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FINDING YOUR OWN TRUE MYTH: What I Learned from Joseph Campbell: The Myth of the Great Hugger-mugger III

GAY SPIRITUALITY: The Role of Gay Identity in the Transformation of Human Consciousness

GAY PERSPECTIVE: Things Our Homosexuality Tells Us virtually the Nature of God and the Universe

Hush-hush Thing, a sci-fi novel with wonderful "aliens" with an Afterword by Mark Jordan

GETTING LIFE IN PERSPECTIVE:  A Fantastical Gay Romance set in two different time periods

THE FOURTH QUILL, a novel near attitudinal healing and the trouble of evil

TWO SPIRITS: A Story of Life with the Navajo, a collaboration with Walter L. Williams

Overjoyed LIVES: Spinning Harbinger into Golden: GaySpirit in Storytelling, a collaboration with Steve Berman and some 30 other writers

THE MYTH OF THE Neat SECRET: An Appreciation of Joseph Campbell

IN SEARCH OF GOD IN THE SEXUAL UNDERWORLD: A Mystical Journey

Unpublished manuscripts

About ordering

Books on Gay Spirituality:

White Crane Gay Spirituality Series

  Manufactures and Excerpts:

Review of Samuel Avery's The Dimensional Construction of Consciousness

Funny Coincidence: "Aliens Settle in San Francisco"

Almost Freedom Books, the Lesbian/Gay Bookstore for Austin, 1986-1996

The Unproblematic Reply to the Gay Union Fence

A Bifurcation of Gay Spirituality

Why gay people should NOT Marry

The Scriptural Basis for Same Sex Marriage

Toby and Kip Get Married

Wedding ceremony Block Liberation

Gay Marriage in Texas

What'south ironic

Shame on the American People

The "highest form of dear"

Gay Consciousness

Why homosexuality is a sin

The cause of homosexuality

The origins of homophobia

Q&A about Jungian ideas in gay consciousness

What is homosexuality?

What is Gay Spirituality?

My three messages

What Jesus said near Gay Rights

Queering religion

Common Experiences Unique to Gay Men

Is at that place a "uniquely gay perspective"?

The purpose of homosexuality

Interview on the Nature of Homosexuality

What the Bible Says nearly Homosexuality

Mesosexual Ideal for Straight Men

Varieties of Gay Spirituality

Waves of Gay Liberation Activity

The Gay Succession

Wouldn�t Y'all Like to Be Uranian?

The Reincarnation of Edward Carpenter

Why Gay Spirituality: Spirituality equally Artistic Medium

Easton Mountain Retreat Eye

Andrew Harvey & Spiritual Activism

The Mysticism of Andrew Harvey

The upsidedown volume on MSNBC

Enlightenment

"It's Always About You lot"

The myth of the Bodhisattva Avalokitesvara

Joseph Campbell's clarification of Avalokiteshvara

You're Non A Wave

Joseph Campbell Talks about Crumbling

What is Enlightenment?

What is reincarnation?

How many lifetimes in an ego?

Emptiness & Religious Ideas

Experiencing experiencing experiencing

Going into the Light

Meditations for a Funeral

Meditation Do

The fashion to get to heaven

Buddha'south father was right

What Anatman ways

Communication to Travelers to Bharat & Nepal

The Danda Nata & goddess Kalika

Nate Berkus is a bodhisattva

John Boswell was Immanuel Kant

Cut edge realization

The Myth of the Wanderer

Change: Source of Suffering & of Bliss

World Navel

What the Vows Really Mean

Manifesting from the Subtle Realms

The Three-layer Block & the Multiverse

The est Training and Personal Intention

Constructive Dreaming in Ursula LeGuin'southward The Lathe of Sky

Gay Spirituality

Curious Bodies

What Toby Johnson Believes

The Joseph Campbell Connectedness

The Mann Ranch (& Rich Gabrielson)

Campbell & The Pre/Trans Fallacy

The Two Loves

The Nature of Religion

What'due south true nigh Religion

Being Gay is a Blessing

Drawing Long Straws

Freedom of Religion

The Gay Agenda

Gay Saintliness

Gay Spiritual Functions

The subtle workings of the spirit in gay men's lives.

The Sinfulness of Homosexuality

Proposal for a study of gay nondualism

Priestly Sexuality

Having a Church to Leave

Harold Cole on Beauty

Marian Doctrines: Immaculate Conception & Assumption

Not lashed to the prayer-mail service

Monastic or Chaste Homosexuality

Is Information technology Time to Grow Upwardly? Confronting the Aging Procedure

Notes on Licking  (July, 1984)

Redeem Orlando

Gay Consciousness changing the globe past Shokti LoveStar

Alexander Renault interviews Toby Johnson

Mystical Vision

"The Evolution of Gay Identity"

"St. John of the Cross & the Dark Night of the Soul."

