Editor's Picks for February (Audio)

1. Mo Collins and Stuart Davis • OK, Now What? (The Many Levels of Laughter)
2. Mark Palmer and Ken Wilber • Beyond Race and Racism: An Integral Approach
3. Darren Aronofsky and Stuart Davis • The Fountain and The Cure for Altitude Sickness
4. Father Thomas Keating and Ken Wilber • Shadow, States, and Stages. Part 1. Meditation, Interpretation, and the 1-2-3 of God.
5. E.J. Gold and Stuart Davis • The American Book of the Dead. Part 1. Training to Transition.

Editor's Picks for February (Video)

1. Stuart Davis • The Stuart Davis Show: Episode 2 (With Special Guest Aja Pink Davis)
2. Sophia Diaz • Indian Temple Dance
3. Michael Zimmerman • We're Not In Gaia, She's In Us
4. Ken Wilber • Occupational Hazards of the X and Y Chromosomes
5. Fred Kofman • Being, Consciousness, Bliss

Welcome to the new Letter From the Editor blog, hosted on our very own Community Server!

This is Corey deVos, the newly-appointed Brand Manager for Integral Naked.  The great Casey Capshaw has transcluded his duties as Brand Manager by becoming our resident Marketing Wizard, furthering his bodhisattva vow to bring the most depth to the most span.  It has been a very natural transition, as I've been working with Integral Naked from the very beginning in a variety of ways, most notably customer support, audio editing, and forum administration.  I've even had a few brief stints on Integral Naked myself =)

It is in a very literal sense my dream come true to serve Integral Institute in this way, managing both Integral Naked and KenWilber.com, two of the most beautiful and powerful websites I have ever seen.  I remember sitting in Ken's loft almost four years ago with the other members of iNext, listening to Ken explain how he was going to start recording conversations with his friends and create a website to distribute them.  We all thought it was a cool idea, but I don't think any of us knew how momentous it would all become.

I am sure most of you have seen the Multiplex, the beautiful constellation of websites that we have just begun to deploy.  It is truly astounding--mesmerizing in fact--to behold this crystallization of second-tier consciousness, this evolutionary foothold I feel this sort of endeavor represents.  And it is extremely humbling to realize that all of this was possible only because of Integral Naked, the "I-I Tugboat."  Which is to say, this was possible only because of you.  Which is to say this was possible only because of the almost erotic evolutionary drive toward self-organization and self-transcendence.  But let's keep this about you, shall we?

It was, after all, your passion for knowledge, your love of integral, and, well, your financial support that is allowing the integral vision to begin to take root into the world.  And I am sure i speak for the entire team when I confess how deeply and profoundly grateful we are to all of you for making this possible.  We've been dragging our sticks in the sand for awhile now, and it's nice to feel like we are all actually making a groove together.  Just when the world needs it the most.

Corey W. deVos
Brand Manager, Integral Naked