I first learned of the existence of Sadhus in the Indian winter of 1989–90. I had been chosen for an internship program with The Times of India, as a 20 year old journalism student at the University of…

What is Masculinity and Feminity? For me, masculinity and feminity are not seperate. They are shaded portions upon a continuum. By shaded I mean within any point of the gender continuum there are tones and shadows, down to the point of individual interpretation. This has been realised in different cultures…

Growing up in a rural Australian village as it transformed from a traditional farming community to a satellite commuter suburb. — In 1981 my parents decided to move from a comfortable middle class suburb in the Darling Downs regional center of Toowoomba to a tiny village 40…

You teacher used teach about Pirate Hawkins you teacher used teach about Pirate Morgan And you said he was a very great man you teacher used teach about Christopher Columbus And you said he was a very great man you teacher used teach about Marco Polo, so You can’t…

We moved secretly through the streets at night. Food was taken in doorways and shallow alcoves. Tattoos were performed on the open floors of abandoned factories. Bedecked with cloth and feathers. Our vehicles ran not on benzine but the oil given to us by those no longer needing. We…

I was on the coast and you had a boat, You were coming to kill my people. You said it wasn’t personal, But you made it so very so. The colonial gaze Has given very few shelter For life settled in sentience, Long before whites set up shop.

Some Personal Reflections — (This essay can be downloaded as a PDF from here. The online version here includes multimedia content) When psychedelic drugs captured the popular imagination of the West in the 1960s they were seen by opponents as very dangerous. But their proponents saw them as almost sacred and revolutionary. The separation…

The music contained here is the sound tracks to a thousand journeys and a million shelters. As we absorb the fragments of our lives in the Digital Empire, we so often lack the sound to step between each momentary space, independent of the machines that control us. The genius…

All human life is confined to huge domes that are half flooded, and where people cling to floating debris. Many suffer from strange fungal…