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.
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 Holy Alternative: Art as Medicine, Ritual, and Environmental Activism
This is a critical moment to heed the call of our Soul. We are
confronting what Carl Jung describes as the true religious experience:
when the unstoppable bullet hits the impenetrable wall. It’s time to
break the spell and return to the wilderness.
Dear Woman (and Man)
The "Dear Woman" video is a one-sided communication, channeling a collective spirit of man speaking to woman. While it may seem presumptuous, and the concept might be confusing, I've been surprised by the backlash, which seems to reflect how major a transition we are facing.
The Not-So-Comfortable Concentration Camp
Propaganda tactics developed
during World War I are now the foundation for our entire addiction-based
consumer system. The dehumanizing
force we now call "public relations" has been targeting demographic groups since the 1920s, starting with the American housewife.
Mother Tongue, Manatee and Archive: A Feminafesto
I invoke "wild mind" and the "crazy wisdom" of Buddhist Tantra. Wild mind is elegantly self-disciplined and like wilderness, it is without a management plan. As Gary Snyder notes, "The practice of the wild inspires an etiquette of freedom. It is actually beautiful to care for things." I feel it in my larynx — in my thrust toward language — it is beautiful to care for things.
Masculine Spiritualities and the Problem of Patriarchy
Since the 1990s there's been much interest in a "masculine spirituality" that offers little more than a thinly veiled patriarchal spirituality. The mythopoetic, evangelical, and Catholic men's movements all promote it, in various forms. Can we envision a masculine spirituality that resists old, patriarchal tendencies?
