Sexuality & Spirituality

THE LAUGHING MAN VOL. 4. NO. 3

©1983 Laughing Man Institute.
Editorial:
Laughing Matters (Letters from Powell, Lynch, Pandit, Fleming,
Summers, Sharma, Humlebo.)
The Seven Stages of Life.
The Sexual Revolution and Spiritual Life as Seen through One Pair of
Eyes by Georg Feuerstein.
Stage One:
Embodiment: From Protozoa to Parsifal by Fred Rohé.
“OEDIPUS TRANSCENDED” (5/5/83).
Stage Two:
Emotion and Sexuality:
A Long Time Coming: An Interview with Alan and Donna Brauer (on
Extended Sexual Orgasm).
“UNIVERSAL DESIRE AND THE WAY OF TOUCH” (8/14/79).
Stage Three:
THE TABOO AGAINST THE SUPERIOR MAN: ‘DRACULA AND FRANKENSTEIN’.
Stage Four:
Divine Distraction: With Moonlight in Their Hair: Krishna’s Dance
with the Gopis (adapted from the Bhagavata Purana, X.31-33).
Stage Five:
Life-Current: The Many Faces of Kundalini: An Interview with Lee
Sannella.
Stage Six:
Renunciation: Beyond World Negation by Georg Feuerstein.
Stage Seven:
Shakti: the Liberating Power by Ty Koontz.
A Night with the Fierce Woman by Frans Bakker.
The Demystification of Enlightenment by the Laughing Man staff.
Reviews:
The Origins of Life: Evolution As Creation by Hoimar von
Ditfurth.
The End of Sex: Erotic Love After the Sexual Revolution by George
Leonard.
The Presence of Shiva by Stella Kramrisch.
The Passionate Life: Stages of Loving by Sam Keen.