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Sunday, April 22, 2012

8 of 8 - Snippetts of Eros - Disciples, Mentors, Lovers

Dear Earthlings:

The year of wonders is what 2012 is supposed to be. Yours truly offers snippets of her favorite books. All on yesterday's forbidden themes. Let's see if their mysteries are revealed.

Eros is a story that staved the loneliness of her first years in the Caribbean, when she was missing her former Matrias, California and Italy.

What is mentoring? Who are our mentors? Who are our disciples? Is this way of learning based on love? That's one of the main themes. Mentors and disciples have fallen in love with each other since time immemorial. Yet the very question has become a taboo. Why? We love ourselves in another that comes to resemble us as a disciple whose knowledge we've mentored. We protect that resemblance, we protect that love. Isn't that a win-win? A world where it is safe to learn is a world where it is safe for disciples and mentors to love.

Here are yours truly's reflections back in 2007. Eros: A Journey of Multiple Loves, has the full story.

"And so when I arrived at the university I was looking for a mentor, an interlocutor who would also function as a portal to the worlds I did not know. . . . I found what I wanted even though I sometimes wished I had not because the challenge was often too strong. Gnosis is a mode of knowledge based on love, and it sometimes demands unconditional love. It is often practiced in response to the dysfunctional medicalization of love produced in mainstream psychotherapy discourse. I received the knowledge I wanted and found the self-knowledge I was looking for, even as I learned to surrender to this practice in the process" (79).

The narrative continues as Gaia proceeds to become a mentor in her own turn. Oh blessed be!

Dear Earthlings:

Education is the heart of democracy. And that includes education to love. It comes in many forms. Including learning about Eros and journeys of multiple loves.

Eros: A Journey of Multiple Loves was a Lambda Finalist in 2007. It is now being considered for translation in to Spanish by a press in Madrid. Access to this memoir would be a great gift to Spanish speakers across the globe. If you agree, leave a comment and we will let the publisher know. Gracias!

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Come back! And stay tuned for more wonders.

Namaste,

Serena Anderlini-D'Onofrio, PhD

Gilf Gaia Extraordinaire

Author of Gaia, Eros, and many other books about love
Professor of Humanities

University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez

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Tuesday, April 3, 2012

7 of 8 - Snippetts of Eros - Translation as Love, Love as Translation

Dear Earthlings:

The year of wonders is what 2012 is supposed to be. Yours truly offers snippets of her favorite books. All on yesterday's forbidden themes. Let's see if their mysteries are revealed.

Eros is a story that staved the loneliness of her first years in the Caribbean, when she was missing her former Matrias, California and Italy.

What is language? What is translation? What makes one cross the language lines, become a transcultural person? What's the measure of love in this inclusive discourse? How does language define how we understand the world? Imagine its transformation? Language makes people fall in love from time immemorial. Yet the very question has become a taboo. Why? Language is knowledge, knowledge love. Isn't that a win-win? More languages, more ways to love.

Here are yours truly's reflections back in 2007. Eros: A Journey of Multiple Loves, has the full story.

"I was determined to push French and Italian out of my inner landscape. The combat of one subconscious against the others was driving me crazy. Blocking the music of my first native language out of my mind eased the pain of losing my baby. My French lover exited with the second. I was striving for the inversion that would allow American English to envelop these other languages and make their rhythms accessible. It was torture for my inner space. English was never spoken at home . . .It was the colonizer's language, and making it my own would help me reconquer my soul. A colonizer brings women the scent of emancipation . . . and [as a teenager] I used to spend time . . . deciphering lyrics [from the Beatles and Rolling Stones]" (63).

The narrative continues as Gaia becomes a translator and facilitator across cultures and languages. Oh blessed be!

Dear Earthlings:

Education is the heart of democracy. And that includes education to love. It comes in many forms. Including learning about Eros and journeys of multiple loves.

