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Sacred Sexuality : The Erotic Spirit in the World's Great Religions
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- Country/Region of Manufacture
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- ISBN
- 9780892811267
- Book Title
- Sacred Sexuality : the Erotic Spirit in the World's Great Religions
- Item Length
- 9in
- Publisher
- Inner Traditions International, The Limited
- Publication Year
- 2003
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.7in
- Genre
- Self-Help, Psychology, Religion
- Topic
- Human Sexuality (See Also Social Science / Human Sexuality), Sexual Instruction, General, Sexuality & Gender Studies
- Item Width
- 6in
- Item Weight
- 15.3 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 256 Pages
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A historical, cross-cultural survey of sexuality as a sacred spiritual practice - Examines sacred sexuality in the world's religious and mystery traditions - Explores contemporary "sexual stress syndrome" resulting from the absence of the sacred in sexual practice - Reveals how to find the sacred in the ordinary This book examines the history of sexuality as a sacramental act. In spite of our culture's recent sexual liberalizations, sexual intimacy often remains unfulfilling. Georg Feuerstein instructs that the fulfillment we long for in our sex lives can only be attained once we have explored the spiritual depths of our erotic natures. Feuerstein delves into a wide variety of spiritual traditions--including Christianity, Judaism, goddess worship, Taoism, and Hinduism--in search of sacred truths regarding sexuality. He reveals that all of these great teachings share the hidden message that spirituality is, in essence, erotic and that sexuality is inherently spiritual. From the erotic cult of the Great Mother and the archaic ritual of hieros gamos (sacred marriage) to the institution of sacred prostitution and the erotic spirituality practiced in the mystery traditions, Feuerstein offers a wealth of historical practices and perspectives that serve as the bases for a positive sexual spirituality suited to our contemporary needs.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Inner Traditions International, The Limited
ISBN-10
0892811269
ISBN-13
9780892811267
eBay Product ID (ePID)
2708090
Product Key Features
Book Title
Sacred Sexuality : the Erotic Spirit in the World's Great Religions
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Human Sexuality (See Also Social Science / Human Sexuality), Sexual Instruction, General, Sexuality & Gender Studies
Publication Year
2003
Genre
Self-Help, Psychology, Religion
Number of Pages
256 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9in
Item Height
0.7in
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
15.3 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Bl65.S4f48 2004
Edition Number
2
Reviews
Georg Feuerstein is a scholar and practitioner of the first magnitude and an extremely important and valuable voice for the perennial philosophy., . . . a remarkably complete book stocked with the knowledge of esoteric Asian traditions, never before seen by Western eyes., Feuerstein offers hope that erotic spirituality is once again beginning to be embraced as a path to true ecstacy., A remarkably complete book stocked with the knowledge of esoteric Asian traditions never before seen by Western eyes., An Intriguingly Illustrated, Thoroughly Researched Collage Designed to Enhance Sexual Consciousness.
Table of Content
Acknowledgments Preface Part I. Contemporary Sexuality: Its Failures and Possibilities 1. Taking Stock: The Sexual Wasteland The Age of Sexual Bewilderment The Sexual Stress Syndromes 2. Tracing the Roots of the Modern Sexual Dilemma Guilt: The Feeling of Being Found Out Shame: The Feeling of Being Unworthy Our Heritage of Sexual Guilt and Shame The Denial of the Body Guilt, Shame, and Ecstasy Sexual Addiction as Avoidance of Bliss The Quest for Transcendence From Sexual Malaise to the Loss of the Sacred 3. The Hidden Window: Spiritual Breakthroughs in Sex Sex, Love, and Transcendence The Power of Love: Erotic and Spiritual Breakthroughs Sex: The Hidden Window Part II. Sacred Sex Through the Ages 4. Sacred Sex and the Goddess: Ancestral Wisdom The Erotic Cult of the Great Mother An Erotic Flashback to 20,000 BC. Sex, Magic, and the Life-Force The Sexual Tragedy of Agriculture The Goddess and Her Lover 5. Sacred Marriage and Sacred Prostitution Hieros Gamos: The Sacred Marriage The Phallic Principle Phallic Worship The Rule of the Phallus in Greece Sacred Prostitution in Ancient Greece The Sexual Servants of Mesopotamia and Egypt The Temple Prostitutes of India The Story of Sunta The Contemporary Reappraisal of Sacred Prostitution 6. Erotic Spirituality in the Mystery Traditions The Mystery Cults of the Ancient World The Corn Mother Demeter and Her Votaries Dionysos: God of Wine and Ecstasy The Phallic Orpheus Pan: The Lusty Goat-God Cybele and Attis The Mystery Cult of Isis and Osiris 7. Spiritual Eroticism in]udaism Sex, Power, and the Goddess among the Ancient Hebrews The Hebrew Sexual Heritage 8. The Eclipse of Eros in the Christian Tradition The Christian Sexual Heritage Mary: Virginal Mother and Bride of Christ Eve, the First Man, and Guilt 9. The Medieval Love Mystics, East and West The Resurgence of Eros in the Middle Ages The Troubadours: Erotic Idolators The Lover Within: Bridal Mysticism The Mystical Eros in Islam and Judaism On the Nuptial Couch with Krishna: The Hindu Version of Bridal Mysticism 10. The Jewel in the Lotus: The Lessons of Tantrism The Secret Circle: A Story Set in India Around 1200 A.D. Tantrism: The Historical and Cultural Context Maithuna: The Love-Play of God and Goddess The Serpent Power and the Transmutation of Sexual Energy Tantric Eroticism and Freudian Sublimation 11. The Sexual Tao: The Chinese Way of Circulating Life-Energy Tao: The Nameless Way beyond God and Goddess The Tao of Sex: White Tiger and Green Dragon 12. Sexual Magic and Neo-Paganism Sex Magic and the Magic of Sex The Magical Power of Semen The Reawakening of the Goddess in Neo-Paganism 13. The New Erotic Christianity Alan Watts and Incarnational Theology Toward a Nonpuritan Christianity Matthew Fox and the Erotic Christ Part III. The Challenge of Sacred Sex Today 14. Sex as Energy and Communion The Sexual Threshold between the Secular and the Sacred The Erotic Implications of Einstein''s Theorem Psychiatric Interlude: From Freudian Libido to Reichian Orgone Sex and Evolutionary Energy Spiritual Work with the Psychocosmic Energy Sexual Communion 15. Toward an Erotic Spirituality for Today Coming Down to Earth Finding the Sacred in the Ordinary God, Goddess, arid Intimacy Ritual Beyond Neurosis Notes Recommended Reading Index
Copyright Date
2004
Lccn
2003-020691
Dewey Decimal
202/.2
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
22
Illustrated
Yes
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