Another scene of such erotic perceiving comes to mind. It was in one of those impersonal high rise building in New York City. Sue, one of the women who I worked with there, was having a bad day, or rather a bad 365 days. She had been in a marriage wh ...

Elevators and County Fairs Love is a perception, to be loved is to be seen. I remember when I was a kid, little, scrawny, not worth a moment’s notice by no one or no thing – or so I thought. It was the Bexley Fair. I was there with my parents ...

Feminine Beauty: Eros and Perception: Part VI My partner, Cary, tells me that in high school, she and her friends always said that one of their favorite things about hanging out with their African-American guy friends was that “they knew how to loo ...

installation five in a series of blogs…. ‘Greater is Receiving Guests’ Remember the hebrew wisdom practice I shared in an earlier blog? If you are in the middle of meditation — rapturously receiving the Divine Presence — and guests that ...

Installation four in a series of blogs: Clearly at this stage in his life the sexual was for the Master, like for the Buddha, Jesus and virtually all the saints at some point in their path, a trap to be avoided at all costs. The good news is that thi ...

First we need to remind ourselves that Love in Western consciousness has become a very limited proposition. To begin with, we are used to thinking of love as a storybook fantasy which is all too often marred by the realties of life. Truly great love, ...

installation one in a series of blogs: No sooner met but they look’d; no sooner look’d but they lov’d; no sooner lov’d but they sigh’d; no sooner sigh’d but they ask’d one another the reason; no sooner knew the reason but they sought th ...

In the next stage of our journey we will outline ten paths of Hebrew tantra. In each of these paths the starting point will be the sexual. We will identify a unique quality of the sexual which models the erotic. They include creativity, pleasure, ima ...

The Invitation to Be Love Eros is the invitation to be a lover: to be a great lover in every fiber of your being, in every facet of your life. But is even more then that. To be a lover is still second person. Do not merely be a lover: BE LOVE…L ...

It is time for the secret to be revealed and the wine to be drunk. It is time for a holy Dionysus to emerge and claim his place together alongside the cherubs in the Holy of Holies. Enough with the pathologies of the sexual that poison our society. V ...

Yeats: The best lack all conviction while the worst are full of Passionate intensity Surely some revelation is at hand… The revelation at hand, that which we yearn for, is the secret of the cherubs. How to transform sexuality from a force to be con ...

A second type of fundamentalist fellowship is the communities of greed and accumulation. Greed and consumption move our lives because when the center doesn’t hold, the pseudo-eros of money seems the easiest means to fill the emptiness. Paradoxicall ...