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”
Category Archives: Rainbow Mystic
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”
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”
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”
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 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”
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”
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”
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”
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”
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”
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”
Aquarian Peak
The Aquarian spirit is building… Sun Mercury Venus Jupiter Saturn all in Ganymede’s sign, with Pluto just behind and the other planets all in the same quarter of the zodiac – Neptune in Pisces, Chiron in Aries, Mars and Uranus in Taurus – apart from the Moon, who is coming up fast from the rear,Continue reading “Aquarian Peak”
Imbolc 2021
The second half of Winter has begun. Imbolc on Feb 1st is the turning point, the magical moment where the Goddess drops her Grandmother Crone aspect and becomes again the Maiden, symbolising the potent energy growing in the land as Nature prepares to spring back into life from her dormant period.. Winter is the EarthContinue reading “Imbolc 2021”
REINCARNATION
“The soul has neither beginning nor end. [They] come into this world strengthened by the victories or weakened by the defeats of their previous lives”– Origen,183-253 A.D. The two major Abrahamic religions, Christianity and Islam, deny the reality of reincarnation, but looking back at history we see this denial has more political than spiritual roots.Continue reading “REINCARNATION”
URANUS
“Uranus is the awakener, whose job is to keep us faithful to what keeps us unique, fascinating and weird.” Montufar In the ancient wisdom tradition astrology, Saturn was long considered to be the ruling planet of Aquarius, but the discovery of Uranus in 1781 led to this unusual planet being assigned the role. Uranus isContinue reading “URANUS”
Conversation with God
In the year 2000 I was emerging from five years in a transformational cocoon called AIDS, wondering how to integrate the cosmic experiences I had been having with being part of the world and joining the living again. The series of Conversations with God books by Neale Donald Walsch were a vital source of insightContinue reading “Conversation with God”
YULE 2020
Yule trees shine on silent streets, Within ourselves this year we have to find The Holy Presence of the Yuletide. For some that presence is found in a virgin birth, For others it’s found through Saturnalian mirth – It’s really about the return of the Sun/Son, The Divine Child, the Light of the Soul, TheContinue reading “YULE 2020”
AIDS SHAMAN 3: Dimensional Shift
‘The great tides and strides of history all part of the Divine Plan: A species left to rule its world To build a divine sisterbrotherhood without the Goddess’s guiding hand. As we reach the point of unification voices of love and wisdom arise in every land, but they’re not the ones in power, this weContinue reading “AIDS SHAMAN 3: Dimensional Shift”
The Metaphysics of a Virus
Diagnosed HIV+ in 1990 when aged 25, and Long Term Survivor of AIDS, I have lived most of my life with a deadly virus in my body. I have thought long and hard about what a virus is on a metaphysical level, why it affects some people and not others, why it has different effectsContinue reading “The Metaphysics of a Virus”
Our Most Ancient Original Ancestry
ONCE UPON A TIME all Love and Play and Sex between humans on planet earth was natural, normal and not-restricted-by-laws. We lived in the garden of Eden in the sense that we had not made some things right and some things wrong. We experienced the innocence of being a child of creation.. Every day weContinue reading “Our Most Ancient Original Ancestry”
Samhain 2020: Paradigm Shift
SAMHAIN: the pagan new year festival of death and rebirth, when the dead are honoured and our place in the cosmic whole remembered. Across the world so many people feel the call to mark Samhain, whether in formal ceremony or the informal celebrations of Halloween. More ancient than any religion, this festival has deep rootsContinue reading “Samhain 2020: Paradigm Shift”
Peace in a Pandemic
All change on Planet Earth A new world going through a painful birth. If we take this time as a spiritual opportunity Seeing life as a journey on which we never stop learning We’re in this together and also alone This journey could bring humanity home. . The human race has been deep asleep inContinue reading “Peace in a Pandemic”
THE DEADLY ‘BELIEF’ IN SCIENCE
Science is the modern religion of the masses, one of the many opiates that have replaced traditional faiths and serve to discourage the general population from pursuing spiritual /magical paths of self-discovery. Science keeps the world asleep because certain fundamental principles on which it operates have infiltrated the collective mind, the shared belief systems thatContinue reading “THE DEADLY ‘BELIEF’ IN SCIENCE”
The Goddess and Christianity
The Great Goddess, worshipped by all of the many nations across the ancient European/Mediterranean/Asiatic world for thousands of years, gave birth to Christianity, in full awareness that her power would be eclipsed for the duration of an astrological age as the male gods took over the heavens. Her avatar, Jesus, knew this too, and spokeContinue reading “The Goddess and Christianity”
We All Come from the Goddess
Pleasure is a Goddess The Ancients knew Pleasure dissolves the boundaries Between Me and You . We All Come from the Goddess Every Body has her nipples Every Soul loves pleasure, joy and laughter the rituals of her presence. . The body is Her holy temple as is the Earth and all its creatures asContinue reading “We All Come from the Goddess”
2020 We Need Ecstasy
Stillness Ecstasy: two ways to expand the inner cosmos and feel the helping hands of love beyond the mortal sphere – as challenging times pressurise our minds, this presence can help us release fear. . Meditation builds mental muscle so we can see right through the mental bustle to where inner peace resides. Joyful ecstaticContinue reading “2020 We Need Ecstasy”
Desire, Disease and Death
DESIRE, DISEASE AND DEATH are part of the DIVINE CREATION PLAN We have to learn to embrace them to become the DIVINE HUMAN . Desire was once a Goddess honoured as Aphrodite, Diana, Venus… Desire was also a God symbolised in the ithyphalllic penis. This was because in the days before the Cross people knewContinue reading “Desire, Disease and Death”
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