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   

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

 

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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

Participando en la Universidad - Assessing the Assessment

Dear Earthlings:

Here's what yours truly made for her community at UPR Mayaguez.  A Facebook group to assess the assessment the government made without consulting the communities.  A space to speak up and participate in the creation of the university WE want!

Listen to the description, and sign up for the group if you are a member of the UPR Mayaguez community and have a Facebook profile in your name.

"The group Participando en la Universidad - Assessing the Assessment is a forum to assess the assessment of the UPR system presented in the document "Cambio de Rumbo para la Pertinencia de la Educacion Superior en el Siglo 21," published on December 12, 2012, and its recommendations. 

The group is open to faculty, administrators, employees, and students of the UPR community at Mayaguez with a Facebook profile in their own name.

The document to be assessed, often known as "Golpe de Timon," is the result of a study of the system commissioned by the Governor of Puerto Rico, Mr. Fortuno, to assess the state of the system and offer recommendations.  The group of "experts" who did the study was entirely appointed by the Governor and his administration. 

The study is multifaceted and intelligent.  However, it does not include contributions from members, participants, constituencies and sectors in the university community, nor the associations that represent them.  This is a major flaw. 

The present group is intended as a forum, an open discussion space for those contributions to be heard.  It is a bilingual space of participation in creating the university we really want.  It is a digital space for the assessment of the document that claims to assess the UPR system without the contributions the university community can make.  The idea of this open participation in the assessment of the system and design of its future is part of CUNAPU's directive to generate the free participation we want in both digital and presential ways.This group is a forum to assess the assessment of the UPR system presented in the document "Cambio de Rumbo para la Pertinencia de la Educacion Superior en el Siglo 21," published on December 12, 2012, and its recommendations.

The group is open to faculty, administrators, employees, and students of the UPR community at Mayaguez with a Facebook profile in their own name.

The document to be assessed, often known as "Golpe de Timon," is the result of a study of the system commissioned by the Governor of Puerto Rico, Mr. Fortuno, to assess the state of the system and offer recommendations.  The group of "experts" who did the study was entirely appointed by the Governor and his administration.

The study is multifaceted and intelligent.  However, it does not include contributions from members, participants, constituencies and sectors in the university community, nor the associations that represent them.  This is a major flaw.

The present group is intended as a forum, an open discussion space for those contributions to be heard.  It is a bilingual space of participation in creating the university we really want.  It is a digital space for the assessment of the document that claims to assess the UPR system without the contributions the university community can make.  The idea of this open participation in the assessment of the system and design of its future is part of CUNAPU's directive to generate the free participation we want in both digital and presential ways.

If you are a member of the UPRM community with a Facebook profile of your own, please ask to join and one of our admins will let you in quickly.  Please contribute to the debate by posting questions, adding comments, documents, and links.

If you simply would like to download a pdf file for the document, click on this link, and then click on Golpe de Timon for the download.

Please consider that the document is not difficult to read at all.  Of the 144 pages, only some 40 are analysis and recommendations, the rest is appendices, notes, and work cites list.

The same link above leads to some of the most important digest and comment articles about the document in the PR press.

Welcome to Participando en la Universidad: Assessing the Assessment!"

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Come back!  And stay tuned for more wonders.

Namaste,
 

Serena Anderlini-D'Onofrio, PhD

for Junta Aprum and Conapu 

Author of Gaia, Eros, 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

   

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Escepticismo Saludable: Yours Truly's Assessment of "Cambio de Timon" to Conapu and Press

28 de enero de 2012

Saludos companer@s, colaborador@s, y colegas!

El 21 de enero de 2012, en la reunion regional de Conapu, se prioritizo la discusion del documento en cuestion, que yo habia leido detenidamente el dia antes. Se pidio a l@s representantes de los recintos de aportar sus contribuciones a la Conferencia de Prensa que Conapu iba a tener la semana subsiguiente. Como miembro de Aprum, yo participe en esta reunion, y alli mismo asesore el documento. Escribi en seguida un email a la Portavoz, la colega Annelisse Sanchez de UPR Arecibo, en que inclui los punto que siguen. Asi que, en cuanto al documento conocido come "Cambio de Rumbo," aqui van mis aportaciones.

"1. Es importante estar concientes de que el documento reconoce muchos asuntos queridos a la comunidad universitaria en todo y las asociaciones que la representan.  Por ejemplo el documento recommienda que: a) el porcetage del 9.6 del Fondo General del estado a la UPR sigua siendo lo mismo; b) la estrategia de quitar ingresos al fondo general para desminuir el total a la UPR se quite; c) se aprecie la plantilla de profesor@s con permanencia como recurso valioso y vital para la Upr; d) no se suba repentinamente la matricula o despidan emplead@s debido al fuerte riesgo de inestabilidad con efectos en la acreditacion.

2. Es significativo que el documento plantea integrar los dos modelos que teoriza en una propuesta de "win/win," pero en realidad se equivoca seriamente acerca de uno, y no considera otros modelos mas comprobados y antiguos. De este error sale el mayor equivoco: que la ciencia autentica rechaza el eskepticismo. Quien conoce la larga historia de la ciencia y cultura no puede equivocarse en eso. La ciencia autentica esta basada en el eskepticismo, que hoy se conoce tambien como "pensamiento critico," o, a veces, como "postmodernismo." De la ciencia no ser basada en un sano eskepticismo, como podria la misma cuestionar las creenecias comunes? Cabe recordar la oracion de Galileo observando el planeta que segun la ciencia del tiempo estaba fijo. El cientifico renacentista lo dudo y eskepticamente exclamo: "y con todo eso, se mueve!"

