Love Bhakti #15: The Light Within

I just read this story about a pastor challenging his parishioners to use a small sum of money (that he gave them from a loan) to go out and do something with it that would double the money, in order that it then be given back to the church and from there donated to three [...]

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Love Bhakti #14: The Story of Your Life

I did an exercise from Julia Cameron’s Vein of Gold book some years ago, when I was still trying to get my head screwed on properly and purge the most unproductive and least interesting of my demons. It was a simple one, but lengthy, and the instructions were merely to write your own biography. But– [...]

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Love Bhakti #13: Where Love Goes

Where love goes, I will go too.
Lead me ever deeper into the heart of the heart, along the curving spiraling path towards the spark that is the secret soul of the world. I will follow your twirling steps into these woods and never look back. Lure me onward. The truth behind the symbol of the [...]

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Love Bhakti #12: Unchained Melodies

The native people of Australia tell a creation story of ancestral spirits who emerged from the dream that preceded this reality, and walked through this world singing everything into being. Each of our lives, to the core of our physical being, softly echoes the verses of our unique naming-song, the span of our days counted [...]

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Love Bhakti #11: One Hand, One Heart

I write this Love Bhakti as a gift to, and in honor of, two people whom I love dearly and who are family of my heart if not of my blood.
These two were married this weekend, on a perfect clear day in the company of their loved ones. I was given the great privilege of [...]

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Love Bhakti #10: The Secret Garden

In this day and age, we tend not to have a healthy relationship with the concept of secrecy; its connotations are almost entirely dour or negative. And yet, for all that it has a bad rap, there’s a beauty to secrecy, a wild and shadowed footpath barely discernible through the deep forest of our innermost [...]

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Love Bhakti #9: A Critical Need

In my last Bhakti, I touched on the need we each have to satisfy our survival-level needs for sustenance, safety, love, and esteem before we’re able to function at our highest potential. Love is necessary to each of us if we’re to fully bloom into the people we are meant to be.
If this is true [...]

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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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