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From Mindfulness to Divinity: Towards the Tracing of a Phenomenology of Soul (Part 1) - (Eros... 28 mentions

• the inevitability and the necessity of eros of fantasy of soulmaking in our lives that these are inevitabilities
• lives that these are inevitabilities that whole complex eros fancy told me is is an inevitability
• more uh this soulmaking movement the eros that's involved in it in different ways the fantasies the image images
• complex movement and process and dynamic of soulmaking evolving eros involving fantasy
• they're really obvious of her sometimes less but eros there what we call him ears begins to be more obvious to us the
• just the other self other world and the eros itself become imaginingly infused become alive as images for us
• perceived sensed that way in self other world and eros then different kinds of senses of sacredness of let's say the
• that it becomes both a perception and a concept that my eros this eros that i am feeling
• um once we acknowledge and then allow ourselves to explore eros uh fantasy images the whole constellation the whole
• me in this exploration of soulmaking of eros and neurotic imaginal so often images of self or images of
• fantasy what eros am i called to can i notice that
• the centrality the necessity inevitability of eros uh called psyche fantasy and image and soulmaking in our
• elements of what we would call soul making soul and eros and the imaginal as we are presenting it again many
• um but but generally speaking the element of soul and soulmaking in eros is as we are talking about and is often
• aspects dimensions of our existence that we're calling eros fantasy soulmaking image
• worthy of study and of of the injection of eros and devotion uh in all the ways that
• we when we recognize acknowledge um this movement of eros in our lives and fantasy and soulmaking
• if we again if we recognize in our lives eros and image and fantasy and soul making and we recognize the
• and in in past retreats but we have said that eros and soul making the experience of eros and soul
• but we have said that eros and soul making the experience of eros and soul making or those aspects
• contraction so eros unlike what we're calling craving soulmaking unlike what we're
• but we've at the same time we've also said that eros will always involve a certain amount of erotic tension because
• straightforward um what the relationship of eros or soulmaking is to
• um the the the the firing up and and the expansion of the fire uh in the eros psychologus dynamic and the movement the
• and then we said this in relation to eros but um just making it more clear about divinity itself
• the recognition of of um soulmaking etc and eros and the allowing of that
• of mindfulness and we will also also lead to an exploration of eros and soul making
• include and awareness of eros and soulmaking and allow that and begin to explore that

Logos in the Garden of Souls (Part 3) - (Eros Unfettered - Opening the Dharma of Desire) 28 mentions

• and so if you like drawing out this distinction of eros and what it's what's involved with that and where it goes
• through my imaginal perception or again or the eros that i feel and all that whole range and all the directions
• that whole range and all the directions of my eros is um we've said this a few times i have
• the sense that i'm participating in the divine eros in the eros of the the buddha with his consort
• originating in and participating in the divine eros the divine imaginal faculty divine imagination the divine mind
• supports and stimulates soulmaking it brings more eros more psyche more image gives imaginal dimension opens
• um whether it's an image or eros or whatever that
• um of placing soulmaking and this this um movement of eros to stimulate the era psychologos dynamic expansion
• to our relationship with nature when we lose the eros and the sense of dimensionality
• they lose that dimensionality that we lose the eros there maybe there's still matter we talked
• the human being and that's if you like that's what eros meant to him um and and problems arose when there was
• whole developmental psychology that actually placed what he called eros which is the pleasure seeking at their
• to me like what if we um conceived of eros as we've been speaking about it and soulmaking as the
• connecting with others isn't that what we define eros with the connection this is the wanting more connection
• and in our way we've been talking on the street eros is not um equivalent to a sort of movement or
• which somehow needs to be protected against actually eros as we've said organically create and retains
• happens in in the soulmaking process eros will um kind of create some sense of of
• if we thought about eros in the way that we're talking about it and soulmaking the way
• the direction of the self of the other of the world of the eros itself of the love or of something like the body so
• of the body or an idea of the body or the eros has got stuck in relation to the body some things in balance some
• directions and something gets blocked in eros and the psyche and the logos and in the image of the south of the other
• the image of the south of the other world the eros the body whatever it is and i was not seeing images image and
• already implicit in it it uh insists if you like that eros and soul making will always if you like elude our
• than we can ever understand why because the eros because of the pothos in the eros always wants more
• the eros because of the pothos in the eros always wants more of whatever it
• of that thing including not just psyche and soul but eros itself and whatever logos or idea is involved
• with with the notion of psyche or the notion of eros so whatever idea of it that those
• will eventually move in the direction of eros and the direction of soul itself it will rather it will include them in

