Discover the secret relationship between erotic, the sexual, and the sacred
Sex is not negative or positive. Sex is not just neutral, nor is it merely sacred because it creates babies. None of these old sexual stories work for us anymore. We need a new sexual narrative. This book gives the new sexual narrative, what the authors call Sex Erotic.
Erotic Mystics from the hidden tradition of Solomon's temple taught a secret doctrine: sex is the source of all wisdom. It's an expression of the erotic impulse of existence itself alive in us?the yearning for contact, pleasure, and aliveness. The sexual, however, is not the sum total of the erotic. Rather, the sexual teaches us how to live an erotic life in all dimensions of our existence. That is Sex Erotic.
A Return to Eros: The Radical Experience of Being Fully Alive, from Drs. Marc Gafni and Kristina Kincaid, reveals the radical tenets of the relationships between the sexual, the erotic, and the holy. They share what Eros actually means and also the 12 core qualities of the erotic, which are modeled by the sexual. These include being on the inside, fullness of presence, yearning, allurement, fantasy, surrender, creativity, pleasure, and more.
A Return to Eros shows why these qualities of the erotic modeled by the sexual are actually the same core qualities of the sacred. The relationship between the sexual and the erotic becomes clear, teaching you how to live an erotically suffused existence charged with purpose, potency, and power. To be an empowered lover?not just in sex but also in all facets of your life?you must listen to the whisperings of the sexual. Transform your understanding and experience of love, sex, and Eros inside these pages.
Autorentext
Marc Gafni
Inhalt
Foreword by Barbara Marx Hubbard
Foreword by Warren Farrell
Preface: The Future of Love, Sex, and Eros
Part One: The Cosmo-Erotic Universe
Chapter One: A New Sexual Narrative
Chapter Two: Evoking Eros
Chapter Three: Sex in the Temple
Chapter Four: The Dancing Master, an Erotic Story
Chapter Five: The Secret of the Cherubs: Reality Is Eros
Chapter Six: Eros: From Fear to Liberation
Chapter Seven: Cosmo-Erotic Reality Unveiled
Chapter Eight: Decoding the Solomon Matrix
Chapter Nine: The Sexy Song of Solomon
Chapter Ten: The Exile of the Erotic and the Boundary-Breaking Sexual
Chapter Eleven: From Sexual Ethics to Sexual Ethos: On Eros, Subversive or Transgressive
Chapter Twelve: The Sexual Models the Erotic: Healing the Split
Part Two: The Five Essential Faces of Eros
Chapter Thirteen: The First Face: Interiority: Living on the Inside
Chapter Fourteen: The Second Face: Fullness of Presence
Chapter Fifteen: The Third Face: Yearning and Desire
Chapter Sixteen: The Fourth Face: Wholeness and Interconnectivity: On The Intimate Universe: Reality as Allurement
Chapter Seventeen: The Fifth Face: Uniqueness and Identity
Chapter Eighteen: More on the Fifth Face: Story, Voice, and Soul Prints
Chapter Nineteen: The Harlot by the Sea, a Fifth-Face Story
Part Three: More Faces of Eros
Chapter Twenty: The Sixth Face: Imagination
Chapter Twenty-One: The Seventh Face: Perception
Chapter Twenty-Two: The Eighth Face: Giving and Receiving
Chapter Twenty-Three: The Ninth Face: Surrender
Chapter Twenty-Four: The Tenth Face: Play and Lishmah
Chapter Twenty-Five: The Eleventh Face: Creativity
Chapter Twenty-Six: The Twelfth Face: Pleasure and Delight
Chapter Twenty-Seven: Union: The Erotics of Identity: A Deeper Cut
Appendix A: On the Pain of Eros
Appendix B: The Murder of Eros
Appendix C: Testimonial by Dr. Kristina Kincaid
Notes
Permission Credits
Acknowledgments
About the Authors