Joe Perez
Joe Perez draws on many ideas, disciplines, and practices to inspire a more integral and conscious world. His books include “Soulfully Gay,” written when he was 34 years old, one of the first nationally published memoirs in the Integral Spirituality tradition. Joe’s new blog “Awake, Alive & Aware” is a rapidly growing Integral blog and continues a corpus of blogging tracking his integral development all the way back to November 2003. He is currently working on a variety of projects including a post-metaphysical constructed language called Lingua-U.
In the foreword to Joe Perez’s spiritual autobiography, Ken Wilber writes:
I am in the awkward situation of writing a foreword to a book by a gay person. This is an awkward situation not because Joe Perez is gay, but because I have to point it out. I feel the same damn irritation as having to refer to, say, Edmund White as a “gay writer.” Nobody has to point out that I am heterosexual, although now I hear that I am not a heterosexual but a metrosexual, although, in fact, I have never had sex with a metro in my life. But I’m sure it is a wonderful experience.
Nevertheless, because I have to include that information-culture today demands it, from those both for and against homosexuals-then let me say this. Joe Perez’s book is perhaps the most astonishing, brilliant, and courageous look at the interface between individual belief and cultural values that has been written in our times. By a homosexual, or a heterosexual, or any other sexual I am aware of.
Joe is an Honors graduate of Harvard University with a Bachelor’s degree in The Comparative Study of Religion and Philosophy. He has also completed the Generating Transformative Change program at Pacific Integral and attended The Divinity School at the University of Chicago.
The Principal of Writing Wolf, Joe runs an editorial consulting firm specializing in writing world class professional resumes and career marketing portfolios for executives and other accomplished professionals. He is a Certified Professional Resume Writer (CPRW) and Certified Job Search Strategist (CJSS).