A Sacred Universe: Insight, Theophany, Cosmopoesis (Part 4) - (Path of the Imaginal) 28 mentions

• actually there's another factor there that's eros we can that's a whole other subject but there's a co-creation in the
• uh when there is eros with uh in relation to an imaginal figure remember that a
• through or as image as we talked about when there is eros with an imaginal figure
• figure and that eros almost by definition if we can even try and define eros eros is it
• and that eros almost by definition if we can even try and define eros eros is it wants more it's this desire for more and
• it wants to fertilize so this we could say that's what eros is that's a big but we could start from that definition of
• we could start from that definition of eros when that's there with an imaginal figure there's this love this desire for
• um shining through in in the particular eros doesn't lose sight of the particular
• you understand it sounds often in spirit into the eros wants to just dissolve in the beloved or union or melt or whatever
• in doing that there there is the dissolution of the eros too so eros needs a particular a particular person
• but that that actually dissolves the eros and it actually also dissolves the the
• but as i said eros am wanting more and wanting to contact more wanting more
• increase of the conceptual framework a stretching of the logo so as eros does this and it opens up
• of of being to this world this spreading that's also part of eros opening psyche eros opening the soulfulness and opening
• that's also part of eros opening psyche eros opening the soulfulness and opening the image and the imaginal sense
• so this spreading to the world this cosmopolis is also part of eros desiring more connections part of it creating
• both more of the beloved this is what eros when i want to go deeper into you i want to penetrate deeper discover more
• through you this is what eros wants so this is widening in terms of spilling
• the cosmos that's part of the the thrust the movement of eros all of it um is is the movement of eros wanting
• the movement of eros all of it um is is the movement of eros wanting and the more as i said implies include
• um so through eros's fertilization through the the sort of thrust of eros there or
• so through eros's fertilization through the the sort of thrust of eros there or the opening of eros it uh it sees it
• the the sort of thrust of eros there or the opening of eros it uh it sees it sees this way
• psyche will tend the soul will tend through eros's virtualization as i described try to describe it will it
• opening of the psyche this uh a whole movement dynamic of eros psyche and logos is trying to describe feeding
• earlier about try to describe about the way this works in terms of eros's fertilization
• made larger deep and made more multi-level through through eros's fertilization so corban talks about the
• so there's a dynamism here that has to do with the eros the psychologus as i talked about

Daimon, Refracted - (Four Circles, Four Parables of Stone and Light) 27 mentions

• inhibit it in some way so we could say also that eros will become dimensionalized even a lot divinised
• dimensionalized even a lot divinised our own eros will become an erotic uh imaginal object for us
• desire something maybe that desire is already eros maybe it's designed maybe it's a painful kind of desire or it's
• loves this or that the self who has desire for this or that or has eros for this or that
• this or that's wrapped up with desire of course i love this or that like eros for this or that i have desire for this or
• this or that or my desire and hear us or eros for this or that and externalizing it means let that
• um she he they who love this or that she he they who love who desire or have eros for this or that
• uh actually recognizes oh one has eros for this an erotic
• as just a sort of more flat image but as one recognizes the eros as one recognizes the beauty there it might
• and sometimes it's easier to have that sense of eros and beauty when it's externalized like that
• imaginal more fully imaginal with the eros there um so
• eternality that there's eros there there's reverence and one recognizes
• it too for me lag then the beauty is revealed that eros is revealed the whole self-sense can open
• um and with that the eros etc so
• and in other words flatly conceived self um and not eros but craving and the only recourse then is to try to live that out
• so self other world maybe also one's desire one's eros they might be eros to imprint on others this desire to imprint
• and there's not not not craving but and not even just desire but eros now but self other world eros need to
• but and not even just desire but eros now but self other world eros need to um become image will need to become
• are deeply longing for or that we actually have eros for so someone was talking to me about
• really care deeply about or that we really long for or that we have eros for so rather than getting caught up with
• thing but can i kind of contact um the eros or desire that's there so because i want i'm judging myself for
• being a bad meditator or whatever but actually can i contact the eros and the desire
• contact with um when i'm kind of looking for the eros or desire underneath underpinning or
• and it's very close to the desire in the eros but again out of that crucible out of
• um some you know elements of it being the eros the desire or even the duck or the frustrated desire there's heat there
• sometimes it's possible because of the love and because of the eros that the perception of course becomes soulmaking
• the be again in the sensing the soul there's the through the eros inseminating uh psycheon logos

