Let the words from the guru pierce your heart. This is what I do. Or rather, it’s how I orientate to this email from the guru. From the teacher. I read it again, taking time, letting each word, and the energy behind it, penetrate my depths. Time slows down. The…

Festival Season officially kicked off in early November with Spring Festival in Pukehina, and the dance floor was WILD, with epic sets from DJ Blase, DJ Jimmy Fresh and DJ Kauri, and all kinds of dance floor etiquette enacted and transgressed. When I published an article after that event, Shenanigans…

Settle in folks, and let me share a tale of boundaries, as remembered, in no doubt a partial and faulty way. I’m at an event. I see a man that I don’t want to engage with at all. I’ve met him a handful of times and each time he transgressed boundaries and did not immediately respond to cease and desist requests. In past encounters, if I let him in even a teeny, tiny…

I’m following a breadcrumb trail, and it’s led me to the Aghori. After the gruesomeness of watching the horror movie Midsommar last night — which is a nuanced and insightful look at grief, trauma, trauma-bonding, gas-lighting, ignorance, attachment, community and cults — I found myself on the FB group Tantrik…

There is a resurgence of interest arising in Classical Tantra in large propelled by the work of scholar-practitioners such as Christopher Wallis and Christopher Tompkins, and informed by the publication of books like Tantra Illuminated and The Recognition Sutras. This resurgence was possibly seeded by the stratospheric rise — and…

That time someone threw down a link to my memoir as if it were a ‘bad thing’. Phew. My heart is beating fast right now. The game has begun! See, I’m running for Thames Community Board in the upcoming local body government elections here in New Zealand. Today I put…

Ten days ago I submitted my application for Thames Community Board for the upcoming local government elections. Today, I’ve been systematically going through the documents I’ve been sent — the pre-election report, the candidates manual (again) and echats —a ‘collection of expert tips and tricks that covers a range of…

We are inherently creative beings who are actively engaged in the act of creation all day long. We get out of bed and we create our costume — choosing the clothes we wear and how we want to present ourselves in the world. We create our breakfasts, thinking about what…

Yesterday, I felt the worse I had in a looooong time. There was a knot of dread in my belly, fear that threatened to suck me into illusion. I felt bad. I felt as if I was bad. I’m familiar with this space — it used to be there almost…