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”
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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”
REACHING FOR OUR GAY ROOTS
excerpts from In The Temple of Father Earth and Mother Sky In ‘Two Flutes Playing’ by Andrew Ramer There was a time when the world was poised between the way things are now, and the way that they were then. The ice was gone. Towns and villages were being established. Men and women owned theirContinue reading “REACHING FOR OUR GAY ROOTS”
The Path of the Moon
The ancients worshipped the sun and the moon – they knew that life does sing two tunes: the outer and the inner are two realities but humanity now only worships the sun as money, beauty, riches and fame – status and power the name of the game. The inner divine is left unknown, the soulContinue reading “The Path of the Moon”
An Ancient Reference to Gays as Faerie Spirits
There is an ancient religious text from Persia that directly associates men who love men with the magical underworld of demons and faery spirits – the Vendidad of the Zoroastrian faith. Written around the same time as the 5th book of the Jewish Torah, Deuteronomy, which forbids Israelites from cross-dressing, becoming temple sex-workers, or bringingContinue reading “An Ancient Reference to Gays as Faerie Spirits”
REUNION WITH HEAVEN
According to certain mythologies, humanity once lived in Paradise and since leaving it has been trying to return. This can be interpreted as referring to the natural state of feeling our interconnectedness with all existence, which humans lost once we began to develop our own individual self-awareness, as society became more complex, language developed andContinue reading “REUNION WITH HEAVEN”
Alcibiades: A 17th Century Gay Novel
Alcibiades The Schoolboy is a book from the 1630s praising homosexuality and providing us with evidence that a self-aware gay identity existed long before the 19th century, when such a self-conscious identity is generally supposed to have been formed. Originally in Italian, the novel was finally translated and published into English in the year 2000.Continue reading “Alcibiades: A 17th Century Gay Novel”
The Goddess in Europe
The People of Europe once worshipped the Goddess in forests, at lakes, on mountains and in caves – that instinct still manifests today, at carnivals, festivals and raves… Her worship was led by women and queer gender-bending servants, Hers were the powers of nature, the animals, the body and the moon, But men turned theContinue reading “The Goddess in Europe”
Pisces Full Moon
FULL MOON is a time of culmination and emotional release, each month creating a tension, and opportunity for growth, in a certain area of our lives. At full moon there is always a polarity at play within us, one that can reveal to us more about who we are. The Virgo-Pisces axis combines earth andContinue reading “Pisces Full Moon”
Gender
Modern society seems to have got itself into a place of utter confusion about gender identity – and this will likely not clear until the fundamental flaw in the culturally dominant scientific material paradigm is corrected. This flaw, from which so many failures of understanding stem, is that we live in a physical universe, inContinue reading “Gender”
The Elements of Oneness
Many people on planet Earth are waking up to the realisation that human consciousness is undergoing a vast and profound shift. The roots of this change happening to us go way back into our history and have long been predicted, but in the last 50 years humanity has not just had a rapid evolution inContinue reading “The Elements of Oneness”
The Faery Star
THE FAERY STAR POINTS TO WHO WE ARE The seven points of the FAERY star reveal and connect us to all that we are. In bodies we unite spirit and matter, through the elements we weave our ways, our consciousness stretches between the worlds: gates to other dimensions exist in our hearts and minds, forContinue reading “The Faery Star”
What the World needs Now is: KNOWLEDGE
In the mid 90s I underwent a dramatic awakening to the subtle realms of reality, to the sacred dimension of life, to the great mystery of our existence – and to the fact that for thousands of years these aspects of creation had been at the centre of human research and enquiry, while in theContinue reading “What the World needs Now is: KNOWLEDGE”
You Are Everything: YouTube Pride
“YOU ARE NOT JUST L G B T or Q: YOU ARE EVERYTHING” The introductory video of the online global celebration of PRIDE 2021 on YouTube features this awesome, magical message – that as a queer person you are not simply the label attached to you in our ever expanding alphabet of definitions, that withinContinue reading “You Are Everything: YouTube Pride”
Pleasure
Pleasure is a Goddess The Ancients knew Pleasure dissolves the boundaries Between Me and You. Pleasure is Divine You know this is True Pleasure can unchain the Soul Let the Real You through. . Pleasure opens the Way to Connection, Emotion, Devotion and Pleasure must occasionally make way for the many feelings it sets inContinue reading “Pleasure”
