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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