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Learning to Live Undivided | Intimacy, Desire & The Work of Staying
This essay traces the arc from erotic hunger to relational depth, exploring shame, emotional inflexibility, and what it truly takes to sustain intimacy. It reflects on integration, staying when certainty…
Fresh From The Page
The newest pieces asking to be written. These may or may not fit neatly into a category — but they’ve come through anyway.
Fears Contraction…
After we have an experience to an opening through God’s love in our human experience it is natural to contract into a protective way of being. In our individual private…
Love is Content – The Surrendered State
One of the first things we need to understand about form and content is that they are both part of dualistic thinking of the human brain and do not exist…
Your Heart is so very powerful….
Your heart is the most important aspect of your being…that may sound controversial…in this world of doing…of personal “accomplishment”…of conquering…of being a “mover and a shaker”… This world is a…
Love is Extension
Love is one of life’s greatest mysteries and to try to define love’s meaning is said to be far beyond our comprehension and some even say that love isn’t able…
How We Choose To See Others Is How We See Ourselves
We are the universe’s creations and so is every person that we look upon regardless of the past history or preconceived images we might hold in our minds towards another…
Our Becoming…
What is it like to be a human being? To experience this life as it is in all it’s “beingness”? How do we perceive ourselves, each other and the world…
Early Traces: Where The Voice Began
Where it all started—raw thoughts, journal-style entries, spiritual inquiry, and early reflections.
Intimate-Compassionate Conversation and Shadow
Entering into intimate/sexual space with others requires an awareness in communicating our thoughts to others without shaming or blaming the other. It also requires a compassionate effort in receiving others…
Vulnerability in “Sexing”
Vulnerability…what does it mean? It means getting outside the protective ego and exposing your weaknesses and your desires in the face of being destroyed. If you want to have great…
Sacred Sexuality…Above and Beyond Intention…Surrender
The act of the sexual comes from the sacredness of what two people bring together. The sacredness lies in their intention. If there is bad intention..there is rape, it is…
Touch, Trust & Tenderness
Essays that dig into the terrain of intimacy, erotic honesty, vulnerability, and the shadows we carry.
Sex IS Ethics!! The Driving Force of Our Existence
Why it’s so hard to enter into the territory of “Sex IS Ethics”? Why is it so taboo? Sex is used in such crazy and debilitating ways. People can be…
The BDSM Mysticism – Domination and Submission
We live in a culture of sexuality where people can be confused around their desire to engage in the acts of dominating/submission (d/s). Some people swear by the d/s lifestyle…
Relationship as Spiritual Practice
Modern-day relationships are challenging and full of opportunities for increased personal awareness and growth. As our society enters a time of transition from the ego and the thinking mind to…
Intimate-Compassionate Conversation and Shadow
Entering into intimate/sexual space with others requires an awareness in communicating our thoughts to others without shaming or blaming the other. It also requires a compassionate effort in receiving others…
The Heart of Moral Life Is Relational
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I have immersed myself in David Brooks books. I’d recommend his books. Both “The Second Mountain: The Quest for a … Read More