EP 05 - God and Sex: Now We Get Both

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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