Toward the Sustainable Use of Iboga
Tabernanthe iboga may be disappearing from its natural habitat in the Central West African rainforest. Iboga is the most prolific source of ibogaine, an alkaloid that has been used since the 1980s as an experimental treatment for addiction.
How To Fight Sexual Shame: Amber Hollibaugh, Edward Carpenter, and the Strength of Vulnerability
Wherever you have a secret, that is where you are vulnerable. I learned to move toward the vulnerability, instead of retreating from it. By becoming vulnerable intentionally, through the effort of honesty and openness, we become strong.
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.
Introduction to Reiki – Jodi Criser Reiki Master
The Introduction to Reiki webinar debuts the historical background to the origination of Reiki, its many benefits, and how it is being used in hospitals across the nation. You will also learn a short meditation to introduce you to chi energy.
Sex is Liberation: Paschal Beverley Randolph’s Divine Sexual Freedom
If you want to understand why sexual freedom is so threatening to people and institutions in power, masturbation is a good place to start.
Making Room for Sex: Ida Craddock and The Sacred Profane
Craddock’s message was that women had as much of a right to sexual pleasure as their husbands, and that this pleasure was a sacred right.
The Sex Radicals: Seven Thinkers Who Can Revolutionize Sex in Our Culture
Sex shame in our lives and sex shaming in our cultural sphere are intimately tangled. Instead of telling you the right way to put a condom on or how to please your lover, this series will examine the lives and theories of thinkers who were interested in pushing sex forward in some cultural way.
Mondo 2000 retrospective in Wired – UPDATED
When I saw my first issue of “Reality Hackers” — at a bookstore I was working at in high-school — I knew I wanted to keep reading this magazine, and made my boss place a big order for the next issue, which was called “Mondo 2000.” UPDATE: ZOMG!
We’re Not Gonna Let Holly Go Lightly
In 2015, when Caitlyn Jenner has captivated the media and gay marriage has become legal in every U.S. state, it’s hard to imagine what America was like when Holly Woodlawn was born.
Ex Machina, et al, and the Metaphysics of Computer Consciousness
How can something with neither mass nor dimension arise from that which has mass and dimension? How can that which has subjectivity and intentionality arise from that which has objectivity and has no intentionality?
