Some Ideas about Healing from an Herbalist
Extraordinary healings can and do happen every day. Sometimes they are instantaneous. What do you imagine is possible in the realm of healing yourself or another?
The Moccasin Flower’s Challenge to Our Ego
Many people do not realize that wild orchids grow in North America. Not only are our native orchids among our most beautiful wildflowers, they offer profound lessons for us about who we are as a species and as individuals.
Why Did Our Brains Stop Expanding?
In the forest the human brain was expanding at a phenomenal rate. Around 200,000 to 150,000 years ago, this process came to an end. The brain stopped expanding and started to shrink. Brain shrinkage appears to coincide with major dietary change.
Wet Dreams: Semen out of Place (SOOP)
Celibacy, seminal retention, castration and Spermatorrhea all come from male-centered cultures and religions. Saving seed/oil/money from spilling and anxiety around wet dreams were also entangled in the cross-cultural need to distinguish dry men from wet women
Black Fire: Women, Tattoos, and the Transformative Power of Body Art
I was fifteen when I flipped through my first tattoo magazine and I remember being most captivated by the female models. They aroused a kind of primal sexual fascination in me because of how closely they lived to their own skin.
The Opposite of Anthropomorphism
As we project human-likeness onto stones, trees, clouds, and stars, we also project landscape-likeness onto our bodies, minds, souls, and gods. We understand ourselves, and our gods, through landscape metaphors.
Ishvara and Ayahuasca: Linking with the Divine Within
Entheogenic plants may very well lead us to Ishvara, the great teacher, not an outside spiritual entity separate from ourselves.
The Light That Burns: Night-Time Illumination and Melatonin Suppression
Darkness heals. Up until recently, the only major sources of light at night were starlight, moonlight and firelight. Now many of us are subject to electrical lighting long into the night. This artificial light pollution has a highly detrimental effect.
March Madness and Muscular Christianity
Presbyterian minister James Naismith is an important Muscular Christian. For him, basketball was a means to evangelize people about morality and Christian values, and to help turn the male body into a strong, Christian, masculine machine.
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