Author Description

Invoking the Authentic Self is Tim Mansfield’s account of the rise and fall of EnlightenNext, the pioneering spiritual community to which he belonged for 19 years. American spiritual teacher, Andrew Cohen, was the community’s leader who, with his teachings of evolutionary enlightenment, inspired tens of thousands of people around the world. For many years the community’s main residence was Foxhollow, an historic estate located in the Berkshire hills of western Massachusetts. If you’ve ever wanted to know what daily life in the company of a powerful spiritual figure might be like, this book will satisfy your curiosity. Fast forward to 2013, the year the Foxhollow community imploded, which in turn caused the closure of EnlightenNext’s other worldwide Centres. No one had foreseen the implosion or imagined the reviling of Andrew Cohen that followed. But for Tim Mansfield those events in no way negate the previous quarter of a century of Cohen's work, and in this book he seeks to affirm the power of evolutionary enlightenment and commend the people who worked together for a higher cause.