The Foundational Image of My Radically Embodied Concept of Human Being and Becoming There’s an image that keeps returning to me. Familiar. Simple. And yet, unbearably profound. The Cross. Not just a religious symbol. Not just a relic of history. But a cosmic archetype—a living axis of meaning. The Cross has become, for me, the foundational image of human being and becoming. It’s how I understand...
INTRODUCING THE TWO RIVERS OF SPIRIT Spiritual seekers have long moved along two great rivers of awakening. One flows upward, reaching beyond the world toward the formless, the infinite, the pure light of Spirit. The other flows downward, diving into the body, the heart, the Earth—seeing the sacred not beyond the world, but within it. Ken Wilber calls these two rivers the Ascending and Descending...
GAYNESS AS THE GROUND OF REALITY What if the love that a gay man feels for another is not only a personal experience, but also a key to understanding the structure of reality itself? That question has haunted me—in the best way—for many years. My work in queer theology and spirituality begins with a simple proposition: gayness, or more precisely homophilia—the love of sameness—is a metaphor for...
GAYNESS AND STRAIGHTNESS: THE MASTER METAPHOR OF TRANSFORMATION When I began my spiritual pilgrimage some twenty years ago, I looked for gay writers and spiritual teachers who could help me to make sense of some inner knowledge that was hidden from my own consciousness. I looked for wisdom, but nothing I read or heard satisfied my longing. It wasn’t until I started writing The Soulful...