From AIDS to ETERNITY
NOW ON SALE IN PRINT OR EBOOK FORMAT AT LULU.COM : click here From Smalltown Boy to Queer Spirit Warrior, from gay bars to Radical Faerie gatherings, here is a tale of awakening to a multi-dimensional reality and of discovering the hidden spiritual powers of gay/lesbian/bi/trans/queer people and how they are manifesting in the worldContinue reading “From AIDS to ETERNITY”
Gay Love is Ancient & Innate
The generally accepted belief that any kind of self-aware homosexual identity did not exist until the late 19th century was invented by heterosexuals who sought to ensure their dominance over society. This belief stands on shaky ground and deserves to be blown away and replaced by awareness of the many centuries in which gay loveContinue reading “Gay Love is Ancient & Innate”
As leaves belong to a tree
HUMANITY SO DISTRACTED by its stories and its woes it can’t see what’s in front of it, can’t see how this story goes because it can’t see what IS in the HERE and NOW the reality that hold us all: we’ve maybe forgotten HOW. … Elemental energies are building to a climax like never before,Continue reading “As leaves belong to a tree”
Living Is An Art
Living is an ART, not a SCIENCE: It’s about our MINDS and HEARTS not quarks and atoms. It’s about the CREATIVE SPARK a dance in which all play a part. Just as the stars in the sky make a whole as the leaves and branches make a tree as the blades of grass form aContinue reading “Living Is An Art”
Beltane Rites: A History
BELTANE is an ancient fire festival marking the point in Spring when Winter is finally defeated and the journey into Summer truly underway. The last vestiges of the dark half of the year were burned away in the Beltane fires, and Maypole dances whisked up a spirit of revelry and celebration. Of all the paganContinue reading “Beltane Rites: A History”
BELTANE 2021
All Change! All Change! All is Changing at Beltane! Take a ribbon, take a chance, let Nature lead us into the Dance! At Scorpio Full Moon the shadows are illumined, the past is released, We commune at the fire with spirits both living and deceased. Dis Pater Pluto takes a four month seat at theContinue reading “BELTANE 2021”
The Web of Life
THE WEB OF LIFE Is a Dancing Oneness LIFE – DEATH – REBIRTH An Eternal Cycle Designed to Carry Us Home. . The Web gave birth to a self-conscious species whose purpose it is to care for the creatures and create with the power divine within us – the Infinite Creative Potential of the HolyContinue reading “The Web of Life”
Trans Day of Visibility
In the years 1995-2000 I underwent a transformation of my being – due to sickness I was motivated to explore the metaphysical layers of existence and quickly worked out that: THERE ARE TWO LAYERS TO OUR HUMAN REALITY THE MATERIAL (PHYSICAL BODY) AND THE NON-MATERIAL (MIND, SPIRIT) The Western culture lost this understanding at someContinue reading “Trans Day of Visibility”
Gays in the Age of Aquarius
The age of Pisces: we swim around like fish in water, unaware that we are totally immersed in the element that gives us life. We fall for the illusions that rulers, religions, society want us to buy. We believe that we are limited and born to merely die. The age of Aquarius: the soul ofContinue reading “Gays in the Age of Aquarius”
Christ and Cybele
In the ancient pagan world the arrival of Spring was time for ceremonies celebrating rebirth and renewal. Christianity followed this pattern with its Easter festival. Will Roscoe writes in Jesus and the Shamanic Tradition of Same Sex Love (published 2004): In late antiquity, the worship of Cybele and Attis was one of Christianity’s chief sourcesContinue reading “Christ and Cybele”
Spring Rises Within
Fresh Start Aries Moon Day SPRING RISING WITHIN From simple, humble beginnings GREAT THINGS BEGIN. At Equinox the Sun reaches The sign of the Ram: The first month of Spring Is the month of the I Am. Aries Fire warms us at Winter’s end – Spring calls us to growth, To renew bonds with friends,Continue reading “Spring Rises Within”
Shivratri
When I awoke from the materialist atheistic delusion that dominated my adolescent and early adult outlook on life at the age of 30, awoke to the sacred flow of Creation and humanity’s integral part in it, I searched for explanations of the Great Mystery of our existence in all the world’s major religions. Ultimately IContinue reading “Shivratri”
The Potential of Shamanism in Gay Life
Modern western world has elevated the external – the objective, scientific, material – universe over the subjective, internal experience. The common goals in our culture are physical beauty, fame and fortune, not wisdom, compassion and spiritual awareness. Gay subculture buys into this big time, with the help of apps such as Grindr we are makingContinue reading “The Potential of Shamanism in Gay Life”
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