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EcoSex Symposium – Portland, OR – June 29-July 1st – Information for Participants, Volunteers

For Symposium Program, Keynotes, Workshop Description, Registration, Donations, Donor’s Perks

go to the Symposium Website

www.ecosex.org

For Out-Of-Town Presenters:

Accommodations:

If you don’t live in Portland, we will find you a clean, comfy, free place for you to stay among the community of organizers and volunteers who are organizing the Symposium. Call or email Henry Welch, our Presenter Host, with your particular accommodations needs.

Transportation:

We will pick you up from a train, plane, or bus and/or help you find a low cost parking spot for the Symposium weekend, Friday, July 29-Sunday, July 1st. If you do not wish to stay in a private home, we can help you identify local hostels, bed and breakfasts, and hotels in or near the N. Mississippi area that you can pay for yourself. Please contact Henry Welch with your transportation needs.

Marketing, Promotion, and Social Networking

We are counting on you, the presenters, to join us in spreading the word about the Symposium. Please create chats and posts on Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Tumblr, Meet Ups and other social networking sites. Maybe you want to make a video about your workshop and post it on YouTube as a teaser? Please put notices and postings about your presentation and the rest of the Symposium on your individual websites and newsletters. Send links to your websites to Audrey Brown, our Web Mistress. Please feel free to share your thoughts and ideas, and grow this budding new movement, enviro-strategy, and EcoSexual identity by writing blog posts to our website www.EcoSex.org. Pick up posters and postcards from Gabriella Cordova’s house: Lotus Heart Center at 4124 N. Mississippi or call Ethan Edwards to make arrangements to pick them up.

Fundraising and Sponsorships

We have created an online crowd funding campaign on IndieGoGo.com to create the funds for the keynote speakers and other basic costs such as venues, posters and postcards. Please consider donating $5-10 yourself before May 29th as this will increase our web traffic and help make the crowd funding campaign successful. Please direct your friends and supporters to this site (http://igg.me/p/93850?a=472232) before May 26th. Also, we have great sponsorship packages which you can see on our website. Feel free to cut and paste and send to people or businesses you think are likely sponsors. It is our goal to raise $8-10,000.00 to cover the costs of the Symposium. We are looking for a printing company to do our program and product sponsors to have their own booths

Volunteers Needed

We need volunteers. Please have your friends and associates connect with Teri Ciacchi, Volunteer Coordinator, to get involved. If you have a friend who would like to see your presentation for free, recruit them to be the onsite workshop door person for your presentation. We need help; as you can see from the list of organizers below, this is a small crew of people which needs to expand exponentially for the conference to be successful. Volunteer positions will be listed on the Volunteer tab on our website. Volunteer “perks” can include full conference packets (valued at $169) if volunteers can document they have done 5-10 hours of work weekly between now and July 2. Smaller work trades are available for on-site, i.e. registration booth shifts, presenter audio visual assistance & door shifts, and making food for organizing team members during the Symposium.

Call for Collaboration

On our website under the tab Sponsor & Collaborate is our vision of collaborations. Please encourage people you know to collaborate in congruence with this vision. Feel free to create your own collaborations.

EcoSex Symposium Portland 2012 Organizing Team

Teri Ciacchi: Co Producer of entire Symposium, Program Coordinator & Volunteer Coordinator (206) 612-3511 ecosex22@gmail.com

Gabriella Cordova: Co Producer of entire Symposium, Keynote Coordinator, Venue Coordinator (503) 750-2323 gabriella@lotusheartcenter.org

Henry Welch: Presenter Host 503 544-6201 Henry_Welch@hotmail.com

Stara Shakti: Fundraising Coordinator, EcoBall Coordinator, Editor/Proofreader, (973) 570-6530 tarashakti1@gmail.com

Jeni Stambaugh: Sponsorship Coordinator: (425) 443-2948 jenifer.stambaugh@gmail.com

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6 of 7 – A Life of Science: Lynn Margulis Opens the Gaian Era

Dear Earthlings:

two important posts this week. They came at the beginning of the conference about Lynn Margulis, from her son and co-author of many books and from one of her students. They bring tidings of other avatars of Gaia theory and of what this all means when it comes to schools, textbooks, and children.

Dorion Sagan, Lynn’s older son, reads an essay sent over by James Lovelock. Gaia is the shared theory, Lovelock’s macrocosm perspective offers the view from above, from the firmament where the third planet is visible. Lynn’s microcosmic perspective offers the view from below, from the microbes, the cells, the molecules that make us feel alive when we pinch them. As above so below. That’s the proof that Gaia theory is meaningful.