Namaste,

Serena Anderlini-D'Onofrio, PhD

Gilf Gaia Extraordinaire

Author of Gaia, Eros, and many other books about love
Professor of Humanities

University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez

Poly Planet GAIA Blog:
http://polyplanet.blogspot.com/

Website: www.serenagaia.com

Be Appraised of Ecosex Community Project PostaHouse
Become a Fan: www.facebook.com/GaiaBlessings

Author's Page/Lists all books: http://www.amazon.com/-/e/B001JS1VKA

YouTube Uploaded Videos: http://www.youtube.com/SerenaAnderlini

Tuesday, March 20, 2012

6 of 8 - Snippetts of Eros - Crossing the Color Lines

Dear Earthlings:

The year of wonders is what 2012 is supposed to be. Yours truly offers snippets of her favorite books. All on yesterday's forbidden themes. Let's see if their mysteries are revealed.

Eros is a story that staved the loneliness of her first years in the Caribbean, when she was missing her former Matrias, California and Italy.

What is "color"? Who are our ancestors? How did our genetic pools get all mixed up over time, journeys, and generations? People of different colors have fallen in love with one another since time immemorial. Yet the very question has become a taboo. Why? Loving oneself in another is how that other gets to love the other one hides within. Crossing the color lines is how we produce love. Isn't that a win-win? A world where it is safe to cross the color lines is a world where it is safe to love.

Here are yours truly's reflections back in 2007. Eros: A Journey of Multiple Loves, has the full story.

"Cynthia had been my first African-American friend in the UCR compound, her daughter, Sharma, was Sara's favorite playmate. Cheryl [her sister] was extremely handsome, with an elegance, LA style, that matched her proud deportment. [We became housemates.] At my department, colleagues, all male and white, asked me about my housing arrangements and I soon realized that none of them had ever shared their living quarters with a person of color. The janitor of the building was an African American and . . . when he was in the elevator, I was the only one to share the ride. I wondered why his eyes would remain lowered, and later learned t was a Southern custom. Lynching was a memory that loomed still large, and a black man would not be found looking a while woman in the eye" (56).

The narrative continues as racial crossing becomes a staple of Gaia's practice of love. Oh blessed be!

Dear Earthlings:

Education is the heart of democracy. And that includes education to love. It comes in many forms. Including learning about Eros and journeys of multiple loves.

Namaste,

Serena Anderlini-D'Onofrio, PhD

Gilf Gaia Extraordinaire

Author of Gaia, Eros, and many other books about love
Professor of Humanities

University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez

Poly Planet GAIA Blog:
http://polyplanet.blogspot.com/

Website: www.serenagaia.com

Be Appraised of Ecosex Community Project PostaHouse
Become a Fan: www.facebook.com/GaiaBlessings

Author's Page/Lists all books: http://www.amazon.com/-/e/B001JS1VKA

YouTube Uploaded Videos: http://www.youtube.com/SerenaAnderlini

Tuesday, March 6, 2012

5 of 8 - Snippetts of Eros - Fear of Love and "Infect" Mythologies

Dear Earthlings:

The year of wonders is what 2012 is supposed to be. Yours truly offers snippets of her favorite books. All on yesterday's forbidden themes. Let's see if their mysteries are revealed.

Eros is a story that staved the loneliness of her first years in the Caribbean, when she was missing her former Matrias, California and Italy.

What is AIDS? What mythologies have been created around this epidemic? How have they contributed to the criminalization of love? To the impoverishment of nations? How can the world be cured of this fear? What does authentic science say? And to what interests has institutionalized science prostituted itself? These questions are on the agenda today, as the ecosexual movement reinvents natural ways to love. Isn't that a win-win? A world where it is safe to love is a world where it is safe to live.

Here are yours truly's reflections back in 2007. Eros: A Journey of Multiple Loves, has the full story.

"We didn't know exactly what to be afraid of. I remember once at an overseas conference in West Berlin, the typical place where one would for sure get laid, having played the game as usual, and having found the right guy to take to my bedroom. And then, the paralysis: was kissing okay? How do you get your juices going if you can't even touch the other person? Yes, our condoms were ready, but how do you get there when bodily fluids can't be exchanged? It was the first time that I felt powerless in the game of sex. I compared myself to those people who are rendered frigid by religious upbringing or repressive education. The paralysis ended in a nonevent, which threw me in one of the worst hypoglycemia crises I ever had" (36).

The narrative continues as Gaia becomes an expert safer-sex educator and eventually a convinced AIDS Dissenter. Oh blessed be!

Dear Earthlings:

Education is the heart of democracy. And that includes education to love. It comes in many forms. Including learning about Eros and journeys of multiple loves.