This is the first half of a discussion in which Layman and the Rabbi Marc Gafni discuss the origins, nature, community use, philosophical necessity, and intriguing extensions of the tripartite concept of pre-tragic, tragic & post-tragic.
Kyle Kingsbury welcomes back Dr. Marc Gafni to continue their short-form series on the “12 faces/phases of Eros,” focusing here on Eros as perception. Gafni defines Eros as radical aliveness desiring deeper contact and greater wholeness, a cosmic force uniquely moving through each person, and argues love is not merely emotion but a “perception-identification complex” in which one perceives another’s irreducible quality/value and identifies their essence with that beauty rather than surface flaws. He critiques modern fast, negative, scandal-driven attention and “pornographic” surface gazing as anti-Eros, contrasting it with deep perception captured by Avatar’s “I see you.” He says understanding love as perception makes it trainable, and extends the idea to orgasm as an illumination and affirmation of divine intimacy.
NEW BOOK: First Principles and First Values – David J. Temple
A Return to Eros (paperback)
A Return to Eros (audiobook)
The Erotic and the Holy
Your Unique Self
Soul Prints: Your Path to Fulfillment
Self in Integral Evolutionary Mysticism
by Marc Gafni (Author), Kristina Kincaid (Author), Barbara Max Hubbard (Foreword)
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.
Our exploration of “The Evolution of Tears” concludes with a look at the role of sorrow in visionary experience & spiritual maturity with a special focus on the need to reclaim and integrate the tears that we might displace onto “the angels.” The key textual references here are Isaac and Ishmael.
This podcast is the third and final part 3 of the conversations on the Book “Tears” by Dr. Marc Gafni in the exploration of CosmoErotic Humanism.
In his pre-course podcast with Andrew Sweeny, Dr. Gafni begins by pointing to a core realization in the interior sciences: the original Hebrew word for touch is also the word for wound: Nega.
This is not a coincidence; it is an ontological truth. The wound is where your connection to the real has been broken.
“My wound is, I haven’t been able to touch… I haven’t been touched… The wound is the wound of desire. When my desire has been wounded, when I can’t access and trust my desire, I literally begin to deaden.”
The deepest desire of every particle of existence is to prehend (to touch) all prior experience. Your fundamental desire is to touch that which is real—significance, value, and aliveness. When this unique capacity to touch is rejected or thwarted, a unique wound is created. To heal, you must engage this wound directly.
We live in a world where desire is often demonized, shamed, or hijacked by advertising. This course offers a radical re-reading of our most foundational myths.
Dr. Gafni explains that a deeper reading of the Garden of Eden story reveals it as a tantric text—a trickster story where non-rejection is key. The snake (Nachash) is not the voice of evil, but a disguise for the new human (Messiah).
The course is about engaging this truth. You must clarify your unique desire, which means engaging the fundamental ways in which your desire has been wounded.
You cannot achieve mental health, fulfillment, or joy without desire. The transformation of your unique wound is what literally births you into reality, turning devastation into a deeper capacity for wonder.
We live in a world that is “always already home” and yet is ripped apart by war and suffering. This course holds that tension—the unbearable joy of Eros and the unbearable intensity of suffering—as the only way to become whole.
In this three-week journey, participants confront the wounds that shape their lives—the unique ruptures that call us from despair into wonder, from alienation into intimacy, from devastation into divinity. Each person’s wound is singular, tied to their shadow, their desire, and their unique self. This course guides students to trace the root of their wound, recognize the false core it may have created, and begin the heroic work of transforming pain into power, shame into insight, and contraction into love. We explore personal, familial, and cultural wounding, and the path of the wounded hero, learning to step into authentic presence and the intimate communion between hero and the wounded God.
This 3-week course will guide you to:
“There is no human being who is not wounded. The wound is not an accident. The wound is the intention of Cosmos to be wounded and to transform the wound into wonder—the rupture into rapture, the alienation into allurement, the collapse into covenant, the pathology into power, the devastation into divinity. Evil comes always from the untransformed wound. What is a wound? How do we understand that? What is my unique wound? A wound is not generic. A human being has a unique self—my unique gift, my unique quality of intimacy, my unique perspective, my unique beauty, my unique presence. And a person also has a unique shadow, and a related but not the same unique wound. The path to unique self is through unique shadow and unique wound.
