Loving Laurie - A True Story Of Soul Mates
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This seven hour audiobook tells the true story of the author’s history of sexual and soul-mate love, and the lessons he has learned from it all.
Inspired story-telling and teaching for all who would love fully in their lives.
The author talks in a series of chapters about his real life experiences where love and sexual relating worked to enhance his life and his partner’s.
Altogether one of the most realistic audiobooks around to inspire the modern listener to seek and live a true love in life. Also healing in perspective for all those of us who have suffered loss and defeat in risking to love fully.
The author’s way is to talk freely and dynamically in podcasting style about his real life experiences. He shares his feelings, disappointments, realizations and successes, as well as failures.
As an expert psychologist he also draws out the real life issues about humans loving each other and gives much insight and practical advice in how to deal with the pitfalls to love and how to hold out for and find a true love for your life.
The author is sensitive to the people he describes and contributes much of value about deep core connecting that is both natural and even destined, if we so choose it when someone right for us comes along to love and be loved.
You will never be the same again in your ability and realism to love. We feel as listeners that we are right there in the living room with this inspired expert on the real nature of human love.
Or purchase the chapters one by one.
Prologue - What Is Love?
What happens when you fall passionately in love in your late teens
and middle twenties. Can anyone at the age handle everything that a
full, passionate love evokes? How does Strephon understand finding
his great love at age twenty-five? Is this true love, and how can
both Strephon and Laurie decide?
Chapter One - Love Has No Seasons
How do you know upon first meeting that it is true love? How do
Laurie and Strephon each understand their new love experience
together? How does each of this pair begin to love each other and
build their love? How well did this loving couple handle their
love? How did they handle the opposition to their love?
Chapter Two - Kissing Laurie
Making sexual advances to another person is always a risk,
isn’t it? Either you get rejected or the person accepts you
into relationship. What was going on inside both Laurie and
Strephon that they could reach out and truly love one another? What
made it possible to enhance their love together?
Chapter Three - A Virgin No Longer
What motivated Strephon and Laurie to extend their commitment to
being with each other to full sexual intercourse, though for Laurie
it would be the first time? What did sex mean for them? Why did
they have to love in secret? Did opposition from Laurie’s
parents hurt or help them to love?
Chapter Four - Love And The Times
How did people’s attitudes of the times just before the
sixties affect Strephon and Laurie’s ability to bond sexually
and emotionally with each other? How did their love experiences
affect their moods and perspectives on life? What did people of the
time believe about love, militarism, achieving in life, living by
middle-class values or by humanistic values?
Chapter Five - Marry Me! Marry Me!
What brought Strephon to the decision to ask Laurie to marry him
and what was her feeling response? Why did the commitment to marry
have to be tested strongly again? What was getting married to them?
What obstacles did they have to overcome to align themselves with
the ritual of marriage? What was the great danger they overcame by
marriage?
Chapter Six - Growing Separately Together
It’s one thing to marry in the heat of the initial passion of
relating. It’s quite another thing to actually marry and
begin living an everyday life together, totally committed to each
other. How did Laurie and Strephon handle the stresses of being
married and dealing with what was evoked because of that? What
created their decisions to separate and then divorce?
Chapter Seven - Life After Laurie
Laurie and Strephon separate and divorce despite the deep love they
had already shared together for about five years. What happened
that they separated? Does the fact of their divorce mean that they
really didn’t love each other as soulmates? Or did they just
mess it up, do the wrong thing by each other, and that broke up
their love relationship? Did they do the separation and divorce
well? What happened to their heart love after? Did they every love
again with another, like they had passionately loved when
together?
Chapter Eight - The Sixties!
How Laurie and Strephon lived separate lives through the sixties
and into the seventies. Laurie went middle-class, while Strephon
became an activist against the Viet Nam war and a participant in
the sixties alternative culture that emphasized love and mutual
sharing among all people. Did he find deep love again or simply
relate as best he could to those available? What was the
transformation that Strephon went through to make his life positive
and effective, despite not having anyone totally right for him to
love?
Chapter Nine - Where Were You Laurie?
Strephon builds his life and explores new relationships in
Berkeley, California. How does Strephon cope with life and love
after the full intimacy and passion of loving Laurie? The love
movement became a variety of changing relationships, instead of
falling in love with one and marrying her and staying faithful to
the end of days. Why does Laurie go downhill in life and Strephon
goes uphill into positive achievements?
Chapter Ten - Other Lovers Other Times
What does Strephon learn about love after Laurie? How does Strephon
realize that love is not just loving the other person? What is
learning to love in the body, and not symbolically, as in a
religion? What does Strephon experience through sex and bodywork
therapy after Laurie, and how does this change his life? What does
Strephon finally learn about ultimate love with a partner in
life?
Chapter Eleven - Our Sexual Body
Strephon recounts what it is to be in a sexual body. Why do we as
humans have negative attitudes against the human body? Why negative
attitudes against having affairs? How Strephon had great sex with a
married woman. How they both stayed positive even when the
negativistic husband discovered them in the act.
Chapter Twelve - Existence In A Body
What are our attitudes towards the life of the body: pleasure and
pain? Strephon shares on healthy versus unhealthy attitudes. Could
the teaching be: objectify your body - don’t identify with
it, yet don’t live in the mind as an escape from your body?
What is the purpose of lovemaking? Strephon gets into this so that
we may objectify our love lives so as to truly fulfill them as they
fulfill us.
Chapter Thirteen - True Love - Soul Love
Does Strephon’s loss of Laurie so upset his attitudes on love
that he gives up the quest for finding true love? What is true love
in life? How does love affect ones core being? Can we develop our
essential nature without being in a true love, soul-connected,
life-long relationship? How do we find the right companion to
develop soul-love together with?
Chapter Fourteen - Your Spiritual Lover
What has Strephon discovered about being a spiritual lover to
certain women? What is this desire to have a spiritual lover after
you have had a sexual lover who is materialistic but not spiritual?
How can you have both a spiritual lover and an earthly lover in the
same man or woman? What in existence necessitates the need for a
spiritual lover?
Chapter Fifteen - Strephon On Strephon
How does Strephon see himself and what he has created in telling
this love memoir of his life? What were the internal processes
happening as Strephon sought to bring to life again significant
parts of his life concerning love? What are the learnings for
listeners by experiencing Strephon’s own love life with him
as he tells it? What are the teachings about love?
