Andrew Cohen (spiritual Teacher) - Biography

Biography

Cohen was born in New York City in 1955 in an upper-middle class secular Jewish household. Cohen recounts that his life was changed by a spontaneous experience of "cosmic consciousness" at the age of sixteen. He eventually met the Advaita Vedanta master H. W. L. Poonja in 1986. After spending three weeks with Poonja, Cohen began to teach. Later, philosophical and personal disagreements created a split between the two. Cohen has been teaching his spiritual philosophy, which he refers to as "Evolutionary Enlightenment", since 1986.

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