Love Bhakti #8: The Universe Loves You And Wants You To Be Happy

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 to [...]

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Love Bhakti# 7: The Hardest Thing You’ll Ever Learn, Pt. II

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 teacher, [...]

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Love Bhakti #6: The Hardest Thing You’ll Ever Learn, Pt. I

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 was [...]

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Love Bhakti #5: A Romantic Life

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 into [...]

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