Eros and Holiness: Part Eight: Dance Me to the End of Love – Marc Gafni
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Eros and Holiness: Part Seven
Dance Me to the End of Love
Life is a choice. You can remain a bee trapped in a bottle and everyone―except yourself―will be convinced you are dancing. Or you can choose to be a dancing master. To dance yourself into your book of life. To be an erotic lover in every facet of your existence. A wonderful mantra from the biblical love book, the Song of Songs, reads, “I am love sick on my bed at night,” explains 19th century mystical master Nachum of Chernobyl, “I have fallen on my bed because my loving has become sick.”
When being a great lover is limited to sexual performance, and wild erotic stories connote anonymous orgies, then love has become sick and we fall on our beds into the depths of emptiness and depression. The dance of Eros is to teach you how to be a great lover not only in the sexual but in all the dimensions of your life. That is the radical invitation issued by this book of Hebrew wisdom.
You need not have studied mysticism or biblical myth before reading this tract. This is a book written for all seekers of transformation. This book is for you if you are not sated by pop culture and seek a passionate, joyful, yet deeply grounded and serious exploration of the mysteries as your guide.
I am a biblical mystic. I have studied, taught, and tried to live the sacred texts in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, nestled in the hills, of the Galilee in Israel, Oxford University in England, and in exile in Salt Lake City, Utah. The Aramaic and Hebrew mystery texts have been my guides and friends for many years. Of course, like every mystic who engages sacred text, I hear the text in accordance with the inner melody of my soul. I now share this song with you in the form of this book. You are invited to find the place in your soul where you can receive and integrate this ancient wisdom into your own song.
The invitation and the challenge of the spirit in our generation is to create a politics of Eros and love. That can only begin to happen when each person in the polis takes responsibility for the erotic quality of his or her life. We need to, and we can, realign our souls with the fountain of being. We can connect to the vital currents of loving energy that course though our universe. We can decide to enter the flow, and from that place on the inside we can transform first our lives, and ultimately, our world.
The mystery begins in the inner precincts of Solomon’s sacred temple in Jerusalem, unraveling the deep, wondrous and provocative relationship between sex, eros and love. It is the unpacking of this first stage of the mysteries that we devote the first three framing chapters. Emerging from the Hebrew mystery tradition, the following ten chapters each lay out a unique path of Hebrew Tantra. Each path will offer you a compelling spirit map for living erotically in every facet of your being.
Shared by Marc Gafni.
