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FINDING
YOUR OWN TRUE MYTH: What I Learned
from Joseph Campbell: The
Myth
of the
Great Secret
III
FINDING
GOD IN THE SEXUAL UNDERWORLD: The Journey Expanded
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, 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 about attitudinal healing and the problem of evil
TWO SPIRITS: A Story of Life with
the
Navajo, a collaboration with Walter L. Williams
CHARMED
LIVES: Spinning Straw into
Gold: GaySpirit in Storytelling, a collaboration with
Steve Berman and some 30 other writers
THE MYTH OF THE GREAT
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Unpublished manuscripts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
Articles
and Excerpts:
Review of
Samuel
Avery's The
Dimensional Structure of Consciousness
Funny
Coincidence: "Aliens Settle in San Francisco"
About Liberty Books, the
Lesbian/Gay Bookstore for Austin, 1986-1996 with a list of topics in
Austin LGBT History
The Simple Answer to the Gay Marriage Debate
A
Bifurcation of Gay Spirituality
Why gay people should NOT Marry
The Scriptural Basis for
Same Sex Marriage
Toby and Kip Get Married
Wedding Cake Liberation
Gay Marriage in Texas
What's ironic
Shame on the American People
The "highest form of love"
Gay
Consciousness
Why homosexuality is a sin
The cause of homosexuality
The
origins of homophobia
Advice to
Future Gay
Historians
Q&A
about Jungian ideas in gay consciousness
What
is homosexuality?
What
is Gay Spirituality?
My three
messages
What is Gay
Perspective?
What
Jesus said about Gay
Rights
Myths, Salvation and the Great
Secret with Rich Grzesiak
Queering
religion
Common
Experiences Unique to Gay
Men
Is there a "uniquely gay
perspective"?
The
purpose of homosexuality
Interview on the Nature of
Homosexuality
What the Bible Says about
Homosexuality
Mesosexual
Ideal for Straight Men
Varieties
of Gay Spirituality
Waves
of Gay Liberation Activity
Psycho-Spiritual
Development
The Gay Succession
Wouldn’t You Like to Be Uranian?
The Reincarnation of
Edward Carpenter
Queer
men, myths and Reincarnation
Was I (or you) at
Stonewall?
Why Gay Spirituality: Spirituality
as Artistic Medium
Easton Mountain Retreat Center
Andrew Harvey &
Spiritual Activism
The Mysticism of
Andrew Harvey
The
upsidedown book on MSNBC
Enlightenment
"It's
Always About You"
The myth of the Bodhisattva
Avalokitesvara
Joseph
Campbell's description of
Avalokiteshvara
The Nature of
Suffering and The Four Quills
You're
Not A Wave
Joseph Campbell Talks
about Aging
Toby's Experience of
Zen
What is Enlightenment?
What is reincarnation?
What happens at Death?
How many lifetimes in an
ego?
Emptiness & Religious Ideas
Experiencing experiencing experiencing
Going into the Light
Meditations for a Funeral
Meditation Practice
The way to get to heaven
Buddha's father was right
What Anatman means
Advice to Travelers to India
& Nepal
The Danda Nata
& goddess Kalika
A Funny Story:
The Rug Salesmen of Istanbul
Nate Berkus is a bodhisattva
John Boswell was Immanuel Kant
Cutting
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
Cake
& the Multiverse
The
est Training and Personal Intention
Effective
Dreaming in Ursula LeGuin's The Lathe of Heaven
Drawing a Long Straw:
Ketamine at the Mann Ranch
Alan Watts &
Multiple Solipsism
How
I Learned Chakra Meditation
Je ne Regrette
Rien
Jungian Themes in
Spirituality & Psychology
Gay
Spirituality
Curious
Bodies
What
Toby Johnson Believes
The
Joseph Campbell Connection
A Surprising Dinner Party
The
Mann Ranch (& Rich Gabrielson)
Campbell
& The Pre/Trans Fallacy
The
Two Loves
The
Nature of Religion
What's true about
Religion
Being
Gay is a Blessing
Drawing Long Straws
Freedom
of Religion
Gay Relationship Rings: Symbols to Help
Cement Our Commitment
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-post
Monastic or Chaste
Homosexuality
The Monastic Schedule: a whimsy
Is It Time to Grow
Up? Confronting
the Aging Process
Notes on Licking
(July, 1984)
Redeem Orlando
Gay Consciousness changing
the
world by 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's Eye
Let Me
Tell You a Secret
Religious
Articulations of the
Secret
The
Collective Unconscious
Driving as
Spiritual Practice
Meditation
Historicity
as Myth
Pilgrimage
No
Stealing
Next
Step in Evolution
The
New Myth
The Moulting of the Holy Ghost
Gaia
is a Bodhisattva
Sex with God
Merging Religion and Sex
Revolution
Through
Consciousness Change: GSV 2019
God as Metaphor
More Metaphors for God
A non-personal
metaphor God
Jesus and the Wedding Feast
Tonglen in the Radisson Varanasi
The
Closet of Horrors
What is Truth?
