How much is enough?
When I feel whole and nourished, I am oh so good, oh so generous in my abundance and benevolence. My body opens: let me fulfill you!
When I feel small and overwhelmed, I hide and hoard what little I have. My body bristles: get your needs away from me!
a prayer {wet eros}
o, o, oh god the body yawns open into a well
Soulmaking in this Time Between Worlds
Soul-making is an art and consciousness capacity that is latent within each of us – a way of seeing that enables humans to intimately relate with psyche (soul) as a doorway to anima mundi (world soul). It is the (re)membrance of Reality as intrinsically mysterious and intersubjectively co-arising.
love letter to the intimate web
Much of my ritual writing and research art-making in the last two years has been sourced and unfolding in the esoteric realms of intimate relating – soul correspondence and ethnography that take the form of “love letters” and ritual-art projects/gatherings.
between two red lines
“The valley spirit never dies; It is the woman, primal mother. Her gateway is the root of heaven and earth. It is like a veil barely seen. Use it; it will never fail.” – Tao Te Ching
love what you love
“You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
For a hundred miles through the desert, repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
Love what it loves.”
Controlled folly
I am terrified about writing again.
Something animal within me shivers violently, back arched and hair bristling.
Harmonizing the Body Electric
At Willow Monastic Academy, I lead chanting every day. My voice begins to break, cracking from the effort.
The head monk, Virabahdra, draws me aside in the afternoon to give me feedback. He tells me: “ I want to hear your voice and energy more. Remember – chant like you’re about to have an existential crisis.”