Our focus in this course is your unique wound. You cannot be alive without identifying your unique wound and beginning to walk the path of its transformation. There is nothing more tragic than to die with your wound unrecognized and untransformed. To look away from your wound is to ignore the call of the infinite, the divine calling. If I do not engage the wound in this lifetime, the wound festers and emerges, replaying itself in the next lifetime again and again. To identify my unique wound, I need to trace it back to its root and heal it there. There are ten major approaches to wounding; some address my unique wound, others address different forms of wounding that are not my own. I cannot heal my unique wound without taking my unique risk. My unique risk is essential; really, the only risk is not to take it.
The unique wound can be personal, tribal, collective—the unique wound of the tribe, the family, the couple. Identifying, articulating, and telling the story of the unique wound is the beginning of its transformation. One cannot be a hero without transforming one’s unique wound. There are no heroes who are not wounded heroes. When the hero bypasses the wound, the hero explodes and often becomes the villain. To be a hero is to be a wounded hero; to be a king is to be a wounded king; to be a queen is to be a wounded queen. And the context of all of this is a wounded God. Who is the wounded God? What’s the story of the wounded God? What does it mean to trust the wounded God? What is the encounter between the wounded hero and the wounded God? Who is the hero and who is God? What is the nature of their intimate communion?
The essence of the false core, both individual and collective, is the unrecognized wound. The unrecognized wound becomes the false core. It is only by recognizing the false core that it is brought into the light. The false self built upon the false core can begin to be deconstructed, and the authentic, unique self can emerge, allowing me to play my instrument in the unique self symphony, to take my place, to take the armor off, and for homo armor to become homo amor. This is the path from contraction to love, from pettiness to power, from hate to healing. Every insult is actually a wound of love.
The wound of culture today is the failure of value, and the recognition of that failure was shame—shame itself as a unique wound. Your unique shame is your unique wound, your unique distortion of your unique configuration of desire.”
– Dr. Marc Gafni
In this episode of The Integral Stage podcast, Layman Pascal and Dr. Marc Gafni continue their exploration of the backstory and intellectual journey to CosmoErotic Humanism with a further exploration of the “relentless Rabbi’s” book on Tears. This time, they focus on questions related to God’s Voice, Laughter in Hell, Bondage & the Abraham/Isaac tale.
This podcast is Part 2 of a series focussing on the book Tears: Reclaiming Ritual, Integral Religion, and Rosh Hashanah. The book uses the rite of Rosh Hashanah in the wisdom of Solomon lineage to explore the necessity of the return of ritual and the importance of religion beyond philosophy and spirituality.
Dr. Marc Gafni returns to discuss the concept of imagination, as part of a deeper dive into the 12 faces of Eros, inspired by his book ‘A Return to Eros’ co-authored with Christina Kincaid. The discussion highlights the profound role of imagination in understanding Eros, reality, and consciousness. Gafni emphasizes that reality is an evolving love story driven by Eros, and imagination is a key aspect of experiencing and understanding it. He also touches on the importance of fantasy as a doorway to possible futures, the prophetic nature of imagination, and how the erotic serves as a model for imaginative exploration. The talk includes analogies to spirituality, Sufism, and literature, stressing the transformational potential of imaginative thinking.
NEW BOOK: First Principles and First Values – David J. Temple
A Return to Eros (paperback)
A Return to Eros (audiobook)
The Erotic and the Holy
Your Unique Self
Soul Prints: Your Path to Fulfillment
Self in Integral Evolutionary Mysticism
by David J. Temple
AS THE META-CRISIS DEEPENS, THE FATE OF CIVILIZATION AND HUMANITY HANGS IN THE BALANCE.
First Principles and First Values is the tip of the spear in the fight for a humane future. Establishing frameworks for a new school of thought called CosmoErotic Humanism, the book is built around forty-two propositions that provide new source code for the future of planetary culture.
Like Europe in the early Renaissance, humanity is in a time between worlds, at a time between stories. First Principles and First Values contains blueprints for the bridge needed to cross from this world to the next.
“The position argued for in this book is of vital importance . . . it needs urgently to be read.”
IAIN McGILCHRIST, author of The Master and His Emissary
What is Unique?
What is Self?
What is 2.0?
Dr. Marc Gafni argues that the Enlightenment traditions made the big mistake of denying identity and selfhood. He attempts to rectify this mistake and celebrate human uniqueness as the only way to survive the meta-crisis.