Fish on Friday
The Hero's
Journey
The
Hero's Journey as archetype -- GSV 2016
The Gay Hero Journey
(shortened)
You're
On Your Own
Superheroes
Seeing
Differently
Teenage
Prostitution and the Nature of Evil
Allah
Hu: "God is present here"
Adam
and Steve
The Life is
in the Blood
Gay retirement and the "freelance
monastery"
Seeing with
Different Eyes
Facing
the Edge: AIDS as an occasion for spiritual wisdom
What
are you looking for in a gay science fiction novel?
A Different Take on Leathersex
Seeing
Pornography Differently
The Vision
The
mystical experience at the Servites' Castle in Riverside
A Most Remarkable
Synchronicity 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
Joseph
Campbell, the Hero's Journey, and the modern Gay Hero-- a five part
presentation on YouTube
About Alien Abduction
In
honor of Sir Arthur C Clarke
Karellen was a homosexual
The
D.A.F.O.D.I.L. Alliance
Intersections
with the movie When We Rise
More
about Gay Mental Health
Psych
Tech Training
Toby
at the California Institute
The
Rainbow Flag
Ideas for gay
mythic stories
My first Peace March
Toby
Marotta & Sons of Harvard
Toby
Marotta's Politics of Homosexuality
People
Kip and Toby,
Activists
Toby's
friend and nicknamesake Toby Marotta.
24 Mandalas
Hand-drawn by Geoffrey Graham
Harry
Hay, Founder of the gay movement
About Hay and The New Myth
About
Karl
Heinrich Ulrichs, the first
man to really "come out"
About Michael Talbot, gay mystic
About Fr. Bernard Lynch
About Richard Baltzell
About Guy Mannheimer
About Bill
About David Weyrauch
About
Dennis Paddie
About Ask the Fire
About
Arthur Evans
About
Christopher Larkin
About Mark Thompson
About Sterling Houston
About Michael Stevens
The Alamo Business
Council
Our friend Tom Nash
Our friend Cliff Douglas
Second March on
Washington
The
Gay
Spirituality Summit in May 2004 and the "Statement
of Spirituality"
Book
Reviews
Be Done on Earth by Howard
E. Cook
Pay Me What I'm Worth by
Souldancer
The Way Out by Christopher
L Nutter
The Gay Disciple by John Henson
Art That Dares by Kittredge Cherry
Coming Out, Coming Home by Kennth
A. Burr
Extinguishing
the Light by B. Alan Bourgeois
Over Coffee: A conversation
For Gay
Partnership & Conservative Faith by D.a. Thompson
Dark Knowledge
by
Kenneth Low
Janet Planet by
Eleanor
Lerman
The
Kairos by Paul E. Hartman
Wrestling
with Jesus by D.K.Maylor
Kali Rising by Rudolph
Ballentine
The
Missing Myth by Gilles Herrada
The
Secret of the Second Coming by Howard E. Cook
The Scar Letters: A
Novel
by Richard Alther
The
Future is Queer by Labonte & Schimel
Missing Mary
by Charlene Spretnak
Gay
Spirituality 101 by Joe Perez
Cut Hand: A
Nineteeth Century Love 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 Heart by Diana Finfrock Farrar
Occam’s
Razor by David Duncan
Grace
and
Demion by Mel White
Gay Men and The New Way Forward by Raymond L.
