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  • Appetite1

    Appetite and Need

    In this weekend’s blog, I want to explore the distance between appetite (what we think we need in order to be well) vs. need (what we actually do need.) These two things are frequently misaligned, sometimes drastically so. Let me give you some examples: Americans …

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  • Come Hither

    He’s available!

    About a year ago, I drove out to visit my friend Brent. Our plan was we’d go out to dinner somewhere, I’d stay overnight and take off first thing in the morning for a business meeting close by. Brent and I have always had a …

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  • Memories

    Memory, Fantasy, Reality, and Time

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    Eckhart Tolle’s brilliant book The Power of Now argues compellingly that the only thing that really exists, at all, is the thing we experience as “right now,” this moment. I think this book is insightful, and on one level I completely agree with him. The power of being …

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  • Wedding Rings70

    Marriage as a Weapon

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    This was an interesting week in politics. President Obama shares in an interview that he feels personally supportive of the idea that all people, regardless of gender, should be able to marry. A few days later, Rick Santorum urges Mitt Romney to “step up and …

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  • Manhug

    Walks between Worlds

    I have learned everything I know about Touch Practice by practicing, by holding men. Hundreds of men. Hundreds of different men. Very, very different men. Some of the men I hold are conservative Republicans. Some are liberal Democrats. Some of the men I hold are …

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  • Ritual San Juan1

    Ritual As a Container for Experience

    The power of a cup of coffee in the morning (specifically, the caffeine it contains) doesn’t work quite the way many of us assume it does. In a non-habitual drinker, the caffeine in a cup of coffee certainly has a powerful physiological effect, raising blood …

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    Body Language

    One of the ways we defend ourselves against hurt is by taking things we experience in the body and intellectualizing them, turning them into thinking, stories, or talking, so that we can get away from the discomfort of feeling them. One of the techniques we …

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  • HerosJourney4c

    The Descent into Hell

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    Now there’s a catchy little title for a Spring blog. Got your attention? I’m mindful this weekend that it’s Easter. I am struck by one version of the resurrection story (enshrined in later revisions of what is now known as the Apostles’ Creed) that in …

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  • Male Sensual Massage2

    Rubbed raw

    I rekindled one of the big loves of my life this week, a kind of “first love” I’d neglected and forgotten about for many months, a love that made me feel happy and healthy and well on so many levels. I’m talking about massage: plain …

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  • Eye Contact Baby

    More than meets the eye

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    In the course of spending hundreds of hours learning how bodies work and how we communicate with physical (non-verbal) language, I have learned a great deal about eye contact. And what I have learned contradicts virtually everything that I always understood about eye contact. I …

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