Our nation, our global history, our collective mythologies— they all carry the same trauma: a legacy of conquest that wounds both oppressor and oppressed. A deep spiritual-sexual rupture,
triggered by media, shamed by church, numbed by pornography.

Until now.

WE EMBODY SEX AND SPIRIT — BECAUSE WE MUST.

 
 

NATHANAEL L. NOVERO

PRODUCER | ARTIST | SPEAKER

NATHANAEL IS A CAREER PRODUCER-EDITOR WITH A FILM PRODUCTION DEGREE FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA, A FORMER CHURCH CAMP PASTOR WITH SEVEN YEARS IN PROFESSIONAL MINISTRY, AND A DISRUPTOR. HE EMBODIES A TRANSFIGURATIVE AXIS BETWEEN PARADOXICAL OPPOSITES: SEX AND SPIRIT, SACRED AND PROFANE, TRAUMA AND TRANSCENDENCE. HE WALKS AS THE EROTIC CHRIST, AN ESSENTIAL DISTINCTION TO WAKE UP A SLEEPING WORLD.

 

MAGDALENE REMEMBERED

will be available June 23rd for Pay Per View

To heal from my theological fear of sexy women, I returned to my love of filmmaking taking my investigative camera into three fronts — mind, body, and soul.

For the mind, I confronted my church roots. For the body, I became a student of tantra and an apprentice HEALING. For the soul, I transmuted erotica into worship.

This REMEMBERING reconnected me to my cultural roots as a Filipino-American, to Hawaiian brothers and sisters, and the Cherokee whose land raised me. What is remembered in my body heals the wounds of our nation.

OUR NATION’S SEXUAL WOUND:

  • OUR COUNTRY IS DIVIDED. Ever wonder why we either fall into either one of two sides of every hot button issue amplified by mainstream media? Whether it's abortion, gay marriage, gun control, racism, or vaccination cards, we are often triggered to one side with a vehemence that sees the other less than human. Polarizing hot button issues fuel tension between progressives and conservatives, Democrats and Republicans, and between families. Why?

    The nation has a sexual wound. I see racism as one expression of this wound. Sexism is another. It is our sexual wound underneath racism and sexism that is poked and jabbed at by mainstream media inflaming our nation’s trauma into extremes that is blind to itself like Christian Nationalism, systemic racism, and the hypocrisy of politicians and religious leaders shaming the sex work industry while also succumbing to scandal.

    To break from this indoctrination of the MIND, we have to DECONSTRUCT the faith of our Judea-Christian nation. This branch of my work focuses on the microcosm of the macro-problem. By deconstructing PURITY CULTURE as a sub-culture phenomenon that peaked from the mid-90’s to the early 2000’s, we are also deconstructing the faith of our nation to expose the trauma of colonial western expansionism that even white Americans are victims of, a religious-sexual trauma embedded in our systems of government, of education, of entertainment, and our religious institutions. All this while still loving the Truth that is Christ.

  • AMERICAN CHRISTIANITY IS DIVIDED. Modern Christianity has certain pillars in its faith that reinforce an us-versus-them divide such as Satan-versus-Christ, hell-versus-heaven, and good-versus-evil. As Christians, we project this same division outwardly towards others and inwardly towards ourselves. We become polarized from Self and others with the same fierce vehemence as a war between angels and demons.

    To unite as a country, we must first know how to unite with ourselves. As Christian-Americans, we have to fundamentally RECONSTRUCT our faith taking Christianity back to its ancient roots and reconnect to the BODY, the original church. To be aligned with our bodies is to aligned with the Truth in our bodies, what I also like the call the “Gospel of our Bodies”. When we live in this Truth, a Christ-Truth, and we know what this viscerally feels like, then we cannot be manipulated or controlled. Not by propaganda. Not by the indoctrinated version of religion. Not by Artificial Intelligence. Even A.I. must take its cues of what embodiment means from US, because it has no Body itself.

    To reconnect with our bodies, it’s essential to revisit the mystery of the Holy Spirit. This Energy has different names throughout culture. To some, it is Chi. To others, it is prana. In the world of tantra, it is the Kundalini. This branch of my work focuses on the physical awakening of the Holy Spirit that has been dormant in our bodies using SOMATIC WORK, a series of exercises stripped from their cultural stories and performed in groups. This work teaches us how to confront, to hold, and reconcile with eroticism, but safely as energy.

  • AMERICAN SEX EDUCATION KEEPS US DIVIDED. As of today, America is far behind its neighbors regarding sex education, a basic human right that is still not taught in public schools or openly in churches. Meanwhile, pornography dominates as our generation’s most prominent sex educator inundating our children with the most extreme sexual content as young as 7. Adults are also at risk. Without proper sex education from our religious and educational institutions, adults stay just as disassociated from their bodies as the content they consume contributing to a national pandemic greater than Co-Vid: a pandemic proliferating child sexual abuse, domestic abuse, and religious trauma.

    Social media, mainstream news, apps, pornography, and gaming culture is cultivating a generation of disembodied adults who are more endeared to a virtual world than the immediate world around them, a crises of connection that can be forecast by observing Japan and their efforts to re-invigorate their childbirth rates.

    To break from this disassociation cycle, we have to EMBODY, for the betterment of ourselves and the betterment of the human-A.I. hybrid society in the present-now and future.

    This last branch of my work is where I practice embodiment with my camera to confront and heal our collective wound around pornography and sexual shame in church. This ART is an expression of my SOUL, a series of ethnographic film field studies that I call HOLY EROTICA.