Rigoglioso
The
Dimensional Stucture of Consciousness by Samuel Avery
The
Manly Pursuit of Desire and Love by Perry Brass
Love
Together: Longtime Male Couples on Healthy Intimacy and Communication
by Tim Clausen
War
Between Materialism and Spiritual by Jean-Michel Bitar
The
Serpent's Gift: Gnostic Reflections on the Study of Religion by
Jeffrey J. Kripal
Esalen:
America and the Religion of No Religion by Jeffrey J. Kripal
The
Invitation to Love by
Darren Pierre
Brain,
Consciousness, and God: A Lonerganian Integration by Daniel A
Helminiak
A
Walk with Four Spiritual Guides by Andrew Harvey
Can
Christians Be 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's
Tantric Song by Rollan McCleary
A
Special Illumination by Rollan McCleary
Aelred's
Sin
by Lawrence Scott
Fruit
Basket
by Payam Ghassemlou
Internal
Landscapes by John Ollom
Princes
& Pumpkins by David Hatfield Sparks
Yes by Brad
Boney
Blood
of the Goddess by 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 Camp"
by
Brian McNaught
Out
& About with Brewer & Berg
Episode
One: Searching for a New Mythology
The
Soul Beneath the Skin by David Nimmons
Out
on
Holy Ground by Donald Boisvert
The
Revotutionary Psychology of Gay-Centeredness by Mitch Walker
Out There
by Perry Brass
The Crucifixion of Hyacinth by Geoff Puterbaugh
The
Silence of Sodom by Mark D Jordan
It's
Never About What It's About by Krandall Kraus and Paul Borja
ReCreations,
edited by 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 by Mark D. Jordan
The
Substance of God by Perry Brass
The
Tomcat Chronicles by Jack Nichols
10
Smart
Things Gay Men Can Do to Improve Their Lives by Joe Kort
Jesus and the Shamanic Tradition of Same Sex Love
by Will Roscoe
The
Third Appearance by Walter Starcke
The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight by Thom Hartmann
Surviving
and Thriving After a Life-Threatening Diagnosis by Bev Hall
Men,
Homosexuality, and the Gods by Ronald Long
An Interview
with Ron Long
Queering Creole Spiritual Traditons by Randy
Conner & David Sparks
An Interview with
Randy Conner
Pain,
Sex
and Time by Gerald Heard
Sex
and the Sacred by Daniel Helminiak
Blessing
Same-Sex Unions by Mark Jordan
Rising Up
by
Joe Perez
Soulfully
Gay
by Joe Perez
That
Undeniable Longing by Mark 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 Eye of the Storm by Gene Robinson
The
Starry Dynamo by 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.
Minor
Coming Out: Irish Gay Experiences by Glen O'Brien
Queering
Christ
by Robert Goss
Skipping
Towards Gomorrah by Dan Savage
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 by Darren Main
Simple
Grace
by Malcolm Boyd
Seventy
Times Seven by Salvatore Sapienza
What
Does "Queer" Mean Anyway? by Chris Bartlett
Critique of Patriarchal Reasoning by Arthur Evans
Gift
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 Message
Life
Interrupted by Michael Parise
Confessions of a Murdered Pope by Lucien Gregoire
The
Stargazer's Embassy by Eleanor Lerman
Conscious
Living, Conscious Aging by Ron Pevny
Footprints Through the Desert by Joshua Kauffman
True
Religion by J.L. Weinberg
The Mediterranean Universe by John Newmeyer
Everything
is God by Jay Michaelson
Reflection
by Dennis Merritt
Everywhere
Home by Fenton Johnson
Hard Lesson by James
Gaston
God
vs Gay?
by 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 by Anne & Whitley Strieber
AIDS
Shaman:
Queer Spirit Awakening by Shokti Lovestar
Facing the Truth of Your Life by Merle Yost
The
Super Natural by Whitley Strieber & Jeffrey J Kripal
Secret
Body by
Jeffrey J Kripal
In
Hitler's
House by Jonathan Lane
Walking on Glory by Edward Swift
The
Paradox
of Porn by Don Shewey
Is Heaven for Real? by Lucien Gregoire
In
Search of Lost Lives by Michael Goddart
Queer
Magic by Tomas Prower
God
in Your Body by Jay Michaelson
Science
Whispering Spirit by Gary Preuss
Friends
of Dorothy by Dee Michel
New by
Whitley Strieber
Developing Supersensible Perception by Shelli
Renee Joye
Sage
Sapien by Johnson Chong
Tarot
of the Future by Arthur Rosengarten
Brothers
Across Time by Brad Boney
Impresario
of Castro Street by Marc Huestis
Deathless
by Andrew Ramer
The
Pagan Heart of the West, Vol 1 by
Randy P. Conner
Practical
Tantra by William Schindler
The Flip
by Jeffrey J. Kripal
A New World
by Whitley Strieber
Bernhard
& LightWing by Damien Rowse
The
Mountains of Paris by David Oates
Trust
Truth by Trudie Barreras
How to be an Excellent Human Being by Bill Meacham
The
