By Mako Allen
Lao-tzu often said that words get in the way of understanding. While words are needed for communication, their use is problematic. Words separate you from the immediacy of the world around you.
Jun 182011
Jun 092011
By C.K. Persons
Judgment’s been in the news lately, mostly due to another of Harold Camping’s incorrect predictions of the end times. (He was first wrong on 9/6/94, and then 5/21/11; and he’ll be incorrect again on 10/21/11.)
May 212011
By T.M. Bernard
The first time I heard someone reference her privates as ‘junk,’ my reaction was a mixed bag. Infrequently in the know with pop culture, deprived of television, and too old for the MTV crowd, I figured I simply missed the uber-trendy memo
May 182011
By Mako Allen
People and knives have something in common: we can be sharpened. The process for both is remarkably similar. You repeat a simple action over and over, until the blade (or person) gets honed
May 112011
By C.K. Persons
“Father what a waste” was a phrase used to describe a graduate school friend. Celibacy makes little sense to most people, but this description of my friend came from numerous budding theologians at a Catholic University!
Apr 202011
By Mako Allen
Your kinks are okay, really. So are mine. Everyone’s kinks can mix together quite nicely if we supply the one missing ingredient: water.
Apr 102011
By C.K. Persons
In last month’s column I began an exploration of Matthew 6:24: “No one can serve two masters. A person will either hate one and love the other, or be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon.” My focus was two-fold…
Mar 212011
By Mako Allen
Back in my early teens, I was convinced that if I didn’t get a spanking and soon, I’d just about die from unhappiness. I thought that all I had to do was get that spanking and I’d be fine, and everything would be great. Some pain in my bottom would forever remove that lingering pain in my chest, right? Sadly, that just wasn’t the case.
Mar 182011
By CK Persons
“No one can serve two masters. A person will either hate one and love the other, or be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon” (Matthew 6:24). Is it true? (Part 1) How can a kinky person interested in power exchange be Catholic as well? (Part 2)
Mar 162011
By Selina Minx
All bdsm acts both on the physical body, as well as the subtler energy systems. What are these subtle energy systems and how can play be intensified by incorporating them?
Whenever we come into contact with each other there is a dance of electromagnetic energy that happens invisibly between us. On a more subtle plane, even a thought or a dream is a temporary energetic link