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.

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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4 of 8 - Snippetts of Eros - Health, a Form of 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.  

Does health emanate from love?  That's one of the main themes.  Hypoglycemia is an emotional disorder that results from isolation, loss, absence of love.  Are other diseases a result of the same problem?  A very old question, and new.  Love, the ecology of life, is the source of health.  Isn't that a win-win?  A world where it is safe to live 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. 

"I returned to the center where they were reluctant to test me.  I told them I would not budge until a test was scheduled.  I did test positive for this dangerous nutritional imbalance, which, accidentally, as I was told, caused Virginia Wolf's suicide.  Hypoglycemia is a syndrome few conventional doctors understand.  It is a prelude to diabetes, as well as its opposite, since the production of insulin is accelerated.  A naturopath was called, and he told me what I had, explaining how the condition had to be brought under control by an appropriate diet and eating style.  Meals had to be frequent and small . . . ." (31)

The narrative continues as Gaia heals naturally and becomes a holistic healer herself.  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

   

Follow us in the social media

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
 

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

   

Follow us in the social media

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
 

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