Nautis Project

From this month’s Psychology Today: The finding that women who do not use condoms during sex are less depressed and less likely to attempt suicide than are women who have sex with condoms and women who are not sexually active, leads one researcher to conclude that semen contains powerful-and potentially addictive-mood-altering chemicals. Semen contains hormones [...]

I haven’t slept at all in days. It’s been so long since we’ve talked. And I have been here many times; I just don’t know what I’m doing wrong. What can I do to make you love me? What can I do to make you care? What can I say to make you feel this? [...]

I found out tonight that a friend from college is publishing his first book of poetry. How many hurdles must stand in the way of someone trying to be a poet today? It’s so easy to give up on a dream and take the path most often traveled. It’s hard to follow your dream - [...]

I know the feeling: you’re standing around with your colleagues from work when they start talking about the latest developments in quantum physics and you’re left with nothing to say. I usually just quietly walk away and try not to draw too much attention to my inability to grasp complex concepts. Enter the new Seed [...]

What I’m reading. Focusing on Hindu mythology right now…

The Essence of the Bhagavad Gita by Swami Kriyananda

Hinduism by Dr. Gregory Kozlowski

Liberation Upon Hearing in the Between by Robert Thurman

Ramayana by Sage Seer

Tibetan Wisdom for Living and Dying by Sogyal Rinpoche

The Bhagavad Gita

The Gnostic Gospels by Elaine Pagels

The New York Times takes a look at the kissing controversies of the past week and plugs in some cool historical anthropology, too. From the Times, “The earliest written record of humans’ kissing appears in Vedic Sanskrit texts in India from around 1500 B.C., where certain passages refer to lovers setting mouth to mouth, [...]