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I’m reviewing a book for the next issue of WIE called Charles Fort: The Man Who Invented the Supernatural by Jim Steinmeyer. It’s an utterly captivating portrait of Fort’s peculiar life and work, about which I knew very little before reading Steinmeyer’s book. Having weaned my fledgling imagination, as a kid, on Time-Life’s […]

Here it is, What Is Enlightenment? Issue 40, available now at a newsstand near you!
Here’s my compelling description of the issue, written in marketing-ese:
Ever since Copernicus proved that the universe doesn’t revolve around Earth, humanity’s place in the cosmos has steadily continued to shrink. But we may be far more central to the universe than […]

While we’re in the midst of the proofing, tweaking, brain-numbing stage of dealing with all the excruciating minutiae that’ll allow us to get Issue 40 of WIE out the door and off to the presses, I thought I’d post this short clip of the awesome opening scene from the movie Contact, since I was thinking […]

There’s a great interview on Salon.com with the brilliant evolutionary theologian John F. Haught — who was featured in WIE Issue 35 — on his new book, God and the New Atheism: A Critical Response to Dawkins, Harris, and Hitchens. I haven’t seen the book yet, but the publisher has assured us a […]

In the next issue of WIE (i.e., the one after the brand new issue soon to be at Borders, Chapters, Whole Foods, and Barnes & Noble stores near you), we’ll be featuring an interview with Joel Primack, one of the pioneers of the theory of “cold dark matter,” the mysterious invisible substance that supposedly makes […]

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While researching ideas for a potential little section called “Atheists with Attitude” for the next issue of WIE, I came across this awesome deconstruction of Richard Dawkins’ book The God Delusion. It’s called, fittingly, “The Dawkins Confusion” and was written by Alvin Plantinga, a philosophy professor at Notre Dame. His ripping conclusion beautifully dovetails off […]

Here it is, the one and only WIE Issue 38, featuring ultra-progressive, inherently-integral inquiries into techno-environmentalism, the contemporary geopolitical scene, and “super-integral” possibilities at the leading edge of consciousness exploration. Plus articles on evolutionary Christianity, integral music, the fallacies of “self-esteem,” the narcissistic peril and future potential of Second Life (written by Thomas de […]

Here it is, Issue 37, the latest edition of WIE — and one of our most provocative yet. It’ll be arriving in subscriber’s mailboxes starting this week and at newsstands near you in a couple of weeks:

It’s an awesome issue, written mostly by the female members of our staff. For a preview of one of […]

Since July 2003, I’ve been on the staff of What Is Enlightenment? magazine as an editor and writer. Here are some of the more substantial pieces I’ve written for WIE:
FEATURES & REVIEWS
Anarchy in the Sangha
A combo review of Noah Levine’s Against the Stream and Brad Warner’s Sit Down and Shut Up
Issue 38
Which Came First: […]

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