Pretty goofy idea, huh? I mean, don’t most major belief systems teach us that life is suffering and hardship? Or, at the very least, a purgatorial state to be endured with strained patience until we die and move on to something better? (You’d think, if that were true, that we wouldn’t be so thoroughly hardwired [...]
Archive for September, 2007
Love Bhakti #8: The Universe Loves You And Wants You To Be Happy
Posted in love bhakti, tagged love bhakti on September 29, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Love Bhakti# 7: The Hardest Thing You’ll Ever Learn, Pt. II
Posted in love bhakti, tagged love bhakti on September 21, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I remember very vividly one session of my acting class when I was 16. It was a time when I was making a lot of breakthroughs both personally and as a performer, when I’d started studying occultism, and I was beginning to come into my own after so many years of awkwardness and uncertainty. The [...]
Love Bhakti #6: The Hardest Thing You’ll Ever Learn, Pt. I
Posted in love bhakti, tagged love bhakti on September 14, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
One of the most common lines of questioning that comes up anytime I discuss my ideas about sacred romance with someone revolves around the idea of self-love, and particularly, how the path of the Lover might lead a wayfarer on it to reach a state of loving themselves. I admit that this was something I [...]
Love Bhakti #5: A Romantic Life
Posted in love bhakti, tagged love bhakti on September 9, 2007 | 1 Comment »
When I first began exploring sacred romance as a spiritual path– before I even really had a vocabulary with which to name it– there was a seeming paradox that I struggled to understand. On the one hand, whenever I spoke to anyone about my thoughts and ideas around sacred romance, about bringing beautiful love energy [...]