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Re-name this tribe?

2009-10-23T19:57:10Z

After another post here a while ago, I thought I should ask everyone if they feel this should be called the

"Consciousness & Sexuality" tribe,

or the "Conscious Sexuality" tribe?

The former implies two distinct subjects -even though they definitely interrelate.

The latter implies something even more specific and narrow.

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releasing attachment to exes

2009-10-16T17:26:03Z

He couldn't deny a heart to heart connection
Her lust was just his lusts reflection.

What's the problem, what's your issue?
He had to accept it was superficial.

He couldn't deny a heart to heart connection
Her lust was just his lusts reflection.

If he said he didn't love the sex, he'd be a liar.
But he wants to aspire to things that are higher...

His life would be easier if she wasn't so beautiful
But she's just horny, she's just been using you...

They loved each other, but he stopped faking
It's obvious they're not meant to be dating.

You're not meant to search for true love, you're meant to be waiting
...and that's not the same thing!

What if the most beautiful woman you meet while you wait
Is just the most beautiful woman but not your soulmate?

She used to pretend to be SO innocent...
But when he gave her what she wanted she was SO in to it.

Now he's created a monster, she doesn't want a relationship,
She just wants cock, and he wants to hate the bitch,

But he loves her, some say he still fucks her,
He says she fucks him but he still makes love to her.

They're not dating anymore, they're just seein,
But some things he stopped doing cos he don't know where she's been.

He's been addicted to the way she rides mean,
Thoughts were romantic but not clean, she fulfilled each dream.

But not the one for romance, she don't seem that keen,
She wants to be a playboy bunny, but he wants a queen,

People warned him she was too much fun,
Little did they know son, she was the mature one.

She knew being jealous doesn't serve any purpose,
It just hurts but he was addicted to the way dat she works it.

Way more than that, attached to the look in her eyes,
He knew inside innocence was more than a disguise,

He knows what he needs, to grow up like trees...
Supreme success, righteous persistence with small steps.

He learned his lesson so we don't have to,
Remember link heart to heart but don't let pussy entrap you.

You have to know yourself to know the paths through
Love and Lust, listen to your heart and trust!

What if the most beautifulllllllll
woman you meet while you wait

Is just the most beautifulllllllllll
woman but not your soulmate?

His life would be easier if she wasn't so beautiful
But she's just horny, she's just been using you...

They loved each other, but he stopped faking
It's obvious they're not meant to be dating.

You're not meant to search for true love, you're meant to be waiting
...and that's not the same thing!

What if the most beautiful woman you meet while you wait
Is just the most beautiful... you've met so far? :-)

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Maya Shamaness AumRak's "Crystal Flight" Guided Meditation now available for download.

2009-10-15T22:13:12Z

http://www.gate-13.com

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how do you deal with infidelity??

2009-10-14T21:48:35Z

So,... how do you deal with... infidelity ??

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Chakra Pleasure Attunement

2009-10-05T14:56:56Z

Chakra Pleasure Attunement

This attunement is for experiencing pleasure in each of your chakras. Your chakras are energy centers that correspond with your body, emotions, mind and spirit. By experiencing pleasure in your chakras, you bring more pleasure to your life. However, while the primary focus of this attunement is for enjoyment, the opening of your physical, emotional and mental bodies to pleasure often has a clearing, healing and awakening effect.

This Chakra Pleasure Attunement will work with any and all of your major and minor chakras. I recommend starting with your major chakras and working with all of them in one session beginning with the root/base chakra and working your way up. Then if you wish to work with any of your minor chakras you can do that as part of the same or a separate session. If you need a list of major and minor chakras you will find many internet sites, books and other reference material containing that information.

The purpose of my attunements is to help you tune in and become more in-tune with yourself. When you attune using this attunement, you are becoming more aware of the pleasure in each of your chakras. This is not intended as a healing modality, but rather as self exploration, empowerment and life enrichment. I offer no course materials or certificates, only a way to journey into yourself and bring more of yourself into your everyday life.

Although it is common to attribute the attunement to someone or something outside of yourself, what I offer through my attunements is an understanding that everything you wish to attune yourself to is already present inside of you. When you follow the written instructions in this attunement, I am working with you to help you tune into and experience your pleasure as it already exists inside of you. I am not adding anything to you, I am simply helping you to focus your awareness. However, if while working with any or all of your chakras, you would like to add my pleasure energy to yours, all you have to do is intend to experience it and it will be present.

To Attune: relax and close your eyes. Starting with your root chakra, intend to experience the pleasure that is there. Then just go with the experience. When the sensation subsides or moves to the next chakra, it is time to intend to experience the pleasure that is there. All you need to experience this attunement is intent. These written words are merely information and instructions. When you intend to attune, your intent is assisted by mine and the attunement takes place. Nothing more is needed so please do not ask me to send you the attunement, everything you need is inside of you and supported by the words on this page you are currently reading.

This attunement will work one time for each chakra. After that if you choose to attune, you will still be able to do so because tuning in is a natural process. However, my assistance in attuning, and the addition of my pleasure energy will no longer be available. If you would like further assistance exploring your sexuality, I offer the Sexual Empowerment Attunement for purchase on my website http://www.lindawhitedove.com/Sexual_Empowerment.php

Thank you for the opportunity to share this attunement with you.

Linda White Dove
Copyright 2007 Linda White Dove

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999

2009-09-12T07:52:48Z

The opening of the Triple Nine CRYSTALLINE Gateway on 09/09/09

The opening of another cosmic crystalline gateway soon approaches on your Earth - or it is more appropriate to say that this gateway is opening now as you move forward in your linear Earth's calender towards a date that signifies, through the energy of it's geometry, the highest peak of energy in your year of 2009. the date we speak of is the 9th September, which carries the geometric frequency of the triple nine, the nine nine nine, simply because that is the date you all know, you all see, write, speak of, and hold within your thoughts, from our perspective, all dates are simultaneous in high energy and light, but for the one who experiences the linear journey of incarnation on earth, the 999, the 9th of September 2009, this date holds that energy peak that is visible to, and felt by the sensitive Star Seeds and conduits of light on earth. this date holds the energy of the nine, the energy of all that is US for the nine is the number of source energy, and signifies the mathematical frequency, or energy signature as it were of the very multi verse of hyperspace, the central core of the zero point, and the frequency of this is available to all who seek it during this opening of the triple nine gateway. which is at its highest on the 999. how does one access this gateway, meditation is a great key for you, and we highly recommend this, as you take your brain waves down to a frequency that allows the receiving of these energies in their fullest, there will be meditations taking place on this day by many groups of light, for we see that many of you are fully aware of the significance of this date. even those who have not yet raised their awareness to the ascension process and the quantum shifts now occurring on your planet are still aware on some level that this date is significant. those who feel they are in power on your planet, those who operate from service to self energies are very aware of the significance of this date. yet it is you the human people, that the energy of this date is most accessible to, you only have to ask, just ask, even if you have no awareness to whom you are asking, you who have a pure heart will be heard, and will be protected in your asking. your asking will be acted upon. all one needs to do, is ask to receive the energies of the 999, to walk through the triple 9 gateway on the 9th of September 2009, it matters not where you live in the world, or what exact time frame your daylight hours move into the 999, many do not understand how a date within a calendar, a counting system that has flaws and from certain levels is not correct when one views the very beginning of earths history can possibly hold significance. to those we say, the geometric energy that is placed on a date that holds the frequency of the 999 simply by its name as you have a name, gives it this significance. yet it goes beyond that for your calendar indeed has consciousness and its own blue print, which as geometry is designed to do, as with crop circles, and art, and certain mathematical understanding is designed to do, is an inner trigger for the human DNA, and the triple 9 is a major awakening for all human beings. for all beings that you would know as extra terrestrial hold the language of the DNA within, the language of the DNA that is within geometry, from this perspective the day of the triple 9 says much indeed. and when one opens willingly to that frequency, which is a choice, it is a choice because you have free will, when one opens to that frequency one allows the geometry of the 999 to speak directly to the DNA and this knowledge understanding and light shall then be processed by the human brain, and you that is received this energy, you that has walked through the triple 9 gateway, shall know, you shall know, and you shall have knowing. it has long been known the significance of the geometric language, the significance of the triple numbers, the master numbers and the 999. there are those that have kept this knowledge secret ; there are those who have deliberately placed the consciousness of fear upon the triple master number 999, the opening of this gateway on the 9th of September 2009, signifies the end of this hold of fear on the 999, for many shall ask to receive this energy, many with awakened and activated DNAare receiving this energy NOW. this gateway shall remain open as long as the awareness of the 999 remains, the combined consciousness of the aware ones shall therefore bathe the 999 with love for it is love, and any attempts to create fear around the geometric master numbers shall cease. the 999 date, the triple 9 crystalline gateway, is therefore created by you, it is you that hold the keys to open this gateway. it is you oh so many of you, that shall not walk, but skip with a lightness of step through this gateway, as you have skipped through so many gateways before, you shall hold the hands of those less sure than yourselves. but as you create this gateway, as you unlock this gateway with you inner golden keys, you realize the oneness that stands within creation and creating, and know that the 999 gateway was created for you and by you, yet stands timeless as it is a trigger for your DNA, and the DNA in its truest form has no beginning and no end. the frequency of the nine is universal, it is unconditional love, strength and higher consciousness. it can indeed be used for opposite frequencies, as all geometric master numbers have the opposing polarity. it is with gladness that we see that the energy of the light, the higher frequency of the 9 is the energy that abounds as this gateway opens. the strength of the darker, service to self, pyramid structures of consciousness, cannot and will not be any match for the light on this day. the 999 is the true finish line for the consciousness structures of service to others light that now holds so much more space within your planetary grid. this is available for all who wish it, for the opening of the triple 9 crystalline gateway marks that point of no return for the opposing frequencies, and they too shall be embraced by the love compassion and forgiveness for those who hold the light. the frequencies of the 9 have always been passed to those who hear these words, yet on this day, the 999, the opening of the triple 9 crystalline gateway the energies of the 9 are passed to all those who hear these words, who feel these words in multiplied abundance. now is the time for the energy of the 9, we are the white winged collective consciousness of 9.

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Female ejaculation....

2009-08-12T10:42:59Z

I've only ejaculated recently. The first time was really interesting visually, I gushed a lot of fluids but the orgasm was almost not there. The second time the orgasm was way better and less fluids. Both times it was from masterbating after sexual intercourse.
Perhaps not that much signifigance here, but seems like a milestone to me. I always heard of female ejaculation and never experienced it until now in my 30's. Sex for women seems to get better in our 30's.

Any female ejaculation stories, any consciousness signifigance? I do feel a general opening up of energy, perhaps a root chakras thing. Maybe orgasms just clear the channels in general. I feel less freaked out by intimacy, physical and emotional and yet more study in my integrity and freedom. Go figure.

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My personal take on sexuality, divinity, and consciousness...

2009-07-31T21:16:02Z

I'm not a religious man.

Oftentimes I've found -at risk of offending more pious sensitivities here- that religion is an excellent way to never get to know God. I mean really come face-to-face with the universal divine essence that is the source of all movement and evolution in the cosmos. Because religion is a social mechanism, the original art project, designed to unify a societal group by providing its individuals with a homogenic and simplified definition of the Divine and our role in it.

Being religious, and sincerely believing your religion to be pragmatic Truth is like reading a poem about a mountain, and mistaking the words n the page for the mountain itself. A poem about a mountain is not the mountain, just as a text about The Truth is not The Truth.

But I suppose it was as close as a band of illiterate goat herders in the middle of nowhere could come to understanding the nuances of the Cosmos.

As a caveat, I must declare presently that I do not feel I have a full understanding of the nuances of the Cosmos. I don't believe it's within the Human capacity to do so. It's like asking an ant to understand Quantum-field Thermodynamics. Just not equipped. So, instead we tell stories, metaphors, similes, and allegories so that our tiny ant minds can grasp a teeny little piece and hopefully glean a little benefit for our lives.

Which is all fine and good, until dudes with swords or nukes mistake the metaphor for literal truth.

I digress. I make the distinction between religion and the Divine because in the name of religion, many beautiful Human urges have been suppressed. Prominently among them is our sensual urge, our pleasure-seeking instinct so rarely found in the animal world.

In a broad sense, I'm kind of a Deist. It was the philosophical viewpoint of America's Founding Fathers (look it up). They weren't Christian, otherwise they never would have devised the ideal of division between church and state, and we'd be living in a witch-burning religious monarchy now. Nope they Deists. Which, to wit, means they believed in the design of the Universe as the proof of the Divine Will. Not a book, not a bunch of stories about impossible things like living in whales or splitting oceans in half, but rather the unfolding of a flower, the coming of seasons, or mankind's basic design were to be seen as clues to what God intended for us here on Earth. For example, if an animal has sharp teeth, it must be meant to be carnivorous. If a human being has urges, they must be also a part of God's design, and therefore not evil and imperfect.

The basic Human urges of sexual pleasure and consciousness expansion are prevalent across all societies. There isn't a tribe on Earth that doesn't get horny, and there isn't a tribe on Earth that has not developed a way to escape ordinary reality as a technique in seeking communion with The Divine. They are factors so ubiquitous in Humanity that it strains the mind to imagine how a benevolent God could wire us that way and yet forbid their usage. It's like having air-conditioning and a stereo in your car, but you aren't supposed to use them or you forfeit your vehicle. HUH?

But that is the thinking behind Original Sin, and the foundation for so much dysfunctional shame and hatred in our society.

I take issue with the concept of Original SIn. The general idea is nasty enough -that we are "born cursed" because of what someone else did. This is pure bullshit and makes me think the Judeo-Christian God is some kind of caustic asshole. My own experience of God is that he's definitely not an asshole, so I choose to see things differently.

In Genesis, Original Sin occurred when Eve was told *not* to go to The Tree Of Knowledge to eat the fruit. Which the Serpent later convinced her was a good idea. She ate it, lost her animal-like ignorance of ethics and philosophy, and quickly turned Adam on with the same fruit. They became conscious of their nakedness (sexuality), and God came out from behind a bush and said "HA! BUSTED!"

The whole idea seems, to borrow a word from a friend, squirrely.

I mean, if I was an omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent God, and I sincerely wanted to avoid a Tree getting used by Humans, I feel I would have put it somewhere else, y'know, somewhere NOT in THE VERY CENTER OF THE GARDEN which I'd created as the home for those same Humans. I mean, a big, mostly empty Planet Earth, he could've put the Tree on the island of Bora-Bora. But no, he plants the Tree in the middle of the Garden, practically hangs Adam and Eve from it on a hammock, endows them with Free Will, and then says "Don't touch".

Yeah, right.

(By the way, Free WIll is the rarest substance in the Universe. Even angels don't possess Free Will. Well, according to that legend, the last angel who tried Free Will is now in a dark & roasty place.)

LUCIFER=Bringer Of Light

As such, it can be implied that Lucifer is the mythical bringer of illumination, the party responsible for our current enjoyment of consciousness & sexuality. They are congruent, if not synonymous. Consciousness and Sexuality were born of the same bite.

But what if we were TRICKED? What if the whole thing was a ploy to get us to *actually eat* of the Tree of knowledge?

(I speak metaphorically of course. I do not believe in a gigantic Mr. God with a beard sitting on a big throne in some science-fiction city orbiting thousands of miles above the Earth, nor do I believe literally the stories in Genesis or any other sacred text from anywhere in the world. But because these myths are so deeply ingrained in our conscious matrix, their examination serves as shorthand in re-programming the human mind. Myths are like an operating language for the Human experience.)

But yeah, TRICKED. because God (the real one, if any) isn't so stupid as to put a barrel of gasoline next to a fire, which is exactly what Genesis claims he did when he placed the Tree of Knowledge next to Human curiosity. So what if the whole set-up was an experiment to see what we would do? A taste test, if you will, with God playing Brand X and Serpent playing Brand Z. They tested the force of Human will and curiosity, and the result proved the subject worthy of receiving Godlike qualities of ability and perception?

This is a rare concept these days, but in the days of Gnosticism it had wider appeal. Ancient versions of Scripture attribute the creation of the Universe to a God OTHER than the one who forbade Humans the gifts of consciousness & sexuality which are inherent in the Apple. Apparently the God who made that silly rule was a minor Deity who mistakenly believes himself the Creator Of The Universe. An Idiot God, you might say. And a Gnostic path toward Divinity essentially aims to get past that petty demi-god and meet face-to-face with the real Creator who rests beyond him. I suppose that makes me also a Gnostic.

Essentially, I believe our natural drives toward spiritual ecstasy and sensual experience are a hard-won birthright. We had to prove ourselves worthy of these gifts by choosing them, and in so doing stand against a supposedly omnipotent force and embrace our own Free Will. Much as parents learn to respect their child as an individual only when they strike out on their own, only in this way could we have won the respect of God.

So for me, Sexuality and Consciousness are virtue and joy, and Divinity is not an untenable state, but a very real undercurrent present in everything that exists.

