3 of 8 - Snippets of Eros - Knowledge in the Feminine, Knowledge as Love

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 does knowledge in the feminine fee like?  Is it ecological?  Sustainable?  That's one of the main themes.  Since time immemorial, women know each other independently of men.  We love each other independently of men.  Yet the very topic has become taboo.  Why?  Women's knowledge has been regarded as ignorance for too long.  Women produce knowledge when they produce love.  Isn't that a win-win?  A world that reveres women's knowledge is a world that reveres love.

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

"Sara and I were positioned at the edge of a university system which treated women's knowledge as ignorance.  Knowledge was modeled on war, an invasion of the field or body to be searched or conquered by the knowing mind.  But our presence brought in our sense of economy as subsistence, of ecology as balance in the energy field between beings.  We were a site of resistance to the mechanistic concepts of learning, justice, and well being generated by the prevalent masculine epistemology.  I remember Sara being always happy, healthy, and full of energy.  She had very few toys but was always busy.  Later on . . . I kept thinking back to this blessed time when ecological frugality was the measure of a child's freedom and happiness" (20)

The narrative continues as Sara follows her destiny to become an Italian girl raised by her dad. 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!  

Did you enjoy the post?  Let us know!  Yours truly appreciates your attention.  The comments box is open.

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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SUSTAINABLE LOVE ~~ Retreat in Community ~~ What Is Ecosexuality? ~~ PostaHouse July 14-21, 2012

~~SUSTAINABLE LOVE~~

7-day

RETREAT

in

COMMUNITY

 

What is Ecosexuality?
  

"A World where it is safe to love is a World

where it is safe to live..." Serena Anderlini

PostaHouse
Posta, Rieti
ITALY
2012

In the middle of the Apennine Mountains, approximately

2 hours North-East of Rome, there is a small town called Posta

at the junction of several roads.

 

This is a place with history. A place where one could change horses

and get a well-earned rest for the night.

A place of tradition, with knowledge of the old ways

as well as the new.

 

  

Ecosexual Retreat
Sat 14th - Sat 21st July 2012

Preliminary Program

 

Sat 14th July

  from 10.00am Registration 
        Morning Arrivals* 
        Mingle

12.30pm Lunch

Orientation/siesta

  4.30pm Plenary
Setting up Community Framework/Agreements

  7.30pm Dinner
followed by Shamanic Forgiveness and Releasing

  Ceremony (outside?)

Sun 15th July - Thurs 19th July

  6.30am Yoga/prayer/meditation^#

  7.30am Breakfast

  8.30am Morning GardenHouse

10.00am Morning Plenary

Community Member presents/Community workshop

12.30pm Midday Prayer
followed by Lunch (individual) and Siesta

  4.30pm Afternoon Plenary
Community Member presents/Community workshop

  7.30pm Dinner
followed by Community Activity

 

On at least one of the days we hope to visit a local artisan or do some

other outside activity in the local mountain-area.

Fri 20th July

  6.30am Yoga/prayer/meditation^#

  7.30am Breakfast

  8.30am Morning GardenHouse

10.00am Morning Plenary

Community Member presents/Community workshop

12.30pm Midday Prayer
followed by Lunch (individual) and Siesta

Afternoon in preparation for

Evening Celebration/Community Feast
 

  8.00pm Celebration/Feast

Sat 21st July

  6.30am Yoga/prayer/meditation^#

  7.30am Breakfast

  Morning clearing/packing

10.30am Final Plenary

Reflections and Intentions

12.30pm Midday Prayer
followed by Communal Lunch

Afternoon departures*  

^# The daily Yoga/prayer/meditation session is intended to be led by

Community Members.

* Retreat Participants are welcome to arrive on the evening of Friday 13th and/or stay over until Sunday 22nd for an agreed small extra fee.

A primary intention of this Retreat is to lay an energetic foundation-stone for the PostaHouse Community. The Retreat participants will live, work and play community for 8 days.

  

This retreat gives us all a chance to explore our own and one another's gifts. Those who come together here will find what it is that joins us in fellowship, and where we have the work to do. Participation in the Retreat does not bring with it any obligation at all to "join anything."

