From our youngest years, we receive countless messages about what is and what is not acceptable for us to feel. Depending on who we are, the kind of family that we grow up in, and our culture, there are complex layers of conditioning placed, as it were, between us and our inner experience. As a …
Last week, I spent a few hours reading some of the emails between Jeffrey Epstein and Deepak Chopra. Having read Liz Bucar’s article in November, I was curious to explore the nature of their friendship for myself. Initially, several things struck me. One, the banality of their conversations. “You okay?” Epstein writes. “Bored,” replies Chopra. He sends …
As three million more Epstein files are released, I’m thinking today about all the girls and women whose testimony was disbelieved for so long, and all of those who are still being disbelieved to this day. I’m also thinking back to when #metoo – started by Tarana Burke in 2006 – went viral in 2017, and how …
I fucking love you, and what I most love about you is the unvarnished, the raw, everything you have done your best to hide. I want to know where the wild lives in you. Where is the ungovernable, the untamed, the inextinguishable? Whatever it is in you that refuses to perform, or to be commodified? …
1. There seems to be a particular energetic signature common to all forms of oppression and abuse. It is apparent in hierarchical structures, and interwoven through power relations. It manifests within both individuals and collective entities in a variety of ways and to varying degrees. It is the madness that underpins empire; the dangerous, currently …