In connection with dreams, although throughout history dream interpretation was a widely used practice, no one prior to Freud had defined a technique of using dreams to lay bare the hidden inner life of the dreamer. No one had revealed through dreams the now unconscious childhood traumas and sexual ... More

I couldn’t help noticing myself in that large wall mirror over the gas fire. True, I always did notice myself in it every day and looked to see how my acne was coming on – I’d been spotty since 11 – but on that morning I really did notice myself. I had a good look at not just my spots, but a... More

It was ages and ages before Joyce met the Bear in real life again. Of course she would often sit and talk to it on the floor, but it never replied; didn’t even twinkle its eyes. She told it all the things she thought about, even the very unlikely things, or things she could hardly believe herself... More

When the moon was very bright one night, everyone in the compound was sitting enjoying the feeling of having food inside them. They sat close to the fire because with the moon so bright the sky was clear and it was cool.... More

Lazere stood in the darkest area of the street, waiting and reminiscing. His memory spanned an enormous spread of history, almost a thousand years of continuous life. A mellow mood spread through him like warmth from a fire permeating flesh. Through all those years he had seen himself as a powerful ... More

Making love to our partner can be just as much of an old habit as going to the corner table when the telephone rings a week after it has been moved to a new site. When my second wife and I started our relationship we decided we would try not to live out the mistakes we made in our first marriages. S... More

Masturbation is like making your own music. Through it you can learn to prolong actual lovemaking and avoid premature ejaculation. sexercise is vital because a basic part of sex is movement – movement of a most intimate kind. The magic of sex is not only that we can share an intense form of pleas... More

What do you think was the beginning or background to your becoming a sex worker? “Sometimes things like this start when you are very young. I was a very chubby kid and was taunted about that. Also, it wasn’t that I was taunted by the adults in my life, my friends and relations, but they reminded... More

Here, in exploring a dream, gradually unfolds a huge internal struggle – the gender struggle.... More

We all know the first need of survival is to breathe. If a newborn baby fails to breathe it will die very quickly. After that comes water and food. Then there are less urgent needs such as shelter, ones without which life would be less comfortable, less satisfying, and would leave us ‘hungry’ f... More

ANYONE who explores the unconscious life processes in any depth, discovers that within us, beneath the veneer of modern social training and culture dwells a beast, an animal, in fact the human animal. Unfortunately, until recent in-depth studies of wild animals occurred, Western culture regarded th... More

I have been assured, many times, by well-meaning men and women, that ejaculation can never result in tiredness. These well-meaning people have also assured me that if there is any resulting tiredness it is purely psychological, and that to deal with such tiredness or exhaustion one would need to ex... More

I couldn’t take it. I just wept. I knew that’s what I had been doing for years. That’s what most of us are doing, only we can’t and won’t see it. But even though we hide from it, the pain of it is there like poison juice in our body. Now mine was being squeezed out and the words were l... More

Relaxation Therapy has no secrets, no teachings, no copyright, no train­ed therapists, for there is only one therapist, one teacher, one secret -the Self. Any person who totally surrenders to God is practising Re­laxation Therapy. Anyone who comes daily to Life - the Overself -the Unifying Pri... More

Imagine you are going to communicate with a part of yourself that has an unlimited amount of information and influence to share with you. What this dimension of yourself gives you will be in direct response to what you ask. So the question you ask will be the factor shaping the response. Therefore ... More

I was not in any way asleep, or in a trance. My evaluative rational self was keenly observing all that happened, but not interfering. Nevertheless, profoundly felt imagery and feelings flooded my awareness. I realised I was experiencing the New Testament story of the birth. But this did not seem to ... More