Understanding eros, love and sexuality

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© 2005, 2011 Jonathan Zap

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You are Not Another Mammal—Navigating Eachness and Oneness in Mammalian Incarnation. Another mammal is not an organ of your body. Your body has all its own parts. Another mammal is not you, or another side of you, your psyche has all its own parts.

f you are not particularly interested in Burning Man don’t be turned away, because the topics covered go far beyond this one event and include:

Transforming our Thanatos Self
Radical Self Reliance
Magic Ritual and Self Importance
Approaching a Mutant Nexus
Rapidly Shifting and Parabolic Zeitgeists
The Eros of the Present Era—how our Sexuality is Shaped by the Pendulum of Enantiadromia
Examples of Mind Parasites and Vampires
The Evolutionary Event Horizon
A Logos Beheld
Alex Grey on the American Dream and the Eye of God
Virtual Reality
Awakening from the Default Reality

Someone just asked me to state what my intentions were in relating to them. What a great question and if only it were asked (and answered) more often and more honestly! Sometimes we question the intentions of others, but forget to question our own mixed intentions which are even more important for us to recognize and acknowledge. So consider receiving this a propitious time to ask yourself about your intentions to the other, and it may be more powerful if you commit your answer to writing. To start the process off I am going to share my intentions toward the other.

This brief paper was written in the Eighties when I was a grad student at NYU. It discusses the principle of enantiodromia—the tendency for extremes to result in a counter movement into equal and opposite extremes. This principle is particularly applied to eros and spirituality and illustrated by an analysis of Thomas Hardy’s novel, Jude the Obscure. Enantiadromia and eros are particularly relevant right now as we are living through a counter movement to centuries of sexual repression where promiscuity has, in many parts of society, become the expected norm.

“Romantic love is the single greatest energy system in the Western Psyche.  In our culture it has supplanted [...]