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On Tantra, Erotic Humanism, & Pleasure (Part 1 & 2) with Dr. Marc Gafni at Untamed & Unashamed
In this episode we discuss: -what brought him to his studies on eros and mysticism -What is Eros -What it is to live in Eros -how our culture has institutionalized the fall of eros in to the sexual -All ethical collapses come from the failure of the erotic -what is Tantra -the word messiah means conversation -we put someone on the outside, in order to feel on the inside -Orgasm means light -There is no Hebrew word for charity -sexuality contains with in it all wisdom -the different voices of pleasure Dr. Marc Gafni on Tantra, Erotic Humanism, [...]
Challenging the Purity Culture: All of Reality Is Driven by the EROTIC — with Dr. Marc Gafni and the Medicin Podcast
In this important conversation, we are challenging the ethos of Purity Culture and offering a new shared Story of Value. https://youtu.be/FMQIGIvZnEk Timestamps 00:00 Intro + What Marc would gift to the world 08:28 Our upbringing in purity culture 15:17 Sex: Negative, Positive, Neutral + Sacred 28:50 New Narrative: Sex Erotic 35:20 Purity of F*ck 44:40 How GOD becomes more GOD 50:20 Many qualities of love-making 55:55 The "Holy of Holies" of the Bible 1:02:00 Collapsing under unbearable shame 1:10:23 The tragedy of Fundamentalism 1:16:04 How to start experiencing Eros 1:26:30 Accessing your unique script of desire 1:33:33 Boundary breaking in Eros [...]
Dr. Marc Gafni: Anthro-Ontology and the Three Eyes
Download a PDF of the Essay HERE This is an early draft of an essay drawn from the forthcoming volumes of The Universe: A Love Story—First Meditations on CosmoErotic Humanism in Response to the Meta-Crisis in the Great Library of CosmoErotic Humanism. The first draft of this essay was written by Dr. Marc Gafni in conversation with Barbara Marx Hubbard and Dr. Zak Stein. It was edited and prepared for publication by Kerstin Tuschik. We welcome substantive feedback as we prepare a more advanced version of this essay. At the core of CosmoErotic [...]