Emily Case vows to “liberate Lynn s ideas from the ‘box’ and move them to the mainstream text.” A science teacher formed at the school of Lynn Margulis, she agrees that research and teaching come together when the laboratory of life is one’s classroom. Symbiogenesis is when a cell enters another cell and becomes its nucleus. It’s a form of collaboration that resulted in the first big leap of evolution. Now it’s in a box, because the main narrative of evolution is Darwinian: it all happened because of competition. When there is a critical mass behind Gaia theory, collaboration will be the main narrative of evolution, with competition as a footnote: the error resulting from a failure to cooperate with the natural way of doing things.

Perhaps some day kids will come home from school and say: “Mom, pop, today I learned that without collaboration life would not exist. It was discovered by Lynn Margulis and James Lovelock. Before them, the opposite was believed. People were nasty and rude. Now we know better. How can I help you this afternoon?”

Dear Earthlings:

Education is the heart of democracy. And that includes education to love. It comes in many forms. Including learning about Lynn Margulis, the role of collaboration in evolution, and Gaia theory.

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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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5 of 7 – A Life of Science: Lynn Margulis Opens the Gaian Era

Dear Earthlings:

how difficult it is for a genius to be appreciated in her homeland. Often what we do reverberates far away and then comes back to us as the appreciation our neighbors would never give. This also happened to Lynn Margulis.

She interpreted the nucleated cell as a major leap in evolution, one that happens by collaboration. Her taxonomy of species reflects this. Many thought she was just disobedient. After all why make a new taxonomy when one already exists? Science is just habit, run-of-the-mill stuff, no?

She also looked up scientists from the Soviet Union who had great ideas without the means to prove them. She translated them and designed experiments to test these ideas. Many thought she did not give proper credit and was not original. After all, what comes from the Soviet Union is always suspicious, right? Science is just an American way to reinvent the wheel, no?

Antonio Lazcano, from the Universidad Autonoma de Mexico, explains this, including how unfair it is to make these insinuations against Lynn Margulis. How this parochial blindness only succeeds in keeping people in the United States ignorant about the value of her contributions.

Antonio Lazcano: Lynn’s taxonomy of species reflected her complex view of life and the biosphere.

Antonio Lazcano: Lynn made her predecessors known, proved their hypotheses by tests, and had their papers translated into English. Many of them were evolution scientists from Russia who emphasized symbiosis over selection collaboration over competition, which had been Darwin’s main point.

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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

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

Book a vacation at gateway to Gaia, Playa Azul:

Playa Azul, Western Puerto Rico
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Read Victoria Alexander’s article on Digital Journal

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4 of 7 – A Life of Science: Lynn Margulis Opens the Gaian Era

Dear Earthlings:

more snapshots this week. What is science? Who first talked about the “biosphere”? Is music a form of knowledge too? The big question come up when the topic is Lynn Margulis. She was “fearless” her son Dorion Sagan says in Digital Journal. That’s how she invented a new episteme, a new interpretation of what life is, from cell to cosmos.

Martin Brasier, of Oxford University, explains how specialization leads to mass extinctions in the history of life s evolution. Oh my! The we really need scholars whose horizon is the entire system. Have you been wondering what science is? Brasier explains, with a pinch of British humor: “A unique system for the measurement of doubt.” Just in case you’d confuse it with religion or other belief systems shamefaced enough to offer prepackaged “truths.”

Douglas Zook, of Boston University, compares Lynn Margulis to Alexander Humboldt, a 19th century American scientist, pioneer of ecology and biosphere. Like Morgan, he was a defender and advocate of indigenous people who saw the need to merge disciplines to look at the cosmos as a whole.

Flute music as audacious as Lynn, at the Ayurvedic lunch entertainment. Because, yes, science is also music!

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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

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

Book a vacation at gateway to Gaia, Playa Azul:

Playa Azul, Western Puerto Rico
Book Online

Find an apartment to stay in Hormigueros

Read Victoria Alexander’s article on Digital Journal: http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/321533#ixzz1qfRQq68Y

http://polyplanet.blogspot.com

3 of 7 – A Life of Science: Lynn Margulis Opens the Gaian Era

Dear Earthlings:

two more snapshots this week. Astrobiology: the science that studies the life of astral bodies. Oh my! These are big questions for yours truly. I’m an earth sign and my imagination doesn’t travel that far in space. But yes, if Gaia, the third planet, has a “life,” a “biography,” so must other astral bodies too. Lynn Margulis made contributions in this area too.

Lynn Rothschild explains what Astrobiology asks: where do we come from? Where are we going? Are we alone? In a cosmic way. Rothschild was inspired by Lynn Margulis who understood how important astrobiology would be for the future. Now we know that stars have planets too. The search for “intelligent life” continues.

