Coming Out
As a married woman who is both bisexual and polyamorous, I’ve had quite a few tough questions to answer over the years. When my husband and I started dating our mutual girlfriend, it took me a long time to tell certain people about it.
The Heart of Ayurveda
The ancient healing science disassembled me and pieced me back together into a new whole. There is no place on earth comparable to India for inducing a major shift in consciousness.
The Alchemy and the Ecstasy
Alchemy can best be described as a set of techniques to be actively performed, the main goal of which is to achieve a unification of the opposites. This unification ultimately joins the practitioner with the primordial force from which they came.
The Benefits of Living Food
Let’s start by addressing an incorrect assumption about food. It’s an assumption that was never really questioned until the twentieth century — that cooked food is a normal and natural part of a balanced diet.
The Nature Boys
Long before the more obvious cultural explosion of the 1960s, a group of Californians were cultivating an alternative lifestyle that would come to influence later movements and culture at large. They called themselves the Nature Boys.
Conner Habib Speaks on “The Virtues of Being an Object.”
Conner Habib discusses his essay, “The Virtues of Being and Object: Touch, Pornography and Having Bodies,” featured in the new anthology, Exploring the Edge Realms of Consciousness.
The Khanyisa Psychoactive Healing Garden: A Better Life Through Traditional Knowledge
By 2020, depression will be the second leading cause of disease in the first
world. Despite all the advantages of western technology, it is clear that we
are all struggling more than ever to deal effectively with the stresses
and challenges of modern day living. Subtle acting African psychoactive traditional medicines called ubulawu hold numerous keys in understanding and effectively treating mental illness and nervous diseases which this story explores..
Fasting
Fasting enhances detoxification, reduces inflammation, and increases production of antioxidants. It targets the feminine
DNA of mitochondria improving energy production, brain function, and clarity, and accesses healing feminine energy.
Prelude to the Metaphysics of Ping-Pong
One summer the philosopher of science Rupert Sheldrake and his family paid us a visit. I gave the two boys rackets: they were hooked. They now have a table of their own. Whenever we visit, we play for hours. Eventually, we realized what was intriguing us: the fact that ping-pong is
strikingly non-Euclidean.
Gabrielle Roth, 1941-2012: Disciple of the Deep Dark Divine
Her central tool was the 5Rhythms® worldwide movement practice, to which
she devoted most of her life. She called upon the 5Rhythms to
physically launch people’s bodies into motion, but in service to their
souls.
