While I'm at my parents' house in Silverdale, Washington, visiting the family for xmas, the miracle of Evolutionary Enlightenment has been steadily unfolding, more and more, back at my real home--Foxhollow in Lenox, Massachusetts.  Foxhollow is the global center for EnlightenNext and the primary residence of my spiritual teacher, Andrew Cohen.  And there, on Christmas Eve, the liberating joy of what Ken Wilber has called "incarnational nonduality" was so palpable that Andrew felt compelled to blog about it.  (See: "Something to Celebrate: An unexpected experience of intersubjective Self-delight.")  It's a striking post--conveying the essence of his teachings in a disarmingly non-abstract, non-philosophical way--and I highly recommend you take a brief moment out of your busy day to check it out.

In other news... As you can see from my post below (and the pic above), I'm engaged to be married to a beautiful, smart, sweet, funny, and in-every-other-way-incredibly-awesome woman--and that marriage is happening...um...in 3 days!  (Gulp.)  It's a rather unconventional wedding, as my mother tried to explain to a woman at Ben Bridge jewelers in the Silverdale Mall the other night, since it's happening in a context of Evolutionary Enlightenment (not your standard Christian or Jewish or secular wedding)...and there are five other couples involved!  (See my friend and EnlightenNext coworker Ellen Daly's post about it here.)  It also isn't technically a wedding at all, since there's no ceremony and the legal certificate has be had independently, if any couples so choose--but for all meaningful purposes, it's a marriage.  See, we're in the business of creating a revolution in consciousness and culture, subverting wacked ancient traditions and limited fixed ideas at every turn, so it's all part of the evolutionary agenda...

After all, what would it really mean for two autonomous, independent, spiritually liberated human beings to come together in the most intimate communion possible while not losing sight, even for a second, of their own radical freedom and the vast Kosmic and evolutionary context in which they abide?  For two selves grounded in the truth of One Self to then meet and act and evolve the very nature of human relationship with that Self being the primary reference point for all engagement and interaction?  Not the two becoming One (which is what tantra is about), but the One expressing itself as two, in space and time and real life...egolessly...with not a trace of karma being created in the nondual process.

At least, that's the theory.  And it's quite a bold prospect... Something radically new to prove possible to a cynical world that has a very screwed up and complicated relationship to romance and sexuality... But I think I'm up for the challenge.  I mean, it certainly beats the samsaric alternative.  Our world could use a few healthy examples of genuine commitment and egoless love...

Right?

In the off chance that you aren't already a subscriber to the exemplary publication known as What Is Enlightenment? magazine, there are now plentiful copies of WIE's best issue yet--Issue 35! (or "i35," as we call it back home)--abounding at Borders, Barnes & Noble, and other fine bookstores and magazine retail establishments.  The above picture of my hands was taken at the Silverdale, Washington, Barnes and Noble store a few days ago.

And if Will's beautiful cover isn't persuasion enough for you, rest assured, this issue is just as gorgeous on the inside.  It's informative.  It's groovy.  It's even kinda sexy, in a post-trans-hyper-Darwinian sorta way.  Plus, it'll teach you everything you ever wanted to know about the nature of physical and spiritual evolution but were afraid to ask.  Check out the Table of Contents to see all the cool stuff we packed inside this one (quite nicely, I might add).  You can even preview the issue by reading one of its feature articles here.  And then, after your appetite for conscious cosmogenesis is sufficiently whetted, just mosey on down to your local bookstore to purchase your very own copy, today! 

Operators are standing by.  The evolutionary train waits for nobody . . .

(No, we editors aren't paid on commission.  We just take healthy pride in our work. :)