{"id":765,"date":"2026-04-14T00:10:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T00:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.weightlossthroughyoga.com\/blog\/?p=765"},"modified":"2026-04-14T13:36:01","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T13:36:01","slug":"mexican-opal-a-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.weightlossthroughyoga.com\/blog\/mexican-opal-a-story\/","title":{"rendered":"MEXICAN OPALS \u2014 (A True Story)"},"content":{"rendered":"

I had the good fortune to have come of age in the early 1960’s. The joke is “if you remember the 60’s, you weren’t there.” It was a wonderfully wild time to be alive and young. I have to chuckle recalling Timothy Leary’s admonition; “Don’t trust anyone over thirty.” We were the children taught to get under our desks and cover our heads if there was a nuclear attack; is it any wonder we grew up questioning the accepted reality? One, not living during that accelerated ‘Enlightenment’, can’t begin to imagine the period. As one song yelled “Kick out the Jams… Mother-Fucker!” It amazes me how conservative culture has become\u2014in part a reaction to our concentrated, undisciplined and naive wildness.<\/p>\n

“Turn on, Tune in… and Drop-out!” My rebirth had accelerated beyond a place where college related to my experience. A strange brew of experimentation and idealism fueled a lifestyle for many of my generation. Consciousness expanded by grass and psychedelics. A foolish war in Southeast Asia fought against on the home-front. Demanding civil liberty and human rights for racial minorities, sexual diversity, equal status for women \u2014 we were the warriors fighting for a New Age, and we found comfort during our struggles in each others arms. A sexual revolution unparalleled raged in a time period when sexually transmitted disease was easily controlled with antibiotics and Aids didn’t exist. Effective birth control was just invented.  “Free Love” was our slogan and such a glorious period of random coupling!<\/p>\n

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Mexican Opals \u2014 Weight Loss Through Yoga, Jewel in the Lotus<\/p><\/div>\n

You could safely hitchhike, probably picked up by other rebels and offered a joint. Many of us floated around on journeys of discovery. A good friend and kindred spirit, Scott Rund, returned from an extended adventure in Mexico. He had sent me magic mushrooms in a jar of honey he’d been given by a shaman in Wahaca, and on his return showed me two long cylindrical jars full of raw opals The beautiful gemstones were in water and still had bits of the rock they had been imbeded-in attached.<\/p>\n

“I’ve decided, every time I sleep with a girl \u2014 I’ll give her one of these opals.” I remember thinking what a great idea, a sharing, after a sharing. Little did I realize how many mornings I’d wake after a night of blissful copulation and look over onto the bed stand or dresser of my impromptu perfect lover \u2014 and see one of those distinctive beautiful raw opals.<\/p>\n

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Mexican Opal \u2014 Weight Loss Through Yoga, Jewel in the Lotus<\/p><\/div>\n

Telling this tale causes me to reflect on some lessons I might share as we are just starting this New Age where once again we’ll be using our bodies in a dance of liberation. This new dawn of Tantra. How easy it is when you have many varied partners to see them merge in your awareness, to be all one woman \u2014 each woman, all femininity. Yourself \u2014 represent all masculinity. How easy \u2014 especially then, on psychedelics \u2014 now, the heightened conscious gained through yoga making the drug no longer necessary \u2014 to merge with your partner in your embrace. A yin\/yang with the dividing boundary dissolved, flowing into each other \u2014 Being One.    Realizing that One is Divine.    That One is All.    That One is Us.         We are Love!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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