In essence, upon choosing to eat of the fruit of Knowledge, we became God's peers. No longer submissive, no longer subject, we now co-create the Universe as a team, God working great wonders through our Human capacities, and we coming ever & ever closer to an actual understanding of Divine Plan. In so doing, we create the world anew each day, and serve as a part of the engine of evolution and change in the cosmos.

(((M)))

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Hindering Spiritual Growth: Chronic Illnesses and Toxic Chemicals Database + Reality of Tacit Conspiracies

2009-07-31T06:28:56Z

This is being posted because it also reveals some of the things
that can and are hindering the Spiritual Growth (in mass) of
all of humanity, as well as corrupting ones "sexuality" - TR

Database lists illnesses with toxic chemicals
that can cause them is now linked in at my
profile with a review and comments at :>
http://people.tribe.net/toxicreverend
Or just Google;
"Toxic Reverend"
I have other profiles and blogs, all of which
have the same red and white skull and cross bones.
With the exception of the "Straightedge" profile :>

Note the blog titled;
"Osho : The "Love Guru" and Non-lethal Biological Weapons"
posted at
Straightedge - Mister Kinkster
http://www.myspace.com/misterkinkster

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In "other news":

Realities and tacit conspiracies of today's health care and political system
http://toxicreverend.blogspot.com/2009/06/realities-and-tacit-conspiracies-of.html

This posting could still use some editing.
Feel free to use it as you see fit.
My macular degeneration is forcing me to stop working
on this for now. But I feel the information is too
important not to send out. Please feel free to forward
to journalists that can make use of it, with or with out
credit to myself.

Blessings,

The Toxic Reverend

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Realities and tacit conspiracies of today's health care and political system
Sunday, June 7, 2009
http://toxicreverend.blogspot.com/2009/06/realities-and-tacit-conspiracies-of.html

Reference material is linked into the blog, but is not linked into this posting - TR

Excerpts from the above blog:>

Medical bills play a role in 62% of bankruptcies, study says
By Lisa Girion, June 4, 2009 Los Angeles Times

Quotes from the LA Times Nespaper article:
The study found that medical bills, plus related problems
such as lost wages for the ill and their caregivers,
contributed to 62% of all bankruptcies filed in 2007.

Medical insurance isn't much help, either. About 78% of
bankruptcy filers burdened by healthcare expenses were
insured, according to the survey, to be published in the
August issue of the American Journal of Medicine.

End of quotes from the LA Times newspaper.

The article appears to have been moved to their archives.
A copy is posted at: Physicians for a National Health Program,
http://www.pnhp.org/news/2009/june/medical_bills_play_a.php

The article can also be found with the Google search terms;
"Medical bills play a role in 62% of bankruptcies, study says By Lisa Girion, June 4, 2009 Los Angeles Times"

The entire study can be downloaded from:

Physicians for a National Health Program,
http://pnhp.org/
at
http://pnhp.org/new_bankruptcy_study/

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“As an Environmental Technologist, I can not imagine
a health care system that could be viable, when it
ignores the common toxic chemical exposures” -
The Toxic Reverend

The realities and tacit conspiracies of today's health care and political system
By The Toxic Reverend
(No copyright claimed. Edit, post, forward and reproduce at will)

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Please consider this information with the following moral:

Tacit Conspiracy Of Complicity - Simplified:

While walking to work each day, I had to cross a stream. I tossed a

rock in to step on and help myself cross each day, on the way to and from work.

Others saw this and did the same. We never discussed it or talked about it.

It was a tacit conspiracy of complicity.

Most of us never imagined that we would create a damn that would flood our

community and kill so many people.

But the few that did realize the impending disaster, set about preparing to

profit off of the coming tragedy, rather than attempt to prevent it. And what

is even worse, are the "measures" they took to keep the information

concealed so the disaster could not be avoided and they could

"make a killing", in profits.

End of quoted moral from a work in progress titled-
Toxic Revelations
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Leading medical providers like the Cleveland
Clinic and Johns Hopkins in Baltimore are
establishing special programs to give platinum
service to the well-heeled. Depending on the
program, the super-rich customers may receive
massages and sauna time along with their
physical, house calls, and step-to-the- front-
of-the-line service in testing facilities (158).

While Linda Peeno MD (featured in the movie
"Sicko") gave sworn testimony to the House of
Representatives on the subject of "Denial of
Health Care Services" to insured American's
(20a).

A Congressional Report states that of the
1,400 chemicals known to cause cancer,
less than 6% are tracked (145B).

The huge transnational companies that
produce toxic chemicals found in
pesticides, herbicides and industrial and
household products profit not only from
the sale of these products, but also from
the symptoms and chronic illnesses that
they can trigger (157).
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157 :POISON FOR PROFIT
CHEM/PHARM HAS NO EQUAL - WHAT A
BUSINESS PLAN!
By Ashley Simmons Hotz May 15, 2002

This report has been censored from the
Internet and removed from the
Archives Wayback Machine. But a
number of advocates have been
re-posting the report and copies can be
found with a simple Google search on
the title and author:>
"POISON FOR PROFIT Ashley Simmons Hotz"

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Even more disturbing is what is termed "the revolving door" from
these companies and their executives into many of the high ranking
administration offices of our government, in Washington DC. From
the National Institute of Health to the Food and Drug Administration
and beyond.

"The revolving door" is easily shown with an Internet www.google.com

search term, "revolving door washington DC drugs chemical companies".

In short, "Justice has been sold" (101) and millions of dollars put

into "fixing the sale" ( 49). The Los Angeles Times reported that,

"Drug Companies, HMO's Spend Big To Stop New Laws". They

donated hundreds of millions of dollars to political election

campaigns (49, 159 ).

To quote Senator Amy Klobuchar;

The debate on health care in Washington has been dominated by

the drug companies and the insurance companies for way too long.

When our health care policies are written for the insurance companies

and the drug companies instead of America's families, we get things

like Medicare Part D. Medicare Part D gave the prescription drug

companies something like $90 billion a year in Christmas presents

by banning the federal government from negotiating drug prices.

End of quote from Senator Amy Klobuchar

Drug companies are apparently buying out "grass root

organizations like NAMI (68). While they do the

"Poison for Profit" ( 157).

Use this Google search terms to find copies

"POISON FOR PROFIT Ashley Simmons Hotz"
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To simplify the complexity of the
controversy, I will give this example. Bill
Moyers of the Public Broadcasting System
did a show named Trade Secrets and has
created a web page of the same name
(26). There is to much documentation
there to list, in regard to "industry"
covering up the damage to OUR HEALTH
from toxic chemicals, for over fifty years
(26).

Bill Moyers was tested for over 800 toxic
chemicals and over 80 chemicals (at
various levels of exposure) were found, in
him. That presents the potential for more
viable chemicals reaction variations than
the pick six lottery in one patient from the
perspective of Low Dose Cumulative
Effects of Toxic Chemical's ! But
regardless of this, many of the "tolerable
levels of exposure" to a (singular) toxic
chemical have been fraudulently produced
for decades (81).

Current events on this topic of "The Toxic Lotto" that
revolves around the "Toxic Soup" that all of us live in
are at my MySpace profile with links to the
California Biomonitoring Program
and the
"Cumulative Impacts".

Just as toxic chemicals can multiply in their toxicity
when mixed, so can infectious agents increase in their
pathogenic impact. And the the two (toxic chemicals
and infectious agents) usually work in a synergistic
manner.

It is suspected that
Camp Mandalay of the Bohemian Grove
might very well have "inside knowledge" that
other members of the Bohemian Grove are not
aware of.

Many camps in the Bohemian Grove contain very
prestigious visitors. You have camps like Cave Man,
Hideaway, Hill Billies, Hillside, Isle of Aves, Lost
Angels, Mandalay, Midway, Owl's Nest,
Sempervirens, Silverado Squatters, and Stowaway.
Mandalay seems to be the camp for international
relations and consists of many members officially or
otherwise connected to the intelligence agencies.
Mandalay is the only camp you cannot just walk into
and before you are allowed on the compound
someone will ask you who you have an appointment
with. If you're cleared for access, you are taken up the
hill with a Bechtel-designed electric pulley. Many
members of camps like Hill Billies or Stowaway
(Rockefellers and Morgans) have been to Mandalay at
one time or another.

It is believed that camp Mandalay was central to
the "Manhattan Project" (the nuclear bomb),
"Project Paper Clip" (that gave Nazi scientists
new identities and continued their research on
American's) and a host of other well document
experiments on hundreds of American cities.

I am all for telling the other members of the
Bohemian Grove what camp Mandalay has been
up to with the Non-Lethal Biological
Weapons known as Incapacitating Agents,
playing a part in Chronic Illnesses and cancers.
A video titled,
"Biological Weapons Experiments On The American People"
explains it rather well.

Copy / paste of a posting at
"Sex for the sake of sex" #83 (permalink)

When it comes to the effects of toxic chemicals on our gonads
and or our sex drive, there appears to be a cover up and
a conspiracy. Unfortunately, it is much worse than that. After
careful investigation, it seems to me that the circumstance are
due more to incompetence and greed.

This membership list of the Bohemian Grove does list
some of the deceased and their causes of death. Such as
John Du Pont (now deceased) of whom was diagnosed as
"insane". He was heir to the Du Pont chemical empire.
Ralph Bailey was a member of Camp Mandalay and Vice-Chairman
of Du Pont Chemical Company. John Du Pont (heir to the Du Pont
fortune) was a member of the "Isle of Aves" Camp.
John Du Pont was not a member of the Mandalay Camp.

I'll get back to that angle, after I clarify a few points....... Maybe
you could ask Mary Moore and Peter Phillips what they think about this ?

The elite of our society (The Bohemian Grove
crowd) can get caught up and effected by this "Toxic Lotto", too.
Only they have the money (cash) or a different type of health
insurance, that enables them to get properly evaluated at
clinics like the
Environmental Health Center-Dallas

I'll clarify a key point. A peer reviewed medical
journal has shown that the majority of mental
illness is due to toxic chemical exposures
and is not as genetic as they had thought.

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In reference:
Article titled;
Environmental Connections: A Deeper Look into Mental Illness
Journal: Environmental Health Perspectives
Volume 115, Number 8, August 2007
http://www.ehponline.org/docs/2007/115-8/focus-abs.html
Environmental Health Perspectives (EHP ) is a a monthly journal
of peer- reviewed research and news on the impact of the
environment on human health.

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Also note the excerpt from :>

http://www.larouchepac.com/node/10504
Nazi T4 Genocide Model Openly Touted By Obama Administration Officials

June 3, 2009 (LPAC)—When Adolf Hitler set up his T4 program, dedicated to eliminating "useless eaters" from Germany's hospitals and nursing homes, he turned to a "non-political" body of medical experts to make the decisions as to who should live, and who should die. It is becoming increasingly obvious that this same model is being adopted by the Obama Administration, in its zeal to ram through its genocidal health care "reform."
End of excerpt from:>
http://www.larouchepac.com/node/10504

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has been re-posted at
http://www.puppstheories.com/tr.html

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Realities and tacit conspiracies of today's health care and political system
Sunday, June 7, 2009
http://toxicreverend.blogspot.com/2009/06/realities-and-tacit-conspiracies-of.html

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Database lists illnesses with toxic chemicals
that can cause them is now linked in at my
profile with a review and comments at :>
http://people.tribe.net/toxicreverend
Or just Google;
"Toxic Reverend"
I have other profiles and blogs, all of which
have the same red and white skull and cross bones.

Note:

Sunday, March 23, 2008
Easter Sermon 08:
Red Collar Criminals Playing American Roulette With Our Lives
http://toxicreverend.blogspot.com/2008/03/easter-sermon-08-achilleas-heel-of.html

Blessings,

The Toxic Reverend
http://people.tribe.net/toxicreverend
aka
Tom Krohmer
Environmental Technologist
http://toxicreverend.blogspot.com/
aka
The Toxic Reverend
http://www.myspace.com/toxicreverend
aka
Justice Is Homeless
http://www.myspace.com/justiceishomeless
aka
Straightedge - Mister Kinkster
http://www.myspace.com/misterkinkster

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Hi gang!

2009-07-24T17:01:58Z

Hi everyone,

I'm the co-founder of OneTantra, and I wanted to invite all of you to what is now becoming the hottest social network in the tantric & poly community.

OneTantra is a multi-faith, inspirational and motivational new spirituality website. Through its community and significant teaching body (over 25 core faculty instructors including Charles Muir, Mantak Chia, Deb Anapol, Michael Mirdad, etc - and over 50 workshop leaders in the adjunct program), it provides information, community and services on a wide variety of topics, and with a focus on the art of tantra, love and spiritualizing relationship. It is slowly becoming the largest and most vibrant online community in the tantra world.

OneTantra is an all-loving, all-accepting, exploratory, fun, edgy and bold place where anybody curious about, or on the path can meet, learn, grow, deepen, play and love more fully. It's the ultimate tantric learning community -- you will be blown away by the depth and spiritual beauty of the people who have already joined. Plus, the social network will blow you away - and this isn't marketing hype - there are people talking about everything from the neurobiology of tantra to ecstatic poetry to qigong to non-violent communications to sexual healing & tantric case histories to "all about amrita" and slow food and then there are all the regional groups... just about anything you can imagine. You can ask questions, learn new practices and meet like-minded others. Lots of them. It's truly a rich and fulfilling multi-conversation, all about tantra and its impact on the world.

So come to http://onetantra.com/bliss to learn more. And email me at moses@onetantra.com if you need anything. It's a paid premium social network, but we have fun work study programs and stuff so anyone can join.

We're hosting an online workshop with Mantak Chia this week!

Love & light,

Moses

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Thinking About Thinking

2009-07-15T22:48:27Z

Thinking About Thinking

I have been thinking about thinking. The evolving energies helping us to awaken have brought new awareness to my thoughts. When limiting thoughts show up, they present along with a continuum of possibility from which to choose. I then know I can either choose the limiting thoughts or I can choose something more fulfilling.

My inner knowing is often in the form of holographic spatial relationship (I see/feel/know/hear energy patterns in relationship with other patterns). This makes it easy to embody change. I do not have to engage my mind; I simply choose to feel myself as the pattern. You can do this too, using this metaphorical-based activity:

Do you have a thought or belief you wish to change? If nothing comes to mind, remember a challenging situation and your thoughts about it. Choose one thought with which to work. Sense it as a large plane, like a large plate expanding out from your heart chakra in all directions to infinity. Allow the plane to become light: feel it, see it, experience it as light until you no longer think about the thought, you just sense the plane as light.

Once you have skill at doing this, you can use it to transform limiting thoughts. If you do it often enough, and if you intend for it to happen, whenever you have limiting thoughts you will be notified by the illuminating plane which will show up when you need it. If you wish to take this activity further, when the plane shows up as light, sense the light clearing away all thought, leaving you open for other thoughts on the situation, ones that are more fulfilling.

I wish you infinite fulfillment and joyful exploration. Thank you for the opportunity to share this activity with you. Feedback is welcomed and appreciated!

Linda White Dove
http://www.lindawhitedove.com

If you wish to share this article with others, you are welcomed to do so, provided you do not change it in any way and you include my name and website.

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What's "Awakened" Sexuality?

2009-07-15T11:21:31Z

I was inspired by a dream one of my friends shared in his blog that made me wonder: What's really "awakened" sexuality?

How much of our concepts around this are just the ideals engendered by our sociocultural programming? What does "awakened" sexuality even mean? Perhaps it is simply having no judgments or dualistic thoughts around sexuality so that nothing perturbs us about it and we feel completely free to just Be in our sexuality in whatever way it arises for us in the moment? What do you think?

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Poly PDX

2009-07-08T15:13:36Z

A celebration of the polyamorous lifestyle

Mt Tabor Park
Music
Art
Workshops
Cuddle Parties

We need planning help....are you poly? come chill with us....are you mono? you are welcome too

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Getting Groomed for Hyperspace!

2009-07-07T14:49:21Z

A month or two ago now (time warps increasing) I received raindrop therapy, and ever since then, I've had this high frequency sound in my head that approximates to that sound a TV makes even when it's on mute. I have been told by many people from different belief systems that this means I'm closer to the spiritual dimension. One of these was a medical doctor who I expected to get a western medical response from, but instead was audience to his telling of how the Prophet Mohammed would hear this very sound before getting one of his Divine Downloads.

Every day I get more people coming to me with either more affirmations of this sort which include mentions of Ascension Work, or finding affirmation through me as they open up about what they're going through in life lately -themes of change in every area in their lives, new possibilities being considered, values being re-evaluated, new layers of self-awareness emerging, etc.

I have scores of people coming out of the woodwork to discover the information I have about Graviola for the first time while they're concerned about loved ones in stage 4 cancer. A light of vulnerable hope flashes in their eyes as they can hardly believe what I'm sharing with them.

Synchronicities are abounding!

Enigmatic feelings gurgle deep within which I cannot articulate to myself.

I swell with new understandings buzzing on the edge of my mind just beyond the reach of language.

I feel like something massive is approaching -an external event, an internal one, both? Perhaps a full-on procession of such?