Paul Chamberlain sits down with some of the most interesting people he knows to talk about what it was like when they broke down and what was their breakthrough. What tools, supports, and practices did they use and still use, to get back on track and carry on?
The podcast will also allow you to get to know Paul. What started as a well-produced podcast, turned into a life-changing cathartic confessional that could have only happened via his amazing guests and the support of those around him.
Through these shared stories, his hope is we all get a little more comfortable with being smart, funny and (a little less) tortured.
0:01 – Envisioning an Educational Renaissance Through AI and Human Connection
2:18 – Technological Elites and the Redesign of Society
7:39 – BF Skinner’s Influence on Societal Engineering to Prevent Existential Risks
9:22 – Manipulation Through Digital Reinforcement and Surveillance
11:58 – Technocracy’s Struggle With Value and Control
13:45 – Confronting Nihilism and Meaning in Education
15:48 – Transforming American Education for Cold War Supremacy
18:35 – Decoding the Shift in American Education and Economy
21:59 – Debating AI’s Role in Transforming Education
25:03 – AI Socialization Threatens Millennia-Old Human Connections
26:46 – The Ethical Dilemmas of Humanoid AI Development
32:43 – Debating the Nature of Value and the Good Life
34:12 – The Dual Use Dilemma of AI in Modern Technology
35:57 – AI’s Impact on Military, Finance, and Pop Culture
39:09 – Educational Crisis and National Defense Perspectives
43:36 – Envisioning a Renaissance in Education Through AI and Community
48:57 – Revitalizing Education Through Community Engagement and Guild Structures
51:06 – Distinguishing Education from Propaganda and Coercion
55:19 – Coercion and Thought-Terminating Cliches in Social Media
1:00:26 – Confronting Propaganda with Educational Innovation
1:03:49 – Metacrisis Dynamics: Oscillating Between Chaos and Oppression
1:07:04 – Redefining Civilization Within Planetary Boundaries
1:10:37 – Rethinking Value Systems and Worldviews for Ecological Preservation
Dr. Zachary Stein is a Co-Founder of the Civilization Research Institute and the Center for World Philosophy and Religion. He was trained at the interface of philosophy, psychology, and education and now works in fields related to the mitigation of global catastrophic risk. He is a widely sought-after and award-winning speaker and a leading authority on the future of education and contemporary issues in human development.
Zak is the author of dozens of published papers and two influential books. His first book, Social Justice and Educational Measurement, traces the history of standardized testing and its ethical implications. His most recent book, Education in a Time Between Worlds, grapples with the dangers posed by a profound learning and capacity deficit in a time of civilization-wide transformation. In this work, Zak argues that educational systems must be transformed beyond recognition if humanity is to survive the planetary crises currently underway, from climate change to geopolitical instability.
Zak sees education, in a deeply philosophical sense, as fundamental to the sustainability of civilization, with implications for each component of the “metacrisis” – the complex, interrelated global challenges and existential threats facing humanity. In Zak’s view, whoever drives the technology stack of education will shape the future of civilization itself. His mission is to empower younger generations with the capacity to comprehend and respond appropriately to the unique challenges of our time.
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Welcome to Superhumanize, where we explore the frontiers of human potential and the complex tapestry of consciousness. Today, we have an extraordinary guest—one of the most controversial and transformative thinkers of our time, Dr. Marc Gafni. Marc is not just a philosopher; he’s a revolutionary mind, a master teacher, and a provocateur who challenges us to rethink the very fabric of our reality.
Marc Gafni is known for his groundbreaking ‘source code teachings’ that delve into the profound depths of spirituality, ethics, and human connection. His theories, such as the Unique Self, CosmoErotic Humanism, and the transition from Homo sapiens to Homo amor, are not just philosophical musings; they are calls to action for a global reawakening—a radical shift in how we view ourselves and our collective story.
In this episode, we talk about Marc’s latest work, ‘First Principles & First Values,’ where he collaborates with other visionary thinkers like Ken Wilber and Zak Stein to chart a path through the meta-crisis facing our civilization. This book is a manifesto for the future of humanity, where love, value, and the essence of what it means to be human are redefined in the most fundamental ways.
We’ll explore some of the most pressing questions of our time: How do we confront the root cause of evil, what does it mean to reclaim our collective narrative as a love story? And how do we ensure that emerging technologies serve to enhance, rather than undermine, our journey toward becoming Homo amor?
