It is the dawning of the Age of Aquarius. So, now is the time to shift the collective mindset, and raise the level of consciousness. How are we going to do that?

First, let’s agree that this world we think of as 'our world' is not ours at all, it's a mystery. The world we see is merely the face of a greater reality. That greater reality is The Supreme Mind. People are the mirror of The Supreme Mind, and The Supreme Mind is the mirror of us all. To be able to experience this greater reality, you need to look beyond the veil of the material world. Now, for many of us, the material world is like a castle which we defend with layers of ego. But we are not our egos; we are a manifestation of something infinitely more interesting and more loving.

To help you see what is hiding behind the veil of the material world, every spiritual tradition has developed methods to help you get beyond ego, and to help you directly experience the mysterious nature of The Supreme Mind. These methods range from prayer and fasting, to meditation, tantra and yoga. All these techniques are methods to leave the desert of the real behind. There are many realities and many different worlds, and we can travel to each of them.

One of the ways to find that direct experience of the Mystery is through meditative flogging. I have developed Meditative Flogging as a spiritual method. Meditative Flogging is a way to use whips, floggers and canes to use the body as a means to directly experience the miraculous world of the greater reality, with the added advantage that it can also be a sensual, soothing, loving way to connect to your partners.

Let me explain this in another way.

When you think of yourself, you may very well have an image that is a little vague, sort of like a construct of the people you’ve been and all the things you believe in. It is important who we think we are. It matters how we act, and it matters how we think, because how we think changes how we act. Therefore, it is important how we define ourselves, we can’t wallow in vague images. What defines us as humans, is the way we use the wealth that comes with being alive in a living world. It is how we regard the animate and the inanimate, and how we show through our actions that we are aware of our place in this adventure we call life.

Looking at the state of society in the 21st Century, thinking of the Corona pandemic, thinking of the destruction of nature, it may seem reasonable to get depressed and just worry ourselves crazy, but it is our appreciation of happiness that shows the others who we are and what they mean to us. Taking a cue from ancient practices, I say ‘happiness’ is in the body. When the body feels alive, *you* feel alive, because you are your body, and all of creation flows through you. You don’t have to leave the body behind to find a better way of living, you have to fully embrace it.

Inside of your body, you can build a temple of the heart. We all need to build these temples, we need to get together and truly experience the reality of being alive; we need to see ourselves the way we really are, not as these vague, human constructs, but as fragments of the Supreme Mind. We need music and dance, we need the songs of birds and the humming of the earth. We need rituals and celebrations in which unknown feelings can be investigated. We need to nourish the body and the soul. We need to build temples of Joy, and in these temples, there will be Meditative Flogging.

There is enough conflict in the world today, so let’s build temples of peace instead. We can be together and be intimate, we can share the warmth of our bodies, then get back to the outside world again, knowing that there is a better way of being just waiting for you.

It is the dawning of the Age of Aquarius. Now is the time to learn not just what we are, but what we can become. And to learn this, we can use Meditative Flogging as a tool to shift the collective mindset, and raise the level of consciousness. Meditative Flogging is about being truly, utterly, completely and joyfully *human*.