Once the Peoples of Europe danced with Dionysus, Saw Love as a Goddess and Pleasure as her Worship, Knew that mysteries of Sex, Gender and Intoxication were routes to Holy Transcendence, Ecstasy, Elation. . The Peoples of Europe once spoke with the Trees Danced and Made Love in Sacred Groves. The Armies of the CrossContinue reading “Once the Peoples of Europe Danced with Dionysus”
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When Bacchus Came to Jerusalem
Antiochus IV (Epiphanes) was a Greek king of the Seleucid Empire (Syria), who reigned 175-164 BCE. He captured Jerusalem in 167 BC and desecrated the Temple by offering the sacrifice of a pig on an altar to Zeus (an act known as the Abomination of Desolation). At that time of history there were two factionsContinue reading “When Bacchus Came to Jerusalem”
Warriors of Oneness
Aquarian sunshine lightens the mind of the initiated: Sun rays containing cosmic vitamins to enrich and enliven, the psychic impulse to wake up ignited by the Maiden’s wish for all to come home. Warriors finding their tribes, their places, recognising faces from aeons past, the time comes at last for reunion, communion, resurrection of hope:Continue reading “Warriors of Oneness”
Carpenter’s Wisdom: Sex
In his 1902 book Love’s Coming of Age, Edward Carpenter described his vision of how a shift in attitudes towards sex, sexuality and love would push forward human evolution. Carpenter described his belief in a letter to Richard Bucke, author of 1905 book Cosmic Consciousness: “…that there is in man a divine consciousness as wellContinue reading “Carpenter’s Wisdom: Sex”
A Gay Bar in 1810
A description of the White Swan in Vere Street, London by Robert Holloway can be found in ‘The Phoenix of Sodom or the Vere Street Coterie’, published 1813, which relates the story of the conviction of James Cook for permitting his pub to become a queer rendezvous, of the Molly House kind documented since theContinue reading “A Gay Bar in 1810”
IN THE AGE OF AQUARIUS
IN THE AGE OF AQUARIUS there’ll be no more you and me IN THE AGE OF AQUARIUS there’ll be no more he and she IN THE AGE OF AQUARIUS we’ll finally be free from the delusion of the personal and romantic fantasies for in THE AGE OF AQUARIUS everyone will eventually see there is noContinue reading “IN THE AGE OF AQUARIUS”
AIDS+COVID19: Planetary Lessons
This passage from Two Flutes Playing by Andrew Ramer is central to and reflective of my personal experience and understanding of AIDS. I’d like to suggest, however, that you read COVID-19 wherever it says AIDS below and see the parallel, hear the lessons. AIDS (and COVID-19) is a planetary experiment, an experiment in consciousness. AllContinue reading “AIDS+COVID19: Planetary Lessons”
Queer Spirit Prophecies
O Child of Uranus by Edward Carpenter (1844-1929) In this poem, published in the collection ‘Toward Democracy’, English philosopher and writer Carpenter predicts a glorious future for transgendered people, and speculates on the trans nature of Adam before Eve was created. 0 child of Uranus, wanderer down all times,Darkling, from farthest ages of the EarthContinue reading “Queer Spirit Prophecies”
A Contagion of Ecstasy
Be part of the Redemption, not the Fall Open to Spirit and Feel its Call. What the world needs now is a contagion of ecstasy ~ a tsunami of bliss ~ revealing that the light of consciousness is really ALL THERE IS revealing that THOU ART THAT – THE I AM THAT IS – THEContinue reading “A Contagion of Ecstasy”
Edged with the Intimacy of the One
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”
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 theContinue 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”
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