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Table of Contents Search Site Also on this website: Toby Johnson's books: TWO SPIRITS: A Story of Life With the Navajo -- in collaboration with Walter Williams GAY SPIRITUALITY: The Role of Gay Identity in the Transformation of Human Consciousness GAY PERSPECTIVE: Things Our Homosexuality Tells Us about the Nature of God and the Universe SECRET MATTER, updated, revised & expanded eidtion from Lethe Press with Afterword by Mark Jordan Read Toby's review of Samuel Avery's The Dimensional Structure of Consciousness GETTING LIFE IN PERSPECTIVE PLAGUE: A NOVEL ABOUT HEALING. Books on Gay Spirituality: White Crane Gay Spirituality Series   Articles and Excerpts: The Simple Answer to the Gay Marriage Debate Why gay people should NOT Marry Wedding Cake Liberation Gay Marriage in Texas What's ironic Shame on the American People The "highest form of love"  The cause of homosexuality What Jesus said about Gay Rights The purpose of homosexuality Mesosexual Ideal for Straight Men Varieties of Gay Spirituality Why Gay Spirituality: Spirituality as Artistic Medium "It's Always About You" The myth of the Bodhisattva Avalokitesvara Joseph Campbell's description of Avalokiteshvara You're Not A Wave Curious Bodies What Toby Johnson Believes The Joseph Campbell Connection, The Nature of Religion Being Gay is a Blessing Freedom of Religion The Gay Agenda Gay Saintliness Gay Spiritual Functions The subtle workings of the spirit in gay men's lives.  "The Evolution of Gay Identity" "St. John of the Cross & the Dark Night of the Soul." Avalokiteshvara at the Baths.  Eckhart's Eye Let Me Tell You a Secret Religious Articulations of the Secret The Collective Unconscious Driving as Spiritual Practice Teenage Prostitution and the Nature of Evil Allah Hu: "God is present here"   Adam and Steve Gay retirement and the "freelance monastery" Seeing with Different Eyes The mystical experience at the Servites'  Castle in Riverside The Great Dance 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 3: Jesus and the Resurrection Part 4: A Course in Miracles The Secret of the Clear Light Understanding the Clear Light Mobius Strip Finding Your Tiger Face How Gay Souls Get Reincarnated About Alien Abduction In honor of Sir Arthur C Clarke The D.A.F.O.D.I.L. Alliance Toby's friend and nicknamesake Toby Marotta. About Michael Talbot, gay mystic About Guy Mannheimer The Gay Spirituality Summit in May 2004 and the  "Statement of Spirituality"

A science fiction novel creates a new reality by making technological, futuristic, mystical and mythical extrapolations from everyday reality. A gay novel describes everyday reality as it is experienced by gay and lesbian people. A better science fiction novel incorporates the technological, futuristic, mystical, and mythical extrapolations into the story, so that the new reality of the novel is not simply a backdrop for an adventure but is an intrinsic part of the development and resolution of the plot. An even better science fiction novel uses those extrapolations to reveal new and surprising insights about present, everyday reality. A better gay novel incorporates the characters' sexual orientation into the story so that it is not simply a backdrop for a standard adventure but is an intrinsic part of the development of the plot. An even better gay novel uses those issues of sexual orientation to demonstrate how certain traits and virtues peculiar to the characters because they are gay or lesbian help to resolve the conflicts of the plot. A gay science fiction novel, then, could simply have gay characters dealing with a standard science fiction adventure.  But the best gay science fiction novel would have to tell an interesting, engrossing, and entertaining tale that incorporates the characters’ sexual orientation into the extrapolated reality in a way that reveals new and surprising, even life-changing, insights about traits and virtues that characterize gay and lesbian people in our present, everyday reality. Toby Johnson's Lammy-winning Secret Matter is such a novel. To Order  SECRET MATTER A romantic comedy with an undercurrent of tension and suspense, a lovable and unforgettable character, the right touch of science fiction, and, as fans of Toby Johnson's will recognize, just the right measure of mystical wisdom to make this a novel you'll thoroughly enjoy and long remember with a pang of fondness and pride. Read more about this Lammy-winning and Spectrum Award-winning novel doorQ.com is a website for gay people interested in science fiction, horror and fantasy writing. Check it out.

Toby Johnson, PhD is author of eight books: three non-fiction books that apply the wisdom of his teacher and "wise old man," Joseph Campbell to modern-day social and religious problems, three gay genre novels that dramatize spiritual issues at the heart of gay identity, and two books on gay men's spiritualities and the mystical experience of homosexuality. In addition to the novels featured elsewhere in this web site, Johnson is author of IN SEARCH OF GOD IN THE SEXUAL UNDERWORLD and THE MYTH OF THE GREAT SECRET (Revised edition): AN APPRECIATION OF JOSEPH CAMPBELL.

Johnson's Lammy Award winning book GAY SPIRITUALITY: The Role of Gay Identity in the Transformation of Human Consciousness was published in 2000.

His Lammy-nominated book  GAY PERSPECTIVE: Things Our Homosexuality Tells Us about the Nature of God and the Universe was published by Alyson in 2003.