Return to Eros (eBook)

Dr. Marc Gafni is a thought leader, social innovator, passionate philosopher, wisdom teacher, and author of ten books, including the award-winning Your Unique Self. He holds a doctorate in philosophy from Oxford University, and is the co-founder with Ken Wilber of The Center for Integral Wisdom, an activist think tank dedicated to evolving and articulating a shared global vision of ethics, eros and meaning. Together with entrepreneur Kate Maloney, Marc is the initiating visionary of the Success 3.0 Summit and RiseUp, which bring together key thought leaders and change-agents to collaboratively weave a bold new Integral vision of Success. A leading public intellectual and activist, Gafni is evolving a post-dogmatic shared language of meaning rooted in the entrepreneurial values of Wake Up, Grow Up, Show Up and Outrageous Love. Marc is the leading theorist and teacher of Unique Self Enlightenment and Evolutionary Love. He has been called a master of the heart and a trail-blazing visionary in opening up new possibilities for Conscious Evolution, Unique Self realization and a politics of Outrageous Love. Known for his rare combination of brilliant mind and overflowing heart, he teaches on the cutting edge of philosophy in the West--articulating a new 'dharma,' or meta-theory of meaning that is helping pave the way for the evolution of consciousness. Dr. Kristina Kincaid is the Director of Integral of Evolutionary Tantra Institute in New York City. IET teaches, coaches and mentors individuals to take the next step in self-transformation. IET was created to develop cutting-edge Leaders, Projects and Initiatives of conscious collaboration in the world. IET understands that in order to respond to the challenges that face our planet today, it is imperative to create a WE space, where we as individuals and individual systems realize that enlightened consciousness is beyond ego, and is the essential next stage of self transformation.Kristina is on faculty at The Institute of Core Energetics and holds an M.A. in Energy Medicine and a Doctorate in Theology from Holos University. A graduate of the Institute of Core Energetics and the Barbara Brennan School of Healing, she also holds a B.A. in Anthropology from the University of Texas, Austin. She is also the Chairperson and creator, along with Dr. Gafni, of the Outrageous Love Projects which are an affiliate of the Center for Integral Wisdom. The Outrageous Love Projects are community writing and art initiatives birthed from Dr. Gafni’s creation of a community practice of writing love letters. The movement’s intention is to literally democratize enlightenment, empowering everyone to radically participate in the very evolution of love itself. Lastly, Kristina has traveled extensively, studying indigenous healers around the world and documenting her findings in a film series called In Search of Healing. Her passions include the deep mysteries of the body, genetics, and evolution. Her journey has taken her into deep explorations of the feminine and healing around sexuality. She has a Healing practice in New York City.

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