There are Tibetan Buddhist monks in a temple in the Himalayas endlessly reciting mantras for the cessation of your suffering and for the flourishing of your happiness.
Someone you haven’t met yet is already dreaming of adoring you.
Someone is writing a book that you will read in the next two years that will change how you look at life.
Nuns in the Alps are in endless vigil, praying for the Holy Spirit to alight the hearts of all of God’s children.
A farmer is looking at his organic crops and whispering, “nourish them.”
Someone wants to kiss you, to hold you, to make tea for you. Someone is willing to lend you money, wants to know what your favourite food is, and treat you to a movie. Someone in your orbit has something immensely valuable to give you — for free.
Something is being invented this year that will change how your generation lives, communicates, heals and passes on.
The next great song is being rehearsed.
Thousands of people are in yoga classes right now intentionally sending light out from their heart chakras and wrapping it around the earth.
Millions of children are assuming that everything is amazing and will always be that way.
Someone is in profound pain, and a few months from now, they’ll be thriving like never before. They just can’t see it from where they’re at.
Someone who is craving to be partnered, to be acknowledged, to ARRIVE, will get precisely what they want — and even more. And because that gift will be so fantastical in it’s reach and sweetness, it will quite magically alter their memory of angsty longing and render it all “So worth the wait.”
Someone has recently cracked open their joyous, genuine nature because they did the hard work of hauling years of oppression off of their psyche — this luminous juju is floating in the ether, and is accessible to you.
Someone just this second wished for world peace, in earnest.
Someone is fighting the fight so that you don’t have to.
Some civil servant is making sure that you get your mail, and your garbage is picked up, that the trains are running on time, and that you are generally safe. Someone is dedicating their days to protecting your civil liberties and clean drinking water.
Someone is regaining their sanity. Someone is coming back from the dead. Someone is genuinely forgiving the seemingly unforgivable. Someone is curing the incurable.
You. Me. Some. One. Now.
SPREAD THE RA-RA. ADD TO THE MANIFESTO. ENCOURAGE.
There’s a great video on the home page of my friend and mentor, Baba Dez. It’s of my favorite clips of his thoughts on the tantric lifestyle. He has great insights, plus it’s shot at a beautiful, panoramic Sedona site just a short (tho very steep) hike from my home. It’s one of my favorite sites for land journeys and outdoor sessions. Perhaps you’ll join me sometime….
On the occasion of the Sony e-book release of my book, Kama Sutra I would like to share the following insights on sex and spirituality:
1. Sexual energy is the primal and creative energy of the universe. All things that are alive come from sexual energy. In animals and other life forms, sexual energy expresses itself as biological creativity. In humans, sexual energy can be creative at all levels — physical, emotional and spiritual. In any situation — where we feel attraction, arousal, awakening, alertness, passion, interest, inspiration, excitement, creativity, enthusiasm — in each of these situations, sexual energy is at work. Whenever we feel these states of awareness, we must put our attention on the energy that we are experiencing, nourishing it with our attention, experiencing it with joy and keeping it alive in our awareness.
2. Sexual desire is sacred and chaste. The suppression of sexual energy is false, ugly and unchaste.
3. During sexual union, there is union between flesh and spirit.
4. Bliss, carefreeness and playfulness are the essence of sex.
5. To improve your sexual experiences, get rid of your expectations.
Expectations are primarily in three areas: 1) Performance, exemplified in the question, “How am I doing?” 2) Feeling, exemplified in the question, “How am I feeling?” 3) Security, exemplified in the question, “Do you love me?”
6. In sex, as in all areas of life, resistance is born of fear. All resistance is mental. It implies judgment against what is being felt. Sex becomes a problem when it gets mixed with hidden emotions such as shame, guilt and anger.
7. Sexual intimacy is the road to the taste or experience of true freedom, because it is the one area of life in which we can become completely uninhibited and free.
8. Sexual fulfillment occurs when the experience comes from playfulness instead of need. Frequently people bring their conflicts and needs into the sexual experience. When sex is used to fulfill needs, it leads to addiction. When sex comes from playfulness, the result is ecstasy.
