On this day in 1919, Richard Oswald's Anders als die Andern was released! Starring Conrad Veidt , the film is one of the first sympathetic portrayals of gay men in cinema. The story was co-written by Magnus Hirschfeld, whose Institute für Sexualwissenschaft also provided funding.

South Korea tries to ignore the hundreds of thousands of babies it sold to Western countries. Adoptees are very inconvenient for its image. You might even say we’re a chink in its armor.

You know you're a true mystic when you have a really bad website.

Odessa Piper is celebrated as a founder of the “farm to table” movement, teaches at Frank Lloyd Wright’s Taliesin and has contributed culinary ideas to a White House State Dinner. An artisanal food icon and famed chef, she shares her shamanic musings on meeok.substack.com

Need some comic relief? Check out my latest podcast with my hilarious friend Myq (Parenthetical) Kaplan! meeok.substack.com

Loved this convo with Chris Ryan!

Can’t be alone with my thoughts.

Mia Farrow is the OG Nick Cannon. #15Kids

Ayahuasca scholarships coming soon! Follow meeok.substack.com

Medicine woman extraordinaire Tania Siglinde joins us to talk about plant medicine as a right of passage, womb healing, and the unique offerings in our upcoming ayahuasca retreat at Soltara . Listen to the full episode at meeok.substack.com

Had such a fun time talking to Myq (Parenthetical) Kaplan about the shipibo and working with the plantalones! youtu.be/LnU3SbQffRk?si…

The power and value of integration with ayahuasca. Meeok.substack.com

What sets our ayahuasca retreat apart and how we will be going deeper. More at HoldingCompassionate.space

Hold me Myq (Parenthetical) Kaplan !

If you're looking for a focused, guided ayahuasca retreat, join us. If you come from a marginalized background and require a little financial assistance to help you get there, please reach out to me personally.

The Mayan calendar is the only calendar not based on the cosmos. It’s based on the rhythms of the human body. Their year is 9 months: you are born 1 year after you are conceived. And so you were born into forever time within the natural time of the woman’s womb. How wonderful.

Mexican homosexuals being detained in a police station in Mexico City, 1935.

Over 1,000 years ago, Chinese alchemists invented gunpowder searching for the elixir of life. They called it "fire medicine." A powerful medicine from a distant land reached the West and became a weapon. Plant medicine is walking the same path. 🔥 meeok.substack.com 🔥