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Drs. Marc Gafni & Kristina Kincaid: Excerpts from A Return to Eros

The Four Sexual Narratives of Culture and Why They Don’t Work: Towards a New Sexual Narrative (Drs. Marc Gafni & Kristina Kincaid)

This work was written by Drs. Marc Gafni and Kristina Kincaid and is one of the core source texts for the new meta-theory of the Center which we call Cosmo-Erotic Humanism. It has been widely recognized as a seminal work.

A Return to Eros – Chapter 1-2 of the Book

The CosmoErotic Universe (Drs. Marc Gafni & Kristina Kincaid)

“A Return to Eros is a tour de force of the kind that comes along once in a generation. The way this volume brings Eros to consciousness as the fundamental force, direction, and “purpose” of reality on all levels and all quadrants, really is the discovery that now underlies, directs, and “explains” the sacred purpose of cosmogenesis, the birth narrative of the New Human. It’s the second coming of humanity for the first time in history incarnate as a fully embodied sacred sexual being. It’s the early stages of the next evolutionary unfolding. A Return to Eros forms the basis of evolutionary spirituality. It captures the glory of its conscious experience from the inside out in the sexuality and Eros of the evolutionary unique self.”

– Barbara Marx Hubbard

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The Murder of Eros (Drs. Marc Gafni & Kristina Kincaid)

It is the collapse of Eros that leads to what we have called the murder of Eros. Wilhelm Reich called this “the murder of Christ.” By “Christ” he meant Eros or life force. This is one of the most common but hidden dimensions of human existence. To live an erotic life, we must guard against the murder of Eros. This is a fundamentally denied yet ever-present human impulse. Human beings may be ready to confess many sins, but all feign innocence when accused of the murder of Eros. And yet this primal impulse is as old as civilization itself. Despite our genuine moral evolution in many regards, this fundamental human compulsion has changed little. What has changed, however, is that because the murder of Eros is no longer socially acceptable, the impulse is carefully disguised.

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On the Pain of Eros (Drs. Marc Gafni & Kristina Kincaid)

The sexual models the erotic is true for both the pleasure of Eros and its pain. We have talked much about how sex models Eros in all of her faces, including pleasure. Now we turn to the pain of Eros. Here, too, the sexual models the erotic.

Sexuality leaves so many mortally wounded in her wake. There is so much pain from what is supposed to be the source of so much pleasure. We are confused about sexuality. And that confusion is the source of much of our distress, as Persian poet Hafiz attests below in his poem “A Barroom View of Love.”

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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.

Drs. Marc Gafni & Kristina Kincaid: Excerpts from A Return to Eros2023-06-19T07:47:31-07:00

Sianna Sherman, Sally Kempton, and Dr. Marc Gafni in Dialogue

Sianna Sherman, Sally Kempton, and Dr. Marc Gafni in Dialogue2023-06-22T07:48:51-07:00

Review of A Return to Eros

Review of A Return to Eros2023-06-22T07:48:51-07:00

Unique Selves in a Self-Organizing Universe: A Politics of Evolutionary Love by Dr. Marc Gafni & Dr. Zachary Stein

From an unedited draft of the forthcoming book Towards a New Politics of Evolutionary Love

by Dr. Marc Gafni & Dr. Zachary Stein

Dixit-Motiwala-unsplashThe core structural principle from Integral Meta-Theory involved in the formation of a Unique Self Symphony is the scientific principle of self-organization. The idea of self-organization is according to many the single most important scientific idea to emerge in the last sixty years. It exists at every level of reality and across all four quadrants. While many scientific accounts focus only on self-organization in systems and structures in biology or cybernetics (i.e., Lower-Right reductionism), there is a whole history of work in psychology and social theory dedicated to modeling how minds and cultures are complex dynamical systems, that evolve and self-organize in remarkable ways.

Multiple scientific fields, when held in an Integral embrace, tell us that self-organization is a basic principle of reality at all levels. Most forms of evolutionary emergence are a function of this ubiquitous tendency of all life and matter toward self-organization. This leads to the idea of an inherently creative cosmos, always evolving and organizing at higher and higher levels. Throughout the evolution of the world it appears that self-organization is often catalyzed via the leveraging of uniqueness. When you look at the emergence of complex processes in nature that display remarkable forms of self-organization, such as an ecosystem like swamp or rainforest, they are always complex symbiotic systems in which there are an endless number of unique niches.

This is why one of the core ideas behind the new politics of outrageous love is enabling self-organization at the level of human culture. So we must ask, what enables self-organization at the level of human culture? The answers is clear and in keeping with both the best of what we know about evolutionary theory and the best of our ideas for political and personal Enlightenment: the catalyst of self-organization in human socio–cultural systems is the Unique Self. Paradoxically, this means that the “shape” every human needs to assume in order to contribute to the creation of a healthy social organism is unique. Strange as it may sound, a just and healthy society needs to “socially engineer” for uniqueness, especially the institutions that shape human personalities and self-understandings: schools, news media, entertainment industries, computer technologies industries, etc. The whole social system would be like an incubator for uniqueness.

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Unique Selves in a Self-Organizing Universe: A Politics of Evolutionary Love by Dr. Marc Gafni & Dr. Zachary Stein2023-09-12T09:57:06-07:00

The Meaning of Eros: An Excerpt from A Return to Eros

The Meaning of Eros: An Excerpt from A Return to Eros2023-06-22T07:48:52-07:00

World Spirituality Practices: Sacred Text Study – An Excerpt from The Mystery of Love by Marc Gafni

World Spirituality Practices: Sacred Text Study – An Excerpt from The Mystery of Love by Marc Gafni2023-06-22T08:06:05-07:00

Ken Wilber on Integral Business

Ken Wilber on Integral Business2023-06-22T07:58:09-07:00

Ken Wilber: An Excerpt from his Foreword to A Sociable God

Ken Wilber: An Excerpt from his Foreword to A Sociable God2023-06-22T08:06:06-07:00

Ken Wilber on Integral Ecology

Ken Wilber on Integral Ecology2023-06-22T07:58:10-07:00

An unedited first draft text on Evolutionary Love & Eros from book in preparation, The Path and Practice of Outrageous Love, by Drs. Marc Gafni & Kristina Kincaid

An unedited first draft text on Evolutionary Love & Eros from book in preparation, The Path and Practice of Outrageous Love, by Drs. Marc Gafni & Kristina Kincaid2023-06-22T07:56:13-07:00

An Unedited First Draft Text From Book In Preparation, The Path And Practice Of Outrageous Love, By Drs. Marc Gafni & Kristina Kincaid

An Unedited First Draft Text From Book In Preparation, The Path And Practice Of Outrageous Love, By Drs. Marc Gafni & Kristina Kincaid2023-06-22T07:56:13-07:00

An Unedited First Draft Text From Book In Preparation, The Path And Practice Of Outrageous Love, By Drs. Marc Gafni & Kristina Kincaid: The Distinction between Ordinary Love and Outrageous Love

An Unedited First Draft Text From Book In Preparation, The Path And Practice Of Outrageous Love, By Drs. Marc Gafni & Kristina Kincaid: The Distinction between Ordinary Love and Outrageous Love2023-06-22T07:56:13-07:00

An Unedited First Draft Text From Book In Preparation, The Path And Practice Of Outrageous Love, By Drs. Marc Gafni & Kristina Kincaid: The Law of Outrageous Acts of Love

An Unedited First Draft Text From Book In Preparation, The Path And Practice Of Outrageous Love, By Drs. Marc Gafni & Kristina Kincaid: The Law of Outrageous Acts of Love2023-06-22T07:56:13-07:00
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