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📸 Zipolite Playa Nudista (Oaxaca, México)
It’s very likely no big surprise that — as a young adult — my drugs of choice were MDMA and sex . Later in life . . . my mentors were always the sufis and the shamans . I have been a mystic and devotee of sensual pleasure, ecstasy and intimacy with the divine (i.e., the Beloved in all of her varied forms) in one way or another — all of my life .
So when a new acquaintance ( who severely overestimated our level of intimacy ) flat-out told me the other day that I “party too much,” I had to laugh . “Bruh . I don’t even know what that means but you ain’t seen a DAMN thing! Shudda been in my circles coupl’a decades ago 🤣😭😩”
What wasn’t lost on me in this formulaic and unsolicited assessment, however, was the universal language of survival embedded in it . I have always been in pursuit of more than just “getting by” as the demands of society and an immature ego are truly endless . As soon as you meet one goal — you may notice you are very often “advised” to move on to the next — without so much as a moment of celebration . I outright refuse to live my life enslaved to such an antiquated narrative .
HEAR THIS 🔮✨ reclaiming pleasure & your childlike essence is more heroic than keeping the endless wheel of exploitation turning .
Those of us who intentionally opted out of the married life and the corporate prisons and the suburban “dream” are judged most harshly on the daily— out of disempowered envy for the most part. But #IDGAF 🤷🏻♀️
What I am here to embody shamelessly in this lifetime — whether people like it or have the eyes to see what I am consciously laying down or not — is that we were not bestowed the gift of LIFE to merely turn out profits for the privileged few . The jig is up . That era is D E A D ☠️ Enslaving our own bodies and this Earth until we are all literally sick 😷 is NOT what’s up, clearly ! To be used and abused without even a smidge of objection is the deep illness of society ( and many of its constituents — who unconsciously see one another as no more than a means to an end … )
I don’t buy into the illusion of infinite growth with no death cycles now — and I never will . Because it’s 💯 unnatural . When you play G O D (essentially the “game” western society and medicine have been playing for too damn long #SMH) prepare to lose . Eventually — mama 🌎 gon’ come collect .
And that time has arrived . . . quite obviously .
One of the shamans I studied with many years ago taught us that when a culture fails to make intentional sacrifices and offerings to the invisible realm on a regular basis — when taking and consumption are the only energies in play — war … natural disasters … illness … all are the direct result of such imbalance . It’s yin and yang ☯️ and — if not calibrated on purpose, this process will be accounted for by forces outside of ourselves . To even the score and ensure biospheric harmony one way or the other . So, forgive me for being so obtuse 😂 but I’m still pretty damn unclear re: how normalizing the medicalization of society ( ie., The Church of Big Pharma just didn’t cut it apparently ... ) by forcing everyone to don a surgical mask #LOL is going to do sh*t to “rescue us” from a process that will inevitably unfold — because that is where we are at as a species right now .
The illusions of “ safety ” and “ control ” are just that — illusions . Miss me with them .
Even and especially now — my religion is pleasure and hedonism — the most sensual and passionate aspects of the human experience .
There is no higher pursuit when it is rooted in the body .
Make no mistake ✨ Life has aged me and decades of operating under the grandiose assumption that I could beg, buy and/or steal “freedom“ and short-lived highs without sacrifice or consequence have tempered me . Hard-earned wisdom dictates that I rarely lose myself in such disembodied pursuits anymore . This exploratory stage is not wrong . It is rather dangerous though . And the energetic debt I am eventually forced to repay is simply no longer worth it to me . This appears to be one of the many harsh AF lessons being taught in Earth Skool right now!
Limits are a natural part of life .
I mean — mortality itself is finite . We can continue to deny ( as we have been “taught” ) that such constraints even exist . Eventually, however, we will be forced to see that we are deluded . Quite literally .
ie. “Freedom” ain’t some teenage version of a 24/7 casino with a bottomless buffet, liquor- and vomit- stained carpets, artificial cold air and unnaturally bright lights pumped in ( to deny the Dark, of course 🌒✨ ) and memories of bodies rubbing all over one another in ecstatic union that — almost criminally — no one will even be able to retrieve the next day (or ever) .
“Infinite” or endless options are actually pretty stressful and ultimately immobilizing to the body .
Liberation is — paradoxically — the result of acknowledging limitations with maturity.
And learning to work within the tension that ensues .
This is essentially what we do as artists .
And what my latest body of work is about ! ! !
