Anal sex became the great taboo, the worst sin, the unmentionable sin in the Western world under the influence of Christianity, but in the more mystical lands of the East, where the spiritual potential of bodily pleasure retained the high, sacred status it had once held in pagan times in the Middle East and Europe,Continue reading “The Anal Chakra”
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Self Hood
All living beings have Self-hood trees, plants, animals, humans but only humans question where this sense of Self came from the rest of Nature dances in the bliss of Self while only humans are ignorant of the deep Self that is the same Self in all Beings, That’s why nature gives us plants that canContinue reading “Self Hood”
Liberation is the Queer Game
Warriors of Infinity Ambassadors of Peace Dionysian Devi Worshippers and Handsome Holy Beasts… Proud Bottoms, Tops and Masters Sexworkers and Dancers Ravers who saw the Light and People who love the Night… Radical Ladies who Love Ladies Wild Women who work Magic Ungendered Uranian InBetweeners and people whose nature transcends even these Queer possibilities… TheContinue reading “Liberation is the Queer Game”
Gloria Anzaldua: Half and Half
GLORIA ANZALDUA: From Borderlands (1987) Half and Half There was a muchacha who lived near my house, La gente del pueblo talked about her being una de las otras, “of the Others”. They said that for six months she was a woman who had a vagina that bled once a month, and that for theContinue reading “Gloria Anzaldua: Half and Half”
Why The British State is Crumbling
We are living in a false reality, a fake dream of separation, competition and scarcity. This dream has been imposed and its days are ending. In Britain the accelerating breakdown of the unfair, unequal, manipulative political and economic system is the fake dream breaking down. At the same time, more people are waking up toContinue reading “Why The British State is Crumbling”
Trussed Up
The new British Prime Minister Liz Truss looked pretty scared out of her wits as the message contained in the words she was reading, at St Paul’s Cathedral during the memorial service for Queen Elizabeth II, sank in. She read from the New Testament, Romans 14, verses 7 to 12. For none of us livesContinue reading “Trussed Up”
Alan Watts: Lightness of Touch
Chesterton once said that, because they take themselves lightly, angels can fly. One sees so many faces dulled by a seriousness which, if it were born of grief, would be understandable. But the kind of seriousness which drags man down to the earth and kills the life of the spirit is not the child ofContinue reading “Alan Watts: Lightness of Touch”
NEW BLOG ON MEDIUM!
Dear Friends and Followers of the Rainbow Messenger blog! Thank you for your interest and support! May I ask you to also check out my new blog page on Medium.com – I noticed that there was a gap in the conversation there when it came to queer spiritual matters, so I hope to in someContinue reading “NEW BLOG ON MEDIUM!”
Why Men Have Nipples
“The material world is all feminine. The feminine energy makes the non-manifest, manifest. So even men are of the feminine energy. We have to relinquish our ideas of gender in the conventional sense. This has nothing to do with gender, it has to do with energy. So feminine energy is what creates and allows anythingContinue reading “Why Men Have Nipples”
THE GODDESS ENERGY IS TRYING TO SAVE US
MARION WOODMAN (1928-2018), Canadian mythopoetic author, poet, analytical psychologist and women’s movement figure, from her work Conscious Femininity, published 1993: “… the goddess energy is trying to save us. If we go on with our power tactics, we’re going to destroy the earth. That’s why we haven’t got a long time to evolve. We’re eitherContinue reading “THE GODDESS ENERGY IS TRYING TO SAVE US”
The Second SEXUAL REVOLUTION.
I’ve been on the London sex scene for 36 years: long before the Age of the App I used to seek other queers in Cruising Grounds from Hampstead to Clapham Cottages from Wood Green to Balham; Saunas when they were raided to when they were abundant, to when they shrank away again; Porn cinemas whereContinue reading “The Second SEXUAL REVOLUTION.”
