Introduce yourself! We decided to change to the SKOOL platform because it is MUCH easier to navigate. You can use this channel to introduce yourself and meet other members of the community! We are a small community dedicated to exploring sensation-based awareness and all things connected. We will talk about pleasure in all its aspects, even the "taboo"! By joining this community your are at least tacitly agreeing to the conversation and the guidelines below: 1️⃣ BE RESPECTFUL! 2️⃣ Don't Yuck anyone's Yum! 3️⃣ Don't share personal information outside of this forum. 4️⃣ We are all (including me) here to learn and grow so that we can show up better in life for ourselves and others and the planet.

A full-bodied, sensate, throw-it-all-in masterwork by James Humecky This recipe wasn’t planned — it emerged. Built from instinct, memory, and what was in the fridge, it became something alive: a layered, primal farmhouse stew that tastes like it’s been simmering in your ancestral bones for generations. This stew began as a practical improvisation and turned into an edible meditation on sensation. Fat and acid. Smoke and earth. Sweet and salt. The simple act of layering each ingredient with awareness became a ritual of embodiment — a reminder that cooking, like touch, is an art of presence. For years, I cooked by feel. And over the years, a developed some sense of taste and combination and balance. One of my favorite things to do is to look around and see what's available and try and figure out what is the very best, most flavorful, hearty, yummy dish I can come up with. That also meant that I spent many years, creating marvelous dishes, and then never being able to go back and re-create it. Recently, and with the advent of voice recording, that moved into automatic transcripts, that moved into AI being able to outline something in an amazing way, I have begun to develop these recipes. My main hope is that you won't follow it, but that it will be an inspiration and permission to go off the rails in the most delicious and sensate way possible! Flavor Map Bass: sausage, bouillon, cabbage Midrange: carrot, tomato, potato Treble: vinegar, capers, cilantro Harmony: sour cream/yogurt, broccoli Created by: James Humecky Alias: Sir Recipe type: Hearty one-pot meal / Embodied comfort food

The chief prevention against getting old is to remain astonished. - - Kevin Kelly

If you don’t know the kind of person I am and I don’t know the kind of person you are a pattern that others made may prevail in the world and following the wrong god home we may miss our star. For there is many a small betrayal in the mind, a shrug that lets the fragile sequence break sending with shouts the horrible errors of childhood storming out to play through the broken dyke. And as elephants parade holding each elephant’s tail, but if one wanders the circus won’t find the park, I call it cruel and maybe the root of all cruelty to know what occurs but not recognize the fact. And so I appeal to a voice, to something shadowy, a remote important region in all who talk: though we could fool each other, we should consider— lest the parade of our mutual life get lost in the dark. For it is important that awake people be awake, or a breaking line may discourage them back to sleep; the signals we give — yes or no, or maybe — should be clear: the darkness around us is deep. ~ William E. Stafford A friend and podcast guest shared this with me. Even and awake person can fall back to sleep, be lured into the default polarity that has shaped much of humanity - "us" .... and "them". Even the good guy/bad guy rift carries some conflict in that (as we probably know), it isn't a matter of some black and white morality. In what is happening in the world today, it might be well to remember what each of us are capable of in either camp. To know our light we must be very familiar with and symbiotic with our dark. Love your brother but know how and when you have to cut someone's head off... without ranker of course (subtle eye roll). So taking this out to the mythopoetic and esoteric, when I/we walk into the fray we do so with an open heart that is genuinely filled with sadness that the conditions still exist that make that action necessary (or seemingly so). As for me, I love to connect with folks in realtime and have visceral and physical interactions and exchanges of ideas, space and sweat. Even my own online community is about bringing this into reality.

This weeks Somatic Pleasure Newsletter - This will be posted tomorrow but I wanted to share it with you now because I am pretty excited about it! I talk about the Somatic Pleasure podcast, it's development, my reason for creating it and what yoiu can expect in the Future! Enjoy and let me know your thoughts, questions or comments. Love you!