THE SOUL IN INTEGRAL NONDUALISM Being soulfully gay means living at the crossroads between emotional depth and ecstatic spirit, self-acceptance and self-transformation, connection to nature and contemplation of timeless realities. But what is it within us that is constant through all of these things? Is it a “soul”? For some, the word soul sounds dated or theological, too burdened by dogma or...
Participants: Joe Perez, M.Div. – Author of Soulfully Gay and Nondual Recovery, influencer in the LGBTQ+ community, and teacher of the Unitive Way. Roshi Ken’in Gendo – A fictionalized composite Zen master, grounded in a traditional Soto lineage, shaped by monastic discipline and historical Buddhist suspicion of sexuality. Roshi Ken’in: Thank you for coming. We do not often speak so openly of sex...
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...
ALREADY WHOLE: THE INNER TRUTH OF BEING GAY In Soulfully Gay II, I explore a spiritual truth that may sound paradoxical in a world that still teaches queer people to doubt themselves: being gay means being already complete in yourself. This isn’t a feel-good slogan. It’s a radical spiritual insight with roots in centuries of philosophy and mystical wisdom. It’s based on the principle of self...