Avalokiteshvara at the Baths

 Eckhart'southward Eye

Let Me Tell Y'all a Secret

Religious Articulations of the Undercover

The Collective Unconscious

Driving every bit Spiritual Practice

Meditation

Historicity as Myth

Pilgrimage

No Stealing

Next Stride in Development

The New Myth

The Moulting of the Holy Ghost

Gaia is a Bodhisattva

The Hero's Journey

The Hero's Journey every bit archetype -- GSV 2016

The  Gay Hero Journey (shortened)

You're On Your Ain

Superheroes

Seeing Differently

Teenage Prostitution and the Nature of Evil

Allah Hu: "God is present hither"

Adam and Steve

The Life is in the Blood

Gay retirement and the "freelance monastery"

Seeing with Different Eyes

Facing the Border: AIDS as an occasion for spiritual wisdom

What are y'all looking for in a gay science fiction novel?

The Vision

The mystical feel at the Servites'  Castle in Riverside

A  Almost Remarkable Synchronicity in Riverside

The Great Trip the light fantastic toe according to C.S.Lewis

The Techniques Of The World Saviors

Part 1: Brer Rabbit and the Tar-Baby

Part 2: The Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara

Part iii: Jesus and the Resurrection

Part iv: A Grade in Miracles

The Secret of the Clear Calorie-free

Agreement the Clear Low-cal

Mobius Strip

Finding Your Tiger Face

How Gay Souls Get Reincarnated

Joseph Campbell, the Hero's Journey, and the modern Gay Hero-- a five function presentation on YouTube

About Conflicting Abduction

In accolade of Sir Arthur C Clarke

Karellen was a homosexual

The D.A.F.O.D.I.L. Alliance

Intersections with the motion-picture show When Nosotros Rise

More nearly Gay Mental Health

Psych Tech Training

Toby at the California Institute

The Rainbow Flag

Ideas for gay mythic stories

People

Kip and Toby, Activists

Toby'due south friend and nicknamesake Toby Marotta.

Harry Hay, Founder of the gay movement

Virtually Hay and The New Myth

Nigh Karl Heinrich Ulrichs, the first man to really "come out"

Most Michael Talbot, gay mystic

About Fr. Bernard Lynch

About Richard Baltzell

Nearly Guy Mannheimer

Most David Weyrauch

Almost Dennis Paddie

Near Ask the Fire

About Arthur Evans

About Christopher Larkin

About Mark Thompson

About Sterling Houston

Most Michael Stevens

The Alamo Business organisation Council

Our friend Tom Nash

Second March on Washington

The Gay Spirituality Tiptop in May 2004 and the "Statement of Spirituality"

Book Reviews

Be Done on Earth by Howard E. Cook

Pay Me What I'yard Worth past Souldancer

The Way Out by Christopher L  Nutter

The Gay Disciple by John Henson

Art That Dares by Kittredge Carmine

Coming Out, Coming Home by Kennth A. Burr

Extinguishing the Lite past B. Alan Bourgeois

Over Java: A conversation For Gay Partnership & Conservative Religion by D.a. Thompson

Dark Knowledge by Kenneth Depression

Janet Planet by Eleanor Lerman

The Kairos by Paul E. Hartman

Wrestling with Jesus by D.K.Maylor

Kali Ascension past Rudolph Ballentine

The Missing Myth past Gilles Herrada

The Surreptitious of the 2d Coming past Howard E. Cook

The Scar Messages: A Novel by Richard Alther

The Future is Queer by Labonte & Schimel

Missing Mary by Charlene Spretnak

Gay Spirituality 101 by Joe Perez

Cutting Mitt: A Nineteeth Century Dearest Story on the American Frontier by Mark Wildyr

Radiomen by Eleanor Lerman

Nights at Rizzoli by Felice Picano

The Key to Unlocking the Closet Door by Chelsea Griffo

The Door of the Eye by Diana Finfrock Farrar

Occam�south Razor past David Duncan

Grace and Demion by Mel White

Gay Men and The New Way Forwards by Raymond Fifty. Rigoglioso

The Dimensional Stucture of Consciousness past Samuel Avery

The Manly Pursuit of Want and Beloved by Perry Brass

Beloved Together: Longtime Male person Couples on Healthy Intimacy and Communication by Tim Clausen

