Excerpt from Sri Aurobindo’s mystic masterpiece SAVITRI Book X The Book of the Double Twilight. Canto IV: The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real . There is a purpose in each stumble and fall, Nature’s most careless lolling is pose Preparing some forward step, some deep result, Ingenious notes plugged into a motivated score, ThereContinue reading “Edged with the Intimacy of the One”
Author Archives: shokti
Gay Sex
There’s always been gay sex, There’s always been men who loved men. Anyone can have gay sex But for some it is a calling. For some this is an abomination For those engaged in it, it’s Enthralling, Ennobling, Liberating, Divine… The ‘phobes have had it their way for too long, Time for the ‘philes toContinue reading “Gay Sex”
Love Attracts
‘Don’t look for a lover, BE one.’ Radical Faerie poet James Broughton Love is what we are, the nature of our consciousness. If we understand this and live in this awareness, love will manifest in our lives. ‘Love of self for self is the creative force of the universe. Desire is the primal energy, andContinue reading “Love Attracts”
When Fucking Could Kill You
{dedicated to the spirit of DAVID STUART, much loved and respected campaigner promoting well-being and health in the LGBTQ+ community, who parted from his body, January 2022} When I came out fucking could kill you so condoms became our tool of protection, though you often heard guys complaining that the rubber ruined their erection. WhenContinue reading “When Fucking Could Kill You”
IT NEVER MEANT ABOMINATION
‘TOEVAH’, the word from the ancient old testament that gets translated as ‘abomination’ and that has been used to condemn (sometimes to death) gay men around the world for centuries, actually refers to the PAGAN PRACTICES of the many tribal peoples that surrounded the Hebrews 3000 years ago. This is explained very clearly on theContinue reading “IT NEVER MEANT ABOMINATION”
Desmond Tutu & Malidoma Some
The world lost two great African men in December, both spiritual leaders but from different traditions – one a Christian, the other an elder teaching traditional African wisdom – and both vocal supporters of LGBTQ people. Homosexual activity remains illegal in more than 30 of Africa’s 54 countries; in a few, it is punishable byContinue reading “Desmond Tutu & Malidoma Some”
Gay Spirituality
Spirituality is about the search for the Self (while religion tends to put the emphasis on relationship with a God figure, spirituality honours the divine within us and all beings). Science gives us tools to explore and examine the outer universe, and spirituality offers tools to discover the riches and mysteries of the inner planes.Continue reading “Gay Spirituality”
Orgy!
“‘The old religion was polytheistic. Its most important deity was a goddess who was worshipped as the great mother. Its second major deity was the horned god, associated with animals and sexuality, including homosexuality. These and other deities were worshipped in the countryside at night with feasting, dancing, animal masquerades, transvestism, sex orgies, and theContinue reading “Orgy!”
Oh My Crone!
We call it a virus we call it disease that’s bringing humanity to its knees but really it’s time to wake up and realise… the world we inhabit is run on lies. One lie rules over all: the lie that the human being is something small in a universe so vast, in bodies that don’tContinue reading “Oh My Crone!”
One Species, One Spirit
For some it comes as the greatest thrill for others it’s a bitter pill – it’s our belief in separation that makes us ill: it’s high time humanity swallowed the fact that the person we think we are is not where it’s at. Life has a bigger purpose, but you are that too and whenContinue reading “One Species, One Spirit”
Born of Nature
Outside of Time and Space They know the future of the Human Race: a species so divided we can’t see the light inside us, obsessed with our individuality we are slaves to duality: driven by competition when cooperation would serve us better, fearful of each other, we’ve forgotten all are sisters and brothers; but theContinue reading “Born of Nature”
Vibrational
It will be sensational when we realise that life is vibrational, that germs and viruses were all in the mind! There’s a deeper reality to which we’ve been blind. In the search for a material source humanity got veered off course into a belief system that separates, divides that denies that existence is divine. ScienceContinue reading “Vibrational”
Tell the Children
Tell the children there’s another story – let them know they are born for glory because although the times seem dark, there are other ways: instead of conflict, corruption and greed – that infected the world and sowed the seeds of its own destruction – there’s the Way of Love and Compassion the Way ofContinue reading “Tell the Children”
Time for Love
‘What is time?Is it eternityIn heavenOr just a hope for peace on earth?’ Billy Porter sings out from the heart, as a liberated queer elder who has “been there, done that, worn that dress” to the young people of today to let their hearts open and their soul’s joyful spirit emerge. In his song ‘Time’Continue reading “Time for Love”
Police State UK
Is there a police state coming? The powers that be are scared: the walls they built are crumbling as the people become more aware of the corruption and greed and the urgent need to change the way we are living; become more aware of inequality and impending doom the end of life as we knowContinue reading “Police State UK”
Visionary Love
At the close of the 1970s, a decade into the journey of Gay Liberation, some queers were probing deep into the roots of gay nature, seeking to uncover forgotten truths about who we are and the roles we fulfil in the human family. Dissatisfied with the conventional, assimilationist direction of the liberation movement, these queersContinue reading “Visionary Love”
End Times
These really are the End Times. Not because humanity is going to be largely wiped out, though that may indeed be so… These are the real End Times when the illusion finally cracks. So desperately the architects hold on to the crumbling artifice of facts: Science became the new belief system Reason thought it hadContinue reading “End Times”
Sodomites in the Temple
There were SODOMITES in the temples so the so-called Holy Bible says – but the sodomites were the real Holy Ones, which is maybe why some straight Christians hate gays. They were known as the Qedesh, the Anointed – People went to see them to make offerings to the Gods, seeking answers through divination orContinue reading “Sodomites in the Temple”
