I often tell my clients and the participants in my workshops about Osho’s technique of envisioning ourselves as headless people. It always makes me laugh: “Just drop it, be headless. Try it as a meditation. It is one of the most beautiful Tantra meditations. Walk, and...
Throughout my 20s I was on fire for enlightenment. I was convinced it took much effort and strain, and that it required many actions I was not going to be able to take: meditate hours a day, isolate, forfeit love and sex, give up being...
It may be hard for the western mind to reconcile that the words sacred and prostitute may be linked, for the Judeo-Christian tradition holds sexuality to be profane, the antithesis of spirit. Yet in the times of the Great Goddess worship, sexuality was revered and...
Traditional astrology has shown us Virgo images of a sexless old maid school teacher with her legs crossed contrasted with a licentious “profane” prostitute, downtrodden and victimized. The common idea of Virgo is that of a virgin, a sexless person, however, the original meaning of...
Referring to Treasure’s (2023) article, it is unknown whether sex with ghosts would qualify as an out-of-body (OBE) experience. In the name of research, I watched the romcom Just Like Heaven (Water, M. 2005) to see how Reese Witherspoon, the ghost, and Mark Ruffalo, the...
Rhea White coined the term exceptional human experiences (EHEs) in 1995 to describe peak, mystical, psychic, and flow experiences. She later added death-related and exceptional normal experiences to designate five main classes. Brown (2000) later clarified that exceptional experiences (EEs) become EHEs when the experiencer...
I have a close friend who works internationally as a shaman, facilitating groups and follow-up sessions. She told me a story of one time when a group she was leading was actively in the throes of the medicine, and some Native Americans showed up. They...
Martins (2023) states that encounters with “supernatural” entities are among the most investigated categories of anomalous experience. Such encounters play an important part of everyday life for many people within their cultural context, and thus in their social construction of reality. The meaning of their...
As with the case of Dr. Mitchell’s research on reticular hominoids being “too weird” for transpersonal psychology, the widely reported phenomena of people having sex with ghosts appears to be too weird for even that great chronicler of the strange, the Fortean Times. Murdie (2015),...
In Gloria Anzaldúa’s work there are many indications of her mysticism and philosophy. Anzaldúa self-identified as a feminist, a woman of color, and as a scholar of cultural theory and queer theory. She was also a disabled person and a psychonaut, citing the beneficial use...