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Tag: mysticism

oil painting, whirling dervish in white, from above

Quarantine Notes

By
  • Yahia Lababidi
| 30 Mar 2023 Collection Philosophy, Poetry, Spirituality aphorisms, literature, mysticism, philosophy, spirituality

A poetry of pith,

Bernini's Ecstasy of Saint Teresa in the Santa Maria della Vittoria in Rome

The Ecstasy of a Book Club

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Metapsychosis
| 30 Jul 2020 Features Books, Community, Essays community, mysticism, reading, social

“For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.” —JC There is the possibility of ecstasy in a book club—this I aver. It’s a religious thing—or should be—the intercourse among “people of the book” (or rather, “ …

MaricónMaricón (Part 3)

Explicit By
  • John Davis
| 28 May 2020 Features Explicit, Story 1980s, AIDS, HIV, Society (Multitudes), culture, gay, memoir, mysticism, new york city, sex

“Sex and God or sex and death.” I repeated his phrase, feeling a slight slur in my speech brought on by the beer on an empty stomach. “Is that all there is?”

MaricónMaricón (Part 2)

Explicit By
  • John Davis
| 20 May 2020 Features Explicit, Story 1980s, AIDS, HIV, Society (Multitudes), culture, gay, memoir, mysticism, new york city, sex

​I was jealous of Pedro’s imaginary lovers and of his vaster sexual experience. Short poems, long poems, quirky poems, I read them in secret when he was out. I didn’t understand them. Poem after poem, sounding much alike, revealed the charms of some new image of his desire, even as he prayed for some kind of deliverance from his too, too solid flesh…

MaricónMaricón (Part 1)

Explicit By
  • John Davis
| 14 May 2020 Features Explicit, Story 1980s, Society (Multitudes), culture, gay, memoir, mysticism, new york city, sex

I felt that many kinds of patterns, of ancient origins, had been stamped onto our writhing, wrestling, male flesh, and that we had entered this forbidden zone many times before…

Maricón

Explicit By
  • John Davis
| 14 May 2020 Collection Explicit, Story 1980s, AIDS, HIV, Society (Multitudes), culture, gay, memoir, mysticism, new york city, sex

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