Category: Snippetts of Eros

“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!

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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.

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“I was determined to push French and Italian out of my inner landscape.  The combat of one subconscious against the others was driving me crazy.  Blocking the music of my first native language out of my mind eased the pain of losing my baby.  My French lover exited with the second.  I was striving for the inversion that would allow American English to envelop these other languages and make their rhythms accessible.  It was torture for my inner space. English was never spoken at home . . .It was the colonizer’s language, and making it my own would help me reconquer my soul.  A colonizer brings women the scent of emancipation  . . . and [as a teenager] I used to spend time  . . . deciphering lyrics [from the Beatles and Rolling Stones]” (63).

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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.

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“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).

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.

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University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez

   

“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.

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University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez

   

“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)

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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.

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University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez

   

“As a teacher and student of many years, I know that, no matter what sexual-harassment policies say, learning is erotic since it activates the pleasure of discovery by putting brain cells in motion, and stimulates the body-mind by opening up vistas and possibilities to the imagination.  The erotic energy emanating from this process is what keeps people in schools–it is what keeps us engaged in the learning process, be it as students and teachers. . . .  I was not fully aware of this when  . . . I was going to become my student’s teacher of language as well as love” (4).

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.

University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez