Loving Laurie - A True Story Of Soul Mates

What Is Love?

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?

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?

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?

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?

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?

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?

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?

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?

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?

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?

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.

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.

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?

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?

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?