There are 6 billion people on this planet; approximately 3 billion are male and 3 billion are female. Of the 3 billion males, 10% or 300 million are gay males. Of the 300 million gay males, 10% or 30 million have the spiritual understanding that we share. That means there are 30 million beautiful brothers scattered about the planet who intuitively understand each other in the deep and spiritual way that we experience. I point this out to emphasize that we are not alone, that there are literally millions of us. We meet each other through a psychic power called "gaydar" in which souls recognize like souls.

What is it that we share? A quality of love that unites the physical, the emotional, the mental and the spiritual and transcends duality. This love has led me back to Unity Consciousness and then on to Divine Perfection Consciousness.

In Unity Consciousness, I see through the illusion of duality. There is no male or female, no life or death, no gay or straight, no opposites at all: it is all One. The hardest illusion to see through is the appearance of good and evil. While explaining the meaning of the term "forbidden fruit" to some Turkish friends, it struck me with great force that by eating from the apple that conveyed the Knowledge of Good and Evil, the archetypical man and woman were ejected from the Garden of Eden. In other words, as long as we distinguish between good and evil, we are wedded to the world of duality. When we see the world as the Indian saint Sri Ramakrishna described it ("The victim, the executioner and the block are one"), we enter Unity Consciousness. (I can understand how the victim and the executioner are one, but the block? Ramakrishna was really out there.)

Then we enter Divine Perfection Consciousness in which everything is seen as perfect. This is really a refinement of Unity Consciousness. Rather than judging and blaming people and events from our tiny, limited perception, we assume that everything before our eyes and ears is perfect and, if it does not seem to be so, it is because we are not seeing or hearing it correctly. How can bad things happen to good people when there is no good or bad? Living in our little minds, we do not know enough to know what is true justice, what is truly good, what is truth itself. Living in our big minds, we know everything.

We are 30 million strong. We are not alone.