Andrew Cohen is a comedian, podcaster, and filmmaker living in Stamford, Connecticut. Since 2015, he has recorded a twice-weekly podcast know as Five Live Comedy where he talks about his life as a teenage comedian and how society effects teenagers. It originally started off as a Youtube channel before switching to podcasting last October. He ended it in 2017. Since 2017, he has run a podcast called Getting Real With Andrew Cohen where he interviews teenage celebrities who are doing great things with their lives. People who have appeared on his show include Michael Campion, Ashley Liao, Robert Capron, and Jeremy Ray Taylor. Andrew has started to perform more stand up and made his club debut at Caroline's on Broadway this past November. He performed alongside 8 other teenage comics and he hopes to continue doing more clubs in the future. Andrew also has recorded a stand-up-special, Andrew Cohen: Get With The Times, which is now on Youtube. In addition to comedy and podcasting, Andrew is also a filmmaker. He is currently writing and acting on the TV show, Art Less, which was created by his friend, Gabriel Fowler. Andrew's next project is called Wallington, a musical dramedy about a young girl who moves from a small town in Ohio to Wallington NY, which is home to the greatest high school band in the world. It centers on her experience through this band and how it effects her life and the people around her. In his free time, Andrew likes to play Trumpet in his school's jazz combo and watch Netflix.
Member of American Cinema Editors (ACE).
Member of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences
The secret of enlightenment is the absolute, unequivocal conviction that it exists. What does that mean? It means you have discovered an unshakable confidence in the fact of nonduality—in the perennial mystical revelation that IT IS and I AM THAT. A confidence in that which can never be seen or known is the very ground of the enlightened state. Being is ungraspable, it’s unknowable, it’s ever elusive, and yet it is the only place you can find true confidence in life. Why? Because it is the very source of life itself. The conscious experience of Being, which is what enlightenment is, has always been the ultimate answer to the most fundamental spiritual questions: Who am I? and Why am I here? Those who have tasted enlightened awareness find that in that experience, any trace of existential doubt and all the questions that go along with it instantaneously disappear. It’s not even that they are answered, but rather, the questions lose their meaning. When you locate the nonrelative, or absolute, nature of consciousness in the depths of your own self, it is experienced as a clarity that is empty of content; a weightiness that is full of nothing in particular; a profound knowing that dissolves all questions. In that questionless state, you find yourself profoundly rooted and radically free, supported by an absolute confidence in the knowing of no-thing that changes everything. The experience of that empty ground is the answer—the one answer that always liberates each and every one of us. You simply know, unequivocally, before thought, that I am. That’s the only answer: I AM. There is no why.
One of the most extraordinary things about being a spiritual teacher is the rare privilege of being able to look deeply into the very souls of many human beings at the same time.
Almost all the ideas we have about being a man or being a woman are so burdened with pain, anxiety, fear and self-doubt. For many of us, the confusion around this question is excruciating.
