E.Com Dispatch: Adyashanti Audio & ChipIn Request

E.Com Dispatch: Adyashanti Audio & ChipIn Request

January 17th, 2007

by Jordan Gruber

This Enlightenment.Com Dispatch Contains:

1.    Hello & Here's the News: It's a Dispatch, Not a Newsletter...
2.    Thank You!

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1. Hello & Here's The News It's a Dispatch, Not a Newsletter...

And so, this is a Dispatch, not a Newsletter. If it were a Newsletter, it would have all the things you've come to expect, including book and other reviews, essays, and at least some personal rants on my part. Instead, as a Dispatch, there are only two pieces of news here:

<http://enlightenmentchannel.com/adya1.html>First, we have just put up over 70 free minutes of what we feel is a really top-quality interview with Adyashanti, an enlightened spiritual teacher who hails out of Silicon Valley, right in Enlightenment.Com's own backyard. I'd be surprised if you didn't enjoy this and perhaps even learn a little, as Jeramy Hale, Enlightenment.Com's President, and myself (Jordan), have a wonderful time with Adyashanti by asking him what we most want to know about.

It's just the type of no-nonsense, far-out but commonsensical, material that is typical of Enlightenment.Com's efforts over the last 11 years. And it's entirely free. No catch.

Second, OK, I lied, there's always a catch, or rather, as Heinlein said, TANSTAAFL ("there ain't no such thing as a free lunch"). If you listen to and enjoy this interview (or have read, listened to, or watched our other interviews over time and enjoyed them), we'd like to ask you to <http://www.enlightenment.com>use ChipIn, found on our front page, to help us defray the cost of continuing to maintain and expand the site.

Think, for just one minute, about the domain name "Enlightenment.Com." Think about how easy it would be for an energy company or a sports company or a perfume company to snatch it up if they could.

But will we let that happen? No, because we believe in the long-term purpose and place of Enlightenment.Com. We believe that it has its own "entelechy," and that one day it will unfold into the kind of evolution advancing, consciousness raising, and tranformative portal that it has always wanted to be.

There's a good chance that Enlightenment.Com will morph into a 501(c)3 non-profit entity at some point, and that it will eventually embody an Enlightenment Consumer's Reports like function, a broadcasting function, and an immersive multi-media game function. We need your vision, we need your energy, we need your volunteering, and we need your financial support.

http://www.enlightenment.com

So, if you can help us out just a little bit – all contributions are welcome – before Jan. 30th comes around and our fund raising campaign is over, we'd be mighty grateful. Please support our work, and the online urge to enlightenment.

-- Jordan Gruber and the rest of the Enlightenment.Com Team (especially Gabriel DeWitt and Jeramy Hale)

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2. Thank You!

Thanks for opening and reading this newsletter. Thanks to both Gabriel and Jeramy for making the Adyashanti interview into an online reality, and thanks also to Adyashanti and Patti for spending time with us.

Enlightenment.Com is what you make it, and we appreciate everything that you have helped to make it so far. As we bring more audio and video online, we think that the pathway to EVOLUTION:COMMUNITY:TRANSFORMATION will be somewhat accelerated, and we invite you to join us on that journey.

Blessings to You,

Jordan Gruber, Founder, CEO, and Editor-in-Chief, Enlightenment.Com

P.S. For those closely following Ken Wilber, you'll be glad to know that he's doing much better once again, although he may not be able to talk very well for the next year...

© 2007, Enlightenment.Com, Inc., and Jordan Gruber