24 — FOUR DIMENSIONS OF THE SECRET OF THE CHERUBS

10 — ORDINARY LOVE AND OUTRAGEOUS LOVE

Understanding the distinction between ordinary and outrageous love is the doorway to all…

53 — HOLY OF HOLIES

Akiva had a second teaching, which dances us one step further on the path of Eros and love. Akiva participated in a great…

20 — THE DANCING MASTER, AN EROTIC STORY

A Tibetan story wonderfully evokes the erotic experience we are exploring together.
Reports had reached the young Dalai Lama that a certain master of Kung Fu was roaming the countryside of Tibet, converting young men to the study of violence. Rumors even…

6 — THE COSMO-EROTIC UNIVERSE

THE NEW SEXUAL NARRATIVE

If you stop to think even for a short moment, you realize that sex really is the great mystery of our lives. It is truer today than it was in any previous generation. For we have lost the story line of meaning around our…

7 — SEX MODELS EROS

The paradox is that it is all about sex and not about sex at all. Sex is life. But if we are only alive in our sex, then we…

17 — SEX IN THE TEMPLE

Imagine the scene: You walk into your local place of worship — church, synagogue, mosque, meditation center, or whatever. The pastor or rabbi has apparently decided to redecorate while you were away on vacation. You and that he has installed atop the Ark or altar a statue of sexually…

61 — ON EROS, SUBVERSIVE OR TRANSGRESSIVE

We recently had dinner with a colleague who has written some significant work on Eros…

4 — FROM THE TRAGIC TO POST-TRAGIC SEXUAL

We are lost in the tragic sexual, searching for a new narrative. We long for a return to sexual innocence. Not a pre-tragic innocence but a post-tragic innocence. We yearn to re-virginate. We are not seeking sexual license as much as we desperately yearn…

3 — SEXUAL SHADOWS

But if all that were not enough, sex is also a big-time killer. Men are raping men and killing men over sex. Men are killing…