I feel like I'm being pulled by some interdimensional tractor beam towards the violet zenith of hyperspace and that everything is heating up for profound change!

or is it just me?

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Dopamine & Serotonin

2009-07-06T18:56:01Z

I've been reading this book by John Gray for the past few days titled "The Mars & Venus Diet & Exercise Solution", and it's been incredibly illuminating with regards to the various experiences of energy I've encountered both in myself and in my relationships. This book basically focuses on the roles of Dopamine and Serotonin in our body and mind, how these differ between men and women, and what things we can eat, do, and even say that influence these primary neurotransmitters.

Just knowing how to see most of one's experiences and interactions as the interplay of these two, and how to appropriately respond to them, is incredibly empowering! For years I experienced this inexplicable "fog" in my head. It came and went without any apparent rhyme or reason. Sometimes it was affected by what I ate, or by certain activities, but I didn't know why. It wasn't until I read this book that I found the keys to unlock these mysteries -and I can't begin to tell you how this knowledge has benefitted me in so many ways! It's like being reborn, and all my potential is now available to me! I encourage everyone now to read this book as I feel it is perhaps the most essential, relevant, and practical book out there today!

I invite your stories about your own experiences and experiments in the management of Dopamine & Serotonin, how these have affected your life and relationships, and especially what you've found in Gray's book that you'd like to cite and illustrate.

One thing I'd like to point out is how the book goes into the role of amino acids and cleansing the liver to optimize the dopamine & serotonin levels in our brain. Gray refers to this clinic in Mexico where drug addicts experience a quick release from their cravings through intravenous amino acid supplementation. Before I read further, I went to the website for that clinic to see more about this and I contacted them to ask what they recommend in terms of foods that one can use instead of IV supplementation to achieve the same results. I went back to reading the book, and found that in the next paragraph, John writes about how he had the same question in his mind, and that after doing a lot of research and experimentation, he found the answer with the Isagenix Nutritional Cleansing program -which just so happens to be what I've been using since November 2006, although I haven't been consistent enough with it to achieve the results he writes about. How ironic! I've done the program a couple times now and have consistently had wonderful results -particularly by doing 2 cleanse days in a row. Now my goal is to keep this program a regular feature in my lifestyle to see how things go over the coming months. I know that I have a lifetime of habits and neural programming to modify and that it will be a gradual process. I encourage everyone to experience this for themselves and invite you to begin by watching this 15 minute video by my friend and colleague Dr. Becky Natrajan at http://sunyata.isagenix.com/us/en/areyoutoxic.dhtml

I've had lots of experience in adjusting the program to work with people's various needs and schedules, so I encourage those interested in exploring this for themselves to get in touch with me so I can make this an easy and enjoyable experience!

One of the things I've noticed, especially on my 2nd cleanse day, is that I feel more alive and in tune with the currents of energy all around me. The environment sparkles with spirit -as do I! I also have KPA -aka "Chicken Skin"- which is really common and genetic. It's not aggravating per se, but it doesn't feel attractive -which for me, has been a really big deal all my life. I've noticed that when doing the cleanse, my KPA lessens dramatically! I don't know if this is necessarily due to the levels of dopamine and serotonin in my body/brain, but I don't care. I've been keeping a more regular exercise regime of just walking, running, bicycling, push ups and abdominal strengthening, as well as sun bathing for about 10-15 minutes front and back, and I keep feeling better and better as more people express surprise when they find out I'm 35 -because they routinely think I'm in my early 20's!

Oh yeah, and I'll tell you this -sex has become increasingly more amazing as I've been keeping up these habits, and it's particularly outstanding on my cleansing days!

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Setting a Sacred Mood (music)

2009-06-30T00:30:22Z

Hey All,

I would love some music recommendations for setting a sacred mood. I've been listening to Spirit Lounge with music by Snatam Kaur, Miten, Deva Premal, Aethera, Manish Vyas, Terry Oldfield, Tulku, and Prem Joshua. It's my current fav - samples below.

http://www.newearthrecords.com/web/pc/viewPrd.asp?idcategory=0&idproduct=1585

Thanks in advance for sharing your music choices!

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Orgasmic Mastery: A Course for Men (FREE Teleseminar June 15th)

2009-06-28T03:58:37Z

Hey Tribe Community,

After months of preparation, (or 15 years, depending on your outlook), I am thrilled to be launching, Orgasmic Mastery: A Course for Men.

This is not specifically taoist. As I am not specifically taoist. I have been influenced by taoist approaches to sex, tantra, quodoshka, and a wide variety of western sexological-based approaches.

Imagine being able to have full choice over when and even IF you ejaculate.

Imagine having Full Body Orgasms that rock your body and soul.

Imagine having Multiple Non-ejaculatory Orgasms coursing through your entire body, culminating in a powerful ejaculatory orgasm that far surpasses anything you ever even dreamed was possible!

Orgasmic Mastery (A Course for Men) is a home-based learning course designed to help You:

* learn to have more choice around when and if you ejaculate;
* experience Full Body Orgasm;
* understand the separation between ejaculation and orgasm;
* experience Non-Ejaculatory Orgasms;
* and even experience the holy grail of Male Multiple Orgasms.

Here's how the program works. You will receive:

* A 12-week series of home-study online video instruction. I share ALL my best material with you, which I've learned and gathered over the past decade
* Weekly homework assignments. These are usually 15-30 minutes of exercises a day, and if you do them each day, you WILL be a badass lover by the end of the course. It's as simple as that.
* Access to a members-only VIP online forum, where you will be able to share your experience with other men, and get feedback from the other members of the course and from me
* Two (2) live group coaching calls each month where you will refine your skills, get to ask questions, talk about your concerns, experiences, and victories, and get support and advice from me and the other men in the course.

All within the container of a community of men supporting other men towards their individual goals (without the macho bullshit).

This program is not just a book.

It is meant to provide a step-by-step process that anyone can follow that will dramatically improve your sex life. And I promise that if you enroll in this course, and do the exercises, you WILL experience the benefits I've described, and likely a whole lot more.

THIS Monday (June 15th), I am hosting a FREE teleseminar for men interested in learning more.

Check it out:

www.OrgasmicMastery.com/course

I look forward to having you on the call!

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Beyond Intense Emotions Into Ease and Flow

2009-06-19T15:04:18Z

Beyond Intense Emotions Into Ease and Flow

With so many people I know going through a lot of strong emotional clearing, I have decided to share with you a technique I often use when I feel triggered by people or situations. I also use it when I can tell some strong emotion is brewing inside me but I do not know what it is. The beauty of this technique is that it is easy to use, does not require that you know the cause, and it usually quickly defuses the intensity, leaving you with a sense of peace. Repeated use of this technique will remove any attachments to the people and situations, along with the reactivity.

Here is the technique:

Begin by tuning into your infinite self. You have a small (personality/ego) self, and yet you are also an infinite being to whom whatever triggers you is just a miniscule grain of sand in comparison. Working as your infinite self gets you beyond feeling powerless in the grip of a situation and gives you the perspective from which to easily resolve what used to feel impossible. Your infinite self is always present; all you have to do to access it is feel it.

Once you sense yourself as your infinite self, stay with the experience while also remembering the situation (or person) that brings up the strong feelings (or just the strong feeling if you do not know the cause). Notice any sensations inside your body, for example tension or heat that arise from thinking about the situation. Now, let go of any thoughts or memories, allowing your mind to be quiet and still. Feel the sensations related to the situation. Stay with the experience of the sensation, allowing it to do whatever it needs to do, with no resistance or direction from you. It is important to stay with the sensation only. If you find yourself evaluating, wondering what is unfolding, judging yourself for the sensation or situation or using your mind in any way, refocus on the sensation.

As you stay with the sensation, sometimes it will move up your chakras and out your crown, other times it will release through another chakra or body area and other times it will move around your body eventually dissipating or transforming. All you have to do is stay with the experience of the sensation until it releases, dissipates or transforms. If the sensation is intense or painful, reconnecting with your expansiveness, your infinite self, makes the process gentler.

When you work with a situation or person via sensation, you address emotions, thoughts, physical challenges and all aspects of the situation. Because you do not spend a lot of time in the mental/emotional ego processes that keep people stuck much of the time, this is a much quicker way to process than any other approach I have tried. Sometimes results even come after one session, although often I find it takes more. The way to tell if you have done the healing: remember the situation again and see if sensations still come up. Usually even if I still react, the response is not as strong as before.

Another nice thing about working with sensation in this way is that when you work with sensation as an infinite being, you work with your inner Presence/Knowing. This aspect of you is actually your wholeness and it knows exactly why you respond and exactly how to “fix” it. You allow your Presence to lead the process without the need for your smaller ego self to have to figure things out. Besides, most of the things we think and the ways we process intellectually is based on ego illusion anyway and it is ultimately irrelevant, despite how it may feel sometimes.

I hope you find this technique helpful. It has helped me a lot. If you have any questions about it, let me know. I am happy to clarify. And if you want to share any successes, I would love to hear about it. This technique works especially well paired with the Life Mastery Attunement and/or the Sexual Empowerment Attunement. For more information on these: http://www.lindawhitedove.com

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How to let someone down gently?

2009-05-30T22:07:32Z

There are so many examples I want to explore on this, but the one at the top of my list right now is:

How do you respond to someone who said, "That was the best sex I've ever had in my life." -when you don't share that feeling?

I don't want to lie, and I don't want to say, "I'm glad you feel that way, but I'm sorry that I don't".

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Movies we love!

2009-05-25T09:32:38Z

What are your favorite movies that deal with Consciousness & Sexuality?

Please include next to each one:

(C) - for movies focused more on Consciousness

(S) -I'm sure you caught on already

(C/S) -another obvious one

Some of my faves are:

Tipping the Velvet (S)

Shortbus (S)

Kinsey (S)

...Wow, I should be able to come up with more than just three, but for whatever reasons, that's all that's coming up for me right now.

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Two Wings

2009-05-15T17:46:44Z

Two Wings

Forgive me,
I am searching,
Forgive my desperation
It is the pain of separation

This is the song of my life story
The longing of sing is the mystery

Any one who is been in pain
Look for people to hear his rhyme
Each dark cloud is a hidden blossom
If only there is a willing earth to let its rain

Thee art thunder,
Says the master,
Thee shall turn
Shout the caster

All signs and symbols hide two wings
The Two made The One
So became beauty the beings

The One fulfilling my mind,
The Two embracing my heart,
The doubt is without,
within is all sight

I see the light
and I hear the sigh
forgot the rhythm
but know the hymn
don’t know the way
but reckon,
this side

Past is present
And present is the past
My story is a history
The tale went so fast

Pain and doubts and fears
Tears and tenderness and treasures
All will leave
What remain are the wings
and the wishes
The dreams, memories
and the moves
The need to fly,

The Angelic desire
to become destroyed
by dust of illuminated light
up on light

Shervin
July 2007

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Marriage in Heaven

2009-05-15T17:35:29Z

This was spurred by speculating with a friend about what really ends up happening in Heaven. I'll give the link* for that here, but want to tie it into the interests of this tribe.

* http://religiouscrossroads.tribe.net/thread/6d56a85a-358d-4b16-ac59-e3caf11c03d0

Using Christianity as the most prominent example, most Christians believe in conjugal faithfulness in marriage. That's okay as they get older because in their last years, they probably don't find each other (or themselves) sexually attractive.

But what about when they die and go to Heaven? Even if their immortal soul looks like they did at the height of their beauty, and their sexual attraction to each other is rekindled, I wonder how many will ask God, "So, do our vows still count now that we've died?"

Can you really imagine living for *Eternity* with the same partner?

If not, then perhaps it would be a good call to revisit the institution of marriage -as well as the tendency to cling to another possessively.

Personally, I find both to be manifestations of insecurity.

Thoughts?

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Powerful Thoughts

2009-05-13T08:53:50Z

Please contribute your favorite powerful thoughts -be they quotes or your own :o)

One I found today is:

"The only time you can actually grow is when you are outside your comfort zone." -- T. Harv Eker

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Of Abundance and Suffering

2009-04-23T04:04:56Z

I just posted this on two other tribes that this relates to, but I hope no one minds since this is for those of who aren't on those other two.

I pulled this from "Secrets of the Millionaire Mind" by T. Harv Eker and found it a grounded, sensible example of how the energy of Abundance works:

"Imagine you're walking along the street with a five-year-old. You come across an ice cream store and go inside. You get the child a single scoop of ice cream on a cone because they don't have any cups. As the two of you walk outside, you notice the cone wobbling in the child's tiny hands and, all of a sudden, plop. The ice cream falls out of the cone onto the pavement.

"The child begins to cry. So back into the store, and just as you're about to order for the second time, the child notices a colorful sign with a picture of the 'triple scooper' cone. The child points to the picture and excitedly screams, 'I want that one!'

"Now here's the question. Being the kind, loving, and generous person that you are, would you go ahead and get this child the triple scooper? Your initial response might 'sure'. However, when considering the question a little more deeply, most of our seminar participants respond, 'No'. Because why would you want to set the child up to fail? The child couldn't handle even a single scoop, how could the child possibly handle a triple scoop?

"The same holds true when it comes to the universe and you. We live in a kind and loving universe, and the rule is 'Until you show you can handle what you've got, you won't get any more!' You must acquire the habits and skills of managing a small amount of money before you can have a large amount."

This comes from a section that I summarize as: "Manage what you have so you can earn what you want".

Eker says that "the single biggest difference between financial success and financial failure is how well you manage your money."

Next, Eker says, "Many people don't like to manage their money, because, first, they say it restricts their freedom, and second, they say they don't have enough money to manage."

Eker shows the irony of such thinking when he says, "As for the first excuse, managing money does not restrict your freedom --to the contrary, it promotes it. Managing your money allows you to eventually create financial freedom so that you never have to work again. To me, that's real freedom."

As for the 2nd excuse, Eker likens it to saying "I'll start exercising and dieting as soon as I lose twenty pounds."

The point of all of this is that a lot of people wish they had more money. They're asking the universe for more, but like the child in the story, most people aren't managing the money they have now, so why would the universe want to give them more when the habits they have now with their money will just operate on a larger scale and result in the same complaining?

I don't want to sell you short with this one example of a fabulous book that uncovers many other principles that work financial energy as well as energy in other forms in our life.

Another example that immediately comes to my mind that relates to how we manage the energy flow in our lives is in friendship and love. Many people wish they had more love and friendships in their life, but they don't want to give it unless they get it first. There's an old saying "To have friends you have to BE a friend". Just the same, to receive love, you have to give love -however, with this last thought, I would add that in order to receive love, we have to not just give love, but give love to ourselves! That is, we have to accept that we deserve to receive love.

I say this because many people think they have to give love to get love, but because they don't believe they deserve love themselves, they find that more often than not, they give love to others and don't receive it in kind. This is because they don't realize that they unconsciously believe they don't deserve love. This generally arises from a kind of vicious Martyrdom complex that began with them giving something out of love, and not getting something back which hurt them -but only because they didn't realize they had an expectation to receive in return.

Unconscious to their expectation and how it lent to their feeling hurt, they naturally want to salve their pain by creating something to feel good about. They create a story about how "good" they are for giving -and even *better* than the other person who didn't give in return. Here we have Self-Righteousness -which requires looking down on another. This is all sourced from not realizing our Abundant nature -which of course we get from the universe. This is how we "steal" energetically from another to artificially feed our Self -which we only do because we managed to "unplug" from the Source of all the Love and energy we need. And because this separation usually happens unconsciously, we don't know better.

So while I'm opening all of this up for thoughts, I'd like to direct the focus onto how we can become aware of how we're "stealing" from others -Present and Past; how to track down where we lost our connection to Source, and how to re-establish that connection to break this cycle of mutual suffering.

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sliencing our freedom?

2009-04-18T23:29:03Z

www.silencingchristians.com/

a friend told me, as a follow up to this, allegedly it was meant to be aired on a tv station in Wisconsin, the TV station has sinced passed the offer, because the AFA has been uncommunicative. Of course, AFA supporters have blamed the "homosexuals" for denying their freedom of speech.

these are their survey questions...

Do you believe the Bible condemns homosexuality as sin? Yes No Undecided

Can homosexuals change their sexual orientation? Yes No Undecided
Should homosexuals be allowed to adopt children? Yes No Undecided

Should homosexuals be given the same special rights extended to African-Americans and other minorities? Yes No Undecided

Should hate crimes legislation be passed that would call for more severe penalties for crimes against homosexuals? Yes No Undecided

Do you believe that churches and religious organizations should be forced to hire homosexuals? Yes No Undecided

Would you support a boycott of a major U.S. corporation that contributes money to support homosexual activist organizations? Yes No Undecided

Should judges be appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court who support extending special rights to homosexuals? Yes No Undecided

Should employers be forced to extend special consideration in the hiring of homosexuals? Yes No Undecided

Is the secular media demonstrating a bias in favor of the homosexual agenda? Yes No Undecided

Do you support amending the U.S. Constitution to limit marriage to a union between one man and one woman? Yes No Undecided

Should children in public schools be taught homosexuality is normal, acceptable, and equal to the traditional marriage of a man and a woman? Yes No Undecided

Do you agree that Christians should be arrested for speaking against homosexuality in public places? Yes No Undecided

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Consciousness, Morality & Diet

2009-04-17T04:28:21Z

In reading what Sean wrote in this other thread here:

http://ConsciousnessSexuality.tribe.net/thread/581c66dc-28b7-4e2c-9110-b43a8897767a#6b935027-a8fe-424f-90b1-b9e8479f518f

I'd like to hear some thoughts around Ahimsa vs. healthy diets specific to individual needs. For example, you have many people who attest that we must "Do No Harm" to animals and thus promote a Vegetarian or even Vegan diet, however there is science showing that such diets are actually harmful to O Blood Types such as myself.

