Toby Johnson Writes
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Toby Johnson writes: The Gay Spirituality Movement is a broad and rich topic. There are many books on the subject, from both inside and outside traditional religions. Promoting these books was one of the main functions of White Crane Journal. Some of them, like my own contributions, are overviews that transcend all specific religions. A sampling of such titles includes: Gay Spirituality: The Role of Gay Identity in the Transformation of Human Consciousness by Toby Johnson Gay Perspective: Things our [homo]sexuality tells us about the nature of God and the Universe by Toby Johnson; Finding Your Own True Myth: What I Learned from Joseph Campbell: The Myth of the Great Secret III by Toby Johnson, a philosophical/spiritual autobiography. Sex and Spirit: Exploring Gay Men’s Spirituality by Robert Barzan; The Missing Myth: A New Vision of Same-Sex Love by Gilles Herrada; A Special Illumination: Authority, Inspiration and Heresy in Gay Spirituality by Rollan McCleary; Coming Out Spiritually: The Next Step by Christian de la Huerta; Jesus and the Shamanic Tradition of Same-Sex Love and Queer Spirits: A Gay Men’s Myth Book by Will Roscoe; Gay Spirit: Myth and Meaning by Mark Thompson, including significant excerpts from Edward Carpenter and Harry Hay; Gay Body: A Journey Through Shadow To Self by Mark Thompson; Gay Soul: Finding the Heart of Gay Spirit and Nature With Sixteen Writers, Healers, Teachers, and Visionaries by Mark Thompson; Witchcraft and the Gay Counterculture & Moon Lady Rising by Arthur Evans, a seminal book in the field of gay spirituality, recently rereleased by White Crane Books. Essential Gay Mystics by Andrew Harvey; God vs. Gay: The Religious Case for Equality by Jay Michaelson; Gay is a Gift by Salvatore Sapienza; Sex and the Sacred: Gay Identity and Spiritual Growth by Daniel Helminiak; Two Flutes Playing: A Spiritual Journeybook for Gay Men by Andrew Ramer & any other books by Andrew Ramer; Blossom of Bone: Reclaiming the Connections Between Homoeroticism and the Sacred by Randy P. Conner and Cassell’s Encyclopedia of Queer Myth, Symbol and Spirit: Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgendered Lore by Randy P. Conner and David Hatfield Sparks. Gay Men and the New Way Forward by Raymond L. Rigoglioso’s with its elucidation of “fourteen distinctive gay gifts” that contribute both to individual lives and also to the larger world. Toby Johnson assisted with the publication of this book and contributed a Foreword. The Soul Beneath the Skin: The Unseen Hearts and Habits of Gay Men by David Nimmons At the GSV Fall Conference 2019, Toby Johnson announced a form of spiritual exercises based on two men holding one another for prolonged times in order to meld hearts and souls and achieve Enlightenment called “Rainbow Awakening” by Australian Radical Faerie Damien Rowse, who goes by Light-Wing. Light-Wing is developing a community/ashram/residence in India and invites interested men to contact him about coming to live there and practice this “yoga.” His Facebook page is https://www.facebook.com/people/Damien-Rowse/731144086 .