Sexuality on the Spiritual Path

by Don Stevens and Companions

A collection of essays from Don Stevens and contributors Charles Haynes, Marlena Applebaum, Laurent Weichberger, David Carter, Ed Flanagan, and Elias Petrides, on the topic of the deep desires and habits common to humanity in its expression of sexuality, and the relationship of this expression to fundamental spiritual values. The full range of human sexual expression - whether hetero, bisexual, or homosexual - is given consideration in this thoughtful, ground-breaking book.

206 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2007

Reviews

[Aneesa · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book came into my hands at just the right moment--the day after someone had asked me what Meher Baba says about homosexuality, the answer to which is not much--a sometimes disappointing and seemingly worrisome fact--so I was happy to find at least some discourse in the Baba community on the subject. The essays mostly reiterated what I already knew, with a couple of new details, such as that when Baba was in NYC in 1932 he stayed in a home directly across the street from what would become the Stonewall Inn. As for the book itself, I found Don Stevens' chapters both dense and vague (he makes up his own unintuitive terms for his own spiritual theories, and his own words to substitute for others which he "doesn't like"). Laurent Weichberger's chapters seemed to be intended to support Stevens' theories, but did the opposite, and also made me feel on the outside of a personal conversation. I would recommend Charles Haynes' brief chapter, which left me wanting to read a lot more from his perspective, and Marlena Applebaum's beautiful and profound piece "How to Best Honor the Intoxication of Love," which she clearly deeply thought-out and delicately worded for clarity and honesty. I intend to reread this chapter immediately, as it has already started to make me rethink my understanding of and relationship with Baba's discourses.