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Talk titled: "Eros and Desire (Q & A)", given during the event "Roots into the Ground of Soul". Held at Gaia House, Devon on 2019-03-27.
Topics covered: definitions: twoness, twoness, differentiation, retaining particularities, soulmaking: oneness in the erotic-imaginal, twoness / balance of attention practices or instructions, soulmaking: temenos (sacred space) / dyad and group practice, soulmaking: concerns about vanity/narcissism in seeing divinity, soulmaking: importance of and reasons for practice, soulmaking: dark gods (the weird, dark, pathological, sexual, etc.), cosmopoesis, cosmopoesis: how it develops and spreads, desire/eros, kabbalah, soulmaking and emptiness, soulmaking and emptiness: erotic relationship with emptiness, eros and craving, distinguishing and working with, soulmaking and developmental psychology, soulmaking: allowing it to spread in all directions, soulmaking: re-enchanting the body, images: archetypal, jung
Teacher's note on suitability: please note: the talks, instructions, and guided meditations in this set are from a retreat, led by catherine mcgee and rob burbea, for practitioners already familiar with soulmaking dharma. the teachers strongly recommend that you also have an understanding of and working familiarity with practices of emptiness, samatha, metta, the emotional/energy body, and the imaginal, as well as basic mindfulness practice, before listening. without this background in practice it is possible that the material and teachings from this retreat will be difficult to understand and confusing for some.
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To donate to Rob's foundation, The Hermes Amara Foundation, visit https://hermesamara.org, and click the Donate button. See Rob's Dharma Seed bio (dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/) for a description of this organization and Rob's founding of it.
Original audio: dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/58611
Transcript link: dl.airtable.com/.attachments/89d3f5c860dcac2a2fdf07211679701c/1d44c279/2019_0327ErosandDesireQandA.pdf
Talk titled: "Eros and Desire (Q & A)", given during the event "Roots into the Ground of Soul". Held at Gaia House, Devon on 2019-03-27.
Topics covered: definitions: twoness, twoness, differentiation, retaining particularities, soulmaking: oneness in the erotic-imaginal, twoness / balance of attention practices or instructions, soulmaking: temenos (sacred space) / dyad and group practice, soulmaking: concerns about vanity/narcissism in seeing divinity, soulmaking: importance of and reasons for practice, soulmaking: dark gods (the weird, dark, pathological, sexual, etc.), cosmopoesis, cosmopoesis: how it develops and spreads, desire/eros, kabbalah, soulmaking and emptiness, soulmaking and emptiness: erotic relationship with emptiness, eros and craving, distinguishing and working with, soulmaking and developmental psychology, soulmaking: allowing it to spread in all directions, soulmaking: re-enchanting the body, images: archetypal, jung
Teacher's note on suitability: please note: the talks, instructions, and guided meditations in this set are from a retreat, led by catherine mcgee and rob burbea, for practitioners already familiar with soulmaking dharma. the teachers strongly recommend that you also have an understanding of and working familiarity with practices of emptiness, samatha, metta, the emotional/energy body, and the imaginal, as well as basic mindfulness practice, before listening. without this background in practice it is possible that the material and teachings from this retreat will be difficult to understand and confusing for some.
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To donate to Rob's foundation, The Hermes Amara Foundation, visit https://hermesamara.org, and click the Donate button. See Rob's Dharma Seed bio (dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/) for a description of this organization and Rob's founding of it.
Original audio: dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/58611
Transcript link: dl.airtable.com/.attachments/89d3f5c860dcac2a2fdf07211679701c/1d44c279/2019_0327ErosandDesireQandA.pdf
