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    My Very Last Blog (well, maybe!)

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    Those of you who know me (and perhaps a few of you who don’t) have sensed that the way I carry Touch Practice has changed over this past year. I have changed too. This might be the last time I ever write in “blog” format …

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    The World of Grindr and Scruff

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    Back when I first started exploring what I sheepishly called “my hugging thing” (there’s an interesting story if you don’t know it) I tried to find hugging partners using Craigslist ads. That was actually reasonably productive, although if you’ve ever done anything at all through …

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    Nap Time!

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    For how much I have written about trying to sit with whatever is happening in Touch Practice, not having a directed outcome, trying not to get attached to any one experience in particular, I guess it’s just a tiny bit hypocritical for me to write …

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    Me and my tiger

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    I often describe the process of my own recovery from childhood sexual abuse as a little bit like being roommates with a gigantic cat, like a panther or a tiger.  For many years, the cat simply slept, all the time—it took up an enormous amount …

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    The Teacher is in the Room!

    When I was younger, I had a type of cancer that very few people survive. The diagnosis felt like a huge problem at the time, and I suppose it was. Ultimately I survived, but not before really giving serious thought to dying, and to understanding …

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    Love it, Hate it, Meh: Spiritual Practice and Reactive Engagement, part two

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    In my last blog, I talked about the predictable phases of almost any spiritual practice, and how the mature phase of  spiritual practice often is acquired only after traversing the mountain of fanaticism as well as the valley of profound disenchantment.  In response to that …

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    Fear, Part Two: Feeling it

    I want to follow up today on two recent blog topics–one about bullying, the other about fear–by reporting one of the most interesting and useful spiritual journeys I have taken in perhaps the past five years. The very simple exercise that I engaged was, “what …

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    All things are connected

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    This blog follows from an exquisite Touch Practice last Friday where, after only a few minutes had passed, I had the sense that I was with a close friend that I had not seen for a very long time. My partner reported a similar experience, …

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    Chasing the First High

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    The phrase “chasing the first high” comes from addiction medicine, where the addict will return to a substance over and over again hoping to duplicate that first euphoric experience. But often, that first high is never to be had again. Subsequent experiences are never quite …

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    From Lust to Love

    A new friend and brother asked me a question this week which serves as the fuel for today’s blog. He asked, in essence, “what first motivated you to meet and hug total strangers; what drove that, what were you seeking? And, as your “fetish” turned …

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