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The New Phenomenology of Eros
Exploring the Emerging New Sexual Narrative.
The Crisis of Desire
The New Sexual Narrative
A Return to Eros
Cosmo-Erotic Humanism
Seven Levels of Sexing
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100 — LOVE KNOWS NO DISTANCE: THE NONLOCAL UNIVERSE
100 — LOVE KNOWS NO DISTANCE: THE NONLOCAL UNIVERSE
The interconnectivity of being is neither doctrine nor dogma. Rather, it is the fully accessible nature of reality if we just take the…
Dr.Marc Gafni,Dr.Kristina Kincaid& Gabrielle Anwar
Jun 26, 2021
99 — THE FOURTH FACE - WHOLENESS AND INTERCONNECTIVITY: ON THE INTIMATE UNIVERSE, REALITY AS…
99 — THE FOURTH FACE - WHOLENESS AND INTERCONNECTIVITY: ON THE INTI...
Longing, desire, and tears remind us of the fourth strand in the erotic weave. They whisper to us that we are all interconnected within a…
Dr.Marc Gafni,Dr.Kristina Kincaid& Gabrielle Anwar
Jun 26, 2021
98 — PLOT LINES IN THE UNIVERSE STORY
98 — PLOT LINES IN THE UNIVERSE STORY
Truth be told, the universe story of evolution has at least five core trajectories, or plot lines. Taken together they are the central…
Dr.Marc Gafni,Dr.Kristina Kincaid& Gabrielle Anwar
Jun 26, 2021
97 — I YEARN, THEREFORE I AM
97 — I YEARN, THEREFORE I AM
It is said that the Great Maggid would convene his inner circle every night to teach them the sacred texts. All of his greatest students…
Dr.Marc Gafni,Dr.Kristina Kincaid& Gabrielle Anwar
Jun 26, 2021
96 — ’TIS BETTER TO BLEED
96 — ’TIS BETTER TO BLEED
In a published dialogue between a well-known Buddhist teacher and me (Marc), the teacher challenged me persistently on this issue of…
Dr.Marc Gafni,Dr.Kristina Kincaid& Gabrielle Anwar
Jun 26, 2021
95 — THE EYE OF DESIRE
95 — THE EYE OF DESIRE
For many of the erotic Hebrew mystics, the symbol of confused desire was Alexander the Great. He conquered almost the entire known world…
Dr.Marc Gafni,Dr.Kristina Kincaid& Gabrielle Anwar
Jun 26, 2021
94 — THE THIRD FACE: YEARNING AND DESIRE
94 — THE THIRD FACE: YEARNING AND DESIRE
When I am on the inside, when I am fully present, I am able to access the third face of the erotic experience — yearning. Yearning, or…
Dr.Marc Gafni,Dr.Kristina Kincaid& Gabrielle Anwar
Jun 26, 2021
93 — ECHOES OF EMPTINESS: THE EROTIC AND THE ETHICAL
93 — ECHOES OF EMPTINESS: THE EROTIC AND THE ETHICAL
The arena where emptiness — nonerotic living — is most destructive is in the ethical. Every ethical failure comes from the absence of Eros…
Dr.Marc Gafni,Dr.Kristina Kincaid& Gabrielle Anwar
Jun 26, 2021
92 — EMPTY WISDOM
92 — EMPTY WISDOM
The cherubs once again serve as our guide. Remember that the vortex of the Shechinah is no less than atop the Ark in the Holy of Holies…
Dr.Marc Gafni,Dr.Kristina Kincaid& Gabrielle Anwar
Jun 26, 2021
91 — AFTERTASTE
91 — AFTERTASTE
Now, if we are courageous enough to walk one step further, we will see that sex follows the same formula. Every human being engages in two…
Dr.Marc Gafni,Dr.Kristina Kincaid& Gabrielle Anwar
Jun 26, 2021
90 — CHOCOLATE-COVERED RAISINS
90 — CHOCOLATE-COVERED RAISINS
The same thing happens with food every day without our realizing it. Our bodies can be our most blatant teachers. Our bodies are talking…
Dr.Marc Gafni,Dr.Kristina Kincaid& Gabrielle Anwar
Jun 26, 2021
89 — EMPTINESS AND ADDICTIONS
89 — EMPTINESS AND ADDICTIONS
Eros is about feeling the fullness of being, the opposite of emptiness. Every human being has met emptiness — that feeling we experience…
