Many spiritual traditions have viewed sexuality as an obstacle to spiritual practice. Because queers are seen as the embodiment of sexuality, our sexualities have been sidelined and prohibited. Yet many queer yogis are also climate justice activists: what connections can we discover between our embodied erotic desires and our eco-activism? Exploring cultural views “the natural,” and the colonialist rhetoric that “animalized” indigenous peoples, we gain tools for recovering more aspects of our interbeing that intuitively power our eco-activism. Disentangling sexual desire from tanha, or craving, this talk moves from homophobia and erotophobia in spiritual practice to an exploration of wholesome human needs and the five fingers of eco-spiritual praxis. When rooted in breath-awareness of eco-identity and interbeing, our desires become a devotion that powers awakening and eco-justice activism alike.
In this live interview, Andrew Harvey will share his vision of our current unprecedented world crisis. He will show that it is an evolutionary global dark night that could potentially birth an embodied divine humanity. The birthing force, he believes, of this new humanity will be what he calls Sa...
Indigenous/Native Americans, Africans, and Asians have traditions of recognizing and honoring sexual and gender diversity that predates the modern movement to recognize LGBTQIA+ rights by hundreds of years. Due to European settler-colonialism, imperialism, and Christian missionary attacks on indi...
In a world desperate for categories and identities to explain everything, mystical interactions still have the power to lift us beyond such restraints to the one true God…the God beyond God…the Queer. Now…the Queer ultimately can only be described from within, for the Queer is unique to each per...