I was vegan from the age of 21-24, but in all honesty, I don't remember anymore how that affected my health. Those were some pretty wild times for me, so I don't remember which issues I had were due to diet or other factors. These days I'm an omnivore, and I've just begun to explore the science of Blood Type diets as well as Metabolic Typing. Based on what I've learned already, I'm inclined to eat primarily organic, pasture-feed beef, vegetables, and perhaps even hunt my own venison or other wild meat in accordance with my ancestral diet.

I'm not convinced yet that killing for food is immoral or sacroligious. I see death as a necessary part of life, and that since it's clearly part of the Natural Order, it's no more holy to eat a plant than it is an animal.

Thoughts?

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Gee Infinity

2009-04-01T19:58:38Z

While the G20 chaos goes off in London. I spent the day creating a little harmonisation.
Please, download it - enjoy it - share it.

www.sendspace.com/file/ipeeol

and if you feel inspired, visit my website www.gfc.uk.net

Your feedback is of course very, very welcome

Psi
Sunfeather

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A sacred sexuality experience

2009-03-31T13:12:19Z

Our group has met to practice sacred sexuality on a regular basis since 2001 in Florida. We have shared with hundreds of people through public workshops and festivals.

Below is an account posted by one of our members.

My experience in the Temple of Divine Ecstasy Bella © 10/28/05

We are all gathered in the room in which the ritual will take place. Those who will be witnessing the ritual are arrayed in various places around the room. Some sitting, some reclining, couples, groups and individuals, all are waiting for the ritual to begin.
The seven of us that will be performing gather in the center in a circle and begin. The Moderator speaks the invocation that begins the creation of our sacred space. The rest of the room falls away as his voice fills us and we focus on each other and the space created. In this space, we drop our clothes, symbolically stripping us of our mundane selves. The air caresses bodies that are no longer hidden, but revealed in joy and acceptance.

Next comes the purification by smudging; the smell of the sage fills the space. The smoke travels over our bodies as each of us breathes in the essence and it fills us with serenity and peace. In this state of peaceful being, the girls move to the center and hug. There are three of us, myself and the two beautiful women who will act as focus points during the ritual. We meet in the middle in a pressing of soft flesh and laughter. We embrace and kiss and giggle and bond before turning towards the outer circle of the men folk.
They each come before us in turn and are greeted with hugs and kisses. The laughter that began in the ladies hug is shared and brings joy to all of us. The bubbling laughter bonds us into a working unit that is stronger than each of us apart. Naked, bonded and with joy we turn towards the table, which is draped like an altar and prepared for us to begin.
The soft lighting and the sounds of chanting from the music fill the space. With smiles, we approach and each take our places around or on the table. There is no one at all now but us and all the time in the world.

I sit upon the table, looking at those gathered around me and lay back in perfect trust knowing that I am surrounded by love. My other half is my ground and he surrounds my feet with his hands; it is a wonderful, reaffirming base to start from. I know he will channel the energies back into me to create a complete circuit.

Our Moderator cradles my head. As he lays hands upon me, I know that I am cradled not just in his hands, but also in the energy of the multiverse. As we join, the current is begun, running from the All through my crown chakra, kether, and down to where I am grounded allowing it to circle back through and back out to the All. The feeling is of opening myself to what is about to begin.
The beautiful foci for this journey are positioned at my legs one on each side. Their hands upon me add to the energies that have already started to fill me. The remaining two members of our group position themselves on either side. They are the ones that will be assisting in stimulating the energy to charge it and make it dance.

I lie back, knowing all this and feel my mind empty; as I become the vessel for the work we are about to do. There is a momentary flash where I know that we are merely enacting a ritual that has taken place in many forms over the centuries. Sacred sexuality, tantra, kundalini ? all of these are names for what we are about to begin. In a shining moment of clarity I know that I am the embodiment of the Goddess and that the joy of my body and soul is a bounty, a boon that benefits all. I feel my 'self' slip away and the moment take me; we have begun.

Hands initiate the opening of my chakras starting with my head and following a natural progression down my body opening the throat chakra and causing my breath to catch. The heart chakra is next and I can feel my breasts tighten and fill with life force as it is brought out. My solar plexus, a place that is prone to weakness and damage in many of us, as hands are brought over it, it fills with warmth and healing energy that allow it to also be a source of strength and vitality. A hand cups my womanhood, comforting malkuth, the root chakra, saying with touch that its primal energies are both welcomed and desired. I can almost feel a thrum of energy as I am aligned.
With my root chakra still cupped, he takes his other hand and places it behind my neck completing a new circuit. I feel my back arch and my body respond as the energy leaps between his hands. This is what we are here for. This is what we are here to share. There is almost an audible click as all seven of us synch up and our auras meld into one harmonious whole.

The energy is fed in-stimulated-focused-circled back through the ground to increase the charge, continue the current that we are now all a part of. As my body and spirit vibrate higher and higher, building towards that divine ecstasy, I enlarge our circle to include those around us who wish to join. With each electric surge of pleasure, I throw it to those around us like spiritual fireworks. As my body bucks and arches off the table, I toss balls of delight, laughter, wholeness and harmony to the room, to the universe. Each gasp of pleasure, each surge of muscle, is not taking the pleasure for myself, but rather giving it back to the All, to everyone to do with it as they will.

Their hands and desire work my body and the energy is built higher and higher towards climax and, when it cannot be contained any longer, I am brought over. I scream out my joy and ecstasy as an offering, a sharing, a gift that is multiplied tenfold for the giving. Wave after wave of bliss hit my body and are shared by us, by those with us, by the universe.

As the peaks pass, the screams fade to gasps and my body is once again prone upon the table, we settle the energies back down. With soft strokes and slow extraction we begin to pull back until each of us are back to being individual parts of the whole. Hands are gently withdrawn from the temple of my body until only the moderator and ground remain. When the moderator feels my slow withdrawal from the heady energy of the universe, he breaks the connection and joins in the general petting and soft caressing that follow as if we are all reluctant to fully disconnect.

I take a deep breath, stretch like a sun-warmed cat and let out a giggle that bubbles with the joy of what just passed. I smile up at those around me with love and happiness. I sit up, with a bit of assistance, and we all hug each other in a wonderful outpouring of camaraderie. Hugging, kissing, laughing, backslapping, soft touches and teasing comments abound. Slowly, we turn our attentions back to the room at large and bring the laughter and joy to them. Our group doesn't disperse, but stays within physical contact for a bit afterwards. There is much touching and sharing of the energies that we still resonate with.

In retrospect, I realize that as the fingers slowly rotate, opening and encouraging my chakras to open, that it is not unlike the growth of a seed. The whole experience is like this. The initial ritual the seed coming into the ground, the losing of clothes like the opening of the seed's outer shell, the ground and moderator the soil and sun that makes the roots reach down and the sprout stretch out-the foci the rain-the stimulators the wind caressing the leaves, encouraging the stem to new growth until, between all of this the flower bursts forth in ecstatic joy, something beautiful to see, nourishing for those around it and carrying the seeds that allow new life to germinate.

I stay seated on the table to answer questions or just share the energies we just experienced. The energy is still filling me, overflowing to those around me. An image of another time, another place, and completing a similar ritual comes into my mind. I see myself full as I am now, sitting on a large pillow in a temple. I see the people come to me, to touch me, to share in the energy I am filled with. I am a channel to the universe, a channel to the divinity that is in all of us. I feel a shadow of that in the here and now. I am a vessel and it is good.

Namaste
Bella

Info here; http://divineecstasy.org/bodymagick.htm

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Merging, poison, relationships...

2009-03-25T19:13:48Z

I had this thought recently. When I am discovering that I love someone I have this strong desire to merge with them, physcially, emotionally, spiritually. I also am noticing in my self and others how much we poison ourselves in this culture with alcohol, food, negativity, dishonesty. We gum up the works internally with lies , secrets , undisgested emotionals, food ,etc..
And merging with someone who is not aware or poisoning themselves in these ways is not safe or healthy for me. It's as simple as not being able to kiss a smoker or as copmplicated as not being able to merge with a man who still has unresolved mother issues that are likely to come out in any relationship with maternal energy ( I.E. me) I also have some unresolved father issues , so I may be able to work with that one a bit. Regardless awareness is key. I feel "cleaner" or lighter than I have felt in a long time and that's why I feel the poison or negativity around me so acutely I think.
What do you think? Is merging and then individuating a pattern that is always there in relationships? Has anyone had this expereince where they were really sensitive ( even more than usual) to people who were exhiniting self-destructive behavior, to the point if felt gross to be around them ?

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~A Poem About Wine~

2009-02-15T02:29:15Z

I would like to give credit to the poet, which is not me, but I never have found who wrote this....

A Poem About Wine

If you were a vintage bottle of wine and I could fill my cup...

I'd savor your essence for a time, then slowly drink you up.

I'd let you linger on tounge, delight my palet with your bouquet...

my lips would bathe in your crimson pool and I'd sit and sip all day.

If you were a vintage bottle of wine all mellow and aged in wood.

I'd whirl you and swirl you around my mouth and hold you as long as I could.

I'd drink from you slowly and deeply...and make your flavor last....

and I would not stop till the very last drop....

and I'd probably lick my glass!! (:
Happy Valentine's Day to all
~One~

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Seven Chakra Sex

2009-02-12T23:36:33Z

Sounds awesome doesn't it.
I had the experience for the first time where I had sex with someone and felt like I was investing all of me in the process. It was the physical, it was the mental, emotional, my heart, my brain, my connection with my higher power.
I didn't feel like he was doing the same. I didn't know until later that having sex with all of me, all my chakras involved was possible.
I don't know where I'm going here. But I want more of it in my life, sex with all the chakras open and engaged. How can I work on this, for one I don't have a sex partner at the moment. But also it seems that few people are looking for this kind of engagment from thier sex lives?
I have never seen a book that is about sex in this way?
Any leads, any ideas?

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Judge Me Not

2009-02-11T21:57:42Z

"Judge me not by my religion,
Judge me not as white or black.
Judge me by my thoughts and visions,
Judge me by my plans and acts.

Judge me not by age and gender,
Judge me not by looks alone.
Judge me, lover and defender,
By the deeds that I condone.

The color of my skin won't show,
What is hidden in my heart.
And age and sex do not bestow,
Knowledge of all human arts.

Do I love? Give onto others?
Do I heal, or sing, or teach?
Do I learn from my life lessons?
Do I practice what I preach?

Those are things that judge my soul,
Those are things that judge my mind.
And at my deathbed they'll console -
Or they'll punish me in kind."

~ Author Unknown ~

found on: http://people.tribe.net/tribal_by_nature

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Don't Believe...

2009-02-11T21:35:39Z

"Don't believe me, don't believe yourself, and don't believe anyone else. By not believing, whatever is untrue will disappear like smoke in this world of illusion. Everything is what it is. You don't need to justify what is true; you don't need to explain it. What is true doesn't need anyone's support."

Don Miguel Ruiz

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Women, these men are required to do what you demand

2009-01-27T12:18:52Z

Women, these men are required to do what you demand. You pick ad choose,

Just one suggestion. A blindfold and pretending someone else might be coming to use his body always drives the guys over the edge for me. But they always like being tied up naked. They’re well trained like that. Read the rules of the groups, they must do what you say.

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Man Whores For Women
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Naked For Peace
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A hero indeed. Hilarious. I love it.
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Women, these men are required to do what you demand. Use them as you please. If there’s back-talk. Let me know.

Women, these men are required to do what you demand. If they don't, let me know, they're out of the group!

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sexual energy-suppression or transformation

2009-01-21T20:21:37Z

hi..

suppression is the worst thing that one can do with one's self.......but indulgence is as harmful as suppression.So whats the way ???

Awareness is the way,to transform the sexual energy,one has to be aware of it so that it can be transformed.check this out

http://kundalinisodarshan.blogspot.com/

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Tribe Avatar

2009-01-12T05:38:03Z

What do you think?
Should we keep the old picture, or have a new one?
If so, you can either upload them to the gallery or post them here.

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Ending Celibacy Consciously, Gracefully, Lovingly....

2009-01-05T20:09:00Z

I wonder, how will I end celibacy consciously, gracefully, and lovingly?
I love sex, intimacy, hugs, massages, and touch. I crave much more of these than I currently get.
How to gently end my celibacy with honor, and find somebody special with whom to share sensual touch, and possibly full-on sexual contact?
I think falling in love again would be great. I think marriage is a wonderful idea for me.
I have yet another Tribe friend who has found a sweet new love....

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Energy cords?

2008-12-14T04:15:28Z

The level that most people are not aware of, and that is important for the focus of this column, is energetically. When we give power away to other people because our relationship with self is dysfunctional, we actually allow cords of energy to tie us to those people. These cords (ribbons, cables, tethers, threads, strands) of energy exist on the Etheric plane - which is where the Life Force energy runs through the chakra system."
I got this from a co-dependency web site.
What are energy cords? How do they work? Can you cut them? Is it wise to cut these cords or work with them? When would you know if you need to cut a cord or not? Please explain.

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Time of choice

2008-11-15T15:59:35Z

Now more than ever we are confronted with the choice of our fast ascension into life or our slow death.
Is your Soul thriving or are you numbing to the survival struggle of existing?
The Phoenix DNA Re-newal coding delivered by infinity at the autumn equinox has us in the heat og the cauldron.
For more awareness... see www.gfc.uk.net

Much love to you all
Sunfeather

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power, violence, safety and sexuality

2008-11-03T09:46:14Z

It just occured to me that there is a connection between women being attracted to physically strong/powerful men due to the safety they can feel around them.

Women need safety to feel sexual, and if they feel like the world is a dangerous place, they may seek protection.. and interpret a strong men to be able to provide this needed protection.

Inherent in this notion is the acceptance of violence in the men she is attracted to. If she where to feel secure with a strong men, she feels secure with a person who can inflict fear in others, that has the potential to be violent against them, thusly making the woman feel protected.

This obviously can back fire, because the strong men sees violence as an acceptable means to protect his interest and sometimes the woman herself is seen as going against his interest.

So i am seeing an implicit acceptance of violence in women who are attracted to physically strong men.

what do you think?

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11/8 - Introduction to Skydancing Tantra - Santa Clara, CA

2008-10-22T03:53:33Z

Introduction to Skydancing Tantra
with Chris English
Saturday, Nov 8, 2008 at Edges in Santa Clara, CA

Ever Wondered About Tantra?

Ever wondered about Tantra? Interested in improving your communications skills? In learning to build further intimacy and trust? Especially around the intersection of sexuality and spirituality? Curious about creating sacred space? Or about developing your connection with a partner?

Come find out how to use your body, your breath and your truth as tools to open a pathway for your sensations, expanding your consciousness and connection to others, moving from fear to trust and from desire into bliss.

Skydancing Tantra Teacher in Training

I'm currently studying with Margot Anand toward a certification to teach Skydancing Tantra. This is a several years long course of study involving a number of one week workshops and some weekend workshops. As part of my coursework, I've been assigned to teach quite a few one and two day workshops specifically on Skydancing Tantra. Other than the fact that I'm teaching these and many of them are being held in local BDSM play spaces, these classes are not specifically BDSM related. Anyone who is interested is welcome.

Skydancing Tantra

The vast body of knowledge and practices developed by Margot Anand is called SkyDancing Tantra: The Path to Bliss. Margot, along with her certified SkyDancing teachers, have taught SkyDancing Tantra to tens of thousands of people worldwide, through nine international SkyDancing institutes.

The path of SkyDancing Tantra came to Margot as a revelation rather than a tradition. Yet the path of the SkyDancer goes back to ancient Tibet, when Yeshe Tsogyal, the enlightened consort of Buddha Padmasambhava, was called the "Great Skydancer." Together they developed Tantric Buddhism. "Skydancers" in the Buddhist tradition were people of great passion who were profoundly devoted to spiritual awakening. The path of the SkyDancer is a path of spiritual partnership between men and women as equal spiritual partners integrating ecstatic states into their daily lives.

For more about Skydancing Tantra including further classes:

* Margot Anand - http://www.margotanand.com
* USA Skydancing Tantra Institute - http://www.skydancingtantra.org
* Steve & Lokita Carter - http://ecstaticliving.com
* Michael Pooley - http://ecstaticloving.net

Tell me more!

The next workshop will be held in Santa Clara, California at Edges, (http://edges.biz), from 10am to 6pm with a one hour break for lunch. There are several reasonable lunch alternatives nearby.

