Choicelessly Captivated by the Future

When you begin to get in touch with what I call the Authentic Self or evolutionary impulse, a spiritual passion and vision for as yet unmanifest higher potentials spontaneously awakens, and your awareness becomes mysteriously and choicelessly captivated by how those potentials can be actualized. This dynamic, future-oriented, and ecstatically inspired state is the felt experience of the Authentic Self. It emerges when the inner eye has become fascinated and compelled by the ever-unfulfilled promise of creating the future at a higher level than what exists in the present moment. When the awakening to this powerful spiritual urgency becomes one’s irrevocable attainment and permanent state, one has surely landed on the yonder shore, where the evolutionary impulse has become the driving force or fundamental principle guiding the body, mind, and soul. The fears and desires of the individual and collective ego have now become subjugated to the creative passion and ecstatic urgency of the Authentic Self. Andrew Cohen http://www.andrewcohen.org/