Dukkha and Soulmaking (Part 4 - Mastering the Fire) - (The Mirrored Gates) 27 mentions

• so we ended in the last part with saying a little bit about eros and again
• um pointing out the distinctions between some of the distinction between eros and craving that craving contracts the being
• does not bring soulmaking brings dukkah etc and eros has an opening uh characteristic
• dwell on a few other aspects of um of desire eros craving and that kind of nexus there and
• um collection of qualities desire eros craving etc then what does it mean what might be
• responsive practical desire and a fourth might be eros and again with all these things the divisions are not always so
• and then the fourth category we can contrast again is eros which we've talked about that opens the imaginable
• we can discern um there's not a rareification with eros there's not
• soulmaking path because in that distinction particularly with eros needs to get made
• and she said to me as part of a part of it until we were talking about eros and desire and soul and all kinds of stuff
• um with eros as well at times and also with the opening to the current desire
• to tolerate that much eros tolerate that much desire
• develop the capacity to tolerate the intensity of eros of libido of energy in general at times
• capacity the ability to tolerate intensity at times of energy of eros of desire of of libido in general
• forge the sense of self of other object world eros that goes with soulmaking um so again we've talked about this i've
• different retreats uh especially recently the eros unfettered and the alchemy of desire retreat the offerments
• imaginal figure and there's um the fire of eros there then the the logos that we have of
• that we're calling sensing with soul of the logos we have regarding fire eros desire etc all that
• um before and i think in that talk logos in the garden of souls uh on the eros unfetid retreat and other places the
• that doesn't you know that is suspicious of imagination or suspicious of eros or or
• so we've we've said and we've kind of dwell a little bit on eros craving desire and and differentiating
• relation to something we really mean all this eros craving desire the playable there's passion commitment
• making is concerned as far as eros is concerned the fire must sustain
• that have to do with patience the longing devotion yearning eros and patience
• for us with regard to soulmaking with regard to passion with regard to eros with regard to path with regard to yeah
• it's not just me and my fire but we uh our eros our fire our soulmaking ignites um from others
• actually rooted in or emanating um from the divine eros the divine desire the divine will

Soulmaking (Part 2) - (Path of the Imaginal) 27 mentions

• or this endless longing this yearning or this eros that might burn a little bit we i talked about this in another
• much fire so to speak a person has how fiery their soul is how much eros runs through their soul and drives their soul
• um quite fiery and quite quick there's a lot of eros there i'm going to come back to this soon
• um or just state as almost axiomatic eros is also part of soulmaking eros is part
• eros is also part of soulmaking eros is part of soulmaking
• of soulmaking now what do i mean by eros so this is quite tricky
• quite tricky um again i'd partly like to say eros is undefinable
• um there's something about that that's really valuable to hold eros as as a um an undefinable very expanding idea and
• an undefinable very expanding idea and but but certainly by eros when i use that word or even erotic i don't just
• sexual but not just that let's say for now for now that eros is the desire for more connection
• springboard definition loose springboard definition of eros it's the desire for more connection with another with um
• i'm using deliberately sexual language here erotic language the desire of eros is to penetrate further it wants more
• the image of the beloved so the desire of eros is to inseminate the image of the beloved
• you understand the image of keith jarrett is inseminated through the eros to be to open up to expand in this case
• of someone or something that we love that there is this eros connection with opens up the perspective enriches the
• in other words or with that the if we're now with greek words mythos and eros and psyche and so let's use another word
• wrapped up in the conceptual framework wrapped up in the image of him the eros the love expands more and more so he
• apologize what i'm really trying to say is the eros and the psyche and the the the
• other the eros opens up the image enriches the image
• soulfulness the sacredness the conceptual framework the image the eros these are all feeding each other because
• them more the love is deeper and that love as i said that eros wants to it will by itself expand further it wants
• open-ended this mutual opening this mutual insemination of eros psyche or soul and logos
• perception of the image and because of that the eros cannot increase because it's it it uh has only
• and growing of love and the movement of the eros there's a kind of infertility there because of the rigidity and the
• love just to point that out this eros psyche logos they're completely interweaved could say they're
• and the question is individually how how quick does the fire of eros burn and penetrate and open
• frameworks different ways of understanding the dharma and eros and all that together in relationships and