Class is $150 per couple and preregistration is required.

Couples may be of any gender and any orientation. If you are single and interested I encourage you to invite a friend and register as a couple. Exercises will be somewhat intimate although fully clothed so be sure to pick a friend with whom you are comfortable being intimate.

Sign us up!

You'll find a paypal registration button at the bottom of this page: http://teamnoir.name/Skydancing.html

If you have any questions, please feel free to email me: ice@noir.com

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Ecstatic relationship

2008-10-19T16:22:35Z

Hi friends,
please don't miss this wonderful interview with Stuart Sovatsky about the yoga of relationship...
http://www.futureprimitive.org/interviews/107

warm greetings
Zorro

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New Site

2008-09-18T02:04:08Z

Due to some of the issues that Tribe has been having lately, we've created a new site to visit and post info and ideas. www.thenewhumanelement.com Check it out tell us what you think?

Serenity

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Power relationships and sex.........

2008-09-02T18:31:52Z

I'm not talking about BDSM at all. I'm not talking about hurting anyone for fun or any reason.

I'm talking about how different people have different amounts of power in their lives and how much they allow themselves to use their power can be experienced in the bedroom.
Does any relationship have an unequal power balance? How could two people have two exactly equal amounts of power at the same time? Do you play with these power inequalities ? I think one of the sexiest things on earth or powerful men. I noticed that men that feel powerful feel sexy. I also think it's the same for women. How has power and sexuality played out in your life?
I don't think power and sexuality is something discussed much in society. Women are often seen as less powerful, economically, etc.. Do you think this has an effect on the balance of power in a sexual relationship? I'm rambling, but it's just something I want to explore and if you have any experiences or thoughts, please do tell. The juicier the better !

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New Goddess Empowering Paintings

2008-09-02T18:15:42Z

These paintings capture true essence with an abstract view of the goddess female. They are located on my profile if you are interested in empowering female energy around you.

Bless

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RE-MEMBER

2008-08-24T21:02:23Z

RE-MEMBER

There is a dancer in you
Moving,
Shaking,
Making you jump,
Run
Up and
down

She never wanna stop
She never wanna stay
She never gets enough
Nor knows how to obey

The dancer in you is prayer
A Seeker
A player

But the prayer forgot her song
The seeker lost her mother tong
And the player doesn’t know more to whom the play belong

You dance was made in rhythmic divine
Your body was the juicy secret,
The mystic wine
Your song
The sublime creation
Your lips
The tantratic temple of sensation

Re-member me
And
Re-member
You
Are
Mine.

Love&Respect,
Shervin

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Loving Beyond Fear

2008-08-18T12:47:26Z

Hi Everyone,

I have added some new articles to my blog. If you have not visited my blog, or have not visited in a while I hope you will check it out. The newest article is called Loving Beyond Fear. My blog can be found by visiting my website http://www.lindawhitedove.com and clicking on the menu link that says "blog."

Linda

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California sexual qalchemy group, seeking members

2008-08-12T18:29:29Z

Coven of the Phoenyx is a new alternative lifestyle coven in southern,California. It is our desire to become one with the spiritual/physical balance that the God/desses wished for all humanity in the beginning.

We believe:
That the physical natures and desires are inspired and created by the God/desses.
These natures were meant to be together in all aspects of our lives.
Due to dogmatic xtian belief systems, people have been taught to be ashamed of expressing their natural senses.
That you are a special inspiration of the God/desses and your natural self, both physical/spiritual self were meant to be celebrated in a positive and wise manner.
You are NOT born a :sinner."
When people finally realize/scknowledge the connection between the physical/spiritual/natural worlds, there will be a dawning of new wisdom, and enjoyment of life.
The coven will consist of the following practices;
Worship of Bucchus, Aphrodite, and ALL pagan Diety
Eclectic Paganism
Spiritual Dance/Drumming
Love Magick
Polyamory
Naturism
We will also plan field trips for events as well. This Coven will also be multi-tradition in a very liberal sense.

Mel

We can be found in the yahoogroups.

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Food has strong sexual influence

2008-08-09T23:27:59Z

Hello Everyone. I would just like to be a mirror to reflect the truth for you all in your search to transcend any form of suffering.
I have noticed that when i eat unhealthy food my sexual desire increases ALOT. maybe not only does it increase, but also takes unhealthy routes towards fufillment.
For example, everytime i eat alot of dairy and sugar i get really horny. but its not a nice feeling, its a feeling irritation. Fast food, unatural food, difficultly digested food and meat is bad for you, and makes you unaturally horny.(not free)
the point is having a healthy, natural diet, low on the food chain, makes you have less craving, therefore more fufillment and satisfaction.

Truth & Love

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Desire, age and sex

2008-08-08T23:17:35Z

Hello. I have recently learned that mens sexualtiy is strongest from age 16-20 and womens from 18-35! So if you are a young male and going crazy, just notice it and be aware it will change, and dont get identifed and become a slave to your hormone. just being aware changes the way you feel and act.
take care

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Burning Man 2008 Hedonic Sensuous Massage Campmates

2008-08-04T18:35:05Z

We are the organizers of the Burning Man 2008 Hedonic Sensuous Massage theme camp. Join us in offering sensuous massages to fellow "burners". No experience necessary. You only need to be a normally sensual person and willing to learn. We are a fun-loving group of amateur yet erotic men and women who seek the same to serve the community with an exceptional experience of a lifetime with the goal being their most enjoyable, happy, and sensuous massage ever. If interested, call Aloha and SoundMan at (775) 233-3608 and check out Aloha's myspace.com site "Aloha BRC Burner" at http://www.myspace.com/alohaburner for a complete description of our previous years' camps. We will be located at Gemini and 4:30

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Can I ask a question?

2008-08-01T08:31:13Z

Are you aware that the word "sexuality" actually requires a judgment? And that consciousness cannot coexist with judgment? Consciousness includes everything without judgment.

"Sexuality" has been, from my POV, mis used at the best , and as a manipulation more likely. Talk about a way to create separation and distrust / mistrust - I mean come on. The opposite sex, the opposite gender. How is it possible to be conscious about ourselves and our own choices from separation? Even using the term "opposite" infers a separation and a wrongness about the "other"

My question, are you willing to see something else as a possibility? At least to ask a question? There are other ways of languaging, that create a different paradigm as an option. It is called "communion"

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The Return of Desire

2008-07-29T20:29:55Z

I love this book: The Return of Desire - A Guide to Rediscovering Your Sexual Passion, by Gina Ogden

I couldn’t put it down last night (got my copy yesterday). So much good info. She polled women and men and then meshes their answers with stories, anecdotes and exercises. Reading it was empowering. I don’t know how long they are going to be giving away the five free gifts with it, so I wanted to pass it on.

www.ginaogden.com/promo

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how do you listen to a sexual assault survivor?

2008-07-29T07:59:07Z

How do you listen to non-violent sexual assault?

I always blissfully thought of myself as a woman who had not experienced sexual assault in her life. Until one afternoon, I started having flashbacks of an event which had been so intensely humiliating that I had managed to completely repress the memory for three years. A man had been sexual with my body without my consent, not through physical force, but by stealth and deception.

Since then I’ve been painfully confronted with how my community applies credibility measures to sexual assault; the extent to which an assault is thought to be provoked and resisted. I partly envy women who were violently assaulted by a stranger jumping out of the bushes. There is no doubt as to who is responsible, and it is easy to give nothing but full support to the victim.

I foolishly trusted a person who later turned out to be untrustworthy, and I paid dearly for it. I was often met with skepticism, judgment and a certain distancing, at a time when I was in desperate need of support by my friends. The assault itself was traumatic, but coming out with my story, was even worse.

Why I’m writing this

I hope to explain the confusion and the shame that often keeps a victim from talking about a non-violent sexual assault or, as in my case, to repress it completely. I hope that after reading this, you may be better able to give support, in case one day a friend of yours tells you a similar story.

I hope to raise awareness about how we assign responsibility for ensuring that sex is consensual. Specifically, I want to show how the non-violent perpetrator uses our moral code “no means no” to justify being sexual with a person’s body without their consent.

Also, I want to help prevent this from happening to other women in my community. The perpetrator walks in my social circles and, if you are reading this, it is likely he walks in yours as well. If after reading this you decide you want to know the name of the perpetrator to protect yourself or your friends, please contact me at djokesteen@hotmail.com

What happened

After partying all night at a Halloween party in San Rafael, I walked to my car, alone. A man, whom I had talked with earlier that night showed up beside me. At the party this man had been very friendly and respectful. I assumed he was walking to his car, but it turned out he walked with me to my car. It was a long walk with friendly chatter, I didn’t notice that he never asked whether I wanted to be escorted to my car. I felt very comfortable with him, and he won my trust.

When we got to my car, he offered to give me a back-massage and said that he could do this while standing up. Feeling fully my post-party exhaustion, I accepted. He gave me a wonderful back massage.

Suddenly, without any indication of what was about to happen, he pushed his finger in my vagina, and I found myself in the midst of a sexual situation. Part of my Halloween costume that year was hotpants and no panties. He entered me through the leg of my hotpants. It was easy for him to push aside the one inch of fabric separating my vagina from the outside world and before I knew it, I was penetrated.

He did not inquire in any way whether I wanted him to move from massaging me, to being sexual with me, let alone penetrate me. No unbuttoning of my belt, no pulling down of a zipper, no placing of his hand on my thighs and no approach to my crotch. I never had a chance to say “Yes,” therefore I also never had a chance to say “No.”

Fear and humiliation

When I all of a sudden felt his finger in my vagina, I felt a huge explosive pang go off in my head. I was dazed and in shock. The explosion in my head was accompanied by a great sense of loss. I had lost autonomy over my most private part; somebody was bulldozering himself into a part of me that I have so many tender emotions about. In my life, I have had many different kinds of feelings about being penetrated, but never utter surprise and horrified shock. The shock and the sense of loss were immediately followed by me going into an instinctual coping mode.

My survival instinct told me that I needed to cut my losses and prevent worse from happening by getting out of the situation as fast and smoothly as possible. This man had just proven to be capable of completely taking me by surprise and taking liberties with my body without any interest for my feelings. I did not want to find out what might come next.

I instinctively decided to placate him and to pretend that “all was well.” I remember with pain back to the moment where I wondered whether enough time had passed to get off of his finger so he wouldn’t realize that this was not what I had wanted. I felt I needed to hide my humiliation and fear and slip out of the situation as fast as possible and avoid any further dealings with him. After I extricated myself from his finger, I forced a smile and excused myself by saying that I was very tired and needed to go home. I apologetically declined his invitation to stay longer.

Confusion

In my car, I felt relieved that I had been able to get out of the situation without further damage. I felt sad because I had lost something very dear to me: control over what happens to my vagina. I felt ashamed, and humiliated about having been such a fool to misjudge this man. Most of all I felt confused. Had I done something wrong? Was there something wrong with me?

Being aware of our code of conduct which says “no means no,” I deduced I must have miserably failed by somehow missing my window of opportunity to say ‘no,” and wondered whether I was totally inept to take care of myself. I remember thinking: I’ll have to chalk this up to experience.” I remember how much I resisted this being part of my experience. I drove home, slept and blocked the memory out of my mind.

Making waves

My memories started to get triggered now and then when I started dating the perpetrator’s best friend. I desperately tried to keep the memories at bay, even going to the extent of defending the perpetrator when other women were put off by his sexual forwardness. Then one afternoon, I started having flashbacks and realized that I had had a horrible experience with this guy who was now a part of my social circle.

My boyfriend now found himself in the dilemma of either diminishing my experience or facing up to the fact that he had been friends with a person who commits sexual transgressions. I questioned whether my boyfriend had enabled his best friend’s predatory tendencies. My boyfriend would at times criticize his friend’s sexual transgressions, but mostly condoned behavior he suspected was painful to women.

The perpetrator is a very handsome and gregarious person, whose male friends admire his ease of conquest with women. His technique to get women to accept a massage from him is to offer what he calls his “Harmonic Body Wave” massage technique, which is a great source of humor among his friends. However, it may not have been so humorous to the women who trustingly agreed to be massaged and found them selves fondled instead, or as in my case, penetrated against their will. The chances are slim that his friends will ever ask him “but, did she indicate ‘yes?’ ”

Malicious intent

You may wonder how much malicious intent was present in the mind of the perpetrator. Does he consciously use stealth and deception to close the window of opportunity for a woman to say “no”? Is his offer to give a massage a ploy to be sexual with her body without her consent? or is he so delusional that he truly believes that when a woman consents to his hands on her body for a massage, she also consents him to be sexual with her?

On another occasion, I overheard (one of the triggers to my memory) him boasting to my boyfriend that he had stuck his finger in a woman’s vagina on the dance floor. My boyfriend asked him what had preceded this event, and he answered with a rather nasty smirk: “he, as long as they don’t say no …”
Confronting the perpetrator

Once I fully remembered and was able to handle the shame of being a sexual assault victim, I confronted the perpetrator and let him know what the experience had been like for me. His response was “I don’t really remember.” He said he felt sorry that I experienced my encounter with him as very negative, but added: “But I thought that everybody who goes to that party was promiscuous.”

I’m happy I finally gave the perpetrator much needed feedback. I know that many women prefer to scurry away from the overly sexually aggressive male instead of bluntly asserting that a transgression took place. Two of my girlfriends who met the perpetrator were irritated by his disregard for their personal space, but both of them chose to avoid a public scene and did not provide him with accurate feedback.
Adding insult to injury/ Female fault vs. male irresponsibility

Fear of being blamed, doubted, treated with insensitivity and even ostracized silences most victims of this kind of crime. I cringed whenever I heard a sentence start with: “Well, I would have…,” or, “you should have…”

Talking about what happened that day meant facing the shame and humiliation and self-blame that I felt. It also meant finding myself on the defensive with people who told me I was responsible for what happened to me that day.

The mythic image of the violent stranger jumping out of the bushes is oddly reassuring and very persistent in spite of contradicting statistics about sexual crimes. The uncomfortable reality is that most perpetrators are known and trusted by the victim and that sexual assault doesn’t necessarily involve the threat of physical violence.

One of the things I noticed is that some kind of uneasiness and defensive thinking kicks in when people are confronted by a sexual assault victim. The conversations focused around determining where I had gone wrong. All my voluntary interactions with the perpetrator before the assault were suspect, had I not asked for it in some way?

For women, I now realize that blaming the victim is a way to feel safer. If only we avoid the risky behavior of the past victim, than we can continue to believe we can prevent this from happening to ourselves. For men, focusing on victim culpability reduces the attention to appropriate male sexual behavior.

I noticed how complacent we are of the seeming inevitability of women always having to be vigilant, because we tacitly accept that women are always preyed upon. Apparently it is easier to tell a woman to restrict her actions and movements in order to reduce risk, than to tell a man to judge his actions by the effect it has on others. Is masculinity at odds with mutuality in sex? If all individuals were held responsible for minimizing risks, then what restrictions could men implement to prevent non-consensual sex?

I was reprimanded for having placed myself in what turned out to be a vulnerable situation and was deftly told what I can and can not do in my “new agey” community in the bay area in the 21st century. I am now very clear on that it is thought to be a woman’s responsibility to limit her freedoms in order to reduce the risk of bumping into an overly sexually aggressive male. It is kind of like being hit by a drunk driver and then being blamed for it.

What is sexual assault?

It became very clear to me that most people define sexual assault as a violation of boundaries, and not as non-consensual sex. I was blamed for not having put up a boundary at some point, somehow. The perpetrator was not blamed for taking liberties with my body without my positive cooperation, or even my awareness.

Negotiating consensual sex is a very complicated dance. I like to call it a dance since most of the communication is often non-verbal. The short phrase “no means no” is an over simplification of the process. However, the short-phrase is useful to help us communicate our morals about the more elaborate negotiation process that precedes consensual sex.

Our current sexual morality puts the responsibility for ensuring consensual sex entirely on the woman, by giving her the power to veto. Our commonly held definition of a sex-crime is that a man violates a woman’s “No.” (Of course men too can be sex-crime victims.) The implication here is that as long as a woman has not put up her verbal defensive block, no transgressions have occurred.

“No means No” facilitates the guy who likes to grope and fondle

Most of us see mutuality as necessary for sex, we want to be wanted. We want a meeting of the bodies and the minds. The sexual predator is content with merely using a woman’s body. I’ve read that most sexual predators resist the idea of seeing themselves as such. They will look for ways to validate their behavior and will often seek public approval for their private transgressions. Often they will give moral validation to their actions by their intent and not by how it affects others.

The predator who uses stealth and deceit (as was the case with the perpetrator) to circumvent the woman’s “no” walks away from his groping and fondling with his self-image of uprightness intact. The stealth and deceit predator uses our rule, “no means no” to sidestep the complicated dance of negotiating consensual sex. He inserts an imaginary “Yes” as long as a woman hasn’t verbally said “No.”