3. El documento informa de como el sistema de escuelas publicas no siempre logra preparar bien l@s estudiantes para el sistema universitario mas selectivo, la UPR. Tanto que en muchos recinots altos porcentages de los admitid@s provienen de escuelas privadas. El efecto es que a veces familias de pocos recursos deben adeudarse para educar sus hij@s. Asi que como representantes de educadores, entendemos que sea necesario fomentar una mayor inversion en el sistema K-12 publico.

4. Las recomendaciones se prestan a interpretaciones que en la actuacion podrian resultar positivas, incluso el enfasi en la excelencia academica, en la independencia de la alta adminstracion de los partidos politicos locales, en el fomento a la educacion a distancia, continua, y por diversas edades y fines, y por fin en la autonomias de decisiones por pares basadas en el merito academico. Se espera entonces que l@s legisladores que utilicen el estudio lo hagan intelligentemente y segun su mejor espiritu. Tambien, se anima a las comunidades y los sectores de todos los recintos a que se reunan para debatir el contenido del documento y asesorar el asesoramiento alli producido."

Lo presentado es una respuesta incompleta y de "prima facie" que ni siquera toca en muchos punto especificos de UPR Mayaguez, como por ejemplo la recomendacion que el RUM sea uno de los tres recinto de estudios graduados y investigacion, con UPRRP y Ciencia medicas. Estas pocas notas solamente desean animar a la discusion.

Espero esto ayude. Quedaremos en espera de sus preguntas, comentarios, y participacion.

La discusion continua en Facebook!  Solicite entrar al grupo Participando en la Universidad - Assessing the Assessment!

"Que viva la excelencia de la universidad libre y participativa!"

Videos of Yours Truly's Humanities Course at UPRM, Part 1- Theme is Love
Videos of Yours Truly's Activism for Public Education on PR

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

Author of Gaia, Eros, and The "Weak" Subject (1998) 
Award Winner with Nautilus and Finalist with Lambda
Editor of BiTopia (2011), Bisexuality and Queer Theory (2012), Plural Loves (2005), Women and Bisexuality (2003)

Professor of Humanities

University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez

 

   

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Luigi Anderlini's Career in Politics - "Invito alla Presentazione" of a First Volume of Essays, Feb 21, 2012

Dear Earthlings:

Did you know that Yours Truly's father was a senator?  Yes!  An honest politician, they exist, oh yes!  He passed over ten years ago, and now the first volume about his mission and career in politics is being presented in the Italian Senate.  Here's the invitation in case you'd like to attend.  RSVPs are a must.  All attendees' names to be notified three days prior to the event.   

Yours Truly cried when this was announced to her.  There is such need for models of politicians who are honest, who do it for passion, for love.  How can a new generation be inspired if the models are unknown?  This is a first step.

In the country of the Borgias, favoritism is an ancient tradition.  Nepotism, pulling the ropes for your own.  Yet Yours Truly's father repudiated this to the point that both his children ended up making their lives and careers abroad.  Isn't that evidence enough that honesty in politics is a sacrifice hard enough to bear?  Oh well . . . 

Now consider for a moment that Senator Anderlini was a poet.  Being a good poet helps a great deal if one wants to be passionate and honest in politics.  I helps a lot more than being a god attorney, Yours truly would like to claim.  Why?  Because poets tend to understand things from another persons' perspective.  

It would be great to have you all.  Diversity is so important.  And there are all kinds of absolutely interesting people in Rome who would share many of the values of Yours Truly's dad.  Peace, non-violence, authenticity, integrity, intermediation.  If you feel inspired, let us know.  However, we suggest some knowledge of Italian as a prerequisite.  It's a 3 1/2 hour presentation!  Here's the invite:

                                         Invito alla presentazione del volume

“LUIGI ANDERLINI 1921-2001”

Il Ponte  Editore

Contributi di:

Tullia Carettoni Romagnoli, Emanuele Macaluso, Adriano Ossicini, Alberto Provantini, Fabrizio Battistelli, Andrea Becherucci, Alfredo Casiglia, Giuseppe De Lutiis,

Tommaso Nencioni, Dario Orzali, Andrea Ricciardi, Marcello Rossi, Giambattista Scirè

Introduce

Luca Polese Remaggi

(Università di Salerno)

Interviene

On.le Fausto Bertinotti

Presidente Fondazione Camera dei Deputati

Coordina

Marcello Rossi

direttore de IL PONTE

Martedì 21 febbraio 2012, ore 16.00

Biblioteca del Senato “Giovanni Spadolini”

Sala degli Atti parlamentari

  

Piazza della Minerva, 38 – Roma

         v   Per gli uomini è d’obbligo indossare giacca e cravatta     Rsvp: Segreteria Il Ponte 055.6235455

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Namaste,
 

Serena Anderlini-D'Onofrio, PhD

Gilf Gaia Extraordinaire

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

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

Website: www.serenagaia.com 

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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