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Shokti

Presenting 3 books of my poetry, visuals, featuring inspiration from queer ancestors, teachers and prophets and 1 prose ...offering a radical vision of the link between queer people and the spiritual dimensions, one that breaks down the barriers of both religious and rational thought to take you to a place of presence, discovery and remembrance: available as ebook or paperback... From AIDS to Eternity and AIDS Shaman 1-3: Queer Spirit Awakening, Through the Veils and DImensional Shift. Diagnosed HIV+ in 1990, aged 25, by 1995 I was preparing myself to die - and opening myself to a spiritual reality i had, since the age of 12, not believed in. A complete transformation of my being began, and since recovering from AIDS I have been exploring ritual magic and community that connects both to the earth and to spirit with other queers in the global Radical Faerie community and as an organiser of Queer Spirit Festival in the UK. HIV was for me a trigger to a deep awakening in my soul. AIDS was for me a 'classical' shamanic awakening - stripping away everything i believed, all my dreams and fears - until the raw, conscious, multidimensional soul was released. It is my belief that many gay men are shaman souls, and that HIV is still a call from the soul to face, and accept, our mortality - and find our home in eternity. Medications prevent people developing AIDS now, but we www.rainbowmessenger.blog www.queerspirit.net www.albionfaeries.org.uk