Penelope Boston speaks of extant life, extinct life, and everything in between. Could extinct life, as in rocks, Mars, become extant again? Is extinction an interlude, as in the tale of Rick Van Winkle? Microbes exist in rocks and on Mars too! Finally yours truly gets what astrobiology is. It could be compared to the genre of science fiction if it were literature. “Yes,” says Penelope, “when I teach astrobiology I often ask students to read a science fiction novel and evaluate how plausible it is from a technical, scientific point of view.” Evolution only makes sense in the context of astrobiology, or is it vice versa? And in any event, is it fair to define life as what feels like life if you are a human? Again, you hit the big question when around Lynn Margulis.

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

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

Book a vacation at gateway to Gaia, Playa Azul:

Playa Azul, Western Puerto Rico
Book Online

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Read Victoria Alexander’s article on Digital Journal: http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/321533#ixzz1qfRQq68Y

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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

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

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Tantra Goddess Empowerment w/ Allen McPhee – May 13, Playa Azul, Western Puerto Rico

Embrace the goddess within!

Abraza la diosa dentro de ti!

Every woman has a hidden side that she keeps for that special ‘someone.’ Sometimes, however, that part of her is hidden for so long that it is impossible to reveal. Join Allen as he reaches into your heart to bring out the goddess in you. A Tantra Goddess embraces her sexuality, without shame or compromise. She controls her destiny even while engaged in relationships. She treats her body as a temple; that is, one deserving of respect and worship. Join Allen for an exploration of divine femininity. Let yourself go where your heart has longed to go.

Exciting, great discussions, transformative, loving environment, and empowering techniques describe this workshop best. Singles, those in committed relationships, experienced practitioners, and even women who are clueless about Tantra will enjoy themselves and transform as a result of their participation in this carefully designed workshop.

This event is generously offered at no cost for women in Western Puerto Rico with a desire to discover the goddess within. Don’t miss this opportunity to be introduced to Tantra in our region! Space is limited, so please call in early to confirm your attendance!

Este es un taller bilingue! Habra traduccion consecutiva al Espanol. Asi que, no te dejes intimidar por el idioma, participa!

Love is in the air!!!!!!! Can you feel it? Call today!

Workshop:

When: Sunday, May 13, 2 to 6pm

Where: Serena’s apartment in Playa Azul, Condominio Punta Arenas, Joyuda, Cabo Rojo

Confirmations: by email, serena.anderlini@gmail.com, by phone at 787 538 1680
Raw vegetarian food served after workshop

About the Facilitator

Allen McPhee is a determined leader and problem solver. He provides a series of services that promote self-development and growth. He is a combination of a philosopher, metaphysician and psychic. He holds a Master’s Degree in Philosophy from Stanford University and has over 15 years of experience in teaching. He is a passionate teacher and life coach, empowered with wide-ranging experience in self development, energy work, and tantra yoga. He is honest, discerning, clairvoyant, and empathic.

Comments about Allen’s Workshops

Andrea: “Thank you Arlene for the opportunity to participate in this event. Such wonderful, beautiful energy! Once again, Allen’s superb ability to listen and break through translated into an empowering evening. Love certainly was everywhere and within everyone of us. We learned so much about ourselves as children – women- of God. Wow. Thank you”

Arlene: “Allen, This was one of the best birthday presents I’ve ever received. Your generosity, patience, and sincere loving kindness was felt by all of us. Thanks for the valuable lessons and great techniques…we now dance, hug, & gaze with purpose and intention!”

Dear Earthlings:

isn’t this wonderful? Bringing Tantra to Western Puerto Rico! It’s an opportunity not to be missed. Allen and I look forward to introducing Goddess Empowerment to you. Let us know if we can answer any questions. Your participation is a cherished gift.

Namaste,

Serena

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

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2 of 7 – A Life of Science: Lynn Margulis Opens the Gaian Era

Dear Earthlings:

two more snapshots from the Lynn Margulis conference this week. How many angles to Gaia theory! Each discipline has something to gain from it. Each discourse can integrate it beneficially.

Bruce Clarke, professor of English at Texas Tech, claims he became convinced of Gaia theory when he figured that “Gaia is a metabiotic system,” not an organism in the conventional sense. “Gaia theory” he concludes, “is Systems Theory.” That’s how the new scientific paradigm gets integrated in new fields of study in the humanities.

