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FEMININE SPIRITUALITY

by Anita Floris

Introduction

‘Why bring in these opposites, of masculine and feminine? Why not reach for the Non-dual and take it from there? We can arise above these differences and find that they do not matter. And then find a new way to be a man or a woman again.’

I am impressed every time I hear this, the spiritual implications dumbfounds me. Sometimes I have enough wit about me to ask: so how do you get to that non-dual state to begin with? ‘Just letting go - of everything.’ O, right, I see.

Who doesn’t want to reach for the Non-dual? I am never...

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The Death of a Farmer

by Brian David Vass

My ass is cradled in an eternal resting place where there is no rest. My thumbprint is bathing in updated blood. A babble of tightly packed images suffer to throw themselves upon a crevice of my mind soaked in protein and plaque. Thread themselves, do these fucking thoughts, into my tear ducts. Salinity thus produced, they work their way from the back of my eyes to the back of my throat and down again to the base of my spine. Reverberating there at noxious speeds, I find, they ache less. Never a linear capitulation. Every word is accompanied by a genesis; the voyage of the image is the image. In this way, the arm of my chair undoes itself...