War Betwixt Materialism and Spiritual by Jean-Michel Bitar

The Snake's Gift: Gnostic Reflections on the Study of Faith by Jeffrey J. Kripal

Esalen: America and the Religion of No Faith past Jeffrey J. Kripal

The Invitation to Love by Darren Pierre

Brain, Consciousness, and God: A Lonerganian Integration by Daniel A Helminiak

A Walk with Iv Spiritual Guides by Andrew Harvey

Tin can Christians Exist Saved? by Stephenson & Rhodes

The Lost Secrets of the Ancient Mystery Schools by Stephenson & Rhodes

Keys to Spiritual Being: Energy Meditation and Synchronization Exercises by Adrian Ravarour

In Walt We Trust by John Marsh

Solomon'due south Tantric Song by Rollan McCleary

A Special Illumination by Rollan McCleary

Aelred's Sin by Lawrence Scott

Fruit Handbasket by Payam Ghassemlou

Internal Landscapes by John Ollom

Princes & Pumpkins by David Hatfield Sparks

Yes by Brad Boney

Claret of the Goddess past William Schindler

Roads of Excess, Palaces of Wisdom by Jeffrey Kripal

Evolving Dharma by Jay Michaelson

Jesus in Salome's Lot by Brett W. Gillette

The Man Who Loved Birds by Fenton Johnson

The Vatican Murders by Lucien Gregoire

"Sex Campsite" past Brian McNaught

Out & About with Brewer & Berg
Episode I: Searching for a New Mythology

The Soul Beneath the Skin past David Nimmons

Out on Holy Footing by Donald Boisvert

The Revotutionary Psychology of Gay-Centeredness past Mitch Walker

Out At that place past Perry Contumely

The Crucifixion of Hyacinth by Geoff Puterbaugh

The Silence of Sodom by Marking D Jordan

It's Never Almost What Information technology'south About past Krandall Kraus and Paul Borja

