In honour of the Birth of Evolutionary Enlightenment in real time on July 30th 2001.
Nothing Andrew Cohen’s former student naysayers can say touches the fact that everything Andrew fought for in the crucible of his student body did, and is, bearing undeniably real, radical, transformative fruit. The power of this revelation and comprehensive understanding cannot be denied or stopped. If you want to understand what is the difference between the Old and New Enlightenment and what it took to birth and forge this emergence then take a journey through these pages…
My own account of the culmination on July 30th 2001 can be read here.
Long live the Revolution!
Pete Bampton
By Elisa Mishory
As a student of Andrew Cohen’s I spent six years in a formal celibacy practice that transformed me into a sane human being. Having grown up in Los Angeles in the 1970’s, I had had a very “liberal” education on sex. Though I didn’t feel at home as a “valley girl”, in many respects that is indeed what I was. Sex, drugs and rock and roll were driving forces in LA culture, and in my peer group it was anathema to reach your Sweet Sixteen still, well, ‘sweet and innocent’. This sexually charged environment was reinforced by my experience as an only child of a single mother with nearly no male family members, which left me feeling starved for male attention. And then there was my first high school job working as a cashier in a large men’s clothiers, and needless to say, my Sweet Sixteen was right on schedule!
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