However it is our desire at PostaHouse that this exploration will lead to some people making an intention to spend part of their year here. This period may be as little as a week or as much as many months. Our PostaHouse Community will be these active members, the land on which we live and our relationship to one another. It will also be our supporters from further away.
  
This is not a "passive retreat"; we will be forming it and clothing it together. Most of us have only met before via Facebook or on Conference calls - this is our opportunity in "Earth-time & space" now, together, to make real community in ways which enrich each other in respect and love.
 

Accommodation and Food

Accommodation for this summer retreat will be in shared rooms and/or in tents in the garden. There are showers and toilet facilities in the house. A prepared Daily Dinner is included as are the Lunches on the first and last Saturday; other lunches during the week are the participants' own responsibility. Breakfast foods will be available for self-catering every morning.

      

Costs 
The cost for the retreat per person is as follows

€385  - registration before 1st May 2012

€425  - registration after 1st May 2012

We require a deposit of €100 at the time of booking.

The remainder is payable within 4 weeks, or before 1st July, whichever is the sooner.

These costs include food and accommodation as outlined above; travel is at participants' own expense.

Please email us at the address below for more information.

We look forward to meeting you in July in Italy

Serena Anderlini                         John Overton

PostaHouse

is a place for retreats, for workshops, for meetings,

for music and art, for those deep spiritual ceremonies which connect us with everything in Heaven and on Earth and Each Other – a place of Sustainable Love

in mutually honouring partnership with the Earth.

It is the place of the forming PostaHouse Community.

 

Blog:                http://postahouse.bezdomny.org/
Email:              postahouseitalia@gmail.com

3WayKisses from Gaia - Opening the Aquarain Age with Sacred Gifts and Free Valentines

February, 2012

Hi lovely Earthlings!  

    

The age of Aquarius is here to bring sacred gifts and free Valentines.  Love is the ecology of life.  The water bearer weds the essence of Amrita, Eros, and Gaia into a virtual three-way kiss that's magic, open, and complete. Three, not two, is the perfect number--Dante said--because it spins the energy of love to wider and wider circles until it floods the cosmos and enshrines the planet.  Expanding love is the essence of ecosexuality.  Earth, sovereign source of life, is also a compersive partner: so patient, forbearing with us.  Drops of the sacred liquid wet the cosmos that enshrines her to keep her vibrant and alive.  

 Our sacred gift to Gaia is PostaHouse, a school of love in Italy's central mountains, the Apennines.  Its vision is to educate the whole person and include our hostess, planet

earth, as a partner with equal rights.  Amrita was called Ambrosia in the ancient Mediterranean.  One drop of this sacred nectar was known to confer immortality.  At PostaHouse we tap on the fount of this liquid of pure pleasure to prove that love is an art.  Our doors are open for residencies and events, including workshops, trainings, courses, retreats.   

The water bearer who brings new life is John Overton, musician, shaman, and new resident-in-charge.  His devotion is key, his perspectives inspiring.  Click on image to find out what he's all about.  We believe that cosmic, planetary, spiritual, affectional, romantic, and erotic manifestations of love are life-giving when properly sustained and channeled.  

PostaHouse offers a unique bouquet of fragrant opportunities to co-evolve and contribute.  An intentional community and a holistic vacation center, this sacred space is devoted to transformative education in the arts of healing, loving, and living sustainably.  "A world  where it's safe to love is a world where it's safe to live" is its mantra.  The sustainable love we teach is for land, people, resources, arts.  Click on image for mission, values, spaces, locale, descriptions, seasons, rules, bookings. We're open--for residencies only--October to May included.  We gladly host events June to September included.  Requests are pouring in.  Send us yours.  Book PostaHouse now!  We'll pencil in the calendar and send you a free Valentine.  We express gratitude to Jeffrey Andreoni for activating the project, to Kalikalos, Greece, and to Ecosex . . . Sustainable Love, Facebook, for inspiration and sustenance. Click to Google Earth for PostaHouse.  

 Love and knowledge are twins at heart.  How can we really appreciate something we know nothing about?  Self-knowledge is self love.  And it comes when we know and accept others for who they really are.  That's why relationships are so complicated. Bonobo Coaching is the answer.  Click on image to find out how.  As a free Valentine, Yours Truly offers a full coaching session to everyone who signs up for a workshop, books PostaHouse, or buys two of her books online.  Scroll up and down for available opportunities.  

