Ensconced in Eros, Bathed in Beauty
Allowing Eros in our hearts and bodies probably will not happen in the midst of traumatic or life-threatening situations. However, as soon as possible after the emergency passes, the body and psyche need the comfort and healing salve of Eros.
Communicating with Compassion: Remember Marshall Rosenberg
Marshall Rosenberg, the creator of Nonviolent Communication, also known as Compassionate Communication, died last month. His teachings have changed my life, and have the potential to
change the world.
Accepting the Hazards of Relationship
We often neglect to notice the hazards that we create for others. Relationships can be hazardous in both directions, but they are often well worth the risks.
Long-Term Couples Develop Interconnected Memory Systems
New research from Macquarie University in Australia reveals that intimate couples become part of an interpersonal cognitive system where each is dependent on the other to fill in certain memory gaps.
Our Drive To Bond
Since we’re driven to form bonds, we need to understand how Nature intended us to bond. Until we successfully learn how to couple, how can we follow the example of cells to create larger cooperative communities? Until we successfully learn how to couple better, the next stage of our evolution, wherein humans assemble to form the larger superorganism humanity, is stalled.
Making Love and Sex with Strangers
The challenge for so many loving and committed couples is in keeping desire, attraction, passion, and presence in their sex lives. A big part of the problem is that most people define "making love" simply as "sex with someone you love."
The Soulmate Con
I don't like the idea of soul-mates. It suggests the wish-fulfillment
of a pre-destined fixed-deck, which reduces you to a hapless rube at the
card table of love. If your heart is open, if your
curiosity is great, if your enthusiasm for life abounds, potential
soul-mates will keep skipping toward you out of the mist.
Sexedelic: Tantric Healing Through Psychedelics
When it comes to the human experience, few things are as alchemically powerful as sex and the ingestion of entheogens. The combination of these two is like adding rocket fuel to the body electric. Used safely, it can blast you to luminous stratospheres of healing, intimacy, ecstatic states of consciousness, and yes, heart-opening, body-quaking orgasms.
The Future of Love Salon
NYers, come join us for talks on tantra and intimacy followed by a discussion moderated by Daniel Pinchbeck, and explore The Future of Love in all its facets, April 25.
Character and the Enneagram: The Yoga of Relationship
At various times in our
history, oracular, archetypal systems such as the Tarot, Astrology, the I Ching, and Norse Runes have emerged out of various
cultures. Within the last forty years, the discovery of a different group of archetypes has emerged — the…