Just as men learn to degrade women from other men, they also learn to respect women from other men. A man who chooses the short-phrase “no means no” to represent his values about sex provides the green light for the stealth and deceit perpetrators to grope and fondle while leaving their self-image intact. A man who chooses “no means no” fails to protect his sisters and daughters from this kind of sexual predator.

A man who says “yes means yes” instills that consent is absolutely required in sex. That man says that to be sexual with a woman’s body without her consent is sexual assault. That man creates a safer world for women instead of telling women how to restrict their actions and movements in order to reduce the risk of getting hurt by male sexuality. Just as it is important for women to be assertive about their sexual boundaries, it is important that men are held accountable for their sexual actions.

Becoming a survivor

What happened that day, and what I thought it said about me, was very disruptive to my self image. At first, I took responsibility for what happened, and I thought that my failure to prevent this from happening to me was a sign of my personal incompetence. Additionally, I believed that my reaction of, pretending to be a willing participant, was further proof of poor coping abilities.

Today, I know I had poor judgment in trusting this man. However, I place the responsibility for what happened with the perpetrator and not with me. When I accepted the back-massage I did not consent to vaginal penetration.

I now realize that pretending to be a willing participant is a valid coping mechanism. What I had just experienced with this man was that he was capable of hurting me by using stealth and deception. By my pretense, I got myself out of that situation as quickly and safely as possible, preventing further losses.
Police

The intense humiliation and confusion and self-blame keeps most women from reporting sex-crimes with the police. For those few women who do report the incident, even fewer find justice. Since most non-violent sex crimes are “he said, she said” scenarios and we live in a country where you are innocent until proven guilty, the law is often unable to protect women.

However, I found some solace in knowing that my report is on file with the police and a paper trail has been created. If other women come forward with similar complaints about the same person, at some point it may add up to enough evidence. Also, the perpetrator, knowing about the complaint that is on file against him, might be inclined to change his behavior.

My experience with the San Rafael Police department was positive. I know that this is not always the case. I highly recommend getting assistance with reporting sex crimes. Rape crisis centers have advocates to accompany the victim to the police and ensure that the complaint is properly processed.

A scene from Until Someone Wakes up (created by Carolyn Levy)

Waiter: Would you like some coffee?

Woman: Yes, please.

Waiter: Just say when. (Starts to pour.)

Woman: There. (He keeps pouring.) That’s fine. (He pours.)
Stop! (She grabs the pot; there the coffee is everywhere.) What are you doing? I said stop.

Waiter: Yes, ma’am

Woman: Well, why didn’t you stop pouring?

Waiter: Oh, I wasn’t sure you meant it.

Woman: Look, of course I meant it! I have coffee all over my lap! You nearly burned me!

Waiter: Forgive me ma’am, but you certainly looked thirsty. I thought you wanted more.

Woman: But-

Waiter: And you must admit, you did let me start to pour.

Woman: Well of course I did. I wanted some coffee.

Waiter: See, there you go. A perfectly honest mistake.

Please feel free to forward this writing to whomever you think might be interested.

Djoke Steen

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Choosing a new moderator...

2008-07-28T02:44:49Z

Since we don't have a current moderator, we should maybe think about "electing" one. I elect me. :) Who do you "elect"? :)

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Orgasm "Addiction"

2008-07-15T18:51:28Z

Hello all,

I just read an interesting interview over on Reality Sandwich with"Peace Between the Sheets" author Marnia Robinson. I disagree with her on many points, but there is a lot of juicy stuff to mull. I'd love to hear your thoughts on her opinions.

http://realitysandwich.com/finding_peace_between_our_sheets

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I worry about my relationship with men....

2008-07-04T11:54:46Z

My father left when I was 4, he was an alcoholic . My mom has all sorts of dysfunctions. She is better now but growing up there was alcohol, workalicism, over eating, depression, etc.. Anyway it was chaotic to say the least. Although we always had money and I went to school and whatnot. I don't want to over dramatize. It was "normal" dysfunction, not the kind you see walking down the street, you'd have to look really close to see it, like most families I imagine.

Anyway, needless to say I have difficulty sustaining healthy relationships. I have had 2 long term relationships and they both were verbally , emotionally, ( one guy was physically abusive a couple of time ) abusive. So, it has happened more than those 2 relationships that I have dated alcoholics, narcissists. I find myself not attracted to nice guys. I don't know what to do about it. I am attracted to who I am attracted to. I go to counseling, ( I will see her next week and ask her this question ). What can I do to become attracted to healthier men?I know that the drama, the dysfunction turns me on, so to speak. I don't want it to. I am aware to the point that if I find someone really attractive, those bells go off in my head, I know it is probably not good. I want to change. I want to be with a man who respects and loves me. But they don't present themselves to me and they don't stick around.
I am in grad school for psychology, I do not invite abuse into my life in any other way. I am not self harming or even drinking too much. It's this one way , I attract jerks who can't respect me. What can I do?

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Orgasm as a Mystical Experience

2008-06-13T17:56:18Z

Recently I came upon a passage in “Further Along the Road less Traveled,” (which I have not read all the way through)… but this chapter sparked my curiosity… the chapter is titled “Orgasm as a Mystical Experience.”

Basically it explains that Abram Maslow, through research he conducted involving people who he identified as “self actualized” (study Maslow Theory of Hierarchy for more of an explanation), he came to the conclusion/understanding that people who reach this level share some commonalities… one being that they “routinely experienced orgasm as a spiritual experience, mystical even.”

He goes on to compare the mystical experience of orgasm to ego death which he states is a “necessary part of the spiritual journey.” The French refer to orgasm as “la petite mort” which is interpreted as “the little death.” The author states that in order to reach the highest spiritual climax possible, through intercourse naturally there has to be a deep spiritual connection between the lovers. Once we reach that “brief peak point of little death” we loose some sense of physical reality no longer completely physically grounded, a loss of ego, self, separateness… ego death. For you Dead Heads think steal your face.

The author (M. Scott Peck) quotes a Swami as saying… “At the moment of mutual climax, each as individuals has no more significance to the other than the gates of heaven for the one within.” And Joseph Campbell is quoted as well, “When one has lost oneself in the rapture of love, the partner is of no more importance than the portals of the temple through which one has passed to the alter.”

He has a lot to say about the notions of and illusions of “romantic love” as well, which once I’ve digested, I will attempt to regurgitate and share with you all. I just was very taken with this passage and felt compelled to share… and maybe get some feedback about this topic.
Blessings to all
XOXO
T

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Looking for JFKU syllabi

2008-06-10T05:08:37Z

I'm on the prowl for syllabi or reading lists from JFKU's Consciousness and Transformative Studies program. If anyone knows where I can track some resources down, I'd be ever so grateful.

Thanks!

~A

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Difference Between Female and Male Sexuality

2008-06-04T19:51:11Z

Association For Psychological Sciencec........... An interesting article on the arousal patterns of gay men, men and women and the differences in the brain. Men's arousal patterns seem rather obvious , but women's have a bisexual arousel pattern............. www.psychologicalscience.org/media/releases/2003/pr030612.cfm

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...

2008-05-26T18:04:03Z

I've read a lot of things all over this tribe about "being hurt" is the wrong influencing
actions to take when choosing to be celibate.

So, my question is, if being celibate is the wrong path to take when you have strong emotional
energies still floating around you from something else, what WOULD be the best step to take?
Just curious.......as I see nothing wrong with refusing any intimate contact from that.

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question of celebacy

2008-05-21T00:16:25Z

I am planning on embarking on a self induced period of celabcy for the next year, and i was wondering if anyone else has done this and if so what tips, info, or suggestions you might have.

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Evolutionary Philosophy of Human Sexuality

2008-05-02T20:36:08Z

Great Info & Interesting Website www.spaceandmotion.com/sex

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Mantak Chia in Santa Cruz May 14th-16th

2008-04-16T06:49:14Z

Mantak Chia in SC May 14-16.
Contact Lee Holden:
lee@pacifichealingarts.com
408-839-9490

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The Warrioir Within

2008-04-02T15:26:11Z

http://eventful.com/events/E0-001-010005707-7@2008041911

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The Velvet Night

2008-03-23T22:17:39Z

The Velvet Night

Don’t track the light in the shiny streets of desire
Don’t look for the beauty in the outward perfection

The exiled pain
is a gentle touch;
The most adorable tongue of passion

The Velvet Night
Waiting to unveiled

Be aware
Splendid is the dark-light
Believe in this tale . . .

Love&Respect

Shervin

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Pomosexuality and the Death of the Label

2008-03-23T10:09:38Z

BECAUSE LABELS ARE FOR CLOTHING... NOT PEOPLE.

Pomosexuality (short for postmodern sexuality) refers to a nonorientation in which people disregard sexual labels altogether. While it is convenient to sort everyone into a handful of different groups - homosexual, bisexual, heterosexual - pomosexuality argues that not only can these words and categories not do justice to the complexity of human sexuality, but are also grand illusions socially constructed to maintain a state of separateness between people. Like most other things in life, sexual orientation and/or gender identity isn't a black and white, either/or experience for many of us. More appropriately, it is best described as a fluid and incalculably unique journey that is beyond definition. Pomosexuality literally means anything you want it to mean. It means anything goes. And it represents an end to all the confusion, oppression, fear, and restraint that comes with trying to identify with a restrictive label.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXxODfmU_iU

Join the new social network that is introducing the concept of pomosexuality to the masses, revolutionizing the way the world views sexuality and gender. http://wWw.POMOWORLD.com

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sexual pictures of women- conflicting

2008-03-14T23:43:57Z

hello. i have been through many stages of looking at sexual imagery. there are times where i would look at porn. but i realized a while ago i dont the energy in it. its a bad energy. no where near love. for a long time i was disgusted by sexual imagery. even for a while i felt comfortable not having sex at all believing it is just for the creation of a soul. now i can not deny i feel sexual. our energy is sexual energy as many people say. i enjoy looking at pictures of girls in thongs. there is something appealing about it. but something also that i feel... low doing. almost shameful of myself. i am trying to figure this all out.
people talk about objectification of women. and in a way i can see myself objectifying women since begining to look at these pictures. not so much objectification as materialization. like if i see a woman who is wearing tight pants, or sexy i am drawn to look at her ass. now part of me feels strange doing this.. and part of me is wondering why i am drawn to people for their looks since this is the opposite of how i usually feel. what is within is more fascinating and important.
and the girls i look at, they would not be the people i would probably like to be around. it is strange. if i meet a girl who puts alot of emphasis on her looks i usually try to ask her questions like do you want guys to like you for whats on the inside or how you look? but here i am enjoying looking at these girls in thongs..
well if you have any insights, they would be appreciated.
thank you
blessings

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From Sex to Superconsciousness

2008-03-14T01:19:40Z

It is a book by Osho. If you havent read it, it will really transform the way you feel about sex.

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Get a Relationship Makeover! (whether you have one or not)

2008-03-09T01:55:10Z

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sexy stethoscope

2008-03-08T04:45:47Z

Has anyone played sexually with stethoscopes?

I was at the hospital last week.. and noticed them .. and got to thinking...

wow.. this could be a great tool for some realization of impermanence (did I spell that right?) and of a very deep connection.. I imagine that it would be and intense practice that merges our sexuality and consciousness...

any thoughts, experiences or something similar to this?

(i wish I had a pair to try it)

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Sex makes my girlfriend psycho - help

2008-03-05T02:17:57Z

The taoists say that after the man has an orgasm he becomes insecure, easily aggrivated, because of the loss of energy. This is how my girlfriend gets after we have sex.
Example: last night we were together. We dont see much of eachother these days, i dont know why though. i miss her alot. Well anyways. When were together she says she doesnt get horny unless i provoke her. She jokes and calls me the devil for this. She says she doesnt want to mess around or have sex. but we become passionate and end up fucking in the car. And theres a line where she is normal and void of any feelings (she denies them) then she becomes totally ruled and taken over by them. Then we stop cause we both feeel uncomfortable in the car and she gets really cold and tells me shes taking me home. I tell her we both feel bad lets not have sex anymore. She becomes more and more upset saying "why do i even see you at all". When were near my house were talking and shes telling me get out get out go home. And i dont want to leave her right after we make love. (i dont think shes making love- shes just being overcome with horniness which is why she feels bad.) I put my arms around her gently and she pushes me away very hard- her arms feel like the edge of a brick. very bad energy. She ends up getting worse and worse tense too tense and i tell her to do stomach breathing but she cant listen to me. she has a bad problem with controlling her body if shes feeling bad around me. Anyways im staring into her eyes and she says why did you look at your neighbors house? (whom she is jealous of for no reason). I was staring straight into her eyes about 1 foot away from her. She becomes delusional. I tell her something is wron with her mentally. She tells me she knows i slept with other girls. She is the only girl i ever slept with and she has no reason to beleive otherwise. All i ever do is give her my total devotion, but shes not very receptive to it. She is acutlly the one who has slept with other guys after losing her virginity to me. We were apart for about 6 months where she became a slut. She said for a month she woke up puking because she was just partying all the time. So you can see this is where her sexuality confuses her and probably brings back bad energy to her body. I just want to make healing love to her, not engage in confused lust like before. She is very confused about her sexuality. Last nigh it really took my desires away. I just felt like going in the woods and living like an animal so i wouldnt feel horniness that makes our relationship so crazy. So i have decided not to have sex till she is the one who brings it about, because this is crazy. making love one minute the next, super bad energy and she saying she doesnt wanna be with me, and being very delusional and disrespectful. honestly i dont know why i love her. but i do. i guess im attracted to her so she can help purify me away from the fucked up sexualitly i had before (porn, excesssive desire), but i have been studying taoism and havent looked at porn in over a year. I understand and feel she is the only person i want to make love to. but even now i will wait. as the i ching said i will set a limit. any advice into her psychogy or similar experiences and solutions would be much appreciated and karmically corrected.
peace to you all

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Body Magick festival in Florida

2008-02-24T19:30:42Z

The 5th annual Body Magick festival will be April 24-27, 2008 at All World Acres in the Tampa Bay area. This festival will focus on sacred sexuality, sex magick, Tantra, and polyamory. The event is for adults only (18 and older).

The workshops and activities at the Body Magick festival will be
interactive. There will be nudity and activities of a sexual nature.
Everyone will have the option of participating or only observing.

Info here; http://divineecstasy.org/bodymagick.htm

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insignificant sex

2008-02-20T14:22:08Z

i am young, 22, not that young. . . my age group is frightening.
Sexual Frustration, these people speak of sexual frustration as if there is nothing important to discuss or dwell on. I think about people wasting so much time, and energy and personal spirit on mediocrity, insignificant union. So few seek meaningful fulfulment of themselves, especially from themselves, let alone seek out challenging energies, someone to learn from and teach.
Young humans seeking other humans purely for selfish indulgence. They approach eachother with one intention and it bleeds through their eyes and teeth. Two parties coming together to achieve shallow individual missions is still lonliness. Lonliness and emptiness are not cured through group lonliness and emptiness.

I feel that most people have not had significant sex, important, mind expanding, consciousness combining union with another human energy. They seek something they enjoy, like animals, because they do not know how intensely amazing it can be.

This all worries me because making friends has turned out be rather difficult in adult life (this changes by geographic location). I have found a lot of people who seem unique and interesting, decide I would like them as an acquaintance, turn their intentions from friend to further after so much consecutive attention. Then turn bitter when it is not reciprocated.
I enjoy privacy all the time but my love of other physical people ebbs and flows. And I know this is a result of the people I encounter, location is key again here.

Okay the point of this,
Honesty and consciousness, in all forms and levels is needed, especially in youth. I worry about people my age, not loving themselves, not loving others, not loving openly and honestly, raw and understanding of our own human and others. Understanding our own biology, human connections, levels of intimacy, being close to someone without the looming questions. We need to know what is bad, what is good, what is great and what is really worth our time. We, youth, need to be in tune with our biological drives, and harness it, not squander it.

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Next Fremont Munch

2008-02-19T13:55:40Z

Hello everyone, Just thought I would pop in and let everyone know about the second Fremont Munch that will be held at Denny's on Mowry Ave in Fremont Ca.. It will be on March 3rd and will start at 7:30PM the address is 5280 Mowry Ave Fremont CA. I am looking forward to meeting some new faces and seeing some returning faces as well.

Thank You

Julian M.

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Looking For Direction from Forum Members...

2008-02-15T03:52:05Z

Hello All,

My wife and I are looking to further intertwine our spiritual and sexual practices. We are looking for direction from you that can help us explore the beauty and divinity of our sexual experience and energy. Our path is with each other and we wish to steer clear of any practices that are focused on swinging or sexual entertainment.

Our spiritual path is simple - we are open to the many interpretations of Spirit/God that exist, so the metaphor or religion used to deliver the spiritual/sexual trainig isn't as important as the depth of the training. We wish to go deep into the energy. We have strong communication and relationship skills, we are both balanced with regards to male/female energy, and our relationship has been strenghthened through fire.

I'm hoping to find direction from this forum on retreats/workshops/teachers that we can review to see if they fit our needs.

Thank you!
AnimaS

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David Deida

2008-02-14T01:43:29Z

Hey peeps,

I'm thinking about doing this workshop with David Deida.
Any of you done one before? What's the 411?

