In 19th century America, Walt Whitman dreamed of unlocking the potential in every man’s heart to love other men. He did not envision male same-sex attraction as a minority phenomenon. “Whitman knew that capacity for same-sex love lies in every man’s heart. He had seen it and experienced it firsthand in the war hospitals. ItContinue reading “Whitman’s Comrades”
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Gay Nature Mystics of the 19th Century
As ‘the love that dare not speak its name’ began to be find new labels attached to it in the late 19th century, such as Uranian, Invert, Intermediate Type – and the one that stuck, Homosexual – there were gay men in Europe and America who could see the limitations of the terms that theContinue reading “Gay Nature Mystics of the 19th Century”
Victorian Cosmic Prophets
Some saw it coming in the Victorian age – prophets such as Whitman, Carpenter, Blavatsky, Bucke and James – the Cosmic Human soon to be born a race no longer lost, confused, forlorn – reunited with the Spirit of Life of Earth, Air, Fire, Water, Love with the Heavenly Son and the Divine Daughter movingContinue reading “Victorian Cosmic Prophets”
COSMIC CONSCIOUSNESS
“The simple truth is, that there has lived on the earth, “appearing at intervals,” for thousands of years among ordinary men, the first faint beginnings of another race; walking the earth and breathing the air with us, but at the same time walking another earth and breathing another air of which we know little orContinue reading “COSMIC CONSCIOUSNESS”
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