My name is Hayden Reynolds. I am spiritual, a gay man, and a graduate student at the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology in Palo Alto, CA. I am conducting research in fulfillment of my Ph.D.

The research centers on the stories of men who believe that their gayness is integral to their spiritual development. I will be interviewing gay men about a time in their life when their understanding of their gayness shifted from being solely physical to having spiritual meaning as well.

Being involved in research of this nature can be highly beneficial. Participants will be asked to reflect on their spiritual development and on their gayness. This kind of introspection gives you the opportunity to see where you have come from and can help you to see where you may be going. The time commitment is less than 5 hours, which are broken into separate time blocks for the smaller tasks of the research. The longest of the blocks is less than 2 hours.

You will be a great candidate if you…

• live in the San Francisco Bay Area

• are biologically male

• identify as gay

• are on a conscious spiritual development path

• have made a shift in understanding about your gayness from being solely physical to also spiritual in nature.

• are able to identify and speak about the period of time when the shift was most present in your life.

Please contact me at research@haydenreynolds.com if you are interested or if you want more information.

OR if you know someone who fits the above descriptions please pass this on to them.

If you are interested in my research for other reasons then please do not hesitate to contact me as well.

Thank you so much for your time reading this and contemplating becoming a participant.

Warmest Regards,

Hayden
research@haydenreynolds.com