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Sacred Sexuality The Erotic Spirit in the World's Great Religions

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Beschreibung

Produktdetails

Einband

Taschenbuch

Erscheinungsdatum

14.11.2003

Verlag

Inner Traditions/Bear & Company

Seitenzahl

256

Maße (L/B/H)

23/15,3/1,7 cm

Gewicht

417 g

Auflage

2nd edition

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN

978-0-89281-126-7

Beschreibung

Produktdetails

Einband

Taschenbuch

Erscheinungsdatum

14.11.2003

Verlag

Inner Traditions/Bear & Company

Seitenzahl

256

Maße (L/B/H)

23/15,3/1,7 cm

Gewicht

417 g

Auflage

2nd edition

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN

978-0-89281-126-7

Herstelleradresse

Libri GmbH
Europaallee 1
36244 Bad Hersfeld
DE

Email: gpsr@libri.de

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  • Produktbild: Sacred Sexuality

  • 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