Beauty and the Buddha - (Of Hermits and Lovers - The Alchemy of Desire) 26 mentions

• of attention to and support and care for there is a connection though with eros and soulmaking it seems to me that
• movement happening in their lives and not not a great deal of eros beauty is a part of an element in soul
• in an experience of beauty we we are enjoying our eros our erotic connection our experience of the erotic of our eros
• enjoying our eros our erotic connection our experience of the erotic of our eros and the erotic connection with the
• conscious of it or not involves seeing the beauty of our eros of our response you understand
• beauty i'm also appreciating and seeing the beauty of let's say our eros my eros
• the beauty of let's say our eros my eros so that's one aspect to point out
• oneness and union there is still this otherness there that's necessary to eros that we've talked about but otherness is
• world um and and also our eros is involved so again we get that
• self-world other and desire in this case eros an involvement of all of those um is is as we've already said is is
• touched on it but um that supports eros to arise in the sense contact
• allow psyche and we need to allow logos to expand and we need to allow the eros to flow through and in our relationship
• of uh if you like the experience of of the object or of the self or of the eros or of the world that deliberate
• now i would i would actually say like you're just like eros and just like seoul beauty also will always be larger
• certain comes alive as saul it has soul it is soul it it also has eros so psyche and eros and intelligence and
• it is soul it it also has eros so psyche and eros and intelligence and all the rest of it and autonomy are not
• animated the whole open field of being becomes the field of eros and soul and eros's and souls and psyches
• becomes the field of eros and soul and eros's and souls and psyches plural so psyche is not just in here so
• and hear us too you know um i told you about eros always being with pothos and with the band of
• um gods or demigods and called it erotis well another character as well as eros and pothos in that little band that
• and pothos in that little band that always goes together is ant eros anteros
• responding or returning eros the mirroring of eros and and what we see with our imaginal
• start we start to sense that they have eros for us the eros is returned it flows both ways from us to them from
• the world of things loves us it has eros for us it has so it is so
• multiplied and deepened and enriched because of the eros psychologus dynamic now it may be that someone is listening
• we doing here is this whole exploration whether it's of eros or soulmaking beauty aesthetics are we wanting to

The World and More: Immanence, Tantra, and Transcendence (Part 2) - (Eros Unfettered - Opening... 25 mentions

• is eros in the everything we've talked about in the first part of this talk uh
• all of that so eros when it is allowed to do its thing when
• soulmaking dynamic mutual fertilization of eros psyche logos and mutual complication enrichment deepening
• buddhism and judaism there's a gradual emergence or ascent or elevation of eros historically also in islam uh i think
• streams of the tradition it was a gradual ascent of eros it seems that way to me just
• looking historically and i could could be wrong so that eros becomes actually more integral to the whole vision it's
• formulate to articulate to create and discover a way of including eros more centrally sanctifying it and also matter
• a personal evolution in their practice than the conception and what their eros is direct towards and what eros has
• than the conception and what their eros is direct towards and what eros has taken to mean and and where it moves and
• it seems to me as a non-historian a a gradual ascent if you like of eros historically
• is it just symbolic so that's one one option is that the eros depicted um i will refer to the sexuality the
• um level sort of resonances and reflections sexuality eros sexual imagery
• of what the image kind of reflects what the eros how it's mirrored uh and it is most certainly a
• vehicle of soulmaking because the eros and the sexual imagery and the erotic imaginal actually
• for the the nature and the place of um human eros and sexuality and and what it was taken to imply for the
• regarding the meaningfulness the nature the place of human eros and sexuality it seems to me and again i'm really not
• cosmos is erotic and divine and the eros is divine and we are implicated in that in that
• divine uh erotic cosmos or divine cosmic eros we are implicated in that we reflect that we echo it it
• soulmaking way too an eros whether it's in in the meditation in the imaginal perception in
• our sexual relations the eros um as we've been saying all along it um
• this sacralization and this infinite revelation happens through the eros to say how central that is the eros
• revelation happens through the eros to say how central that is the eros one last thing
• creation of divinity this creation of self of the world is moving the eros moving towards beyond to the not yet
• and all the levels going up to that of different kinds of oneness the eros for the transcendent the thirst of human
• infinitely opening through the eros this limited world becomes an unlimited

