Anyone who knows me knows that I write a lot. Anyone who has been following me might recognize that I have not written in quite some time. The fact is that enough people have become vocal since the last election that I felt that my voice was drowned out in the crowd. That shit storm is calming down now, and I feel the need to speak what I've been ( Read more... )

Recently I had a conversation with a friend about what constitutes a "real" spiritual path, vs. those which are deadends. So, I got to think about it...and inspired at first by Arthur C. Clarke's laws of science, which are ( Read more... )

We have all asked the question "Why?" when faced with the unimaginable fact of recent massacres. Those of us who prefer peace have a hard time understanding how a human brain could come to the conclusion that killing massive amounts of fellow human beings is a desirable activity ( Read more... )

So you want to change the world, but you don't think you can live entirely out of the real world of society. You need your job, your car, your phone, your house. Most of us are in the same boat. You can't stop using plastics, you can't stop buying clothes, you can't stop functioning. But here are things that will not only save you money, but save ( Read more... )

The dominant paradigm of our society insists that there exists a hierarchy of value. This hierarchy puts God as the most valuable on top and Shit as the most worthless on the bottom, and everything else falls somewhere in between. You, me, the president, my dogs, even the trees on my block; everyone sees everyone and everything with an eye toward ( Read more... )

Corporate Fat Cats and the power structure they support are keeping us blaming each other for the state of the economy. If you don't get this by now, you deserve to lose everything they are about to take from you. We all need to stop blaming people who are not responsible for creating problems for creating all our problems ( Read more... )

I love white heterosexual men. No, really, I do. All of my lovers have been in this category. All of my long-term partners, my best friends, my business partners, and even my co-workers for the majority of my working life. I'm surrounded by cis-gendered white het dudes ( Read more... )

I promised to write more about secondary chakras, and so I was thinking...what is the most commonly misunderstood secondary chakra? It's in the palm of your hand ( Read more... )

Emotion is a huge part of the human experience. People who cannot feel intense emotions sense that they are missing out on something. People who feel emotion too intensely hope that there is more to life than emotional reacting. Emotions, however, are simply energy in motion in your system. It is the result of signals coming in from your ( Read more... )

I live in a house that was designed and built by men. All of the doorknobs, counters, and shelves are in places that are convenient for people of a larger, taller body type. I live in a neighborhood that was laid out by men. All of the houses have square lots on straight streets and nobody runs into curved curbs, curved sidewalks, or curved ( Read more... )