Mary Catherine Bateson speaks of influences. Which direction? Paradigm shift happens when a person responds to the age based on what the age demands. So influences go in both directions. Collaboration vs competition. There is a cultural need to value collaboration. Science can use collaboration to account for what isn’t explained by competition. The influence goes from a cultural to a natural dimension, and vice versa. Interpretations is what science and culture are made of. As a listener, yours truly notices what an admirable group of people has gathered to celebrate Lynn Margulis. Gregory Bateson and Margaret Mead, in Mary Catherine’s family, are two of the most remarkable American thinkers!

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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

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

Book a vacation at gateway to Gaia, Playa Azul:

Playa Azul, Western Puerto Rico

Book Online

Find an apartment to stay in Hormigueros

Read Victoria Alexander’s article on Digital Journal: http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/321533#ixzz1qfRQq68Y

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Press Release: Senior UPRM Faculty Awarded Humanities Fellowship at U Conn, 2012-13

Press Release: Senior UPRM Faculty Awarded Humanities Fellowship at U Conn, 2012-13
Contact: Serena Anderlini, 787 538 1680

Dear Office of the Press:

It is a pleasure to release the news that the University of Connecticut notified me this week of the offer of a research award of major significance in the humanities, a one-year Fellowship at the University of Connecticut Humanities Institute, UCHI. The Institute is one of the few of its kind in the US system, with fellowship awards comparable to the National Humanities Center in North Carolina and the Guggenheim Foundation in New York City.

Here is the project’s basic information:

Title: Amorous Visions: Fluid Sexual Moments in Italian Cinema

Anna and Giulia in The Conformist, 1970

Summary: This study articulates a new interpretation of pivotal scenes in selected classics of Italian cinema based on the cultural constructs of “amorous inclusiveness” and “sexual fluidity” elaborated in recent cultural analyses of human sexual, erotic, and amorous behavior (Ryan and Jetha 2010, Diamond 2009). These classics include Pasolini’s Teorema (1968), where a mysterious guest awakens the erotic libido of all members in a nuclear family, and Bertolucci’s The Conformist (1970), where a charming hostess similarly awakens both members of a newlywed couple. Based on these new interpretive paradigms, these scenes acquire a new meaning that discloses the bisexual and polyamorous content therein. This enables more positive and complete understandings of the films as projects that artistically express love for love, or erotophilia. As an experienced scholar who charted new research fields that study love as the art of crossing beyond sexual divides and exclusivity (BiTopia, 2011), I am uniquely prepared to articulate these interpretations.

I am a senior faculty in the Department of Humanities with many research achievements to my credit, including books that have received prizes and charted new fields of knowledge. I recognize UPRM as an institution where the originality of my research has been honored and nurtured. This external funding award is a deserved reward for the many years of internal funding from which my works have benefited.

I imagine you’d like to publicize the happy news in a online piece. That would be wonderful! I’d be happy to send more information and am available to interview. Please feel free to contact me. I look forward to hearing from you. Please let me know if I can answer any questions.

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
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1 of 7 – A Life of Science: Lynn Margulis Opens the Gaian Era

Dear Earthlings:

“A three-day symposium, “Celebrating a Life of Science: In Memory of Lynn Margulis,” was held [on] March 23-25th, at the University of Massachusetts, where Margulis taught evolutionary science for decades,” opens Victoria N. Alexander on Digital Journal.

Yours truly was blessed with being present at this momentous gathering of the minds. From microscope to telescope, from cell to cosmos, Gaia is the overarching theory of the new era. Lynn Margulis celebrated for ushering the new wisdom.

Yours truly is happy to share snapshots of the speakers, with brief comments about their significance.

Jennifer Margulis shares about her mother’s birth in a hospital, something new in 1938, and of her suffering episiotomies at giving birth to her first three kids. It is now known that these genital cuts help physicians more than babies or women. Lynn studied the problem, and when Jennifer came along, she refused. The doctor approached scissors in had, and she got up from the delivery bed to stop him from using them. Thank you Lynn! The episiotomy I suffered ruined my sexual life for ten years and kept me from wanting more kinds. Somebody had to start. Thanks to you, Lynn, now many women can choose water and squatting positions when giving birth to a baby.

William Irwin Thompson, of Lindisfarne, speaks of the cultural implications of Lynn Margulis’s science of symbiosis: collaboration is the overarching narrative of evolution, competition is a footnote. He’s a independent philosopher known for his intuitive thinking. Here are the big questions: What does this mean for us humans? Are we going to go along with “nature” or insist on being different?

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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

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

Book a vacation at gateway to Gaia, Playa Azul:

Playa Azul, Western Puerto Rico
Book Online

Find an apartment to stay in Hormigueros

Read Victoria Alexander’s article on Digital Journal: http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/321533#ixzz1qfRQq68Y

http://polyplanet.blogspot.com