The Way We Were

Anne Marie Rios on toilet!

Perhaps it comes from living through a few decades and a few short eras we can feel the differences in all of the fundamental things of life: beauty, women, song, the taste of the atmosphere, etc. As we age and experience maturation all things change, even sound. The sound of things are indicators telling their own stories to our sense of being present. What we remember as old men is different from what we experienced as young boys.

The first nude I saw I was twelve years old, and didn't expect it. I had a friend from India, Raj, who looking back, was hyper and full of sexual daring. We lived outside of Manila, the capital of the Phillippiness and had a lot of freedom; much more than the constrained children of today. We romped around for hours in or out of our houses playing, exploring, talking, dreaming and being in wonder about our childhoods until each meal time. We never missed meals. Meals were the only indicator of time and relevance to schedules.

One day after daring me to do something naughty he pushed the envelope and took me to the snack stand in the park down the street. He said something to the man behind the counter and the man in a secretive manner gave him a magazine. Raj, came to me in a conspirator's hush, like he was Maxwell Smart, or the Saint. He looked around barely able to contain his excitement and showed me a black/white nudity magazine of Filipinas! The first picture I saw I will never describe publicly  or forget! That visual indoctrination was powerful, and compelling! What I later discovered in this mist of open sensations was my unwillingness, and deeply rooted resistance to taking advantage of girls with the powers of being a male! That story I won't share either, but in sacred circles I have been required to share by Spirit a very few times in my later life! It is important to share this type of vulnerability face to face with men for reasons men need to grasp for the sake of the women they will gravitate to in their lifetimes!

Unleashing sexual energies into a boy's life is a responsibility, and it is about timing, and moderating. Play is a complex drama. Under the guidance and care of parents learning to be wise at young ages childhood is very different from parents undisciplined of thought, spirit and emotions. Because child rearing has its complexities that fact alone tricks people into assumptions, and belief in a simplicity, and a simplistic approach very popular in the 21st century. There is a tremendous focus on academics negating the importance of play and undermining the principles and purpose of growing from a child to adulthood. Crippled emotions do not raise and train impeccability into a child. Fear and competition take over the spirit of wonder parents should share with their little ones. In this ancient practice the illusion of our wealth has created a blindness to creative processes, and stifled growth history has already shown to be detrimental to the environment of consciousness, education of the four parts of Being, and life on the planet.

- Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 1.09.14




Cycle of Abundance
from gallery of  Memnon TeZe Zaahir
Jan. 9, 2014