- Is sex feeling flat?
- Does it leave you wanting more?
- Is your connection with spirit lacking passion?
- What does God have to do with sex?
- What does sex have to do with God?
What if you could connect them together?
Sequoia Thom, M.A., began asking these questions early. His strict religious upbringing created a painful internal split that drove him on a life-long quest to fathom the depths of both sex and spirit. He discovered that libido is like rocket fuel to open the heart and access the spirit.
After a decade of in-depth study of Yoga and Tantra, at age 35 he began 40 years of offering Tantra massage and workshops teaching men how to spread their powerful pelvic charge into full-body bliss.
In his deeply personal memoir, Sequoia shares all he learned over 50+ years on his transformational journey. He offers rare resources for your own transformation, so that you can:
- free yourself from any residue of sexual guilt or shame,
- deepen your connection between your sex, heart, and soul;
- experience deeper love for yourself and others;
- explore sex with human partners as a form of worshiping the formless universal Beloved; and
- glimpse the one pure consciousness that we all are at the deepest level.
"I want us all to live with our genitals, heart and soul in happy harmony," he wrote. "I offer you my life as an open book."
"Sequoia Thom is that rarest and most precious of Jewel: a true elder in the field of erotic spirituality, encompassing a breadth of experience, a depth of wisdom, tremendous integrity, and sheer delight, all powered by extraordinary generosity of spirit and profound commitment to our collective spiritual growth.
"Readers will find their journeys reflected and uplifted by reading his memoir, and by exploring the incredible treasure house of tools and teachings he shares."
-- Hunter Flournoy, Licensed Therapist, Breathworker, Embodied Wisdom Teacher, and VisionKeeper for SpiritJourneysFollow Sequoia's transformational life journey: your life will be better because of what you'll discover about you!
About the Author :
Sequoia Thom, M.A. devoted 50 years to exploring and teaching the connection between the erotic and the spiritual. In this highly intimate memoir he shares what he learned with many rich resources for the reader's own journey.
Review :
"What a life! Sequoia Thom has spent his eight decades on earth as
an intrepid adventurer: a seeker of wisdom and experience, of spiritual
satisfaction and sexual self-acceptance. His entertaining memoir Divining
Desire chronicles his pilgrim's progress from post-World War II Brooklyn to
present-day Vancouver, from US Air Force pilot working hard to maintain
a façade of butchness to radical faerie to building community around the
pleasures of yoga, massage, and erotic playfulness. Along the way he was
blessed to encounter a string of high-powered meditation teachers who
nurtured his soul, while his romantic nature led him to an abundance
of lovers who educated and fed his heart. The journey has never been
especially smooth or linear. Sequoia writes honestly about the obstacles
he's had to navigate, internally and externally, as a gay man. Yet he has
accumulated many tips and tools for creating a good life, and he shares
them with a generosity and grace that radiates off the page."
--Don Shewey, therapist, pleasure activist, and author
(most recently the memoir Daddy Lover
God: a sacred intimate journey)
A memoir, to me, should be two things - a story-mirror for the author's soul,
and a teaching-mirror for its readers' own different life. In his masterful
and engaging book Sequoia Thom does both, with honesty, vulnerability,
and passion. Our culture tends to separate spirituality and sexuality, but
Sequoia's story is about the dance they do together, from his being a
courageous young man exploring gay life to his being a wise teacher and
elder. In a time when we're all being called upon to wake-up, own, and act
from our inner wisdom - this is the mirror you've been looking for!
Maggid Eli Andrew Ramer, author of Ever After: the extended
lives and work of eleven famous writers. andrewramer.com