9. All problems related to sex, neurosis, deviancy, sexual misbehavior, violence, abuse, can be traced to resistance, suppression and repression — not to the sexual urges themselves. If we are allowed to discover our urges, desires and emotions, without outside inhibition, they won’t go to extremes. Extremism, in any form, is a reaction to repression, inhibition and suppression. Aggression and violence are the shadow energies of fear and impotence.
10. Sex is a means of escaping our little self or ego. It is many peoples’ only experience of meditation.
11. Meaningful sex has to be value based. Values are personal. Each situation that has sexual energy in it, involves the whole human being and their entire value system. My values may be different from yours, and I have no right to be the moral judge of anyone’s values. It is important, however, to have core values, and respect them. Without values, we become spiritually bankrupt. Sexual experience will never cause problems and will always be joyful, if lovers share the same values.
12. True intimacy is union between flesh and flesh, between subtle body and subtle body, between soul and soul. Sexual energy is sacred energy. When we have restored the sexual experience to the realm of the sacred, our world will be chaste and divine, holy and healed.
I started feeling a strong urge to visit Los Angeles weeks ago. It was unexplainable, but quite persistent so finally I made a casual call to a new Facebook friend to see if he had any rooms available at his house for a few days.
Was I in luck.
I’d seen some intriguing photos of “Gemini Manor” . . . but photos do no justice at all to this amazing work of art.
In fact first night I was there, I decided not to leave my room to get something I’d forgotten downstairs. I just wasn’t sure I could find my way back through the winding maze to reach my cozy room up in the trees.
A peak into the Wizard's Bedroom
I’ve since heard several people say that visiting the Manor feels like being inside an M.C. Escher drawing.
Only this is much, much more elaborate than anything Escher ever drew.
There are multitudes of…
- stained glass windows
- old movie props
- total junk pieces turned into magical sculptures
- kid’s toys
- dragons
- fairies
- cars
Stained Glass Window at Gemini Manor
- comfy sofas
- whimsical creatures
- hidden rooms
- towering skylights
- mirrors
- artwork
- and on and on and on.
And on.
I’ve never experienced anything like it.
I’m addicted – I’ll be going back again soon. Meanwhile I just can’t keep it a secret from the world. Other people should experience this place.
It’s the kind of destination people travel far across the world to see, only it’s just around the corner in Hollywood. It’s a creation that both awakens and satisfies the innate human thirst we all have for the magic and mystery of life.
Alexander Lehr, creator of Gemini Manor
Alexander Lehr is the creative, amazing Wizard behind the curtain.
He’s a gracious, wonderful host who will happily transport you into his secret oasis of stunning beauty.
A visionary genius of many talents, he’s a Filmmaker, Event Producer, Real Estate Investor, Artist, Business Man, and Collector (ask him about his 41 cars!).
He’s lived on the property for decades so he naturally knows the town, and it’s residents, very intimately.
A natural storyteller, he thoroughly entertained me with fascinating accounts of his adventures in Hollywood, as well as his tales of the area history. He’s a real insider with connections to people and parties others only dream about.
He also throws some great parties himself, find him on Facebook (Alexander Lehr) and keep on eye on what he’s doing. His events are as magical as his home.
The Jungle Room at Gemini Manor (where I got to stay)
If you’re going to LA, forget Disneyland (even though it’s one of his favorite places) and visit Gemini Manor instead! I highly recommend it.
(P.S. The Manor is frequently used as a film set. You’ll find lots more photos on the Ambassador Locations website.)
“If you are what you should be, you will set the whole world on fire.”
~ St. Catherine of Siena
“Don’t ask what the world needs – ask what makes you come alive and go do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.”
~ Howard Thurman
When I first arrived in Sedona several years ago I heard people talk of a couple of crystal-embedded homes that had been constructed here. I never got any real details, but the stories caught my attention, and I loved the idea that someone had created magical places like that in a location widely thought to be an Earth power point.
