Every year I tell myself the same thing: I’m not going to get caught up in the hectic schedule of visiting every single person in my extended family, or buying presents for a long list of people and all the other things that come with the Christmas holiday season. And every single year the exact […]
In Buddhism there is this concept of Dharma which is the law of nature and of suffering. I was at a meditation retreat this past fall about confidence and compassion when one of the teachers of the group made a joke that we weren’t just talking about clear dharma that weekend we were also talking […]
The ancient Romans loved their gods, and they had many. Modern society could probably use a few more gods to grant us perspective and the occasional favor. Regardless of how much any person believed in the divine existence of the dozens of deities, they still served a purpose. The polytheistic world gave people a focus […]
Kinky folks, myself included, are often completely obsessed with genesis. I don’t mean the one in the Christian bible, but rather their own genesis, “how they came to be the kinky person they are”. A good friend of mine, the sex therapist Dr. Gloria Brame, says that it’s incredibly common for kinksters to carry around […]
“Swans mate for life.” Heard that before? I’m sure someone reading this has. Just one problem – closer scientific observation has shown that it ain’t necessarily so. Some swans cheat, have open marriages, and even divorce. Besides, we’re not swans. We’re not even in the same class. So why do some religious folks try to […]
Being a male at this time on the planet, it is somewhat disappointing to see the lack of concern among my fellow men to work on internal issues. We have been taught to deal with everything externally, instead of dealing with our inner emotions and blockages that hold us back from evolving. For most of […]
I decided to meditate before a play session earlier this month. I had a busy morning. I had some spiritual meetings to attend before I came back to being present for a play session, and since I was hyper-focused on everything going on, short of what I really should have been focusing on, I decided […]
The first time I stepped inside a Catholic church was in Quito, Ecuador. I was a college student living abroad and fascinated by the cathedral that sat at the center of the city. The flagstones leading to the entrance were worn by the footsteps of thousands of feet and almost black with age and grime. […]
At this moment in time a paradigm shift is occurring that is reawaking the divine feminine a lot faster than the divine masculine. Within this shift women are starting to step more into their power by trusting their natural intuitive gifts, stepping outside of the perspective of just being a mother and wife and embracing […]
Much like many kinky people, I’m often prone to over-analyze things. This has been a source of much suffering in my life. Back when I was a kid, and having my first shameful fantasies about getting spanked, I used to obsess about it. Was it bad that I wanted these things? I tortured myself for […]