Deviant's War by Eric Cervini
What
Is the Grass by Mark Doty
Sex
with God by Suzanne DeWitt Hall
The Sum of All the Pieces by Paul Bradford
All the Time in the World by J. Lee Graham
Jonas and the Mountain by Janis Harper
Two
Hearts Dancing by Eli Andrew Ramer
Where's
My Pizza? by Larry Armstead II
A New Now by
Michael Goddart
Heavenly
Homos, Etc by Jan Haen
The Erotic Contemplative by Michael Bernard Kelly
Our Time by Chuck
Forester
Queer
God de Amor by Miguel H. Diaz
I Came Here Seeking a Person by William Glenn
Memories of a Gay Catholic Boyhood by John
D'Emilio
Ever
After by Andrew Ramer
Meditation
for Prisoners by Lewis Elbinger
Why and
How the Clergy Lied by D.L. Day
Heavenly
LGBTQ+ by Jan Haen
My Life
As a Boy, Priest, Gay Man, and Artist by Jan Haen
Trailblazerrs
in Love by Jeff Lutes
Daddy
Lover God by Don Shewey
Coming In by
Urs Mattman
The Shoes
of the Fisherman movie with Anthony Quinn
Tantric Psychophysics by Shelli Joye
The Hidden Dimensions of Consciousness by Shelli
Joye
Queer Callings by Mark D Jordan
The Secret That Is Not a Secret by Jay Michaelson
Divining
Desire by Sequoia Thom
Making
Room by Carl Siciliano
Asking Answers, Finding Questions by Don Hall
Our Tribe Chanting by Andrew Ramer
Listen Up! Adversity is Calling You Home by Dr Paul Yang
Scissors,
Paper, Rock by Fenton Johnson
Toby
Johnson's
Books on Gay Men's Spiritualities:
Gay Perspective
Things Our
[Homo]sexuality
Tells Us
about the
Nature of God and
the Universe
Gay
Perspective is available as an audiobook narrated
by Matthew Whitfield. Click
here
Gay Spirituality
Gay Identity
and
the Transformation
of
Human Consciousness
Gay
Spirituality is now
available as an audiobook, beautifully narrated by John Sipple. Click here
Charmed
Lives: Gay Spirit in Storytelling
edited by
Toby Johnson
& Steve Berman
Secret
Matter
Lammy Award Winner
for Gay
Science Fiction
updated
Getting Life in
Perspective
A Fantastical
Romance
Getting
Life in Perspective is available 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 here
Two Spirits: A Story of
Life
with the Navajo
with Walter L.
Williams
 Two
Spirits is available as an
audiobook narrated by Arthur Raymond. Click
here
Finding
Your Own True Myth: What I Learned from Joseph
Campbell
The
Myth
of the
Great Secret III
In Search of God in the Sexual Underworld
Finding
God In The Sexual Underworld: The Journey
Expanded
2020 Revised Version
The Myth of the Great
Secret: An Appreciation of Joseph Campbell.
This
was the second edition of this book.
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Johnson's
titles are
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The Gay Spirituality Movement from early Gay Liberation to modern Queer Consciousness
Spirits Queer, Spirits True
Explorations of the Soul, Documenting and Celebrating
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Spirits Queer, Spirits True
Description:
Some of us have always known our difference is sacred
Across every culture, every century, every corner of the human story,
there have been those of us who lived outside the dominant pattern —
who did not partner heterosexually, who did not fit the gender roles
that others took for granted. Burdened by our difference, or liberated
by it, or called deeper into mystery because of it — we have always
existed. And many of us understood our difference not as a wound, but
as a spiritual power.
Spirits Queer, Spirits True
gathers that lineage into one extraordinary collection. Born from an
invitation extended by Antanas Vainius — who has spent decades
observing, practicing, and bearing witness to what is known as the Gay
Spirituality Movement — this anthology draws together voices from
across the GBTQ2S+ spectrum: gay and queer men, trans and nonbinary
people, elders and seekers, artists and mystics, scholars and poets. We
range across generation, race, religious tradition, and geography. We
offer essays, poems, stories, images, and visions from personal history
and world history, from the body and the soul. We share a
conviction that queer experience opens onto something vast.
Some eighty writers and artists map the
deep roots and celebrate the blossoming and cross-pollination of a
spirituality that has no single name but many sources and expressions:
Indigenous, Sufi, Christian, Buddhist, Tantric, Faerie, Wiccan,
Shamanic, Earth-Based, Transpersonal, and beyond…
For readers drawn to LGBTQ+ spirituality, contemplative traditions, queer history, and the soul’s wilder edges.
