Archive for August, 2008
What’s Up?
On Sunday, September 7, I’ll assist Easton Mountain resident Dave Sledesky in facilitating a gathering of the extended Easton Mountain community in New York City.
The theme will be Communicating with Compassion and will be based on the principles of Nonviolent Communication as developed by Marshall Rosenberg.
Sub Personalities
One of the topics I studied in the Inner Focus School was sub personalities. We learned to identify sub personalities within ourselves and techniques for getting the Higher Self to talk to these sub personalities and for them to talk to each other.
Sub personalities make self-knowledge difficult. I’ve heard it said that to ask someone [...]
“When I’m Hard, I’m Smarter”
The title to this post comes from a video in Joseph Kramer’s “Gay Sex Wisdom” series. This video is a talk and performance by Josh Schafer in which he explores what he has learned from many sessions of sharing erotic touch with men.
While this is an inspiring video, its title more than its content has [...]
Visiting an Altar
A personal altar can be a meaningful way of connecting with the sacred. Here’s a picture of an altar in the healing cabin at Easton Mountain.
Last week I posted a description of building an altar near the south edge of Easton Mountain Retreat. The following are the suggestions that I wroe for guests who wished [...]
Metta and The Serenity Prayer
I’ve recently added metta to my list of spiritual practices. Metta is the Buddhist practice of silently repeating blessings for oneself, others, and all sentient beings – blessings such as:
May I be at peace
May I have joy
One starts metta focusing on oneself. Next one substitutes “you” for “I” and moves to a person one cares [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 1 so far )Creating an Altar
I had told the programming director at Easton Mountain, where I live, that I would like to create an altar near the southern edge of the property during Gay Spirit Camp. He agreed to put it on the camp’s schedule.
A few days before the start of camp, I collected rocks. This was sacred work, so [...]
Enemas for Ritual Purification
I must admit that I’m a “clysterphile” (from clyster, meaning enema, with a suffix from philos, love). Sometime in my adolescence I figured out that if my cock were hard, there was no cramping or discomfort associated with enemas. They became part of my sexual repertoire.
In 1990, I signed up for the first six-day intensive [...]
Sacred Spaces
The thought of sacred spaces as been in my mind recently. In June, I spent a week in Boulder, Colorado. While there, I spent two days at nearby Dream Canyon. On the first day, I was walking near the rim of the canyon, looking in the distance for suitable vistas to photograph. Suddenly I realized [...]
Journaling: Your Log as a Spiritual Explorer
Journaling has long been recognized as a sacred praxis. It provides a record of spiritual practice; it helps us reconnect with past experiences, and it is a tool for self-discovery and for exploring the Great Mystery.
Its drawback is that it is intellectual. In my early spiritual explorations, I thought more than I felt. I reached [...]
