Strephon's Cancer
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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. 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.
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What Is Love?

What happens when you fall passionately in love in your late teens and middle twenties. Can anyone at that 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?
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?