Andrew Cohen on What is Enlightenment?
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Who’s Enlightenment?
According to the publishers of What is Enlightenment magazine, the enlightenment movement is about “finding new ways to think and new answers to the difficult questions that are the challenge of our moment in history. Those answers,” publishers argue, “can only be found by looking freshly at the emerging reality around us, without relying on older solutions that were sufficient for simpler problems.” But just what are those new solutions, and what reality are they addressing?
Andrew Cohen, fonder of What is Enlightenment, Insists that his study into what he calls, “evolutionary spirituality,” is a science-based method of reaching what we on ETFF consider to be progressive social change. We agree with Mr. Cohen on the goal, but it seems to us that he is disingenuous about his claim that his movement is scientific.
This program will be a discussion with Mr. Cohen on methods of enlightenment – naturalistic vs. supernaturalistic.