Sensitivity, Receptivity, and Respect in Soul Work (Q & A) - (Foundations of a Soulmaking Dharma) 25 mentions

• i am working in this diet and looking in there's the eros and i i sent her as the cosmic mystical queen
• you'd like me to say something about that about eros about eros and inspiration
• we haven't talked a lot actually about eros on this retreat we have in the past and other retreats and we could you know
• and other retreats and we could you know talk endlessly about eros and the beauty and what it does
• and what it does um but eros you know uh by definition is is a kind of a live state
• more than that a state of inspiration or artistic inspiration has eros in it you know there's a sense
• um in other words it is part of the creative project to have eros about this thing it's like it's this it's got this
• mentioned this but not so fully that when there is eros for other in whether it's be a piece of visual art or
• retreat um the eros spreads and actually and you notice when you're really inspired about
• how does the world seem you know it the the eros the soulmaking will spread self other world everything so
• everything gets kind of becomes imaginal and becomes an object of eros infused with eros so then i as the image of the
• and becomes an object of eros infused with eros so then i as the image of the artist painting or whatever it is i
• artist painting or whatever it is i become an object of eros for myself that i become image for myself and and this
• inspiration i think is full of full of eros um and we haven't been good on it too
• um there's a there's a catherine talked about it but this this idea of the eros psychologos dynamic and how it works
• even aspects of me so then it's like then even for instance my eros becomes not just me but aspects me like for
• not just me but aspects me like for instance my eros becomes an erotic imaginal object for me my eros is seen
• instance my eros becomes an erotic imaginal object for me my eros is seen and felt imaginary and with all that it
• asking that i think there's a lot of eros that's very comfortable and lovely and and all that
• and and all that um and the question is about eros in regard to long-term projects which
• whatever and is this something to be said about eros in relation to the long-term projects
• image the way we're using it imaginal image and eros they kind of imply each other where there's eros if it's left to
• image and eros they kind of imply each other where there's eros if it's left to do its thing images are born and get
• their nature um illicit eros evoke eros and so the whole thing starts mutually inseminating
• becoming an image for you meaning they start to have this this eros towards them not necessarily sexual at all

Aspects of the Imaginal (Part 5) - (The Mirrored Gates) 24 mentions

• it's more also than only a wanting of eros or eros only in in the kind of small sense in the sense of i i i like
• small sense in the sense of i i i like this feeling of eros i like the juiciness i like the fire i like the
• we explained this in quite a lot of detail if eros is allowed to do its thing fully it automatically inseminates
• other things too and so then we can talk about eros in the big sense as um as an element of that of that larger
• kind of the buzz of aliveness and the juiciness and the fire of eros in in its kind of
• pleasure the delight in the soulmaking and the eros again it's not it's not full enough or a desire
• we've just been through emotion passion um eros in its smaller sense pleasure delight fascinating images all that
• delight fascinating images all that and but it also includes eros in a larger sense which includes logos and in
• and divinity all that you know those eros in its small sense for example a fascinating
• influence or conditioning but sometimes people i love the eros love the images and kind of forget a little bit about
• much eventually as we love any of the other aspects that delight the eros the vitality the juiciness etc etc
• think it was primarily on eros unfeted those series that
• relationship there is both tunas and eros and uh there's not the dissolution
• not the dissolution um but tuners and eros are captured and in or through the image
• noticeable is the power of the again the autonomous desire of the earth the eros of the earth it was it was the earth's
• of the earth it was it was the earth's eros in other words it was there was two
• there it the earth um she he it had its own uh eros it's its desire was autonomous
• um so eros as i said
• um but more than that eros and soulmaking needs tuners it needs to it takes two
• needs tuners it needs to it takes two for eros it takes two to soul make and further and we've kind of explained
• and further and we've kind of explained all this before but eros and soulmaking will create and discover
• and must work um but but the thing about eros is that it creates uh and discovers or eros as
• um but but the thing about eros is that it creates uh and discovers or eros as it's allowed to
• infantry they're always going to have a be honest and it always allows eros to constellate in in relation to them