ReCreations, edited past Catherine Lake

Gospel: A Novel by WIlton Barnhard

Keeping Faith: A Skeptic�s Journey by Fenton Johnson

Dating the Greek Gods by Brad Gooch

Telling Truths in Church building by Mark D. Jordan

The Substance of God past Perry Brass

The Tomcat Chronicles by Jack Nichols

10 Smart Things Gay Men Tin can Do to Improve Their Lives by Joe Kort

Jesus and the Shamanic Tradition of Same Sex activity Love by Volition Roscoe

The 3rd Appearance by Walter Starcke

The Final Hours of Ancient Sunlight by Thom Hartmann

Surviving and Thriving Later on a Life-Threatening Diagnosis by Bev Hall

Men, Homosexuality, and the Gods by Ronald Long

An Interview with Ron Long

Queering Creole Spiritual Traditons past Randy Conner & David Sparks

An Interview with Randy Conner

Pain, Sexual practice and Time by Gerald Heard

Sex and the Sacred by Daniel Helminiak

Blessing Same-Sexual practice Unions past Mark Jordan

Rising Upwards by Joe Perez

Soulfully Gay by Joe Perez

That Undeniable Longing by Marker Tedesco

Vintage: A Ghost Story by Steve Berman

Wisdom for the Soul by Larry Chang

MM4M a DVD by Bruce Grether

Double Cross by David Ranan

The Transcended Christian by Daniel Helminiak

Jesus in Love by Kittredge Cherry

In the Middle of the Storm by Factor Robinson

The Starry Dynamo past Sven Davisson

Life in Paradox by Fr Paul Murray

Spirituality for Our Global Community by Daniel Helminiak

Gay & Healthy in a Sick Society by Robert A. Pocket-size

Coming Out: Irish gaelic Gay Experiences by Glen O'Brien

Queering Christ past Robert Goss

Skipping Towards Gomorrah past Dan Fell

The Flesh of the Word by Richard A Rosato

Catland by David Garrett Izzo

Tantra for Gay Men by Bruce Anderson

Yoga & the Path of the Urban Mystic past Darren Master

Simple Grace by Malcolm Boyd

70 Times Seven by Salvatore Sapienza

What Does "Queer" Mean Anyhow? by Chris Bartlett

Critique of Patriarchal Reasoning by Arthur Evans

Souvenir of the Soul by Dale Colclasure & David Jensen

Legend of the Raibow Warriors by Steven McFadden

The Liar's Prayer by Gregory Flood

Lovely are the Messengers by Daniel Plasman

The Human Core of Spirituality by Daniel Helminiak

3001: The Final Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke

Religion and the Human Sciences by Daniel Helminiak

Only the Good Parts by Daniel Curzon

Four Short Reviews of Books with a Bulletin

Life Interrupted by Michael Parise

Confessions of a Murdered Pope by Lucien Gregoire

The Stargazer'southward Embassy past Eleanor Lerman

Conscious Living, Conscious Aging by Ron Pevny

Footprints Through the Desert by Joshua Kauffman

True Religion past J.L. Weinberg

The Mediterranean Universe past John Newmeyer

Everything is God by Jay Michaelson

Reflection by Dennis Merritt

Everywhere Home past Fenton Johnson

Hard Lesson by James Gaston

God vs Gay? past Jay Michaelson

The Gate of Tears: Sadness and the Spiritual Path by Jay Michaelson

Roxie & Fred by Richard Alther

Not the Son He Expected by Tim Clausen

The 9 Realities of Stardust by Bruce P. Grether

The Afterlife Revolution past Anne & Whitley Strieber

AIDS Shaman: Queer Spirit Awakening by Shokti Lovestar

Facing the Truth of Your Life by Merle Yost

The Super Natural past Whitley Strieber & Jeffrey J Kripal

Secret Torso by Jeffrey J Kripal

In Hitler'southward House by Jonathan Lane

Walking on Glory by Edward Swift

The Paradox of Porn past Don Shewey

Is Heaven for Real? past Lucien Gregoire

Scissors, Paper, Rock past Fenton Johnson

Toby Johnson's Books on Gay Men'south Spiritualities:

Gay Perspective

Things Our [Human]sexuality
Tells United states of america about the
Nature of God and
the Universe

Gay Perspective is available equally an audiobook narrated by Matthew Whitfield. Click here

Gay Spirituality

Gay Identity and
the Transformation of
Human Consciousness

Gay Spirituality   is now available equally an audiobook, beautifully narrated past John Sipple. Click hither

Charmed Lives: Gay Spirit in Storytelling

edited by
Toby Johnson
& Steve Berman

Secret Affair

Lammy Laurels Winner for Gay Scientific discipline Fiction

updated

Getting Life in Perspective

A Fantastical Romance

Getting Life in Perspective is bachelor as an audiobook narrated by Alex Beckham. Click here

The Fourth Quill

originally published as PLAGUE

The Fourth Quill is available as an audiobook, narrated by Jimmie Moreland. Click hither

Two Spirits: A Story of Life with the Navajo

with Walter 50. Williams

Two Spirits  is available as an audiobook  narrated past Arthur Raymond. Click here

Finding Your Ain True Myth:

What I Learned from Joseph Campbell

The Myth of the Peachy Secret III

In Search of God  in the Sexual Underworld

The Myth of the Great Hush-hush: An Appreciation of Joseph Campbell.

This was the second edition of this book.

Toby Johnson's titles are available in other ebook formats from Smashwords.

 The way to apply the aboriginal wisdom of India

Yoga and the Path of the Urban Mystic

past  Darren Main

originally published past Findhorn Books, 260 pages, $xv.95

September 1, 2002

978-1499118599

Bachelor from Amazon.com new and used Yoga and the Path of the Urban Mystic: 4th Edition

This review appeared in White Crane Journal #56, Leap 2003

T his book by a young gay yoga and meditation instructor in San Francisco beautifully and understandably sums up nigh everything you�d demand to know nearly the spiritual life. The terminology comes in Hindu flavor and the organisation is based on Patanjali�due south Yoga Sutra, but the wisdom in the volume is universal. And Darren John Principal conveys it with but enough autobiographical reference to go far evidently relevant to mod urban lives (as the title suggests it should) and, incidentally and pleasurably, to show Main as an appealing and attainable example of the archetype of the spiritual gay human being.

Co-ordinate to Patanjali, at that place are eight limbs of yoga: Moral Restraints (nonviolence, truthfulness, nonstealing, sexual moderation, greedlessness); Observances (purity, contentment, austerity, study, surrender); Asanas�the concrete poses nosotros unremarkably think of equally yoga; Pranayama�animate practices; Sense Withdrawal; Concentration; Meditation; and Ecstasy in Samadhi.

Chief explains these smoothly and intelligently, making them sound similar familiar feel rather than esoteric jargon. The middle of the book (asanas and pranayamas) does sound like usual yoga instructions�and well-presented. Only the book is so much more than just a yoga manual. It could truly part as a guidebook for life. I institute the descriptions of the yogic �virtues� literally compelling and inspiring.

Especially if yous take an interest in Hindu tradition, just non necessarily, you�ll likely like this book.

Reviewed by Toby Johnson, author of Gay Spirituality: Gay Identity and the Transformation of Man Consciousness, The Myth of the Great Underground: An Appreciation of Joseph Campbell and other novels and books

hagberghertake.blogspot.com

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