I pour myself to sleep many nights either by masturbating or by reading a book… a form of intellectual masturbation that fills me with something good before bidding Nyx to wisk me away in her arms for the night. Tonight’s book is “The Omnivore’s Dilemma” by Michael Pollan… and I was so struck tonight by [...]
About a year ago, Ming called me up. “Is there a body mod to make my finger tip smaller?” I paused, well, yes, likely there is, I thought… but… “Why do you want to make your finger smaller?” “Because on my iPhone, I keep hitting the wrong buttons. My fingers are too fat. I can’t [...]
“A bucket is not a river.” -JD Lenzen My friend JD, author of Soft Candy and fantastic artist, said this to me the other day as we discussed life, rope, philosophy and more. He was speaking of his experience giving kids tours of wilderness areas. Each child scooped up a bucket full of sand, rocks, [...]
“Queer, Kinky, and Spiritual” by Lee Harrington for TheScavenger.net http://tinyurl.com/yg2zh6m Why are so many queer folk kinky and why are so many kinky people pagan or following their own spiritual path? Lee Harrington offers some thoughts. There are many spiritual journeyers who experiment with sexual exploration as well. I breathed in and thought on these [...]
My book is refusing to stay quiet. Gr. I am right now working on the Path of Breath, and tools that use breath (actually, I wrote this the other day, at this moment I am writing about chakra blockages), and Prayer was one of the tools I wrote about. It wanted to come out and [...]
The following essay is from my upcoming book “Sacred Kink: The Eightfold Paths of Alternative Sex and BDSM” and is unedited. But it stared at me and said it could not wait in here, in me, until Halloween… so it goes out, raw, beautiful, uncut into the world for you. Sole/Soul: The Conscious Art of [...]
At ShibariCon, I did a version of my class “Sacred Ropes.” Each time I do that class, different truths come out of my mouth, and this time, it seems the one everyone needed to hear, or at least the one that has gotten a LOT of response, was my concept of an “un-handfasting.” I told [...]
It comes again. The discussion that keeps mulling around in my head, that has come up twice in under 24 hours. The issue of animism, the belief that things have souls, and where it intersects with humans who are things, and things that we have relationships with. The video above is about a few women [...]
When I decided at the age of 26 that I was going to finally gender transition, I was lovingly informed that I had to hang up my heels and become a real guy. One photographer friend of mine offered to give me “dude lessons” (sadly, not a euphemism for having sex with him). Another old [...]
I started this essay on the flight home from Denver, but was unable to complete it until today. I think because i had to authentically read it again today and thank the universe and myself again today. Today has been hard, but I am so blessed. So blessed. Receiving Puja Its not often in my [...]