God and Sex: Perhaps the two most powerful and loaded words in the English language.
This book is a serious, yet not humourless, stake in the ground for bringing the two words together in their intrinsic harmony as the creative force of life.
- Why a few publishers were frightened by the title “God and Sex”
- How sex has been vulgarized by religious culture and the burden of pornography
- How, by separating the concepts of God and Sex, humanity has made both of them useless, and created the whole Sex taboo in the first place
- Post-religious shock syndrome and how the idea of God has been used as a power mechanism
- The union of opposites and how they empower each other, whether in opposite or same-sex intimacy
- How the yogas of participation in reality have been stripped away from humanity and replaced with control and self-destructive male strength
- Reality Realisers in different cultures throughout human history and their relationship with Yoga
- What's the problem of thinking about spirituality like a very sexless thing?
- Why positive sexuality is one of the “lost wonders of the world”
- Why tantra and yoga weren’t used as words in this book
- The role of a book in spiritual practice and the trap of intellectualizing yoga practice
- Positive cultural criticism and its role in the unlearning process
- Why J Krishnamurti denounced yoga publicly, but kept the practice privately
- Transcending genre expectations: relationships and philosophy as one
- Do you have to give up your religion to practice yoga and embrace your sexual nature?
- Why sexuality is the heart's and God's activity
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