Prayers for Dark Nights
Recently, I got to witness something truly beautiful. One man counseling another on how to pray. These men are dear friends. One is going...
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Amelia Perkins
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Creating a Circle for the Numinous
I’ve been thinking a lot about the miraculous world. Feeling into and being grateful for the wild threads and moments when a little...
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Amelia Perkins
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An Experiment to Inspire Juicy Dreams
If you want to have strange, interesting, revelatory dreams, try this: As you are laying in bed, ready to go to sleep… Imagine a little...
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Amelia Perkins
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Two Practices for Grieving Hearts
Revitalizing Water Ritual: You need: Water, calm energy, a moment of your time. Take a drinking vessel and fill it with water. Hold the...
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Amelia Perkins
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A Gentle Technique to Get Unstuck (Plus a Story)
Recently, one of my teachers reminded me that gratitude transforms us, liberates us, and is one of the best ways to increase our radiance...
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Amelia Perkins
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Hungry Soul, Free Soul, Naked Soul
One of my teachers, a big-hearted wild Sufi mystic, noticed that there are three major ways a person relates to the universe. The first...
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Amelia Perkins
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Tantric Experiments for the Holidays
Photo from Giphy.com A key tantric idea that Erik and I play with a lot is “Everything is an Experiment.” Erik likes to say, “Doing the...
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Amelia Perkins
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I AM as Self-Blessing (I am one bad springtime bitch)
“I am” is such a powerful statement. A kind of self-magic. Here's an invitation: write, beginning each sentence with “I am”. Write it as...
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Amelia Perkins
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Experiment: The Wild Eroticism of the Forearm
After Divinity School, I spent a year in a convent in Greece. By the time I left, I had worked to quiet my erotic energy so much that I...
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Amelia Perkins
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Some Thoughts About Desire
I’ve been thinking a lot about desire. When I was 26, I met a Sufi healer. At the time, the idea of being a person who needed things kind...
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Amelia Perkins
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Being Mae West: an experiment
Ever since I was little, I’ve loved Mae West. I love a bawdy, funny lady who is sexual but not too feminine. A lady who smokes cigars and...
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Amelia Perkins
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Get a Packing Cock or Other Magical Instrument
If you are sometimes a floaty, unfocused person—as I have been—or tend to get wishy washy in some situations, a packing cock (a flaccid...
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Amelia Perkins
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Feel the Hole in Your Heart & Love From There
I got the chance to be coached by David Deida recently. I asked how to work with my anxiety about Erik’s death. Erik is 21 years older...
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Amelia Perkins
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Creating Reality Through Sacred Play
I have a Sufi teacher, who like many mystics, has that cute, disheveled, drunken quality of being totally in love with God. He once...
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Amelia Perkins
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Everything Is An Experiment
In the Tantric tradition I practice, one of the key principles is that everything is an experiment. This speaks to the idea that,...
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Amelia Perkins
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Experiment: Invite Your Child Self to the Party
Another fun way to unleash a sense of aliveness and possibility is to get in touch with the energy and behaviors of your child self....
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Amelia Perkins
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Another Eros (a story)
In a monastery in the mountains of Greece, a priest-monk, believed to have purified his heart so completely that the Holy Spirit speaks...
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Amelia Perkins
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Working with Taiwanese Nuns in New York (a story)
In my early 20’s, I worked with Taiwanese Buddhist nuns. First when they were building a Museum of World Religions in Taiwan. And later,...
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Amelia Perkins
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Remembering the Shimmery World (a story)
By the time I was five, it was just Mom and me living in Florida. When Mom wasn’t reading tarot cards at the Greek Sponge Docks in Tampa,...
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