Marc’s insights are intellectually stimulating and they challenge us to integrate spiritual enlightenment, ethical living, and the art of meaningful relationships into our everyday lives. This is a conversation that promises to push boundaries and invites you into a new way of seeing the world.
Episode highlights:
01:09 Exploring First Principles and First Values
03:08 The Think Tank and Metacrisis
05:08 The Shocks of Existence
06:23 Existential Risks and AI
09:13 The Death of Our Humanity
10:41 The Techplex and Skinner’s Box
22:48 Creating a New Story of Value
47:29 Exploring Eros and Intimacy
48:03 The Principle of Continuity and Discontinuity
49:44 A Story of Timeless Love
51:57 The Evolution of Intimacy and Freedom
54:29 The Debate on Free Will
57:48 The Impact of Technology on Freedom
01:02:09 Understanding Intrinsic Value
01:04:34 The Field of Value and Shared Stories
01:19:47 The Democratization of Heroism
01:21:01 Concluding Thoughts and Reflections
In this episode of The Integral Stage podcast, Layman Pascal interviews Dr. Marc Gafni on his book Tears: Reclaiming Ritual, Integral Religion, and Rosh Hashanah. The book uses the rite of Rosh Hashanah in the wisdom of Solomon lineage to explore the necessity of the return of ritual and the importance of religion beyond philosophy and spirituality.
This podcast is the continuation of their conversation about the predecessors to CosmoErotic Humanism.
Dr. Zachary Stein is the co-president of the Center for World Philosophy and Religion. He was trained at the interface of philosophy, psychology, and education, and now works in fields related to the mitigation of global catastrophic risk. He is a widely sought after and award winning speaker, and a leading authority on the future of education and contemporary issues in human development. Zak is the author of several books, such as Education in a Time Between Worlds. In this conversation we primarily discuss the new book he contributed to, together with Marc Gafni and Ken Wilber. It’s called First Principles and First Values: Forty-Two Propositions on CosmoErotic Humanism, the Meta-Crisis, and the World to Come.
Back again with Marc Gafni to delve into the ’12 Faces of Eros,’ specifically focusing on the concept of the ‘unique self.’ Dr. Gaffney explains the intricacies of Eros, which is described as radical aliveness, desiring deeper contact and greater wholeness. The episode addresses how the unique self differs from the separate self and true self, emphasizing its role as an intended, recognized, chosen, and unique expression of reality. The conversation is enriched with philosophical and spiritual discussions, aiming to weave together various streams of wisdom.
NEW BOOK: First Principles and First Values – David J. Temple
A Return to Eros (paperback)
A Return to Eros (audiobook)
The Erotic and the Holy
Your Unique Self
Soul Prints: Your Path to Fulfillment
Self in Integral Evolutionary Mysticism
00:00 Introduction and Overview
01:55 Sponsor Shoutouts and Promotions
12:35 Deep Dive into Eros and Reality
20:33 Exploring the Faces of Eros
24:23 Exploring the Erotic Basis of Uniqueness
25:05 Love as a Unique Self Perception
26:55 The Need for Irreducible Unique Value
28:13 Eight Core Eros Needs
35:21 The Bi-Directional Nature of Needs
39:15 The Difference Between Separateness and Uniqueness
40:21 The Experience of Unique Self
43:54 The Erotic Realization of Uniqueness
45:45 Personal Reflections on Uniqueness
by David J. Temple
AS THE META-CRISIS DEEPENS, THE FATE OF CIVILIZATION AND HUMANITY HANGS IN THE BALANCE.
First Principles and First Values is the tip of the spear in the fight for a humane future. Establishing frameworks for a new school of thought called CosmoErotic Humanism, the book is built around forty-two propositions that provide new source code for the future of planetary culture.
Like Europe in the early Renaissance, humanity is in a time between worlds, at a time between stories. First Principles and First Values contains blueprints for the bridge needed to cross from this world to the next.
“The position argued for in this book is of vital importance . . . it needs urgently to be read.”
