Engaged with the World and with Spirit

With 80 warm up posts under my belt in the past several weeks, now it's time to take this blog, Integrally Gay, out of the pen and onto the field. As I do, a short note to my readers to give you an idea of what to expect, and what not to expect.

This blog is NOT...

This blog is NOT about all my interests, personal or professional. It is a focused collection of writing on homophilia in self and society, culture and nature, and how an integral spirituality reveals the deeper meaning of homophilia.

This blog is NOT a running commentary on current world events and the latest distractions on the blogosphere. Rather, it expresses an ongoing practice to stay engaged with the world at large.

This blog is NOT about getting traffic, winning blog awards, collecting followers, and filling comment boxes. Too often the blogosphere rewards the worst, most reactive and spiritually immature commentary. I hope not to fall too much into that trap. My posts here assist my effort to build my network of connections among LGBT/homophile thought leaders and the reading public, building bridges of connection and mutual empowerment.

This blog is...

Homophilia in action, every time I reach within myself to manifest and express the liberating teaching that contemplation brings an understanding of the right relations of all things, and of homophilia as the hidden connecting principle in a heterophilic world too often full of hostility and lack of comprehension.

Heterophilia in action, every time I express in words that are translated into bits and bytes and translated again into the bitstream that finds its way to another soul, curious about the meaning of gayness or of integral spirituality and how these may be connected, and that other is invited to change, to evolve, to question what they think they know.

My intention is to write at least a few hundred words every day, five days a week, even if it is only to take a brief look at the surfaces of things, BOLD: AS OF 1/27/10, I'VE OPTED TO FOCUS ON ONE OR TWO LONGER POSTS PER WEEK, PLUS SHORT POSTS AS TIME ALLOWS or to begin tracing a map that can help others to heal, love, and embrace all of who they are and to be liberated into their own True Self.

This blog is NOT... spellchecked. Damn it. The blogger WYSIWYG interface forces me to choose between making it easy to colorize posts or spell check them, and I've chosen the rainbow. I hope not to make too many annoying spelling mistakes.

Thank you for reading along.