Impossible Pleasure: Charles Fourier’s Queer Theories
Charles Fourier believed that we’d been bamboozled into a dead-end corner of culture, with no room to move. Guarding that corner was the concept of the family, and especially the monogamous married couple.
William Irwin Thompson on the Horizons of Planetary Culture
My second rap with poet-philosopher William Irwin Thompson, on the transformations of self and society in an age of collapse and emergence – of cyborgs, surveillance, and psychedelics, paranoid apocalypticism and inspired new visions for our species…
Zen Trickster: A Talk with Brad Warner
With a background in punk rock and Japanese monster movies, Brad Warner isn't your hippie aunt's idea of a Zen master. In this interview, Warner discusses his latest book, an attempt to bridge the divergent terrain of contemporary sexuality to Zen's approaches to morality and sexual relationships.
Polyamory on Parade
It happened in a moment of compassion for my friend. I somehow spontaneously channeled a higher-worldly force that moved through me to sexually heal her. I couldn't stop saying, "There's enough of me to go around." It was beautiful and amazing. How can this be wrong? Is this "cheating"?Â
Transcending Possessiveness in Love and Music
Consider polyamory side by side with copyright law. They are both symptoms of a deep struggle that we as individuals and as a society are having with the concept of ownership.
Polyamory: Label or Process?
What does the label "polyamory" mean? Literally, many loves. To truly be free to love requires a deep trust in the resonance within oneself, and the discernment to recognize and honor that quality in others.