Details: www.DeidaEvents.com.

TT

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Erotic Arts Party NYC Feb. 13.

2008-02-13T00:49:36Z

Please forward this on to any like minded friends in NYC.
1/2 off admission for any who mention TRIBE.NET
cheers RR.

On February 13th 2008 starting at 7pm:

THE SAINT VENUS THEATER

NY's art, music, and performance inspired erotic venue
invites you to attend our:

SAINT VALENTINE'S PARTY

Featuring a wide variety of hourly erotic performances that are always a tribute to woman and female sexuality, and "The Most Transformative Lap Dance Experience" you are likely know.

We want to excite one's heart, mind, soul and libido, not just the libido.
We regularly hold smaller intimate parties for our exclusive members. This
is one of our occasional bigger events open to the public. In addition
to a lot of fun, this is also the best way for us to get to know you and provides opportunity for membership consideration.

Location information posted below. Please visit our web site at www.SaintVenusTheater.com for party information and discount admissions or free lap dance card. You can also get location information for our very impressive midtown NYC club by calling 212-539-3524 starting on February 12th, the day before the event.

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Performance Highlights:

- The Girl in Giant Bubble Show by the creator of The
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- Free give aways to the first 100 patrons.
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Recommend a Tantra book please =)

2008-02-09T04:47:56Z

Hello,

I'm interested in the spiritual/deeper connection to your partner aspects of Tanra. I looked into classes in my area and they are a bit out of my budget atm. I was wondering if anybody could recommend some good books for getting started with this.

Thanks!

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Genital Awareness

2008-02-07T15:28:25Z

Hi All,

I have added some new articles to my website, including one on energy awareness and another on genital relationship. There are many other articles on sexuality and spirituality. I hope you will stop by at http://www.lindawhitedove.com

All articles are available free of charge. A great resource full of information!

Linda

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Noobie here!

2008-01-29T03:36:26Z

Just saying hello and sending love! I have some art on my profile that I hope wil speak to some of you. Please, by all means, if you have any insights, reflections about anything you see, I urge you to post a public comment to share with everyone.
SB

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solstice - a time of deep awakening

2007-12-28T22:51:06Z

OUR POWERFUL AND RARE WINTER SOLSTICE:
THIS FRIDAY/SATURDAY

This is the most powerful Solstice that we've had in
modern or ancient history, so this is BIG and I hope
you take advantage of this information..
The Solstice is when the Sun moves into the sign of Capricorn and our days start getting longer (the return of the SUN/ SON). This Solstice is so rare, that no one knows how long ago this line-up actually last occurred, but we are sure it hasn't happened in the last 26,000 years. This means we have NO DATA on what to expect, so I'm simply giving you my best guess. The line-up for this Solstice is this: the Galactic Center, Pluto, Sun, Jupiter and Mercury all within 6 degrees of each other and opposite Mars retrograde. Talk about a powerhouse! Plus two after the Solstice, on December 23rd, the Moon comes along, joins Mars and covers the Galactic Center in the center of the Sacred Hoop of stars, recognized by the Native Americans. My best guess of what this all means is that we're headed for major evolutionary and transformational growth. It's so big that we might feel like we're getting sucked into the proverbial "black hole." What's the purpose of this growth and transformation? My best guess is that it's what all need to do in order to keep pace with the changing frequency and vibration of the planet. If you're not familiar with planetary ascension, now would be a good time to learn about it. Go to www.whatsuponplanethearth.com or www.duanehenkle.com or www.dianastone.com and discover why Earth is the hot place to be in our galaxy. What to do? One of the best recommendations is to sit quietly during the Solstice and just tune into or drink up the energies. If you do this during this busy weekend, you're likely to get some messages, thoughts, feelings, dreams, or bodily sensations that will give you clues about what to do next. Be sure to follow them. In the Pacific time zone the actual Solstice occurs at 10:09 PM December 21st. In the Eastern time zone it occurs at 1:09 AM December 22nd. Don't worry about getting the time exactly right. These energies are so strong you'll be able to feel them for days. What will all this mean for you? It depends on your chart, how and where your chart is aspected by this line-up. Certainly we're all rethinking what motivates us now, and just what is it that DOES bring us JOY? If you can get a handle on that, follow that path. But it's about more than just what brings us joy. The bigger question is how can we all contribute to raising our consciousness, so the planet we live on can be sustained, and do this in a way that brings us joy?
Also remember that Pluto is about to change signs into Capricorn on January 26th, another rare cycle which hasn't happened since 1762. We've had Pluto in the sign of Sagittarius since November 1995, transforming our beliefs, our social and cultural institutions (like education, the legal system and medicine), and our international situation. Now we will get to transform the structures of our world, including the structures and processes of business, governments, and capitalism.
Where will all of this lead? Hopefully to a planet that can be sustained, instead of destroyed by our businesses, governments, consumers, and capitalism! If this doesn't happen between now and 2024 when Pluto moves into Aquarius, we'll all be in big trouble. In fact it looks like we could be in big trouble sooner than that, between 2012 - 2015 when we get the radical and revolutionary energies of Uranus square Pluto. If anything can propel us in the right direction to assist the planet, it'll be that cycle, when revolutions will be the order of the day. I'm not talking about revolutions that occur with
guns. I'm talking about a revolution in our consciousness. That's the only thing that can save this planet and our lives, along with everything else that lives on Earth

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you tell them

2007-12-23T21:31:38Z

I am gone
And far beyond
Yoú tell them:
“This the time t say goodbye to him, let him go”

I am not from here
nor do I belong to this talks and thoughts
Yoú tell them:
“He is useless, faithless, worthless, let him go”

My chants are not made for earthly ears,
I dance like a savage, in their eyes
My love song sounds like a scream in their polluted, dark caves
Yoú tell them:
“kick him out, away with him, send him to the wild”.

The mountain height, the depth of ocean, the dark jungle
Yoú tell them:
“put the beast where he belongs!”

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'Third eye contact' Tantra and Mushrooms

2007-12-17T16:41:57Z

I've had a few lifechanging experiences with psilocybe cubensis, my first two provoked what I can only describe as tantra. The first time I've eaten godflesh was my 18th birthday, late at night with a blissful family of friends. A bit after people went to thier bedrooms I still couldn't sleep and decided to bunk on the mattress with a single guy. He and I began copulating in an amazingly slow manner while our trip continued to escalate. Our bodies flowed like every particle of our beings was meant to mesh together. Initially, my mind was full of 'OH, God, this is perfect sex! This is what they mean!' We continued to breathe and operate on the godjuice, perfectly in sync with each other and gravity. Gradually my mind filled with what seems like every thought and emotion ive experienced, until they became realized as One, then there was only the moment, oxygen, the sun that would never rise; I felt I'd experienced a satori. On a side note a ,week after that enlightening experience, I was listening to Tool's 'Lateralus' and contemplating Alex Grey paintings; and I felt, energetically, like Id understood what the paintings were portraying, followed by my head lolling back and what felt like a 'full body orgasm' taking over, which I found out was a kundalini uprising. The second time I imbibed the mushroom sacrament was just after I graduated highschool, a friend and I were sitting in the park, blissfully enjoying each others conscious company, letting the mushrooms kick in as we basked in the amazement of each others awareness and playfully trying to cross our eyes in a manner that lets us visualize each others third eye. Our conversation became more of a completion of each others thoughts, that click and understanding, until there came a moment where we both felt the same thing, we were conscious of the Us consciousness, I and You melted away. The first click was a brief with a moment of confusion, sort of like 'What was that?' 'There is no 'Was', and We became I again. To keep up our connection it felt as if I would push us further along the spiral and he would pull with the energy of what hed learned, teaching my consciousness something to digest so i could in turn power level us deeper. The whole night our internal and external enviroment was a conscious syncronicity, we felt this is exactly what we should be doing, this is what we pine for, this satisfies every metaneed. The clearest thing that was communicated was him telling me that hed never truly experienced love and was abused as a child, and I could feel exactly how bad it was and cried with direct empathy. The timeless hours had worn out our energy by sunlight, throughout the night to continue stimulating the connection it had degraded a bit because we needed physical manipulation of each other for serotonin drive, still clothed, a pure form of bodywork, pure tantra, occasionally needing an affectionate touch on bare skin. In the moments when the connection was weak it was because we would admit to desire, usually 'lets smoke', but we both knew it was a stoners neurotic impulse and continued to grace the Us until we didnt have enough energy at all, barely enough to force ourselves to find his glasses. At one of those weak moments, his eyes were shut and I could see that his Third eye was open. We have grown apart a bit as friends since then. I took mushrooms with him again the day before yesterday, and massaging his back I still felt I knew his energy, I knew his body and the tensions that formed his muscles. I got really into the massage and it sunk us into a mild trance. The mushrooms as usual were very cathartic, so at one point I broke down sobbing on him because of the pining I felt for the connection to another conscious being again. Today I had a few syncronicities and broke through my depression with the acknowledment that God is conscious and satisfies every need one could have if I let go of desire, and the realization that someday I'll lose the feeling of separateness either through physical or ego death.

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TRIBE PROCESSING CENTER WELCOMES YOU!!

2007-12-12T16:05:35Z

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Tribe members who refuse to join this tribe will be considered of Alien status and membership will be revoked.

THANK YOU FOR YOUR COOPERATION!!

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Wake up from your desires: Life is a selfless vacation into spirit

2007-12-08T22:47:51Z

"Your ultimate goal is to be happy. Where is that happiness? Within you. If you want to have permanent happiness, it will never come from outside. If somebody makes you happy today, the same person will make you unhappy tomorrow. You are happiness and peace personified. Find that happiness and peace within you."

—His Holiness Sri Swami Satchidananda
This means that all the happiness we have experienced through outward means (other people, places and lowest of all 'things') is just a stimulation of our own inner happiness. This also means any happiness you experienced through these outward means is always inside you. All your great memories are there to reflect upon what a wonderful gift of life and 'free will' we have been given to reach our highest goal: self realization that we are: ever conscoius, ever aware, and ever blissful: satchidananda.
We are free, but me must realize this by many means, because most of us are in delusions. Travel is a very important one for most. Because when you travel without those who normally surrond you, family, most intimate relationships, and you are free of desire other than to know they Self through desireless means you lose a big part of your attachment. Travel thousands of miles to a new place where no one knows you. Life is a journey, not a carrear, or an enslavement to lower desires for lust and material things. Life is simple it is the system taught to us which we become entagled in a web of complicated delusions and possessions through weakened will. Life is a vacation to higher awareness. Not service to a system that cares only to enslave you. Still your mind and open your third eye, through yoga, meditation, studying of teachings, and learning to tune into the divine teachings constantly surronding you.
Through the good and bad the universe is always trying to get through to us a message. Through our still minds we are better abled to recieve these messages. Many of us interpret things as good or bad (i still do sometimes) this is the dualistic movie the universe; OM; has created. Up and down, black and white, hot and cold, smooth and rough, reason and feeling, day and night. Evil is that which obstructs the truth of our existence. Evil can be interpreted as misunderstanding of our nature: selfless, endless love. Nothing is bad; we learn from all. "Good things", easy, pleasing things make us appreciative and thankful (at first) that we may live in such a beautiful world. Then comes our suffering, which we have been taught to think of as "bad". These things are not bad because they are teaching us something; always a lesson, and they bring us closer to our Spirit. It is often when we are hurt or lowest we re-orient our values to what really is important to our soul. Sufferings also allow us to appreciate the good even more. Because 'the good' things would become dull and eventually 'bad' if we did not have reminders of our path to create trials. there is a yoga affirmation "each wave of trials only brings me higher" Tis true. That is why you are lucky for all that you recieve; thus it is all good because it is leading to a beautiful, eternal bliss. and it will come sooner if you are open to the messages being sent from all around you.
"When you dont do what you want, then you may do what you like" - Indian master
We must give up the constant demans of the ego: sense pleasures, instant fufillment; and begin what is truley good for us, a devotion to our knowing our Soul; the Self; The Infinite Spirit. "DESTROY WRONG DESIRE NOW LEST IF FOLLOW YOU INTO THE NEXT LIFE" -Swamiji Sri Yukteswar. Dissolve the bubble of the ego into the ocean of spirit.
"All things in the future will improve if you are making spiritual effort now."- Swamiji Sri Yukteswar

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Get Jesus or Get Fucked -YOU Decide!

2007-12-08T07:26:05Z

I have to preface this by quoting a forum I recently found on Tribe.net called...

"EX SEX ADDICTS & RECOVERING PORN ADDICTS"

-which is described as follows:

"This is for former sex addicts struggling with porn addiction
& want to strengthen their faith in Jesus, as Jesus is the only
way to break the saying, 'once an addict, always an addict!'

Come join me against the invisible fight against darkness,
so that we may come into the light of God's protection to live
as He would want us to live.

I know there are many out there in bondage.

Let's support each other, encourage each other & most of all
pray for each other, men & women alike as a real body of Christ
one day at a time."

*
...I'm not sure yet if that forum is for real or a joke, but I'm sure I'll find out soon enough. Either way, I enjoyed responding to it immensely, so whether you're totally offended by what you're about to read, or you feel like throwing me roses, you're welcome ;)

Keep in mind that the following is a response to the forum I mentioned, so understand that I'm not referring to *you* dear reader at any point.

I also ask you to look beyond the languaging of this and between the lines -for this is more than just about Sex "addicts" or Christianity.

It's really more about how *any* religion or philosophy has been used to control or manipulate others and separate them from their innate sacred energy and intelligence. It is also an appeal for the healing of the fragmented Self, a return to wholeness which is intimately connected with Nature, and a tribute to the Goddess.

I normally don't even write like what you're about to read. I was channeling the unspoken multitude of souls who have suffered from the alienation you're about to read and possibly relate to, the Rage & Pain of The Goddess, and George Carlin.

*
(again, in response to the mission statement of the aforementioned forum)

...Being educated in the science of Critical Thinking, can you say that there's no "struggle" if you're not *resisting*?

I've read the Bible and I don't recall Jesus ever saying "don't have sex". The closest sentiment I can recall Jesus (being quoted) as saying was, "Love Thy Neighbor As Thyself". That's pretty darn general and I wonder why God changed "His" tune after Soddom and Gomorrah? Or, is the Torah still in effect and that's the *true* story of why Christ got the Cross?

Does "addiction" count only if it's ruining your life? What if I think my life is totally awesome because of all the sex I have?

Is there a list of sorts someone here would like to provide that details all the parameters of "sex addiction"?

But if we're going to talk about Jesus and such, then let's get into whose "authorized account" we're *really* working with here. Last I checked, Jesus didn't actually *write* the Bible. For all any of us can know, the dude's been spinning in his grave these past 2000+ years because of all the mis-interpretations and poetic license his so-called followers could've taken as people *always have*. I mean, for chrissakes, look at what the official story is for 9/11! Do you think people were really so much more enlightened back in the *Iron Age*?

Who's to say that our lives haven't become hellish simply because we're taught to buy into so many beliefs that are totally contrary to the way the "True God" would want us to live: Free to enjoy the way we were made and meant to be!

Doesn't it strike *anyone* as conspicuous that we're the *only* species on the planet with religion and *we're* the ones taking it and everyone with us to Hell in a handbasket?

Hey, guess why we haven't found a Bible for any other species? BECAUSE THEY DON'T NEED ONE!

Do you ever see any other animals besides humans "living in sin"? Oh wait, that's right -they DON'T KNOW BETTER, right?

We say those dumb animals have no "free will", but there seems to be *plenty* of selective breeding and cooperation among all but ONE species. Have you ever seen an "ugly" animal? I'm not talking about what's beautiful compared to us, I'm talking about when you look at two individuals from the same species. Do you ever look at one German Shepherd and another and say, "Wow, that other is one ugly sonbitch!"

Maybe it would be more correct to say that Humans don't have free will, because look at how many people get ADDICTED to sex, drugs and drama! Remember how addiction is essentially defined as NOT HAVING CHOICE? I mean, it's pretty fucking pathetic if humans have this so-called "free will" because look at the CHOICES we've made!

Seriously, how do you think all the stupid and ugly people are managing to make it into each new generation? There's a moment when you're looking at that joint, that line of coke, that downhill descent, or that BUTT-UGLY loser at the other side of the bar, and there's a moment sanity's saying, "Fuck *that*!" But SOMEHOW, people end up listening to that other voice that says, "Fuck it, I just don't care because I'm too horny and lonely."

Oh, that's right, THE DEVIL MADE ME DO IT!

As the story goes, the Woman blamed it on the Serpent and Man blamed it on the Woman like an unaccountable asshole rather than confronting the Woman and saying, "Hey, let's take this up with God before we go with what the Serpent said. He could've refused, stood his ground like a grown man, but instead of copping to what a weak-minded dickhead he was, he BLAMED IT ON THE WOMAN!

Damn, and women *still* ended up being the one having to deal with the "joys" of motherhood! Okay, so is *that* why we refer to God in the masculine? I mean, there's NO WAY God would have let man get away with that if God was a Woman!

