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Essay by Dr. Marc Gafni: Homo Imaginus and the Erotics of Imagination
by Dr. Marc Gafni. The Shechinah is the feminine Divine. Her name means Indwelling Presence, "the one who dwells in you." She is presence, poetry, passion. She is the sustaining God force which runs through and wombs the world. She is the underlying erotic, sensual, and loving force that knows our name and nurtures all being. Shechinah captures an experience, a way of being in the world, for which we do not yet have an English word. For this is a way of being which we in the West are hard pressed to articulate. It is the experience of waking [...]
From Pre-Tragic to Tragic to Post-Tragic Consciousness – by Dr. Marc Gafni
by Dr. Marc Gafni Towards a Post-Tragic Politics of Eros There are three primary levels of consciousness through whose prism we experience our lives. We will call these three levels the pre-tragic, tragic, and post-tragic. Read More Papers
The Cosmo-Erotic Universe: Excerpt from A Return to Eros
An Excerpt from A Return to Eros by Dr. Marc Gafni. We live in a cosmos driven by Eros. The universe is a perfect, interconnected whole that at the same time seeks greater wholeness. The universe is radically alive, infused with presence and infinite vitality, even as it is infinitely intimate and whole. Everything rests in the beingness of spacious perfection. And yet the universe is driven by evolutionary Eros. The cosmos is not only being but also becoming. Whereas being is characterized by harmony and equilibrium, becoming is characterized by a kind of ecstatic urgency and disequilibrium. Evolutionary Eros [...]