I felt the magic in the larger of the two homes when I was there a couple years ago to attend an opening of Jaiya’s film “Red Hot Touch.” The house was buzzing with energy, creatively lit with colored lights, and it was also hotly sensual in a very masculine way. I’d never even seen the smaller house, the one I’ve dubbed the Crystal Cottage, until one day last fall when a series of serendipitous events dropped me into it as the resident healer.
The creator of the homes, Lawrence Lanoff, is a nationally known Seminar Leader, Teacher, Hollywood Video Producer/Director, and the author of A Course in Freedom, The Drunken Monkey Speaks. He built the two homes specifically as places where powerful transformation is supported and easy. When I asked him to tell me more about the crystals and the magic of the cottage, he related the following details of how both the houses are charged with the crystalline rocks and with his intentions (which is saying something – if you’ve ever seen him work with energy, he wields jaw-dropping powers).
When you first drive or walk onto the land where the cottage sits, you pierce an energetic veil as you pass through a Violet Flame Curtain that surrounds the perimeter of the property. This curtain creates a sacred, special space outside of regular reality, outside of normal time and space. By entering the property, you enter another dimension. Also surrounding the house are 7 golden, swirling pillars the size of 18 wheelers that stand on end and gently spin keeping the space clean. Another 9 pillars are placed in the surrounding neighborhood.
The foundation of the house is embedded with crystals in a Violet Flame Matrix of the Mother/Father God/Goddess within. This matrix acts as a filter and can be conceptualized as a purifying flame in the seekers heart center.
The circle is laid out so the center point is aligned with the center of the property, then this point and the Sacred Four Directions are energized with crystals. The Violet Flame Matrix is marked out with more crystals weaving into the ancient circle form to create a crystalline vortex under the floors of the house. This inflowing, female vortex helps people easily drop energies they want to get rid of, like an energetic garbage disposal. There are also crystals embedded in the walls to protect the energetic space to help people clear more easily.
I was quite curious to see what it would be like to live here, and I’m happy to report that I’ve witnessed – and experienced – many tremendous, fascinating healings and transformations during the time I’ve been here. I’ve seen the magic work on clients, spiritual seekers, friends, and family. I’ve also seen an extraordinary number of people birth new plans and new lives during their time here – even if they were only in the cottage for a couple hours!
The strange thing is that the the way the décor of the house has developed it feels like you’re inside a crystal. I’m a dedicated thrift store/garage sale shopper (aka treasure hunter), and find it fun to see how the Universe wants to decorate my homes.
Over time the pieces I’ve found for the cottage have generally been white, so the house is quite airy and light-filled. Then the prism – the colors of the crystal – come into the picture in the form of brightly colored pillows and scarves that are thrown about. Adding sparkle are tiny colored blue lights that hang in unexpected places. It’s a soothing, uplifting space that also manages to truly feel like you’re in a wonderful, different dimension. One person delightedly described it as a sort of sensual, spiritual fun house.
I invite you to visit for yourself and see how the Magical Crystal Cottage affects you. Sessions are available for Spiritual Life Counseling, Reconnective Healing, Sacred Sexual Healing, and Life Visioning.
Who thinks of Avalon, thinks of magic and mysticism, the legends of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table, of the mists of Avalon or of the Goddess honoured there. It is also possible that Avalon does not mean a thing to you; however, it does give you a certain feeling. Avalon is a name that has enormous appeal to numerous people, all over the world. Why? What is that link with Avalon many feel? What is Avalon? Does Avalon exist, or is it a figment of our imagination? Continue reading Avalon of the Heart
She is the one who can face herself. She will love herself. She is the Phoenix rising.
She knows who she has been and she chooses to let go of the conditioning. She chooses to express herself authentically, she knows that being in touch with her deepest feminine self is the greatest gift she can ever contribute to her brothers and sisters as she restores life and love on the planet.
She is not afraid to be a mystery. She is not afraid to be transparent. She knows she makes mistakes. She knows she will make more. And she knows she will succeed.
She has given herself permission to love and trust herself unconditionally.
Right now:
