Thank you, Jim W. "I think" (or "imagine," see below) is the key. Don't quote me, but it could have happened. Maybe Cohen bumped into such RS-I expression by someone we know, or got it from the same well we did, like the one H. R. Niebuhr drew water from. Anyway, Cohen is making more and more sense, and this book especially. Thanks, Darrell, for sending the quote, and thank you, Jann M., for plugging the book when it came out last fall. John C. And thanks, Marshall Jones, for your e-mail yesterday. BTW, have you moved back our way yet? _____ From: John Cock [mailto:jpc2025@triad.rr.com] Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2012 1:57 PM To: 'Colleague Dialogue' Subject: RE: [Dialogue] Creating the future He had RS-I at age 19, in Paducha, taught by Slicker--I think. _____ From: dialogue-bounces@lists.wedgeblade.net [mailto:dialogue-bounces@lists.wedgeblade.net] On Behalf Of darrell walker Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2012 1:16 PM To: Dialogue Subject: [Dialogue] Creating the future Colleagues, Echoes from the past. This quote from Evolutionary Enlightenment--A New Path to Spiritual Awakening by Andrew Cohen (Select Books New York 2011, p. 205): The future is not a given. What's going to happen is not already known and is not predetermined. The higher stages of consciousness and culture that lie in front of us do not yet exist. This sounds like a simple point, but it is profound. Many of us who are spiritually inspired tend to subscribe to metaphysical worldviews that tell us that the higher levels and stages of development are already laid out. But they're not. The newly emerging potentials in consciousness and culture have not yet appeared with enough consistency to become self-existing levels, or new "habits" in the interior fabric of the cosmos. They only come into being to the degree that you and I consciously participate together to develop those higher capacities in ourselves . . . This is why the awakening human at the leading edge today bears such a profound responsibility to be an evolutionary pioneer--to be the one who is literally living in that place between the present and the future. Darrell Walker - Phoenix