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Publisher: White Crane Books
Mark Thompson
"We had many saints, many heroes, both female and male, but I want to speak here of the saints and heroes of the gay tribes. For this is a period of human history that has been lost through time, whose return is vitally needed. For you know the heroes of the other tribes. But of this small, sacred tribe, whose history has been obscured, you remember nothing." So tells acclaimed author Andrew Ramer in Two Flutes Playing. Within these pages can be found insight and wisdom. Ramer serves as a mythologist for gay men, providing evidence to the harmony of gender, love and sex. A new introduction by the author reveals why this book's timeless message has once more returned to print as the inaugural title in the White Crane Spirituality Series.
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| Taking the Journey |
| Customer Rating: 5 out of 5 |
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Ramer, Andrew. "Two Flutes Playing" A Spiritual Journeybook for Gay Men", Lethe Press, 2005.
Taking the Journey
Amos Lassen
Andrew Ramer gives us insight and wisdom in "Two Flutes Playing" as he provides a spiritual rationale for our sexuality. He began to write this book in 1980 and it is a series of essays on gay spirituality that he says came from the voices inside of himself. The underlying idea is a meaningful spirit that celebrates man's love for man. Ramer tells it like it is as he gives us a simple idea that is based upon time worn knowledge that seems to be brand new today. He looks at truth and gives us a way to understand the qualities that are part of the gay community. Namer looks at us as "others" which we have been negatively labeled by society and uses this "otherness" to give us the power and potency we rightfully deserve. He tells us that we should fit into society but not assimilate. We need to find a new vision for ourselves and not live as outcasts but to assume vital and important roles. There is tremendous potential in the gay community, as we are all aware, and we must tap into it.
The book is poetic and prosaic at the same time and it takes us out of our daily routine and consciousness and brings is to a different level in which we are able to not only accept ourselves fully, accept and give love, and to accept ourselves as members of a community and a people.
We learn how to connect and how to communicate and how to form a bond on a higher plane. We have something to give to society and it is time to do so. Reading this is more than just reading--it is an experience that is not soon forgotten or laid to rest.
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| Two Flutes...Amazing! |
| Customer Rating: 5 out of 5 |
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I picked this up on a business trip; I haven't been able to put it down. I've spent my life looking at the journey of a gay man. This book is amazing. My partner and I have practiced some of the healing techniques from this book, and they work! I have reconnected to the "gay" ancestors because of this book. The amazing thing is, while the author was writing this book, many of us were receiving the same message. Men Loving Men have something vital to give to humankind, and it's time we start living like it.
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| A "MUST HAVE" FOR MALE INTIMACY |
| Customer Rating: 5 out of 5 |
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I was recommended this book after having taken a Body Electric workshop a few weeks before. From the first page I began to re-live the entire bonding rituals that we had experienced over that weekend. How to connect, how to communicate, and how to intimately bond on a higher plane! Although some of the prose is repetitive, it helps instill a spiritual base on which the reader can pull from. A definite "must have" book for the gay tribe who would like to interact spiritually and emotionally!
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| Insightful and Deeply Moving |
| Customer Rating: 5 out of 5 |
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Tonight, my partner and I read sections of Andrew Ramer's Two Flute Playing together. It was a moving experience for both of us to read a loud to ourselves, a chapter tittle A Ritual for Male Lovers. This chapters, like other chapters of this book, gives very poetic as well as practical ways of understanding, experiencing, and living a life of Gay Love.
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