IAIN McGILCHRIST, author of The Master and His Emissary
I don’t know about you, but being a human is pretty cool. All of us almost always take it for granted. It’s so easy getting caught in what’s going on in our our lives that we forget about the bigger picture.Marc paints this picture. We are at a bit of a crossroad it seems on this planet right now. I don’t believe anyone really knows which way things will go, though I’m 101% confident us humans need to change the way we do things if we want our descendants to enjoy this amazing planet the way we can.The work Marc and his colleagues are doing provides the tools and stimuli for those of us courageous enough to fight for everlasting love.
by David J. Temple
AS THE META-CRISIS DEEPENS, THE FATE OF CIVILIZATION AND HUMANITY HANGS IN THE BALANCE.
First Principles and First Values is the tip of the spear in the fight for a humane future. Establishing frameworks for a new school of thought called CosmoErotic Humanism, the book is built around forty-two propositions that provide new source code for the future of planetary culture.
Like Europe in the early Renaissance, humanity is in a time between worlds, at a time between stories. First Principles and First Values contains blueprints for the bridge needed to cross from this world to the next.
“The position argued for in this book is of vital importance . . . it needs urgently to be read.”
IAIN McGILCHRIST, author of The Master and His Emissary
The dear Dr. Gafni is back in a different capacity than he has been lately. We’re taking a short hiatus from learning the Faces of Eros to discuss a work he has most recently collaborated on with Zach Stein and Ken Wilber under the pseudonym “David J. Temple”. The book is First Principles and First Values and it is the basis for much of his views on the CosmoErotic Universe. Please go get the book, work through it at a manageable pace, and let’s create this more beautiful world fam!
NEW BOOK: First Principles and First Values – David J. Temple
A Return to Eros (paperback)
A Return to Eros (audiobook)
The Erotic and the Holy
Your Unique Self
Soul Prints: Your Path to Fulfillment
Self in Integral Evolutionary Mysticism
by David J. Temple
AS THE META-CRISIS DEEPENS, THE FATE OF CIVILIZATION AND HUMANITY HANGS IN THE BALANCE.
First Principles and First Values is the tip of the spear in the fight for a humane future. Establishing frameworks for a new school of thought called CosmoErotic Humanism, the book is built around forty-two propositions that provide new source code for the future of planetary culture.
Like Europe in the early Renaissance, humanity is in a time between worlds, at a time between stories. First Principles and First Values contains blueprints for the bridge needed to cross from this world to the next.
“The position argued for in this book is of vital importance . . . it needs urgently to be read.”
IAIN McGILCHRIST, author of The Master and His Emissary
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In Dr. Gafni and his colleague, Dr. Stein’s language: “We stand at a pivotal moment in history – a time between worlds and a time between stories – poised between dystopia and utopia.” To bridge the gap between our external technologies and internal narratives of identity and purpose, every human and every epoch of humanity must evolve responses to three essential questions, what we refer to as the three great questions of CosmoErotic Humanism: “Who? Where? And What?”
In the new book, “First Principles and First Values,” written under the pseudonym David J. Temple, a roadmap for humanity is laid before the reader answering the common question, “What can we do to shift the future of humanity towards higher consciousness and shared common goals?” We discuss the roadmap in this episode.
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by David J. Temple
AS THE META-CRISIS DEEPENS, THE FATE OF CIVILIZATION AND HUMANITY HANGS IN THE BALANCE.
First Principles and First Values is the tip of the spear in the fight for a humane future. Establishing frameworks for a new school of thought called CosmoErotic Humanism, the book is built around forty-two propositions that provide new source code for the future of planetary culture.
Like Europe in the early Renaissance, humanity is in a time between worlds, at a time between stories. First Principles and First Values contains blueprints for the bridge needed to cross from this world to the next.
“The position argued for in this book is of vital importance . . . it needs urgently to be read.”
IAIN McGILCHRIST, author of The Master and His Emissary
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Our planet is suffering deeply from a global intimacy disorder, is it even possible to turn things around?
Dr. Marc Gafni returns to the Living 4D podcast with Paul Chek, to share his newest work, First Principles and First Values (a collaboration with Dr. Zak Stein under the pseudonym David J. Temple), as a possible blueprint for a new and better way forward.
Join Paul Check and Marc Gafni for a transformative exploration on Living 4D!
In this conversation:
Explore the power of stories, the essence of Evolutionary Love, and the cosmic story of value—essential insights for navigating today’s challenges.
Listen to this podcast:
by David J. Temple
AS THE META-CRISIS DEEPENS, THE FATE OF CIVILIZATION AND HUMANITY HANGS IN THE BALANCE.
