Review

Hidden Intercourse is a book that turns people's heads around, so thatthey can never think of sex the same way again.-Joscelyn Godwin

A collection of essays addressing a doubly fascinating topic, namely, theintersection of the erotic and the esoteric in western culture from ancient Greece to contemporary California--where west meets east, as the American counterculture supplements its already eclectic garb with the mantle of a refashioned Asian Tantra.-Virginia Burrus

A thoughtful, well-written, and extremely wide-ranging text that examines the crucial role of eros/sexuality in the western esoteric tradition.-G. William Barnard

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About the Author

Wouter J. Hanegraaff (1961) is professor of History of Hermetic Philosophy and Related Currents at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. His publications focus on the history of Western esotericism from Renaissance hermetism to contemporary New Age spiritualities, and on questions of method and theory in the modern academic study of these fields. Jeffrey J. Kripal (1962) is the J. Newton Rayzor Professor and Chair of Religious Studies at Rice University in Houston, Texas. His publications focus on the comparative erotics of mystical literature, American countercultural translations of Asian religious traditions, and the history of Western esotericism from ancient Gnosticism to the New Age.