Creating New Agreements
As awakening human beings at the leading edge of culture, we need to do a lot of thinking about what it means to live a purposeful and meaningful life, and what it would look like to deeply succeed in evolving, individually and together. There is not a shared agreement about these matters, even among those individuals who are committed to the evolution of consciousness and culture. So these questions are ones we need to contemplate and explore very carefully, very objectively, and with keen discernment, so that we can come to some agreements about what we are working toward. Culture is always based on shared agreements, and unless we create new ones, our efforts to evolve will inevitably remain rooted in shared values and perspectives that are probably historically outdated. When we become evolutionarily enlightened and begin to experience new and higher values that are not shared by many, it is critical that we make the effort to objectify them, to articulate them, and to agree upon them with others. This is the only way we will actually see where we are going.
 
Andrew Cohen