A 1906 Book about Gay Sexuality
Edward Westermarck’s 1906 book The Origin and Development of Moral Ideas included a chapter presenting the world with an overview of the occurrence of homosexuality and gender fluidity around the world, showing their frequent association with the spiritual aspects of communal life, and their widespread acceptance in pre-Christian cultures as natural parts of God’s creation.Continue reading “A 1906 Book about Gay Sexuality”
The Third Gender
The division of gender and sexuality into neatly defined and labelled boxes by the new scientific kids on the block, psychology and sociology, from the late 19th century onwards has never sat well with some gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people. There have always been queer voices in the west who objected to the limitationsContinue reading “The Third Gender”
Holy Groves and Cruising Grounds
“One of the sacred functions of the tribe of men who love men is that we are Guardians of the Trees. There is something in our nature that is like the nature of the trees themselves, for the pattern of our love creates a ladder of energy, vertical, heaven and earth connecting, just as theContinue reading “Holy Groves and Cruising Grounds”
“The Priests in some Societies, the Pariahs in Others”
The homosexual in America; a subjective approach by Donald Webster Cory (the pen name of Edward Sagarin) published 1957, recorded the development of queer culture during the early to mid twentieth century. To set the scene he offered this historical overview of homosexuality around the world, which shows that some gays in that time ofContinue reading ““The Priests in some Societies, the Pariahs in Others””
A Cosmic Dance of Oneness
Sooner or later it will come to everyone – the feeling and understanding that life is a unity, a cosmic dance of matter, mind, emotion and spirit, a journey of the soul with Divinity our goal… but at the moment the world is wallowing in and swallowing up the darkness of separation, fear and divisionContinue reading “A Cosmic Dance of Oneness”
Full Moon in Capricorn
The sensitive, emotional, homely, and yet directed and determined, rays of the Cancer Sun shine on us during the first month of Summer. This is the month that the Earth pulls us out of the fast-paced growth energies of the last half of the Spring into the Summer place of being and feeling. After aContinue reading “Full Moon in Capricorn”
50 YEARS OF GAY PRIDE
The first London Gay Pride in 1972, organised by the Gay Liberation Front was a protest “against all forms of oppression and victimisation” (GLF Manifesto) of gay people. The GLF demanded: that all discrimination against gay people, male and female, by the law, by employers, and by society at large, should end. that all peopleContinue reading “50 YEARS OF GAY PRIDE”
Carpenter’s Wisdom: Gays and God
In his 1914 book, INTERMEDIATE TYPES among PRIMITIVE FOLK: A Study in Social Evolution, English gay philosopher-poet EDWARD CARPENTER studied the connection of homosexuality with divination and religion, commenting in that “it certainly is remarkable to find – even from this slight study – how widespread the connection has been among the primitive peoples andContinue reading “Carpenter’s Wisdom: Gays and God”
Gay Liberation is Human Liberation
“I celebrate myself, and sing myself,And what I assume you shall assume,For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.” Walt Whitman, Song of Myself 50 years on from the first Gay Pride March in London – that of the Gay Liberation Front on 1st July 1972, walking from Trafalgar Square toContinue reading “Gay Liberation is Human Liberation”
A 1976 Faery Ritual
From Fall 1977 edition of White Crane Journal. https://www.whitecraneinstitute.org/wcjarchives/wc01020.htm by Arthur Evans, author of Witchcraft and the Gay Counter-Culture: “The scene was San Francisco’s Sutro Park, near the beach at Land’s End. A new group I had helped create, the Faery Circle, had decided to conduct a night-time ritual here. It was held in honorContinue reading “A 1976 Faery Ritual”
Summer Solstice Call
Warriors of Light, Shamans of Shadow Witches of the Winds, Waves, Earth and Fire There are HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS of us BORN AROUND THE WORLD WAKING UP TO OUR ROLES DISCOVERING THE DESTINY But there are many more struggling one foot still firmly stuck in the old paradigm of division, dis-ease and dismay….. Let’s castContinue reading “Summer Solstice Call”
Each of us is the same Me.
One day everyone will see Humanity’s destiny is Divinity… Some day soon it will become clear That the New Age is here. The illusion of separation will dissolve In knowledge of Oneness we will rapidly evolve. The spell was cast long ago: Wake up from deep sleep We’ve been treated like sheep It’s time toContinue reading “Each of us is the same Me.”
