Here's a topic I've been dealing with since having moved up to the San Francisco Bay area almost a year ago now ... it seems to me that the New Age Movement in the White community is primarily focused on so called "sacred" sex practices and being all over you with their desire to "contact improv you".  It also seems to me that the focus on these practices is actually a deterrant to people of color and in particular Native American and Black people from desiring to interact and integrate with these communities which as grown out of a direct result of the sexual abuses that were propogated upon us during slavery and the Native American genocide.  The core wounds still have not been addressed and healed so why would we want to participate in such activities with these New Agers.  I am the second black woman to be admitted as a Harbin Hot Spring (www.Harbin.org) resident and I am seeing this very senario being played out in this self proclaimed advanced consciousness community.  The White man intended to move into Lake County to create all white communities and in fact passed a law to legally exterminate all Native Americans in the area.  Seems to me that they've achieved their goal.  But to what end I ask?  To start a sex camps and tantric playgrounds for White people who still feel disconnected and can't seem to find a meaningful expression of their second chakra energies.  What are we supposed to do feel sorry for them?

You want ethnic equality, let's start by having some basic respect and reverence for all sentient beings.  Let's start by learning how to balance your own energy before you get involved with advanced sexual practices.  Let's start by ceasing to prey on other people, places and things!

Peace be with you!

Heather Salmon