First Principles and First Values is the tip of the spear in the fight for a humane future. Establishing frameworks for a new school of thought called CosmoErotic Humanism, the book is built around forty-two propositions that provide new source code for the future of planetary culture.
Like Europe in the early Renaissance, humanity is in a time between worlds, at a time between stories. First Principles and First Values contains blueprints for the bridge needed to cross from this world to the next.
“The position argued for in this book is of vital importance . . . it needs urgently to be read.”
IAIN McGILCHRIST, author of The Master and His Emissary
by David J. Temple
AS THE META-CRISIS DEEPENS, THE FATE OF CIVILIZATION AND HUMANITY HANGS IN THE BALANCE.
First Principles and First Values is the tip of the spear in the fight for a humane future. Establishing frameworks for a new school of thought called CosmoErotic Humanism, the book is built around forty-two propositions that provide new source code for the future of planetary culture.
Like Europe in the early Renaissance, humanity is in a time between worlds, at a time between stories. First Principles and First Values contains blueprints for the bridge needed to cross from this world to the next.
“The position argued for in this book is of vital importance . . . it needs urgently to be read.”
IAIN McGILCHRIST, author of The Master and His Emissary
Layman is joined this time by Dr. Marc Gafni — the world philosopher of “cosmo-erotic humanism” together with Dr. Zak Stein. Gafni is the co-president with Stein of the Center for World Philosophy and Religion, founded with Ken Wilber in 2010, where they are articulating a “new meta theory story of value in response to the meta crisis”, even as Gafni lives as a character, both beloved and controversial, in the public mind.
Our task in this episode, and in this series, is not to demonize or exonerate. We encourage people to do their own research if they are interested. Facts matter. So do feelings. But that is not our topic in this series where we are focused on something more specific. We are not exploring the content of the narratives but rather how they emerge, how they are perceived by the people inside them, how those people respond under the conditions of the emerging digital, planetary age & what they have concluded about their responses.
We are not exploring content of the narratives but rather how they emerge, how they are perceived by the people inside them, how those people respond under the conditions of the emerging digital-planetary age & what they have concluded about their responses.
This amazing new podcast with Marc Gafni and Kyle Kingsbury is the first introduction to a series of episodes on the Twelve Faces of Eros as Dr. Marc Gafni outlined in the audio workshop The Erotic and the Holy and the book A Return to Eros.
We are honored to have this 14 episode series’ home be with the Kyle Kingsbury Podcast.
May this illuminating podcast help us all see a common horizon and work towards the more beautiful world we all know is possible.
Discover the hidden relationship between Erotic, the Sexual and the Sacred.
None of the four old philosophies about sex are sufficient to inspire us or even hold us in our sexuality. Sex is not merely negative or positive. Sex is not just neutral, nor is it merely sacred because it creates babies.
Erotic Mystics from the hidden tradition of Solomon’s temple taught a secret doctrine. Sex is the source of all wisdom. Sex is 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 models the Erotic. The sexual teaches us how to live an Erotic life in all dimension of our existence.
It is these secret doctrines that were later taught by Mary Magdalene and that sparked excitement around bestselling novels such as The Da Vinci Code.
Deep understanding of the sexual becomes the portal to accessing aliveness in every dimension of our reality. This realization demands that you live sexually without shame and shows you how to re-eroticize all areas of your life.
A Return to Eros: On Sex, Love, and Eroticism in Every Dimension of Life, from Drs. Marc Gafni and Kristina Kincaid, reveals the radical secret tenets of relationship between the sexual, the erotic, and the holy. They reveal what Eros actually means and share the ten 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 Outrageous Lover–not just in sex but also in all facets of your life–you must listen deeply to the simple yet elegant whisperings of the sexual. This book will forever transform your understanding and experience of love, sex, and Eros.
Imagine walking into your place of worship – your local church, synagogue, mosque, or meditation center – to find that all of the usual adornments have been replaced with statues and pictures of sexually intertwined cherubs. Chances are, you’d be quickly taken aback.
But according to Mark Gafni, bestselling author of “Your Unique Self” and “Soul Prints”, these were the precise images found atop the ark of the ancient Temple of Jerusalem. “These ‘angels of desire’ were, for the mystics, the very key to the mystery of love at the heart of our lives”, he explains. Now listeners can join him in exploring the tantric secret of these cherubs, and experience Eros in all of life’s activities, including the spiritual, with “The Erotic and the Holy”.
