“A Gnostic Book of Hours : Keys to Inner Wisdom” by June Singer (1988 edition)

"Preserved in great earthen jars, buried in the Egyptian desert, and fabled to be discovered only when they could be properly understood, the banned gospels of the second-century Gnostics speak to the personal, social, and environmental concerns of contemporary seekers in the timeless “soul’s language”—the rich and enigmatic language of dreams, art, and literature. Emphasizing inner wisdom over external authority, gnostic texts discuss the direct relationship between the individual and the divine, spirituality in a materialistic world, the need for masculine and feminine balance in all things, and our ability to confront evil and chaos by acknowledging connection and interrelatedness. The book of hours divides the day into eight periods of guided meditation designed to ...>>

“Love’s Energies” by June Singer (1990 edition)

"Exploring themes raised by her ground-breaking work Androgyny, June Singer offers a psychological history of intimate relationships at both the personal and transpersonal levels, drawing on the works of anthropologists, sociobiologists, artists, and psychologists which have studied the impact of gender relations on our culture and others throughout history. As in her earlier works, Dr. Singer brings her extensive erudition and vigorous, clear-headed analytic style to bear on this fundamentally important problem (and blessing) of human behavior."...>>

“Androgyny: Toward a New Theory of Sexuality” by June Singer (1976 edition)

"Scientists and mystics throughout history have realized that every human being is the carrier of complementary life energies. Given a variety of names— yin and yang, poetic and rational, left-handed and right-handed, emotional and intellectual, feminine and masculine—these energies interact in everyone, regardless of sex. Androgyny involves recognizing the eternal flux of these opposing energies within us. On a journey that takes us through Tao, Gnosticism, Kabbalah, Alchemy, Astrology, Tibetan Tantra, Kundalini Yoga, and the works of Plato, Freud and Jung, June Singer shows how crucial has been the awareness of the androgynous soul to those who would inquire into the mysteries of human nature. In modern science, too, from molecular biology to astrophysics, we ...>>

“The Sex Lives of Saints: An Erotics of Ancient Hagiography” by Virginia Burrus

"Has a repressive morality been the primary contribution of Christianity to the history of sexuality? The ascetic concerns that pervade ancient Christian texts would seem to support such a common assumption. Focusing on hagiographical literature, Virginia Burrus pursues a fresh path of interpretation, arguing that the early accounts of the lives of saints are not antierotic but rather convey a sublimely transgressive "countereroticism" that resists the marital, procreative ethic of sexuality found in other strands of Christian tradition. Without reducing the erotics of ancient hagiography to a single formula, The Sex Lives of Saints frames the broad historical, theological, and theoretical issues at stake in such a revisionist interpretation of ascetic eroticism, with particular reference ...>>