Anyway, back to "Free Will"...

For those of you who think animals "live in sin" because they don't know better or don't have free will, and you're STILL not convinced Man isn't out of his tree on this topic after what I've just written, then consider this:

If animals don't know better, then how is it they've managed NOT to fuck up the planet after all these tens of thousands of years (if you're a Fundamentalist) or billions of years (if you can tell by the plain, in your face, provable science of Natural History that Evolution *is* real) while we've managed to do more damage in the LAST CENTURY than all of prior *human* history? I mean the last most devastating thing that happened to this planet were the natural, unavoidable phenom of asteroid impacts and tectonic plates getting their groove on!

Now don't even *THINK* about blaming it on the Serpent now, Mr. Man! Your whole Point the Finger Game didn't fly back in Genesis. What, do you think The Almighty has ADD or that you somehow got *smarter* than the Maker since then?

Here's another clue for you Bible Thumpers:

Why would God *need* to have a Bible for us and NO other creature? I mean, if you believe the Bible was "inspired" by God, then you would HAVE to admit as well that God *intentionally* made us to be such screw-ups that we would need a "How To" book for living.

Who invented the word "Duh"? Man did. Oh, do you think *that* was inspired by someone sophisticated enough to invent our neo-cortex? Do you think it was invented by someone who conceived the plenum of our Universe? Do you think someone who could clap their hands and **BOOM!** Big Bang would trifle with something as pathetic and ridiculous as "duh"?

The Bible says "In the Beginning was the Word". ...Well gosh people, I'm not sure what that word was, but I'll bet you it wasn't in ENGLISH; and wow, things sure have gone to shit since it was uttered anyway, hasn't it? Btw, did the "Word" exist *before* we created language or after? (hint, this is a trick question).

MY GOD, how did all those stupid heathens get by for so many millenia before we Got BIBLE? Imagine all those poor souls who had no choice but to go to Hell for eternal damnation until the Israelites conquered them and showed them the The One True God? Seriously, what kind of SADISTIC fucker would create humans just to pit them against each other and let *millions* suffer in ignorance only to end up being damned for eternity?

God is wrathful then loving. IMO, Mr. "Don't Spell My Name With Vowels" is BIPOLAR. (I'm eyeballing the laser-pointer on my shoulder now as my spidey-sense is telling me there's a lightning bolt heading my blasphemous way)

Okay, now before some putz starts getting the wrong notion here, I'm JUST PISSED, CONFUSED & VENTING as I SEARCH FOR THE **TRUTH**. But hey, no surprise there. After all, if I was made in God's image, then God has to be just as confused, bipolar and fucked up as I am!

So tell me about this "Invisible Fight Against Darkness". You see, I don't think it's really so invisible and that if you think it is, you're just not paying attention because it's written and spoken everywhere!

Yeah, people are in bondage -to IGNORANCE, LAZINESS and DENIAL, when they really just need to get tied up, gagged and blindfolded by a sexy leather-clad goddess.

Consider the fundamental imbalance inherent in our religious legacy by remembering the notion that men had in those good 'ol Bible Days that women were considered "unclean" when on their sacred Moon and barred from entering the Temple. Hell, women weren't even allowed into the Holy of Holies, but we weren't complaining when our face was down there in Hers as she screamed out "Oh YHVH, OH YHVH!" were we? Noooo...

Why's our world so FUCKED UP? ---because somehow religion and culture in general became dominated by insecure and passive-aggressive men who were totally intimidated by the power women possess: to be able to go through the transformation and pains of Motherhood and still nurture that child when it's come into the world IN ADDITION to balancing that with being their own individual, caring for our home and family, and putting up with Mr. "Why Aren't You in the Mood -Are You Frigid or Going Lesbian On Me?"

...So for all you fuckheads who have bought into or push such alienating beliefs upon others: give the world a break by using the 6-inches of space God put between your ears for determining the difference between Man's stark-raving madness and Her Divine Majesty's Common Sense!

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TANTRA SOUTH PACIFIC

2007-12-01T22:48:15Z

Hi. I'm new to Tribe. My friends and I, Swiss, American, Nepalese have 5,000 acres in Fiji, 500 acres freehold on an exotic island not far from Suva, Fiji plus a 50 foot motor sailer and we are discussing establishing a Tantra focused colony/commune/resort there. Any interest or suggestions?
Best wishes.

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TRUTH IS FREE; so is my RETREAT Vermont

2007-11-24T22:08:29Z

I'm looking to network with folks, to extend an invitation to visit Bald Mountain Retreat, VT (www.baldmountainretreat.com) as my guest. Like-minded people who appreciate rustic accommodations are welcome to come up at no charge. (Those who require a private room can inquire about those accommodations as well.)
Basically, I'm offering people the opportunity to come stay with a retired naturopathic doctor in a truly amazing natural setting, secluded, idyllic, peaceful...
If you might want to lead a retreat, please contact me.
You are welcome,
Dr David

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Taoist Erotic Massage workshops 10/30 and 11/6

2007-10-23T17:55:37Z

Hey there,
I am leading two workshops in the next couple weeks that might be of interest to you all. On Oct. 30th, I'll be leading a workshop on Taoist Erotic Massage for Men and on November 6th, I'll be co-facilitating it's corollary, "Taoist Erotic Massage for Women," with my good friend, Miss Amy Scott.

These are totally beginner classes, however anyone would likely find the classes useful and enjoyable.

The classes are NOT strictly Taoist by any means, but rather, based on certain taoist principles.

These are Hands-On/Clothes-Off workshops. Much attention is put into creating safe space.

Chances are high that you've never experienced anything quite like it before. Try something new.

You can find more info about the event at:
www.EroticRockstar.com/events.html

If you've got any questions, just respond to this thread.
Thanks!
Hopefully, I'll see some of you there.
Til next time...
Destin

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prostate

2007-10-13T05:14:50Z

could anyone elaborate for me what exactly the prostate gland does?
I very rarely feel the need to stimulate it (via sacred spot massage or whatever) but sometimes I do,
and I wonder how this corresponds to my chakras.
Obviously this is my base chakra and my sex chakra, but what does it mean that I want stimulate this gland?
Happens every few months or so.
thanks

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Could you please participate in my survey on masculinity?

2007-10-12T18:17:34Z

I am a doctoral student seeking participants to complete a survey that explores the psychological experiences of being a man and how it influences your life. You must be a male who is 18 years of age or older

The survey will take approximately 30 minutes to complete and your participation is anonymous.

If you are interested in contributing to knowledge about how being a man impacts how you view yourself and others, please go to the following website: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.asp?u=218103339703

Thank you for your help.
Michael Franco
831.480.5180
masculinitystudy@yahoo.com

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Alchemical Relationship for Divine Union

2007-10-04T09:13:15Z

ONE

the battle is ONE and gone...

nourishment yearned for

needed to be received

locked up

held away

and left them withering of bone

and of flesh

with hungry hearts

and loins

insatiable

and unfulfilable desire

desperation has been

the path of crumbs

that led me to MY door

why have I not opened to me

fully, wholly

for the angst maintained

for so very long

insisting that you

or someone

would be there

to share

care enough

to prove me wrong

have I not held you away

whilst begging for you to be near

whilst my need

clutched,

pounded

at your chest

no treasure found there

merely a wink in time

of pleasure

then despair

pushed to the edge

and this time

the precipice so high

so vast

so misty, the abyss

she plunges

into the mystery

a future no one knows

alone

she goes

she must

she knows...

surrenders lack

completely

finally understanding

investment in lack

always proves itself to prosper

manifest

there

is just ONE answer

give it over

lay down your arms

idiot

do you not see

IT IS ME

you seek

and look beyond

a billion times

or more

I AM here

give it up

desire

give it up

lack

give it up

attachment

trust

trust

TRUST!

I AM here

always was

always will Be

for I AM

the INFINITE

Heart and Mind

Spirit

as ONE

within thee...

my love, on my doorstep you have been, maybe for a month. please

do not begrudge me this growth. and you think you are ready to unite.

and I question has this unity occurred within your own being or is it

still based upon this desire I write of. either way, it is all fine.

it is again, early wee hours I have been awake and typed out these

words as they came. to be refined, no doubt. but within them the essence

of the freedom they speak of. i seem to be finally getting it.

mmmm... long and arduous do we hammer away for love we refuse to

offer ourselves fully. lets see, if we can be done with this, and then

savor, a lovers kiss, the bliss, fuller union, borne from within, that which

cannot be taken away.

infinite and eternal, as IT is.

An excerpt from my book
copyright Illumina Viula 2006
www.sacred-relationship.com

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G-Spot

2007-10-03T21:30:04Z

http://vaginapowertv.ning.com/index.php/main/video/show?id=6806784

Locating the G spot and how to massage it to promote female ejaculation.

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Fully embracing pleasure as access to ascension

2007-10-03T18:09:21Z

Cole's posting of the Marianne Williamson quote prompted me to ask this question here.

Over the last couple of years Spirit has been guiding me away from starting clients with hot spots and having them surrendering to pain as that seems to take more energy and more sessions to achieve the same result as having them embrace pleasure first. What I've discovered, subject to expansion in a future posting, is the more a client can surrender to their body work as pleasurable and safe, the higher will be their arousal and the sofeter will be their bodies's armoring on all levels. This means we can go deeper, sooner into the hot spots with much less pain and much more efficiently clear their issues on all levels. The one area that many women seem to have is moving from a high plateau of pleasure ot orgasm - of course there are lots of stories feed women from birth that are part of that, not to mention the sexual abuse and discrimination most have experienced.

I came across this yesterday and am wondering if there are any women =here who have experience with this product which claims to have proven its effectiveness in double blind studies with over 90% percent experiencing enhanced arousal, pleasure and satisfaction.

“Is Zestra right for me?
The development of Zestra is the result of seven years of scientific research and clinical testing in women with sexual difficulties, as well as women simply seeking to increase their sexual pleasure. Only Zestra has been clinically proven in double blind, placebo controlled,
crossover clinical trials to increase female sexual pleasure in more than 90% of women.”

You can check it out here: http://www.zestra.com/

If its this good I'm surprised it hasn't made the news and been advertised on TV. If it really is this good and safe, it were certainly be something I would add for some of my clients.

Any thoughts or experience with Zestra would be greatly appreciated.

Blessed IS,
Jeremiah

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Crying after sex? in a good way

2007-10-03T17:48:37Z

This happened to me a couple nights ago. I was having sex with my boyfriend, and he was about to cum, and it popped into my head " he really loves me" , so he came and I said. " I have never been loved like this and before I knew it I was crying. It was wonderful, a release.
Has this every happened to you or your partner? How did you react? What does this mean?

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human sensuality

2007-09-25T05:21:07Z

a letter to a new friend
blessings elijah...
having viewed many of your photos this morning, i went for a swim in the beautiful byron bay here....feeling evoked, stoked, blest etc.
my musings went something like this... our human race wants to come into fullness in relation to its sensuality...for some, its a natural thing, for others, it can be awkward and unfamiliar, for many reasons (those are the ones I especially love to tweak and free!)
you are fantastic at channeling inspiration around the goddess... but who so ever shall bring this same energy forth for the god ??
do you know such a being that presents the god man in his beauty and sensuality as divine masculine??
what parts of us find that hard to access and why it this so ??
i wholeheartedly support the revelation of the sensual and godly masculine to the world, free man!!!
these images come from the heart of god/dess...as divine mother and father...they want nothing from anyone but come in purity and unconditionality... not to turn people on, but to reveal the beauty of the human being in his/her fullness. all that we are in truth give permission for the innocent heart, mind and spirit to rebirth through the sacred human form.....oooh

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Levels of orgasm

2007-09-23T21:45:48Z

The wonder of orgasms

In my life I have experience so many different types of orgasms that I thought I might try to categorize them to see if others out there have experienced similar levels of orgasms or if there are new avenues that I have yet to discover so hopefully this can be a dialogue on the issue. Of course I'm speaking from the male side of the equation although I believe I've woken up my feminine body (read kissed by the Goddess blog) so here it is my orgasmic scale starting from the least to the most powerful.

1.level
First of all I discount as an orgasm what the modern Western Male calls an orgasm, the release of semen at a physical climax of sexual tension in the body. I simply call this a release which seldom creates anything positive leading one unsatisfied and lustful. More like a short-circuit where the animal soul the circumvented the real human from a wonderful experience.

2. Energetic orgasms can be experienced with or without physical stimulus there felt as a pulse of surrender through the body followed by a warm tingling up the central column starting from the first chakra up, they can be heightened if you can focus your awareness on the center of the sex chakra, aligning it with your breathing. I've experienced this just by making eye contact with a tantric, real fun when you can trade them back and forth with a fellow empathic tantric.

3. Full body energetic orgasms, when the sexual energy is significantly built-up with physical sexual stimulation, working in conjunction with the energetic systems, you can have these marvelous for whole body orgasms with or without releasing semen. And if you want go to the next level of course you don't want to release your fluid. Orgasms are still in the lower chakra regions, they're fun and feel good. Afterglow last about 30 minutes and the feel good when for a couple days.

4. Heart orgasms, after several hours of energetic orgasms, and the few whole body ones, deeper rich connection with your lover, you ascend to a different level and when the orgasm and comes I have experienced enormous heart stretching, orgasms that make me feel deep connection not only for my beloved but for all humanity and expansive pulsing heart waves of the limitless unconditional love, seldom have I had these orgasms accompanied with release, but they have happened in conjunction with a full body orgasmic releases, the afterglow of these types of orgasms seem to last several weeks and are very powerful for several hours after the orgasm where Deep gratefulness issues from your heart. Kind of like slowly falling into a pool of sweet loveliness where everybody is just wonderful. Compassion caring and kindness are heightened for several months after this type of orgasm.

5. Visionary orgasms, very rare as they usually require a multi-orgasmic partner that can sustain high energy for four to seven hours of high energetic lovemaking and someone on a committed spiritual path. Not so much physical movement as connecting at several levels of being,. It often starts as a explosion of colors and geometric shapes. When the orgasm comes with release it is a extremely cathartic body orgasm, with the exception that the mind explodes into the astral realms,( partners have told me that my body practically lifts off the bed in waves of spasms, as I am always somewhere else I can only relate what they witnessed. But when I come back into the body I can feel the orgasmic waves like a ripple in the pond they get weaker and further out with each new ripple. Visions can last for a few minutes on up, my longest was 30 minutes that I was out of my body in the vision world. The visions are always profound and increase my sense of destiny and purpose on the earth. The afterglow is like strength and resolve of creating a better world, and there will be a heightened clairvoyance for a couple weeks.

6. Cosmic orgasms or god orgasms as I like to call them , ahh I've only had three of these wonderful orgasms as again they require a very powerful tantric partner, who can bring in divine energies and work at several levels simultaneously. These orgasmic explosions start off like the level 5 orgasms except I feel a shock wave going out in every direction like you see in a science-fiction movie when an atomic bomb is exploded in space, except that this light infused wave is filled with my consciousness, every person within the sphere of that wave I get an instant download of their current emotional condition and their life. The wave goes out about a quarter or a half a mile in all directions and you instantly empathically experience numerous lives simultaneously, it is the most profound high I've ever experienced, you literally are experiencing the hologram of universal the " I am ness" in a way that is beyond the ability for me to describe in words, after the "I am explosion" I go off into the vision realm, and upon returning to my body I find it hard to articulate as language become such an inadequate vehicle, so I usually spend the next several days in contemplation trying to process the enormous download and its implications, these orgasms have a large impact on my energetic system and I have in my three experiences found things like food to be unnecessary for about a week or so , many activities I'm unable to participate in, as they simply do not make any sense. I also experience a sense of being a young innocent child again , wanting to be gently held to have my hair stroked as I quietly sit. There could be no wars if everyone with experience one of these orgasms.

I humbly welcome comments and insights, I believe I've only scrape the surface of the deep glacier in this sacred right this glorious gift to humanity. We are here to return this madness to a beautiful garden of cooperation if we reclaim our sacred birth rites

Yosef

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Seeking queer triads for research!

2007-09-22T22:16:05Z

My name is Sunny. I am a graduate student in the Sexuality Studies program at San Francisco State University. I am conducting research on polyamory. The aim of my study is to explore how individuals in queer polyamorous triads discuss love in their relationships. I am in search of individuals in queer, long-term (one year or longer), polyamorous triads to interview. Individuals must identify themselves and their relationships as queer, and the triads must be three people who are all sexually and romantically involved with one another.

Participating in this study will entail a 45-90 minute one-on-one interview at a comfortable and private location convenient for both of us to discuss your experiences and feelings of love while in a triad.

If you are currently in a queer, long-term (one year or longer), triad relationship and are interested in participating in the study, please contact me!

smnordmarken@yahoo.com
(415) 516-0908

I am currently seeking people to interview! Please contact me as soon as possible if you would like to participate.

Thank you!
Sunny

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kindness & kinkiness

2007-09-22T21:46:53Z

A new tribe for those who value a little kindness with their kinkiness...

tribes.tribe.net/sfbayswingers

Have fun!

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