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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.

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, 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.

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, February 28, 2012

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.

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, February 21, 2012

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.