Photo Journal and Events

On July 11th - 13th, 2003 I attended Thunder in the Mountains in Denver, Colorado.  This remarkable event is a showcase of some of the most well known kinksters today.  There was an abundance of workshops, vendors, and of course play-parties.  I will not even attempt to list the many workshops and presenters, but instead here I will describe a ritual I participated in. 

Cleo Dubois and Fakir Musafar put together a beautiful atmosphere for a ritualistic energy pull.  This ritual, based on a Hindu ceremony, included a cleansing, grounding, the piercing of fifteen participants, fifteen helpers or energy pullers, and a blessing. 

We first sat through an introduction to the ritual including the history and a video.  We then were instructed to pair off and cleanse each other through flogging.  Next we grounded and set our intentions in front of the alter, at which point we were ready to get pierced. 

A line quickly began to form, anticipation building in the air.  I was one of the first to get pierced and decided I would not only do the chest hooks but also the cheek spear.  The chest piercings were done with 12 gauge needles into which hooks were placed.  Afterwards, a long spear was pierced through, first my left cheek then my right.  The resulting effect was a very tribal, very primal jaw line.  Having many body piercings in much more tender areas these piercings felt pleasant in comparison.  Truthfully, my ear piercing was more painful then anything experienced in this ritual.

After everyone was pierced the dance began.  A chorus of talented musicians, named Temple of the Drums, pounded out our heartbeats.  To this we moved, swayed, yelled, danced, laughed and cried.  I first tied off to scaffolding and slowly pulled against the piercings to allocate my body to this sensation.  It was in this position I began to feel an ecstatic state rise within.  I heard laughter and tears coming from somewhere in the distance.  The initial pull was intense and somewhat painful, even more so than the piercings themselves.  In time I began to sense a greater energy in the room and a sense of distance within myself.  I felt as though I was an onlooker viewing the ritual from above.  I sensed the energy as if I was hovering above the room only surveying the event taking place.  I recognized no one individual, but a combined energy ebb and flow of emotions, pain, pleasure, excitement, frustration, freedom, relief...  This surging of emotions was from everyone and no one at the same time.  I sensed great release, so many letting go.  Letting go of inhibitions, self, ego, pride, and pain.  After a while I couldn't feel my skin pulling away from my body any longer and I knew it was time to run energy with others. 

I saw a group of about six people standing in a circle with their chords 'tied off' to one carabiener in the center.  I asked if I could join them and they agreed.  This group had done the ritual previously and had traveled together to participate in it again.  The energy amongst them was immensely beautiful and euphoric.  The drums hit a crescendo and the group simultaneously began to yell and pull more ferociously.  At this moment we had one voice combined in song.  It was in this circle, at this moment, I had my first vision of the ritual. 

My sense of time, having escaped me, I do not recall the actual record of events.  I know I pulled energy with many people at different times.  Sometimes tying off to the scaffolding by myself and sometimes having my energy pulled by my helper and other times tying off to a group or another piercee.   I recall tying off to the same group later, that was somewhat larger by now, with Fakir tied off to the circle as well.  He guided us and led us in a circle, spiraling us toward oblivion.  It was truly blissful.  After being led by Fakir for sometime I began to sense an intensity I did not find pleasurable.  Within what was now fifteen people, a tug of war began between two in the circle.  Their aggression and testosterone began to make me ill and I unclamped from the group.  This was the only time I felt ill and nauseous and was the only displeasing moment I experienced during the entire ritual.  Thankfully, it was brief.  I continued pulling with my helper for an unknown period of time.  It was during this time I had a second vision.  I then tied off to Fakir and experienced his energy alone for the first time.  He must have the most mellow-sweet energy of anyone I have ever felt.

Near the end of the ritual I began to recognize that I did not like the sensation of leaving the chords to hang with out tension.  It had become uncomfortable to let the skin sit against the muscle.  By this time I actually preferred to tie off to the scaffolding and let my body weight hang against the pull of the hooks.  Though I was no where near suspension or full body pull I could imagine the blissful next step I would eventually have to take.

The ritual came to a close with the group of us lying on the floor sprawled across each other while we received a blessing from Cleo and Fakir.  Our purification was complete.

August - November, 2003 the Noc Noc hosted a weekly fetish event called CrucifiXion.  Among the participants were BDSM Teddy, Holly, Mary, Xavier, Miss Alex, Labyrinth, Sugar Wilson, and Holly and her boi.  Pictured here (in the crucifiXion gallery on left) are a few of the scenes from those nights of play, pleasure and debauchery.

October 16th, 2004 The Fetish Freak Show, held at the Noc Noc, was an amazingly fun filled adventure of circus sideshow style performance and play.  The myriad of performers included:  Matt, April, Mistress V, Poe, Joseph, Michael, Delaney, Aaron, and Community Bob.  Beside the wonderful eye candy of fetishized jugglers, contortionists, and burlesque were three main acts.  The final being one of intense piercing and theatre (pictured in Fetish Freak Show gallery on right).

January 15th, 2005 The long awaited Insanity Is Bliss event was held at the Noc Noc.  If the Freak Show wasn't crazy enough for you, I'm sure this show more than compensated.  With a fashion show and two scenes for each of the three acts this show was filled to the brim.  Many talented performers graced the stage including:  Poe, Richard, Community Bob, Jenna, Matt, April, Delaney, and of course the whore of the evening Joseph (who completely stole my heart with his multiple talents).  I had the pleasure of doing two SM scenes and one fetish performance over the course of the evening.  The gallery on left depicts those scenes.