COSMIC CONSCIOUSNESS
“The simple truth is, that there has lived on the earth, “appearing at intervals,” for thousands of years among ordinary men, the first faint beginnings of another race; walking the earth and breathing the air with us, but at the same time walking another earth and breathing another air of which we know little orContinue reading “COSMIC CONSCIOUSNESS”
Selie Suffolk
I was born in what was once a faerie-filled land – home to giants, dragons, druids and witches, where Romans marched and Angles worshipped Thor – the land of Suffolk contains ancient doors to the Otherworld, the land of myth and powers divine and those doors will once more open, at the appointed time. AsContinue reading “Selie Suffolk”
World AIDS Day 2021
Life on planet Earth is changing fast. Humanity and our planet are facing a crisis of apocalyptic proportions. As an AIDS survivor I know what that can feel like at times -as the encroaching dis-ease worsens and we scurry around for anything that might help, we may even find ourselves getting very angry at thisContinue reading “World AIDS Day 2021”
Carpenter’s Wisdom: Oneness
English philosopher, poet and mystic Edward Carpenter (1844-1929) had an enlightening ‘cosmic consciousness’ experience in 1881, aged 37. He wrote a book of poetry to capture the experience and it was published two years later as Towards Democracy, offering his vision of a socialist democratic society enlightened by cosmic consciousness. I conceive a millennium onContinue reading “Carpenter’s Wisdom: Oneness”
Carpenter’s Wisdom: Transgender
English philosopher, poet and mystic Edward Carpenter (1844-1929) was the first gay pioneer to make a deep study of the role of what he termed ‘intermediate types’ in various traditional societies around the world and in ancient European history, as part of reclaiming the noble spirit of the ‘Uranians’: third-gendered people, in which he includedContinue reading “Carpenter’s Wisdom: Transgender”
Carpenter’s Wisdom: Love
English philosopher, poet and mystic Edward Carpenter (1844-1929) had an enlightening ‘cosmic consciousness’ experience in 1881, aged 37. “As a direct result of the oncoming of the Cosmic Sense he practically resigned his social rank and became a laborer; that is to say, he procured a few acres of land not many miles from Dronfield,Continue reading “Carpenter’s Wisdom: Love”
Bring the Spirit Home
The BODY is HOLY the HEART is DIVINE the SOUL is ETERNAL but the MIND is a CHILD. . The gift and task the Spirit gave to Humanity to evolve the mind and illuminate the flesh involves confusion and the chance of insanity the risk of a great big mess. . For the mind isContinue reading “Bring the Spirit Home”
Trans and the Sacred
I met my inner feminine at the age of 30, at the same time as I was becoming sick with AIDS and waking up to the spiritual dimensions underlying life’s exterior dramas. Embracing the feminine aspect of my soul was part of the journey I have taken into mysticism as a way of perceiving theContinue reading “Trans and the Sacred”
Female Mystics of Albion
The British Isles have given birth to female mystical voices for at least 1400 years… here are some i have come to love and respect so far… starting with THREE from the seventh century AD through to Doreen Valiente and Kate Bush in the 20th. Their stories and voices deserve to be heard, their messagesContinue reading “Female Mystics of Albion”
12th Century Love Wisdom
12th century mystic Hadewijch of Antwerp is considered one of the creators of Dutch lyrical poetry. She is also one of the most enlightened mystics of the High Middle Ages. Her weaving together of love and reason reveals a wisdom not yet grasped by modern Western society, a template and understanding that could create aContinue reading “12th Century Love Wisdom”
THE GAY PERSECUTION OF THE 520s
1500 years ago in the Byzantine Roman Empire the Emperor Justinian enacted a persecution against gay men that created a climate of fear which has echoed down the centuries to this very day. This pogrom of same sex lovers ended a millennium in which men who love men had been prominent in every aspect ofContinue reading “THE GAY PERSECUTION OF THE 520s”
Free Spirits, Queer Souls
In Piscean oceans humanity has swum unable to see the spiritual sun above the water: we’ve followed the Son but forgotten the Daughter – and life has become a feast of slaughter. Victory became an exterior conquest creating victims and enemies and a drama that may never cease: humanity lost track of the fact thatContinue reading “Free Spirits, Queer Souls”
Modern Day Sufis
In the early centuries of Islam, Christians and Zoroastrians in the community would run secret drinking dens, where muslim poets celebrated the love of Allah with colourful imagery of wine and beautiful young men. Hafiz, Abu Niwas, Rumi are among the poets who used intoxication and homoeroticism in their words to conjure the experience ofContinue reading “Modern Day Sufis”
GAY CELTS
In the 4th century BCE Greek philosopher Aristotle recorded that the Celtic peoples (“and a few others”) “openly approve of male love”. SIX CENTURIES LATER, around 200 CE, Greek orator and author Athenaeus recorded the same thing in a play called ‘Savants at Dinner’. He places a selection of noble guests at a symposium atContinue reading “GAY CELTS”
Gays and the Weather
Why do some Christians blame natural weather disasters on gay people? This article gives a history of this 1500 year old habit, intended to amuse as much as horrify. I then demonstrate why they are actually correct in their assumption that we affect the weather, but not in their interpretation of how. Yes you justContinue reading “Gays and the Weather”
The HUMAN
What we are is not a body What we are is not a mind What we are is pure awareness: conscious potential with bliss built in. Everyone is female and male on the inside. The exterior is just a shell, the inner world is where we experience reality and the inner marriage of Shakti andContinue reading “The HUMAN”
Warriors of the New Age
Warriors of the New Age here to turn the collective page here to birth a new paradigm. Finding Oneness within ourselves and together in collective fire – to bring humanity home is the goal to which we aspire. The external world dominates modern lives it’s only on the outside we are encouraged to thrive: butContinue reading “Warriors of the New Age”
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