew Cohen’s new book and evolution of consciousness project (cult?) called Manifest Nirvana. The latter project is based on two highly flawed if not outright false assumptions: that Andrew Cohen and company were ever “enlightened” and that “consciousness” evolves either according to K Wilber’s Spectrum of Consciousness scheme or in this generation’s lifetime.
Quoting George Steiner from his slim collection of essays, In Bluebeard’s Castle (1971): “There are currently, particularly in the United States, some fashionable, silly theories about total revolution of consciousness. Mutations of internal structure do not occur at such a rate.” (In a Post-Culture, p 91).
Manifest Nirvana is a hoax. The very language encourages techniques and religious strategies (hybrid Western Buddhism) to mentally force Nirvana or enlightenment. Darwin would be amused at this comical thought experiment as would Kierkegaard.
See my take on Hegel via Kierkegaard
youtu.be/mI0iv64FvIw
#kenwilber
#manifest.nirvana
Book review here:
jszimhart.com/reviews/when-shadow-meets-the-bodhisattva
