The Rainbow Body • The Sexual Shaman

Podcast 15: The Sexual Shaman: Conversations on Sexuality and Spirituality  • Co-Host and Editor: Marc Peridis (OrgasmicShaman.com) • Host: Kenneth Ray Stubbs, PhD (SexualShaman.com)

Marc Peridis is a somatic therapist and shamanic practitioner specialized in the Medicine of eros, healing practices related to eros and sexuality. He leads retreats and workshops around the world.


Podcast 14: The Sexual Shaman: Conversations on Sexuality and Spirituality  • Guest: Caitlin Welby (caitlinwelby.com) • Host: Kenneth Ray Stubbs, PhD (therainbowbody.com)

Caitlin Welby is a Buddhist Chaplain, Transpersonal Consultant, and Embodiment Coach. In this podcast we explore the evolving ideas around psychedelic microdosing.

Errata: The magazine article “Seeking the Magic Mushroom” was by Robert Gordon Wasson and appeared in Life magazine, May 13, 1957.

Podcast 13: The Sexual Shaman  • Guest: Katie Sarra (relationalembodiment.org) • Host: Kenneth Ray Stubbs, PhD (SexulShaman.com)
– Katie Sarra is a Certified Somatic Sex Educator, Sexological Bodyworker, and is the founder and Director of The School of Relational Embodiment. She is an artist and an art psychotherapist. In this podcast we discuss exploring Eros in the arts and the impact of experiencing one’s sexual expression being painted by an artist.

Podcast 12: The Sexual Shaman  • Guest: KamalaDevi McClure (KamalaDevi.com) • Host: Kenneth Ray Stubbs, PhD (SexulShaman.com)
• KamalaDevi McClure, editor of Sex Shamans: True Stories of Sacred Sexuality and Awakening, is the author of several books on sexuality including polyamory, sexual healing, and tantra. In this podcast we explore the concepts of the sexual shaman, orgasm, and tantra, especially for people on a path of spiritual seeking.

Podcast 11: The Sexual Shaman   • Guest: Joseph Kramer, PhD (EroticMassage.com) • Host: Kenneth Ray Stubbs, PhD (SexualShaman.com)
• Joseph Kramer, PhD, is a sex educator and the founder of the profession of Sexological Bodywork. In 1984 he founded the Body Electric School in Oakland, California, where he trained thousands of professional massage therapists, erotic bodyworkers, and somatic educators. In this podcast he and Kenneth Ray Stubbs discuss being the “Johnny Appleseeds,” the early pioneers, of developing what came to known as “erotic massage” — which integrates touch, sexuality, and spirituality.

Podcast 10: The Sexual Shaman  • Guest: Ohad Pele (Kabalove.org) • Host: Kenneth Ray Stubbs, PhD (SexualShaman.com)
• Ohad Pele was a Kabbalist Rabbi in Jerusalem who left organized religion to seek and eventually teach the path of sacred sexuality. He is the author of several books on the kabbalistic perspective of spirituality and sexuality. In this podcast we explore the role of the Middle Eastern temple priestess and priest before the monotheistic revolution of the 7th century BCE (information is covered in his historical novel Kedesha).

Podcast 09: The Sexual Shaman  • Guest: Jaiya (Jaiya.love) • Host: Kenneth Ray Stubbs, PhD (SexualShaman.com) • Jaiya is the author of three sexuality books, a sex educator on the Netflix series Love, Sex, and Goop, and a somatic sexologist. In this podcast we discuss the challenges of bringing esoteric, spiritual perspectives of sexuality into mainstream culture.

Podcast 08: The Sexual Shaman • Guest: Penn Baker • Host: Kenneth Ray Stubbs, PhD (SexualShaman.com) • Penn Baker self-refers as an Earth Walker walking between the many worlds of the Human World, the Spirit World, and the Male and the Female, often standing in all of them at the same time. In this podcast we compare three different contexts where humans experience psychedelics: 1. “tripping” (like in the hippie days), 2. usage in clinical medical/psychological sessions, and 3. usage in traditional shamanic ceremonies. We discuss also the role of non-physical Beings in the shamanic ceremonies.

Podcast 07 • Guest: Anna Howard • Host: Kenneth Ray Stubbs, PhD • Anna Howard, author of the forthcoming No Going Back: A Quest for Enlightenment, is a former resident of Samye Ling, the first Tibetan Buddhist Center established in the West. In this podcast we discuss the challenges around sexuality and celibacy while living in a monastic community. We explore also the question of what is enlightenment.


