Spiritual Sexual Shamanic Podcast · International School of Temple Arts

Candid Conversations & Criticism about the Sacred Sexuality Space: Dave Booda

·2 hr 18 min

Simon Marvell opens with a warm, joking welcome. He sets up the conversation around sexuality, transformation, relationships, and freedom before bringing in Dave Buddha. The first stretch stays playful and loose, with a bit of wordplay around a bio and a joke about BO. That ease settles the room quickly. Simon introduces Dave as a writer, musician, and social entrepreneur, and as the co-founder of Intimacy Fest and host of the Darkness Experiment. He also notes that Dave has led many workshops on connection, touch, and relationships. From there, the conversation turns toward appetite. Dave says he is drawn to depth, not just to what already makes him feel competent or successful. He describes a restlessness that keeps pushing him beyond the default and toward something more alive. Simon keeps asking how that kind of searching works in ordinary life. Dave answers by contrasting passive observation with real participation. That contrast becomes one of the episode's main threads. Workshop language and frameworks matter, but only if they are carried home and lived. Relationships become the clearest place to test that claim. Dave says there is no real way to do relationship work from the sidelines. He describes marriage as a kind of school that keeps revealing parts of himself he would not otherwise meet. Simon mirrors that idea by naming the honest friction of years together and the way new truths keep surfacing. Humility becomes its own theme. Dave says he often needs humble pie every morning, or things can turn into a war zone. Simon contrasts that with his own medicine of taking up more space, and the difference between them is treated as useful rather than divisive. The talk stays grounded in embodied examples instead of tidy abstractions. It keeps returning to intimacy, conflict, and the slow work of integration. By the end, the mood is affectionate, searching, and unhurried. Dave points listeners toward his writing at Buddhaism and invites them to find him by name. The closing lands like two friends finishing a serious conversation that still feels open. It leaves behind a sense that sacred work only matters when it shows up in marriage, intimacy, and the next hard conversation.

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A candid, wandering conversation that turns sexuality and relationships into everyday practice.

This episode stays with sexuality, transformation, relationships, and freedom as Simon Marvell and Dave Buddha talk through what it means to live the teachings instead of just describing them. The conversation is candid and often uneasy in a good way.

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Press play for a candid, marriage-tested talk about intimacy, humility, and depth.

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