Gay spirituality represents a hidden strand in Western thought that was only publically declared from the Gay Liberation of the 1970s. Since "coming out," expressions of gay spirituality have proliferated in both number and diversity. Beginning with gay theology within Christianity, the phenomenon has now reached as far as Buddhism and neo-paganism. But, so far, critical analysis of the movement has been very limited largely because gay spirituality has been treated as a political and social movement arguing for rights and acceptance within religious circles. 'A Special Illumination' offers...

This groundbreaking book solves two thousand year old mysteries. Enlarging upon established academic and astronomical researches, Testament provides exceptional levels of proof to indicate the true horoscope of Jesus can be and has been found and that it works for Jesus issues across history to this day. 500 name, place and concept asteroids and 80 so-called Arabic Parts render it easy for the layperson to grasp what might otherwise remain at the level of the technicalities of traditional astrology. For expressive exactitude the data are like a fingerprint for Jesus. This book is an...

This book addresses arguably the major blind-spot in contemporary spirituality and historic Christianity. God is scarcely experienced or described as personal unless as Jesus the divine Son devotion to whom can often finish by obscuring rather than revealing God as Creator and Father. Western mysticism has mostly sought Godhead beyond God, while modern theology wary of images often avoids the word "Father." But what if knowledge of the Creator and what was once called "Fellowship with the Father" is the main point of all religion? Some unexpected experiences and realizations cause the author...

Spirituality is not excused from the need to be efficient. Current scandals in the churches betoken not just sin but inefficiency. This book inquires into factors the faith has lost, forgotten or not understood almost from the first and needs if it is to change. Everything from exorcism and the cult of the saints to gay issues and the creation/evolution debate are reviewed against the background of unfamiliar principles and mysteries related to the Temple that coloured earliest Christian thought.

Unprecedented in writing on both religion or astrology, Christianity's Destiny is celestial wikileaks, a compendium of surprising but also shockingly precise information. The past, present and future of Christianity and opposition to it is read from the morning of the Day of Pentecost in AD 30. It is read through a whole cast of characters from Ss Peter and Paul to John Lennon and Ratzinger, along with the main historical stopping places and leading ideas of the religion and its opponents. A complete circle of life and civilization emerges and it will not be possible to think about religion...

Love, Eros, scenes of ancient and modern Asia, the nature of acting and theatre all have their part in Puer Poems, a collection of verse in the shadow of the Puer archetype first defined by Jung. These poems which when first composed engaged the serious attention and praise of such figures in the arts as poet and critic Kathleen Raine and Shakespearean actor Dorothy Tutin, anticipate elements of its author's subsequent work in poetic drama and the groundbreaking research of -A Special Illumination- on the nature of gay spirituality. An introductory essay explains the aim of the collection,...

A mandala is a great circle whose finest examples in world art derive from Tibet. But though mandalas are acknowledged symbols of spiritual and psychic wholeness, God is not necessarily at their centre. In Tibet God is never at the centre because Buddhism knows only the Buddha who teaches the gods. How atheistic is Buddhism and with it Asia, or do they own suppressed notions of God? And is Buddhism, a major player in the emerging religious and New Age paradigm, quite what it appears? On a return trip to the Asia where he once lived for many years, the author looks again at Asian spirituality....

Beliefs are important because they explicitly or implicitly guide conduct. They are also important for astrology because almost more than anything else they define and "prove" the sun signs that many dismiss as only subjective, imaginative theory. Yet the fact is that the kind of values, worldviews, religious and philosophical beliefs an Aries holds will be different from that of a Libran even if and when those involved claim to subscribe to the same principles or faith. The famous character features attributed to the zodiacal signs are in fact traits based upon a mythic or archetypal core in...

This book answers the question if the Song of Solomon is neither an involved allegory of the soul nor just some frank eroticism with God absent, what is it? Why is it even in the Bible and can it tell us anything today? This genuinely unique study suggests readers have lost, or never quite found, the best all-round key to reading. This must be along the lines of erotic spirituality. And while there is no exact parallel with Asian sexual mysticism there is undoubtedly some, and parts of the work must be read more esoterically. At the same time as this book is an inquiry into the Song's...

Despite being only dots in a vast Pacific, Tahiti and its islands have managed to arouse unusual levels of admiration and controversy in equal degrees from the outset. Amid the arguments of culture, colonialism, sex and religion that have swirled around it, one thing is certain. Tahiti is beautiful ...because as Voltaire observed, if the French and the British could for once agree on something it was necessarily true. Yet even while the likes of Matisse would arrive to declare Tahiti is "beautiful, beautiful, beautiful," it is less agreed just what kind of perfection this entails and what it...