GaySocrates
Blog URL http://gaysocrates.blogspot.com/
Located Brighton, East Sussex United Kingdom
Tags Gay, Youth, Gay Wisdom, Spirituality, Gscene Magazine, Mindfulness
I seek, from an experienced and seasoned perspective, to corrupt the Gay Youth of today with love
Latest Blog Posts
- Why do we feel unsafe in our communities? on Oct 24, 2009 in hate crime mainstream gay lifestyle dissident Gscene column Homophobia
My man has the unfortunate habit of reading The Argus and is consequently exposed to a constant litany of the aggressive violence that takes place on a daily basis in and around our beautiful city. He reads out to me the most horrific stories. Last S...
- Our Fathers: I forgave my father and it changed my life on Oct 9, 2009 in mainstream gay lifestyle dissident compassion difficult father-son relationship forgiving father
“Shrivelled up”. That’s what I thought when I last saw my father. He’s now 82 and his old age is starting to show. His posture is stooped, He’s shrunk a good few inches over recent years and, because of chronic back pain he’s taken to co...
- Power, Intimacy and the experience of a structured Edward Carpenter Community Gay Men's Week on Sep 30, 2009 in laurieston hall edward carpenter community erotic spiritual healing
Ten years ago, within a few months of having moved to Brighton, a friend suggested that I should think about checking out The Edward Carpenter Community and getting up to the Gay Men's Retreat at Laurieston Hall in Dumfries. He thought it would be my...
- The Spiritual Healing of Erotic Love on Sep 25, 2009 in power mainstream gay lifestyle dissident Gscene column laurieston hall intimacy edward carpenter community erotic spiritual healing
Last month GaySocrates went on his first ever Edward Carpenter Gay Men’s Weeks at Laurieston Hall. It was a so-called ‘structured week’ which meant that in addition to the free and easy access to this amazing enchanted space, there was also a...
- 32 Socrates was killed because he believed in the improvement of the soul on Sep 5, 2009 in mainstream gay lifestyle dissident soul The Apology socrates meditation
I’m reading The Apology of Socrates at the moment. It’s a dramatised version of a real event-the trial of Socrates, the outcome of which was his execution. Socrates was openly gay [as was his pupil Plato]. He was accused of being a worshiper of...
- The reason I became a total lying bastard! on Aug 26, 2009 in lying mainstream gay lifestyle dissident secrets being in the closet
Why does secrecy fascinate me? It must be to do with my decade of closeted-ness followed by years of cringingly and embarrassedly coming out to friends, family and work colleagues. From the age of 9 or 10 my 'dirty little secret' gradually became m...
- Meditation and the Tao Te Ching on Aug 15, 2009
The big event for me this week has been my decision to relinquish the moral high ground I’ve been adopting with regard to my conflict with my employing organisation. Not sure what allowed me to arrive at a resolution. It may have been reading the T...
