Reading List

Towards Awakening

Steps towards healing and awakening for men-who-love-men.

Suggested Reading List – Nondual / Tantra.

  • Adyashanti – The Impact of Awakening. Open Gate Publishing, 2000.

  • Adyashanti – True Meditation. Sounds True, 2006.

  • Ballentine, Rudolph – Kali Rising: Foundational Principles of Tantra for a Transforming Planet. Trantrikster Press, 2010.

  • Frawley, David, DR. - Tantric Yoga and the Wisdom Goddesses. Motilal Banarsidass Publishers, 2012 Reprint.

  • Godman, David (Ed) - Be As You Are: The Teachings of Sri Ramama Maharshi. Penguin Books, 1985.

  • Maharaj, Sri Nisargadatta – I AM THAT. The Acorn Press. 2009 (first published 1973).

  • Odier, Daniel – Tantric Quest: An Encounter with Absolute Love. Inner Traditions International, 1997.

  • Odier, Daniel – Desire: The Tantric Path to Awakening. Inner Traditional International, 2001.

  • Odier, Daniel – Crazy Wisdom of the Yogini: Teachings of the Kashmiri Mahamudra Tradition. Inner Traditions International, 2021.

  • OSHO – Sex Matters: From Sex to Superconsciousness. St. Martin’s Griffin, 2002.

  • OSHO – Tantra: The Supreme Understanding. Watkins, 2015 (original publication 1975).

  • Raina, Tej - Trika: The Kashmir Saiva Essence. Amazon Publication, 2012

  • Saraswati, Swami Satyananda – Meditations from the Tantras. Yoga Publications Trust, 2007 (original publication 1974).

  • Saraswati, Swami Satyananda – Kundalini Tantra. Yoga Publications Trust, 2013 (original publication 1984).

  • Sat Shree – The Bhagavad Gita Revealed: A Living Teaching for Our Time (Part 1, Chapter 1-6). New Dharma Publications, 2018.

  • Schindler, William (aka Swami Mahavirananda) – Gay Tantra. Lulu, 2012.

  • Swami Lakshmanjoo (Revealed by) - Kashmir Shaivism: The Secret Supreme. Lakshmanjoo Academy, 2015 (original publication 1985).

  • Wallis, Christopher D. – Tantra Illuminated: The Philosophy, History, and Practice of a Timeless Tradition. Mattamayura Press, 2012.

  • Wallis, Christopher D. – The Recognition Sutra: Illuminating a 1,000-year-old spiritual masterpiece. Mattamayura Press, 2017.

  • Wallis, Christopher D. – Near Enemies of the Truth. Wonderwell and Mattamayura Press, 2023.

Suggested Reading List - Queer Spirituality.

  • Conner, Randy P. - Blossom of Bone. HarperSanFrancisco, 1993.

  • De la Huerta, Christian - Coming Out Spiritually. Penguin Group, 1999.

  • Evans, Arthur - The Evans Symposium. White Crane Books, 2018 (original publication of Witchcraft and the Gay Counterculture, 1978)

  • Queer Dharma: Voices of Gay Buddhists. Gay Sunshine Press, 1998.

  • Thompson, Mark - Gay Spirit, 1987, Gay Body, 1990, Gay Soul, 1994.

Suggested Reading List - Ecstasy and Orgasm.

  • Anand, Margot - The New Art of Sexual Ecstasy. Thornsons Publications, 2003 (first published 1989).

  • Chia, Mantak & Arava, Douglas Abrams - The Multi-Orgasmic Man. Thorsons Publications, 1996.

  • Lai, Hsi - The Sexual Teachings of the Jade Dragon:Taoist Methods for Male Sexual Revitalisation. Destiny Books, 2002.

  • Mulchandani, Sandhya - Erotic Literature of Ancient India. Lustre Press, 2006.

  • Narain, LA & Arya, Aditya - Khajuraho: Temples of Ecstasy. Lustre Press, 1986.

  • Smith, Gilly - Tantra & the Tao: The Secrets of Sexual Ecstasy.Robinson Publications, 1996.

  • Soulie, Bernard - Tantra: Erotic figures in Indian art.Hutchinson, 1982.

My published books:

Personal Development

This book offers a good place to start if you are keen to learn more about yourself, your personality and how your personality might be impacting on your life, your journey, and the stories you might be telling yourself.

Historical Fiction

It’s 1902, Stevie Monroe is a shipbuilding sheet metal worker living in the Gorbals, a Glasgow slum. Stevie is a friend, a husband, a father, and a man with a deviance that must be kept secret at all costs. Navigating this world leads Stevie to a life wrought with worry, confusion, murder, and love.

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