Eat Food, Have Sex, Spend Money
Inquiry into pleasure, shadow, and the spirituality of physicality.
If I had to sum up my religious crusade turned spiritual odyssey, it would be the title of this page.
In the search for spiritual insight, we tend to skip the most immediate points of access. We go looking in books, doctrines, and inherited beliefs, while the life we are living holds some of the clearest clues.
How we relate to food — to our bodies, hunger and satisfaction. How we relate to sex — to connection, desire, intimacy, and pleasure. How we relate to money — to earning, spending, and accumulating. These aren't distractions, they're the main attractions.
Life offers us mirrors. Often the clearest are on the dinner table, in the bedroom, in the bank account.
Food, sex, money — these are some of the best parts of being human. Why have a body if we aren't going to enjoy it?
If life was about escaping or conquering the physical urges and appetites, why bother with them? May as well stay in the ether and skip the drama of eating disorders, porn addiction, and credit card debt.
But what if that drama is why you signed up for this rodeo?
What if the very things we most wish to hide — or pretend aren't a part of our lives — are the doorways to our most alive experiences in a 3D world?
Anything that stands between us and joy is a doorway.
Joseph Campbell said "where you stumble and fall, there you will find gold." I say: suffering isn't punishment. Your darkness isn't failure. Your shadow holds the keys to your deepest desires and highest hopes.
This is the work. And the work isn't "work," it's reunion with yourself. And God.