A friend began to send me little poems out of things she heard me say since Erik died. It was a gift to have something created out of the...

Recently, I got to witness something truly beautiful. One man counseling another on how to pray. These men are dear friends. One is going...

I’ve been thinking a lot about the miraculous world. Feeling into and being grateful for the wild threads and moments when a little...

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...

Revitalizing Water Ritual: You need: Water, calm energy, a moment of your time. Take a drinking vessel and fill it with water. Hold the...

Recently, one of my teachers reminded me that gratitude transforms us, liberates us, and is one of the best ways to increase our radiance...

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...

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...

“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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

I have a Sufi teacher, who like many mystics, has that cute, disheveled, drunken quality of being totally in love with God. He once...

In the Tantric tradition I practice, one of the key principles is that everything is an experiment. This speaks to the idea that,...

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....

In a monastery in the mountains of Greece, a priest-monk, believed to have purified his heart so completely that the Holy Spirit speaks...

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,...

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,...