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- BlogDear Reader: Welcome to my very first blog! This blog represents the next step of faith in a journey I never could have imagined ten years ago, a path full of unexpected turns, rich discoveries and shared connections—personal connections to some of you who might be reading at this very moment, as well as a larger sense of shared practice, kinship, and brotherhood with many of you whom I will never meet. What I now call “Touch Practice” began as an effort to explore and heal my own body. I thought of it as something I created, something invented or made up, just for me. I slowly realized that while it was profoundly healing for me, it also seemed to have tremendous benefit for others, and so it became something for “we” rather than something just for “me.” I began to think of Touch Practice as a form of partnership. Next, I understood that something I imagined I had created or invented myself actually existed before I found it—Touch Practice is more accurately something I discovered, something I became aware of rather than creating. I came to understand that this aspect of touch has probably existed in an infinite variety…
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Holding the Enemy
1My favorite moment in my undergraduate ethics class came one day during this exchange: “How many of you feel that killing other people is evil?” (all hands went up) “How many of you feel that Hitler was an evil person?” (all hands went up) “If you …
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The Body Never Lies
The body is the only piece of original equipment in our human experience. Everything else is an add-on, something we build, import, synthesize, imagine, or acquire. The only part of you that is “original you” is your body. The rest is manmade. When a baby …
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Beyond Belief: Part One
This topic is too thick and thorny for one blog post, so I’ll be addressing it in several parts over the next weeks. We men believe many different, and conflicting, things about sexual orientation. Some men believe that to be oriented towards anything other than women …
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Touch Practice, Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
Touch Practice has been a fascinating exploration of Great Unknowns for me, and in the course of carrying this practice I have learned many things. There are two areas in particular, however, where what I have learned has completely changed the way I conceive my …
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