Ego Death & the Erotic

After the shattering, something remains. The question is what. The contemplative traditions have two names for the territory after ego dissolution: li

The English language has failed this concept. The word "surrender" carries, in nearly every modern context, the connotation of loss. The army surrende

The claim requires precision. We are not arguing that cuckolding is meditation, that it replicates a psychedelic experience, or that it constitutes mo

He is not diminished. This must be stated at the outset, clearly and without equivocation, because the cultural machinery that equates masculine ident

The word "technology" here is precise. A technology is a repeatable method that uses specific conditions to produce specific results. A lever uses mec

There is a difference between walking into the fire and being thrown into it. The distinction between chosen and unchosen ego death — between delibera

The instinct to flee discomfort is the oldest program in the nervous system. Before language, before culture, before the first human beings built shel

There is a moment in the practice of sacred displacement when something breaks. Not the relationship — not the marriage, not the trust, not the covena

The passage is not a concept. It is a sequence that moves through the body, through the nervous system, through the architecture of a man's identity —

The culture has a definition of masculine courage, and it is built around action. The brave man fights. He overcomes. He charges the position, scales