Bridgewalkers Press, Inc
The five editors are all
activists, writers, luminaries, and leaders in the spiritual side of
queer/gay life. They have formed the non-profit, small-press publisher
Bridgewalkers Press, Inc. to release this anthology by modern
Print-on-Demand technology. They plan to encourage and to publish other
works in this field.
Toby Johnson is a former Catholic monk and comparative
religions scholar turned psychotherapist, gay activist, bookseller,
editor and book designer, novelist and gay cultural commentator. He is
author of six non-fiction titles that present spiritual wisdom he
learned from his mentor and friend, renowned religions scholar Joseph
Campbell, including Gay Spirituality: Gay Identity and the Transformation of Human Consciousness and Gay Perspective: Things our [homo]sexuality tells us about the nature of God and the Universe. His four gay genre novels, including Two Spirits: A Story of Life Among the Navajo
(in collaboration with Walter L. Williams), are sweet
adventure/romances woven through with wisdom and psychological insight.
Johnson’s spiritual/ philosophical autobiography is titled: Finding
Your Own True Myth: What I Learned from Joseph Campbell: The Myth of
the Great Secret III. Finding God in the Sexual Underworld tells
about his working in a federally-funded study of teen prostitution in
the 1970s; it includes additional articles on themes in Gay
Spirituality.
Hunter Flournoy is the vision-keeper of Spirit
Journeys, one of the world’s first and longest-running organizations
offering sacred retreats, pilgrimages, and community for GBTQ men and
their allies — a calling he has answered for 27 years. Hunter came to
GSV in 2003 and served as the head of our Sacred Touch Working Group
for over a decade. The depth and breadth of the experiences he’s been
given are extraordinary: twelve years as an Orthodox monk, thirty years
leading traditional “sweat lodge” ceremonies, ten years apprenticing in
the Toltec tradition of Don Miguel Ruiz, twenty years of sitting at the
feet of his Sufi elders, and three decades of dedicated Buddhist
practice. And he still hasn’t learned anything!
As a poet and essayist, his poetry has been featured in Provincetown Arts and The James White Review. He is an editor and a featured writer in the forthcoming anthology Spirits Queer, Spirits True, and in All Embracing Love: Queer and Trans with Meher Baba.
He has also served as a developmental editor for numerous queer
authors, including his dear friends Eli Andrew Ramer and Sequoia Thom.
A spiritual director, somatic breath coach, psychotherapist, minister,
and trauma and recovery coach, Hunter weaves together gay spirituality,
breathwork, recovery, trauma healing, Toltec wisdom, and the ecstatic
and embodied arts of spirit drawn from both earth-based and mystical
wisdom traditions around the world. Hunter brings a passion for
learning, a growing sense of humor, and wholehearted love to everything
he does. Learn more at www.spiritjourneys.com.
Gregory Joseph (they/he, born 1977) is a queer and genderfluid spiritual entrepreneur, shamanic dreamweaver, author, and editor of Spirits Queer, Spirits True.
They have decades of experience spanning counseling, dreamwork, LGBTQ+
community work, organizational consulting, yoga teaching, and
interspiritual studies. He mobilizes teams to birth and fund community
initiatives that bring healing, wellness, and liberation. Weaving
together multiple traditions, they guide individuals and groups through
Integrative Dreamwork and erotic embodiment coaching. Rooted in
anti-oppressive practice and radical authenticity, Gregory holds sacred
space for marginalized communities to heal intergenerational sexual and
spiritual trauma, step into courageous visibility, and co-create a
world of prophetic belonging. They live in Chicago, are bilingual in
English and Spanish, and actively contribute to several local and
global communities. Learn more: www.gregoryjoseph.love.
Temani Aldine is an American writer, lawyer, community
leader, and longtime teacher of mind-body arts, including yoga and
meditation. An early fascination with language, culture, and
spirituality developed into a lifelong exploration of formal
traditions, intuitive practices, and the ways people create meaning
across cultures.
His worldview was shaped substantially by years of living, studying,
teaching, and working in Asia, including three years in Thailand and
repeated periods of travel and study in India. Teaching English and
working in community and economic development deepened his appreciation
for active empathy: learning to understand not only what people say,
but the cultural and linguistic frameworks through which they
experience the world. Learning Thai itself became a form of spiritual
inquiry, revealing ways in which language can organize concepts of
mind, relationship, and experience.