Episode 6
• Kenneth Ray Stubbs summarizes here a number of insights and experiences from 40 years as a teacher and practitioner in the areas of sexuality, Western Tantra, and shamanism.

Episode 5, Part 1: Guest: Penn Baker – Host: Kenneth Ray Stubbs, PhD (SexualShaman.com) • Penn Baker is a US Navy veteran and self-refers as an Earth Walker walking between the many worlds of the Human World, the Spirit World, and the Male and the Female, often standing in all of them at the same time. In this Part 1, we explore becoming a 2-Spirit gender.

Episode 5, Part 2: Guest: Penn Baker – Host: Kenneth Ray Stubbs, PhD (SexualShaman.com) • Penn Baker is a US Navy veteran and self-refers as an Earth Walker walking between the many worlds of the Human World, the Spirit World, and the Male and the Female, often standing in all of them at the same time. In this Part 2, Penn shares the experiences of a Caucasian stepping into shamanic, Native American cultures and becoming a pipe carrier, a Sweat Lodge facilitator, and a 4-time Sundancer.

Episode 4, Part 1. • Guest: Rev. Goddess Charmaine • Host: Kenneth Ray Stubbs
• Rev. Goddess Charmaine, an ordained interfaith minister, had mystical experiences in her fundamentalist religious upbringing and later become a sex surrogate. In this Part 1, she takes us into her profound journey into sexuality, psychic abilities, and energy.

Episode 4, Part 2. • Guest: Rev. Goddess Charmaine • Host: Kenneth Ray Stubbs
• Rev. Goddess Charmaine, an ordained interfaith minister, had mystical experiences in her fundamentalist religious upbringing and later became a sex surrogate while engaging her psychic abilities. In this Part 2, she presents some very practical ways to bring the energy of crystals into our sexual enhancement.

Episode 3, Part 1. • Guest: Suzanne d’Corsey • Host: Kenneth Ray Stubbs
• Suzanne d’Corsey, an Elder in the Neo-Pagan movement, is a playwright and author exploring the themes of pagan spirituality, animism, and sex magic. In this Part 1, we discuss our long-distance, sex-magic ceremony at a 5,000-year-old, neolithic stone circle in northern Scotland.

Episode 3, Part 2. • Guest: Suzanne d’Corsey • Host: Kenneth Ray Stubbs
• Suzanne d’Corsey, an Elder in the Neo-Pagan movement, is a playwright and author exploring the themes of pagan spirituality, animism, and sex magic. In this Part 2, we discuss the very ancient sexual-union GREAT RITE ceremony — even as it was done in Oklahoma (yes, THAT southern U.S. state) in the 1970s.

Episode 2, Part 1. • Guest: Marc Peridis • Host: Kenneth Ray Stubbs
• Marc Peridis is a somatic and shamanic therapist teaching retreats, workshops, and courses online and globally. In this Part 1, we discuss the two primary approaches in tantra teachings: the ecstatic and the transformative. The emphasis is very different.

Episode 2, Part 2. • Guest: Marc Peridis • Host: Kenneth Ray Stubbs
• Marc Peridis is a somatic and shamanic therapist teaching retreats, workshops, and courses online and globally. In this Part 2, we deepen our conversation about the ecstatic vs. the transformative approaches in Western sexual tantra.

Episode 1, Part 1. • Guest:  Nut Tmu-Ankh Butterfly Dreaming • Host: Kenneth Ray Stubbs
• Nut Tmu-Ankh Butterfly Dreaming is an ordained priestess in an Afrakan Nubian-Khamite tradition. In this Part I, we discuss this ancient tradition’s approach to “orgasmic spirituality,” a consciousness so very different from the Western concept of “sexuality vs. spirituality.” Consider “breathing sexual energy” into the construction of the pyramids.

We even talk about sweet potato pie.

Episode 1, Part 2. • Guest: Nut Tmu-Ankh Butterfly Dreaming • Host: Kenneth Ray Stubbs
• Nut Tmu-Ankh Butterfly Dreaming is an ordained priestess in an Afrakan Nubian-Khamite tradition. In this Part 2, we discuss this ancient tradition and the transformative power of crystals.