Dr.Marc Gafni,Dr.Kristina Kincaid& Gabrielle Anwar
Jun 26, 2021
88 — THE SEXUAL MODELS THE EROTIC: Fullness of Presence
88 — THE SEXUAL MODELS THE EROTIC: Fullness of Presence
It is in the sexual where — in its ideal expression — we are most fully present to each other. It is in the sexual that we most fully show…
Dr.Marc Gafni,Dr.Kristina Kincaid& Gabrielle Anwar
Jun 26, 2021
87 — THE SECOND FACE -Fullness of Presence
87 — THE SECOND FACE -Fullness of Presence
EROS AND PSEUDO EROS
Dr.Marc Gafni,Dr.Kristina Kincaid& Gabrielle Anwar
Jun 26, 2021
86 — SEXUAL HIJACKING AND THE FOUR QUESTIONS
86 — SEXUAL HIJACKING AND THE FOUR QUESTIONS
We began the chapter by saying that the sexual models the erotic state of being on the inside. Let’s conclude the chapter with an exercise…
Dr.Marc Gafni,Dr.Kristina Kincaid& Gabrielle Anwar
Jun 26, 2021
85 — INTERIORS ARE REAL
85 — INTERIORS ARE REAL
Indeed the greatest superficiality is to reduce the world to mere exteriors. Exteriors are no less part of reality than interiors are. The…
Dr.Marc Gafni,Dr.Kristina Kincaid& Gabrielle Anwar
Jun 26, 2021
84 — SIT DOWN
84 — SIT DOWN
Teachers taught that Zoharic masters can take us home, but only if they teach from the inside. It is reported that Ziv Hirsch of Zhitomir…
Dr.Marc Gafni,Dr.Kristina Kincaid& Gabrielle Anwar
Jun 26, 2021
83 — COMING HOME
83 — COMING HOME
Once a year in a spine-tingling mystery rite, the priest would enter the Holy of Holies. On this day, every person was forgiven. On this…
Dr.Marc Gafni,Dr.Kristina Kincaid& Gabrielle Anwar
Jun 26, 2021
82 — EVERYMAN’S EROS
82 — EVERYMAN’S EROS
The Eros experience is the province of mystics, artists, and scholars. But not only them. It awaits all of us in all our endeavors.
Dr.Marc Gafni,Dr.Kristina Kincaid& Gabrielle Anwar
Jun 26, 2021
81 — THE SPELL OF SPELLING
81 — THE SPELL OF SPELLING
In the Hebrew mystical tradition, language is not the mere random designation of sounds and letters in a particular pattern. For the…
Dr.Marc Gafni,Dr.Kristina Kincaid& Gabrielle Anwar
Jun 26, 2021
80 — THE FIRST FACE OF EROS: INTERIORITY
80 — THE FIRST FACE OF EROS: INTERIORITY
“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us,” Ralph Waldo Emerson pointed out. He was…
Dr.Marc Gafni,Dr.Kristina Kincaid& Gabrielle Anwar
Jun 14, 2021
79 — WHERE WE GO FROM HERE
79 — WHERE WE GO FROM HERE
“Okay,” you say, “I want to live erotically. So what are the specific qualities of the erotic, of being a lover, that the sexual models…
Dr.Marc Gafni,Dr.Kristina Kincaid& Gabrielle Anwar
Jun 14, 2021
78 — INTERIORITY: LIVING ON THE INSIDE
78 — INTERIORITY: LIVING ON THE INSIDE
Let’s take a few moments to review what we’ve discovered so far. Sex and Eros are different but essentially related. The relation is that…
Dr.Marc Gafni,Dr.Kristina Kincaid& Gabrielle Anwar
Jun 14, 2021
77 — WHY THIS IS ESSENTIAL NOW
77 — WHY THIS IS ESSENTIAL NOW
For many years the cherubic mystery tradition was not taught publicly and often not at all in the Hebrew wisdom traditions. This was not…
Dr.Marc Gafni,Dr.Kristina Kincaid& Gabrielle Anwar
Feb 19, 2021
76 — COURTING THE SACRED
76 — COURTING THE SACRED
When I (Marc) sit down to prepare a teaching, the process goes something like this. First is the attraction. I generally teach only that…
Dr.Marc Gafni,Dr.Kristina Kincaid& Gabrielle Anwar
Feb 17, 2021
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