Soulfully Gay, Part 1: Joe Perez and Ken Wilber in Dialogue

Now showing on Integral Naked: "Soulfully Gay. Part 1. Out of the Closet, Into an Integral Embrace."

The author of one of the most searing, courageous personal memoirs of our time shares how an Integral Approach helped him reconcile a life of fierce inner struggles with what it means to be a gay man in today’s culture, the difference between genuine spiritual experiences and psychotic episodes, and the thorny intersection of homosexuality and Christianity.

Who: Joe Perez is the author of Soulfully Gay: How Harvard, Sex, Drugs, and Integral Philosophy Drove Me Crazy and Brought Me Back to God, and the founder of the Gay Spirituality & Culture Weblog.

Summary: In the foreword to Soulfully Gay, Ken Wilber writes: "Joe Perez’s book is perhaps the most astonishing, brilliant, and courageous look at the interface between individual belief and cultural values that has been written in our time. By a homosexual, or a heterosexual, or any other sexual I am aware of." Ken wrote this foreword without even having met Joe—probably one of the strongest complements one writer can give to another—and Soulfully Gay is the second offering from our Integral Books imprint at Shambhala Publications.

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How cool is THAT?!? Congratulations, Joe! I'm so proud of you!!