Andrew Cohen Interviewed in Israel part 2

During his Israeli tour in September of 2006 to inaugurate the new EnlightenNext center in Tel Aviv, Andrew Cohen was interviewed by Itay Mautner, a journalist from Mahut Hachayim (Essence of Life), a spiritual website.

They spoke about the nature of enlightenment, or spiritual freedom, and how the life conditions in Israel are not conducive for such freedom because Israelis are naturally preoccupied with survival. Cohen spoke about the urgent need to create a new moral and philosophical context for Israeli culture in order to overcome the materialism, narcissism, and cynicism that characterized secular society there at present. He emphasized the need to see life not in a limited national/cultural context, but as part of a very vast perspective-a 14-billion-year process.