This is part 5 of a longer excerpt of the groundbreaking new book A Return to Eros that you can buy here. Read part 1 here, part 2 here, part 3 here and part 4 here. Allurement is the “strange attractor” at the heart of all matter, the very real ...
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Allurement and Autonomy
This is part 4 of a longer excerpt of the groundbreaking new book A Return to Eros that you can buy here. Read part 1 here, part 2 here and part 3 here. What is essential to understand about Eros is that it is not only a force of allurement. Eros is ...
Always Two Coming Together
This is part 3 of a longer excerpt of the groundbreaking new book A Return to Eros that you can buy here. Read part 1 here and part 2 here. In the initiating orgiastic movement of the big bang, separate subatomic units, which physicists call quarks, ...
The Erotic Motive of the Cosmos
This is part 2 of a longer excerpt of the groundbreaking new book A Return to Eros that you can buy here. Read part 1 here. Science looks through the eye of the mind and the eye of the senses. Spirit looks through the eye of the heart. At this moment ...
The Cosmo-Erotic Reality Unveiled
This is part 1 of a longer excerpt of the groundbreaking new book A Return to Eros that you can buy here. To live an erotic life is to know that you are part of a cosmo-erotic universe. We live in a cosmos driven by Eros. Eros is not an aberration bu ...
Ancient Articulations of Eros
For ancient articulations of this new sexual narrative, we turn to the hidden wisdom of the spiritually incorrect masters. These masters taught the esoteric traditions of all the great systems of spirit. They are the erotic mystics. The esoteric name ...
Sex Models Eros
The paradox of this book 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 are already dead. By contrast, being fully alive in the sexual models for us what it means to be radically alive ...
Sex: A Love Story
We need to realize that Sex is a love story. Not an ordinary love story. But an outrageous Love Story. An Erotic love story. Outrageous Love is Eros. Ordinary love is legitimate but it is limited in the gift it can give you. In this world that incarn ...
Turn It into Prayer – Video Teaching with Dr. Marc Gafni
In this video, we explore how to take personality sexing, make it conscious, and then turn it into a prayer. The teaching starts after listening to the song “A Better Place to Be” by Harry Chapin. To read the lyrics, go here. That song is ...
The Incomplete Revolution of the 60’s
God Is Eros Course Lesson 1: After Dancing to the Age of Aquarius In this video, Dr. Marc Gafni explains why the revolution of the 60’s didn’t work, what was missing, and how we can fix that. Why experience isn’t enough. How every e ...
Fantasy & Imagination
An excerpt from the Mystery of Love 2013 on “Reclaiming Eros” In this video, Dr. Marc Gafni shares about the fifth quality of Eros: Fantasy & Imagination. He gives an example of how Eros is exiled into the Sexual. All of us are master ...
Who Am I? I Am an Outrageous Love Letter
Watch this teaching by Dr. Marc Gafni on Being an Outrageous Love Letter as our special gift from the Mystery School on Reclaiming Eros: Some of the themes Marc Gafni covers in this video: Loving Your Way to Enlightenment Who Are You? From se ...
Marc Gafni on Responding to Existential Risk
Listen to this inspiring half hour talk by CIW President Dr. Marc Gafni, where he shares some of the thinking that emerged from many of the great conversations during and after our Center for Integral Wisdom board meeting: How do we live with and con ...
Living the Erotic Life
Listen to this brief excerpt on Living the Erotic Life and the Democratization of Enlightenment from a teaching by Dr. Marc Gafni at the Shalom Mountain Wisdom School in 2014: Some quotes: It’s only you who know if you are living the Erotic L ...
Dr. Marc Gafni in Thrive Global
You want to read more by Dr. Marc Gafni online? Follow him on Thrive Global, where he has been featured a couple of times as part of their Wisdom Channel. So, far there have been four pieces by him, starting with a Crisis of Imagination. In it, he di ...