Sex, Spirit, Love, and Longing: My Personal Journey | Part 1 [EP 210]

What happens when spiritual devotion and gay identity collide in the search for love?

 

In this raw, never-before-shared episode of The Deeper Dating Podcast, Ken takes you on an intensely personal journey through his early spiritual awakening, sexual discovery, and search for authentic connection.

 

From mystical meditations and cult-like spiritual circles to heartbreak, celibacy, sexual compulsion, and finally integration,

 

Ken explores the winding path that led him from loneliness and longing to a deeper understanding of self, love, and the divine.

 

Vulnerable, courageous, and powerfully human.

 

Listen For:

5:28 Losing his friend group and finding solitude

6:42 A radiant stranger in the vegetable aisle

9:45 Meeting Paramahansa Yogananda through a book and a photo

11:53 Telling Bruce “I love you” and being fully received

25:34 Losing spirituality and reclaiming his sexual self

27:53 The tension between sexuality, spirituality, and identity

 

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