NATHANAEL L. NOVERO

is a Youtube content creator and a docu-series producer-editor working for networks like Discovery Channel, A&E, History Channel, Netflix, National Geographic, Facebook, MTV, and more.

He is the co-host and co-producer of TOUCH PODCAST: Conversations of Spirit and Body and co-creator of PURITYLAND, a documentary series in development with Original Productions and Rolling Stone magazine confronting the purity culture phenomenon through the biggest pop stars who abandoned their purity rings.

As an artist and speaker, Nathanael is the driving force of HOLY EROTICA & THE GOSPEL OF THE BODY, a series of traveling film exhibitions and lectures traveling across the country to reconcile spirituality and sexuality; his heart-felt response to the current lack of proper sex education available and over-saturation of unconscious

pornography.

FILMMAKER | ARTIST | SPEAKER

I use my love of filmmaking as a hack around my triggers to confront sexuality. By deconstructing the filmmaking medium, I deconstruct my trauma. When I edit, I reconcile sex and spirit through worship, a real-time self-actualization through filmmaking reconnecting me to my cultural roots as a Filipino-American . . . and a forgotten story carried in ink.

HOLY EROTICA & THE GOSPEL OF THE BODY

I am touring a film discussion-screening series called HOLY EROTICA beginning with our latest film MAGDALENE REMEMBERED. I am also offering a lecture called GOSPEL OF THE BODY where I go over the 7 teaching distinctions that expanded my faith in God to include the things I was afraid of.

  • PURITY CULTURE

    | THEOLOGY |

    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 its 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 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. Featuring:

    • TOUCH PODCAST: Conversations of Spirit and Body.

    • PURITY MOVIE, a 3-month Youtube campaign

    • PURIFIED, a live purity culture story slam event co-produced with North Caroline NPR station WUNC.

  • TANTRA SCIENCE

    | SOMATIC |

    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 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, my mentor and I tap into the Energy within all things. 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. Christians know this mystical Energy as the Holy Spirit. This branch of my work focuses on the physical awakening of the Holy Spirit that has been dormant in our bodies using TANTRA SCIENCE, a series of exercises stripped from their cultural stories and performed in groups and private sessions. This work teaches us how to confront, to hold, and to reconcile our sexual energy without overtly working with sexuality. Featuring:

    • TANTRA SCIENCE Work Shops and Demos FOR CHURCHES AND CHRISTIANS

  • HOLY EROTICA

    | ART |

    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. This is done to ourselves in blatant ways in the quiet, secret places of our shame; and done in not-as-blatant ways as we transfer our knowledge to our children and children’s children.

    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 societal evolution that isn’t so bad as long as what we know what our own Truth is via embodiment. 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 our future.

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

    • JFOD, a Coffee Table Art Book