Queer / Gay Archetypes

Why are we gay? Is it just because we like to have sex with other guys? I hold the thought that we have always been present in all cultures and ages througout history. Likewise, I hold to the premise of an inner spiritual journey or progress of gender discernment as we experience life fully. Sex is a part of that experience! I love sex!

The fact that we exist and never die out, not a bad accomplishment for a group that does not partake easily in the breeding kind of sex! So, as Mark Thompson, an influential writer, has offered in his definition of essentialism: "there is an indwelling, archytypical basis for our being."

James Broughton, gifted poet, artist, filmaker and man gave some insight, in regards to archytypes:

We have killed off the gods with rational thought and sent our demons sreaming into our shadows, so we suffer from a great lack of meaning in our lives. I have found it valuable to personify the powers that operate within us the way the greeks did. Personify your symptoms and neurosis as gods. This makes them real and possible to undestand. Otherwise you only have symptoms and miseries. We are eaach of us a whole universe right here and now; we are each a god body. You can never have a full measure of psychic wholeness by denying, scoffing and doubting. (Gay Soul; Thompson, Mark, ed. 13)

Some thoughts for today...from the faerieshaman

Be Blessed