Dark Odyssey Summer Camp is perhaps the most amazing event I’ve ever gone to or had the privilege of teaching at. I love all the Dark Odyssey produced events, but the summer camp is special for a number of reasons. Not the least of which is its isolation from the outside world.

See, at a hotel event there are certain expectations that the guests won’t do anything “kinky” in areas that the public might accidentally see. There are no such areas at summer camp.

This years camp was very special for me. For the first time ever, I got out of my own way. What I mean by this is that, for the most part, I was able to put aside my fears and just exist in the moment. Rather than be disappointed that I missed something or someone, I took advantage of opportunities as they appeared for me. I made a choice of having what I wanted rather than caring about what it looked like.

At the closing of the event, during a grounding circle that I run to help make transition back to the outside world easier, a friend of mine said that he thought DOSC must be what heaven is like.

I thought about it a moment.

No judgment.
No artificial constraints on behavior that harms none.
Freedom to be however you want to be rather than how the world expects you to be because of what chromosome you were born with.
The freedom to express desires that the outside world calls “evil.”
The freedom to experience pleasure as loudly as you want.
The freedom to shed the identity trappings of “normal” society to just be yourself.

Yes, I think my friend was right.

Dark Odyssey Summer Camp is heaven on earth