 Expanding love in wider and wider circles is always a gift to us.  That's what the March 10-12 workshop in San Juan is designed for.  Sign up now for Ecosexuality: A Weekend wih the Arts of Loving Inclusively and benefit form gifts and discounts.  Learn to practice ecosexual love in Puerto Rico's caressing climate.  Space is limited.  Click on image to save your seats now!  And tune in to your potential as an artist and resource of love.  As a free Valentine, we offer a Bonobo Coaching session to everyone who signs up!  Never been to San Juan, Puerto Rico?  Need hospitality, travel tips?  Let us know how we can assist you. 

Expanding knowledge that comes from love is another.  As the age of Aquarius opens, Yours Truly's books are being recognized.   Gaia, Eros, The "Weak" Subject, BiTopia, Bisexuality and Queer Theory, Plural Loves, Women and Bisexuality : labors of love that charted new fields, memorialized experience, envisioned new paradigms, and helped launch new authors' careers.  When this begins to register all around, you know you've done something right.  To express her gratitude, Yours Truly offers a free Valentine to everyone who buys TWO titles titles online.  Your free Bonobo Coaching session awaits you.  Please send in proof of purchase plus the Coupon below by February 20th.  

 

"Education is the heart of democracy," Yours Truly claims as she supports the Occupy Movement and the way it redefines democracy as the horizontal practice of participation that includes all life.  Her UPR course Huma-Love is about the infinite ways that love has been practiced across ages and cultures.  Its videos are now available online.  For those well versed in Spanish, they are another free Valentine.  They are a prelude to her new projects: What Is Love? and Dialogs with Gaia, simple books that explain the basic questions of life, and an open-ended collection on Ecosexuality.  Would you like to contribute?  Check the call for papers here!  Thanks to collaborators and inspirers, including Kamala Devi, Annie Sprinkle, Beth Stephens, and Deborah Anapol.  Also, of course, thanks to UPR students at the Mayaguez campus for the new awareness created by action to save our institution from corporate greed.  We are the university and participation in the design of its future is invited!  Click on image to find out how. 

For those based in Rome and vicinities Yours Truly offers another free Valentine.  Her late father, Luigi Anderlini,

 was a political figure who modeled integrity, passion, and love for humankind.  His career is now memorialized in a Il Ponte volume to be presented in the Italian Senate on February 21, at 4:30.  She is moved and invites you to celebrate this moment with her.  Click on image to see full invitation for protocols and etiquette.

Yours Truly wishes you a wonderful Valentine.  The best things in life are free.  Sacred gifts and free Valentines abound.  Pick your favorite and let us know how you share it!  Activate an Amrita fount and put each drop to good use.  Save a life, a plant, a species.  Enjoy every moment and imagine a life enchanted with the Earth as your partner.  

At 3WayKiss we love you!

Namaste,

Serena 

Serena Anderlini-D'Onofrio, PhD

Gilf Gaia Extraordinaire

Pioneer of Ecosexuality

Founder of 3WayKiss and PostaHouse 

Author of Gaia (2009), Eros (2006), and  

The "Weak" Subject (1998)  

Award Winner with Nautilus and Finalist with Lambda

Editor of BiTopia (2011), Bisexualtity and Queer Theory (2012), Plural Loves (2005), Women and Bisexuality (2003) 

Professor of Humanities

University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez

 

Follow us in the social media

Website: www.serenagaia.com 

Be Appraised of Ecosex Community Project PostaHouse   

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Save 100%

Free Valentine: On your first session of Bonobo Coaching, when you buy TWO books listed in Serena Anderlini-D'Onofrio's Authors' Page on Amazon.com, when you enroll in the course Ecosexuality: A Weekend with the Arts of Loving Inclusively, or when you book PostaHouse. To redeem your coupon, please email us evidence of your purchase and/or donation at serena.anderlini@gmail.com. This coupon is transferable, so please forward to all those interested.  Thank you!  Please Note: This offer expires on February 20, 2012!

Offer Expires: February 20, 2012