RITUAL FOR PERSONAL RESET
When life overwhelms, things get out of control Through the powers of NATURE We can find healing, balance and reset the soul: We are beings of MIND, BODY, SPIRIT and EMOTION – One With All Life at the Core of Who We Are – Peace and Health are found through Understanding, Compassion and Devotion. [ThisContinue reading “RITUAL FOR PERSONAL RESET”
The Return of the Holy Ones
When the Great Wars were over, and the population numbed by consumer dreams and TV screens, the Chosen Ones began to return. They took on a role that few would choose but they know eternity and have nothing to lose, the Holy Children were born to be gay, to give, receive and make love thisContinue reading “The Return of the Holy Ones”
In Tune with the Infinite
Ralph Waldo TRINE (1866-1958) excerpted from In Tune with the Infinite “The great central fact of the universe is that spirit of infinite life and power that is back of all, that manifests itself in and through all. This spirit of infinite life and power that is back of all is what I call God.Continue reading “In Tune with the Infinite”
the gay-wakening
Time to change the story from dark and gory to one of glory – gay love was never abominable, in fact it’s quite incredible – the ancients knew that there’s something we do which brings harmony, grace and connects people to place. Like the earth Herself, our bodies are divine, intimately, intricately designed to connectContinue reading “the gay-wakening”
THE FIRST FRENCH CANNABIS CAFE
When Napoleon Bonaparte’s French troops were occupying Egypt at the end of the 18th century they discovered cannabis, liked it and brought it back to France with them, where it’s use and effects excited both psychiatrists and artists. The war to conquer Algeria from 1830-47 brought more hashish into France. Psychiatrist Jacques-Joseph Moreau studied useContinue reading “THE FIRST FRENCH CANNABIS CAFE”
The Queer Spiritual Inheritance
When I write and speak about the commonalities between the spiritual roles often taken by same-sex loving and gender-fluid people in traditional cultures around the world and also in pre-Christian Europe I tend to feel like I am delivering ‘news’, releasing a perspective little known in the world. However it is no new discovery IContinue reading “The Queer Spiritual Inheritance”
Shokti on Shakti, the Holy Spirit
“The influence of the Holy Spirit, exquisitely called the Comforter, is a matter of actual experience, as solid a reality as that of electro-magnetism” W. C. Brownell, American art and literary critic (1851-1928) “We All Come From the Goddess” Pagan Chant The Divine Feminine – known as shakti – shekinah – holy spirit– is theContinue reading “Shokti on Shakti, the Holy Spirit”
IN BETWEEN
The world is torn apart, the world is falling apart – because the holy souls who walk between the worlds have been prevented from practising their pagan art. Once as shamans we served, or as priestesses of pleasure – we knew the body as the temple of the soul – our erotic magic has anContinue reading “IN BETWEEN”
The Big Lie
THE BIG LIE OF THE MODERN AGE IS THAT WE ARE MATERIAL BEINGS, WHO HAVE SOMEHOW EVOLVED TO BE CONSCIOUS. THE BIG TRUTH IS EXACTLY THE OPPOSITE: WE ARE CONSCIOUS BEINGS WHO HAVE EVOLVED INTO MATERIAL FORM. TO COMPLETE THE JOURNEY WE NEED TO UNITE CONSCIOUSNESS WITH THE BODY – THIS IS THE SACRED JOURNEYContinue reading “The Big Lie”
the ban on homosex was a devilish decoy
Share the joy, reveal the ploy: the ban on homosex was a devilish decoy from what the elite were up to as they plundered the earth – the world has long forgotten what gay love is worth. Plato spotted that tyrants dominate through societal division while homo love breeds brotherhood, community, trust – which isContinue reading “the ban on homosex was a devilish decoy”
THE SPIRITUAL VIEW OF GENDER
“Whether woman or man, one’s real humanity comes to light only when the feminine and masculine qualities within one are balanced.” Amma (Mata Amritanandamayi, Mother of Immortal Bliss) A few decades ago the ‘Battle of the Sexes’ was a commonly heard phrase, one rarely used now – did men and women declare a truce? MaybeContinue reading “THE SPIRITUAL VIEW OF GENDER”
Living Presence
To conjure the Living Presence In body, mind and soul – and to attune to Divine Essence – is the direct route to being whole. If we recognise the Unity underlying life’s diversity – we can live in deep community with the elements, animals, the earth. If we find the Divine Emotion concealed in everyContinue reading “Living Presence”
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