As a gay Black man shaped by African American cultural traditions,
Aldine has explored how experiences of difference and outsiderhood can
become sources of perspective, healing, and connection. Across settings
that have included language education, community development, clinical
legal education, yoga and meditation instruction, advocacy, and law,
his teaching and leadership have emphasized creating spaces in which
people can safely encounter challenge and discover capacities within
themselves.
His decades of contemplative practice have drawn particularly from
Buddhist and Taoist traditions, while encounters with Kabbalistic
thought, psychology, and other approaches to self-inquiry became
important tools for healing and integration. Rather than replacing the
African American religious tradition of his childhood, his spiritual
journey eventually helped him return to it with a deeper appreciation
of both its gifts and its complexity.
Antanas Vainius is a Nourishment Guide and Embodiment
Coach whose work centers on one of the most intimate transformations
possible: a person's relationship with themselves. Drawing on a rich
integration of somatic and energetic modalities, Antanas guides clients
toward the reconnection with their own vitality and life force — the
spiritual fuel, he believes, that makes genuine healing not just
possible but sustainable. His practice weaves together an unusually
diverse toolkit. On the body level, he works with Body Evolution — an
integrated approach combining deep tissue massage, myofascial release,
Rolfing, and Feldenkrais — alongside breathwork to clear physical and
energetic blocks. For the subtler terrain of mind and emotion, he
employs CLEAR, an energy therapy designed to dissolve stuck emotions
and stagnant energies that keep clients from moving forward.
Authors by volume
Volume 1: Sixty-four authors
Geoffrey Graham, Walt Whitman, Stevee Postman, Antanas Vainius, Lee
Warren, Allen Ginsburg, Randy P. Connor, David Hatfield Sparks, Toby
Johnson, Peter Savastano, Murray Edelman, Don Kilhefner, Will Roscoe,
Christian de la Huerta, Adrian Ravarour, Payam Ghassemlou Ph.D.,
Donald Boisvert, Brian McNaught, John McNeill, Paul Reed, Bruce P.
Grether, Ram Dass, William Schindler, Peter Grahame, Jamie McHugh,
Clyde Hall, Robert D. Mathis-Friedman, Nicholas F. Benton, Baruch
Spinoza, Daniel A. Helminiak, Robert Barzan, John Burnside, Bill
Blackburn, Shelli Renée Joye, Bernárd J. Lynch, Don Shewey, Mark
Thompson, Rosie Delicious, Eli Andrew Ramer, Jason Hall, Dr. Kirk
Prine, Ran Johnson, Mitch Walker, John Stasio, Harry Faddis, Urs
Mattmann, Chris Kilbourne, Forrest Aldrich, Temani Aldine, Bayard
Rustin, Anthony Rios, Mountaine Jonas, Gregory Joseph, Mufasa Ali, Marc
Peridis, Patrick Emmanuel, Andrew Abrahams, Malcolm Boyd, Peregrine,
Seraphim Hamid Nur, Franklin Abbott, Sequoia Thom Lundy, Ziji Daka,
Peter Goldblum
Volume 2: Sixty authors
Geoffrey Graham, Antanas Vainius, Griffin Payne, Clyde Hall, Hunter
Flournoy, A Sister of Perpetual Indulgence, Eden LaFae, Eli Andrew
Ramer, David Monticalvo, Shokti, Jamie McHugh, White Crane Journal,
Robert Birch, Summer Minerva, Jari Dvorak, David L. Day, Christian de
la Huerta, Jonathan Riley (Jiyu Heikyo), The Body Electric School, Lord
Dragonheart, Peter Christopher Larkin, Jay Michaelson, Walter L.
Williams, Steven Warner, Michael Bernard Kelly, Kaelan Strouse, Tom
Moon, Rene Cook, Swami Ravi Rudra Bharati, Uriel Andros, Peter Grahame,
Greg Rowe, Dabaco Sunset, Antanas Vainius, Wil Fisher, Andrew Abrahams,
Rev. Phoenix Bell-Shelton Biggs, Toby Johnson, Lee Harrington, Miguel
Díaz, Greg Tre Harris, Kittredge Cherry, Mel White, Eric Eldritch,
Spirit Journeys, Bill Stevens, Jason Buchanan, Michael “Playful”
Vazquez DeAnda, Jeff Lutes, Michael Kelly, Jon Carl Lewis, Forrest
Aldrich, Murray Edelman, Franklin Abbott, Byll Monahan, Ralkfa
Gonzales, Trebor Healey, Clayton Gibson, Walt Whitman, Stevee
Postman
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