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Overview
The Eros of the sexes is the messenger of an endless cosmic and earthly joy. Sexual energy is pure life energy, and wherever sex and love come together, we find what all people long for more than anything else: an embodiment of ecstasy, bliss, a zest for life and the power of action. Sometimes I can only thank Creation for this gift.
What would have happened if at that time in paradise Adam and Eve had been allowed to “know each other” instead of being punished and expelled for this wish? How different Genesis (the story of Creation) would have developed had it not started with the fall of man but with the love between man and woman?
This book circles around a new starting point for peace between the genders and from there proposes a new “genesis”. The authors do not take just a theoretical standpoint but draw on more than 40 years of life experience and work as founders and members of a radical community project. They offer a new, multi-faceted paradigm of the relationship between men and women. With this new paradigm they turn the switch in the primary settings within the social structures of our time.
We know from chaos theory and research in other scientific areas that very small changes in an equation can lead to totally different final results. This is also true in the human milieu. If the paradigm presented in this book starts to be accepted by more and more people, the evolution of mankind can change direction to develop into a deeply humane human being, who is able to access huge creativity in order to build a totally peaceful society. There will be no more losers, no suppression of other peoples, no cruelty against animals, no sexual violence, no fear, no wars.
While this might sound like a nice fairy tale, it is in fact a real possibility.
The book is published at exactly the right time. The global war between the genders has reached a peak. The foundations of our societies are breaking. Our world has become leaderless and the consequences are hysteria, loss of orientation, blame and accusations of either secret or open violence.
It is right at this point where the book offers new information and patterns of interpretation. The authors do not aim to repair a broken system. They do not give advice as to how shattered relationships can be restored nor do they give manuals for a more satisfying sexual life. Instead they build, step by step, thought by thought, a new system.
They liberate the areas of love and sexuality from our capitalist thought system in which everything is reduced to the value of goods, degraded to a need must be satisfied. Instead they locate the core areas of our human existence in the universal and sacred matrix from which all life originates. They show that within this matrix life follows a different logic and ethics which humankind can start to learn again.
From this perspective the authors shed light into the different aspects of humanity’s love life: into the history of patriarchy, into the collective trauma, into the problem of our love relationships, into the phenomena of jealousy and fear of loss, into the relationship between mother and son, daughter and father. They do not analyze what exists but rather lead their readers towards healing. They write about a new female consciousness, about the affirmation of our wild sexual nature, about a global uprising which will "free love from the cross." Tears of healing and insight will flow when men and women can recognize each other in the light cast by this book. A wave of relief will go around the planet as humankind regains a power which is stronger than violence. The way is free for a culture of partnership. From now on trust between humans and all fellow creatures is the ferment of life.
Product Details
| BN ID: | 2940155917946 |
|---|---|
| Publisher: | Verlag |
| Publication date: | 03/01/2019 |
| Sold by: | Smashwords |
| Format: | eBook |
| File size: | 4 MB |
| Age Range: | 18 Years |
About the Author
Dieter Duhm was born in 1942 in Berlin, Germany. He has a PhD in sociology, is an art historian, author and psychoanalyst. He is the initiator of the “Healing Biotopes Plan” – a global peace plan. Beginning in 1967 he engaged in the Marxist left and became one of the leading characters in the students’ movement. He made a connection between the thoughts behind the political revolution and the thoughts related to the liberation of the individual and became known through his book “Angst im Kapitalismus” [Fear in Capitalism] (1972). Around 1975 he began publically distancing himself from the leftist dogmatism and shifted to a more thorough human alternative. In 1978 he established the “Bauhütte” project and led a three-year social experiment with 40 participants in the Black Forest in Germany. The theme of the experiment was to “found a community in our times” and it embraced all the questions of the origin, meaning and aim of human existence on planet Earth. The outlines of a new possibility for existence arose with the concepts of ‘free love,’ ‘spiritual ecology’ and ‘resonance technology.’ In 1995 he founded the peace research center Tamera in Portugal together with the theologian Sabine Lichtenfels and others. Today Tamera has approximately 200 co-workers. Dieter Duhm has dedicated his life to create an effective forum for a global peace initiative that can be a match for the destructive forces of the capitalistic globalization. Books: in German: Angst im Kapitalismus (Fear in Capitalism) (1972) Der Mensch ist anders (The Human Being is Different) (1974) Synthese der Wissenschaften (Synthesis of Science) (1979) Aufbruch zur neuen Kultur (1982) Der unerlöste Eros (1991) Politische Texte für eine gewaltfreie Erde (Political Texts for a Non-Violent Earth) (1992) Die Heilege Matrix (2005) Zukunft ohne Krieg (2006) Terra Nova (2014) Translated into English: The Sacred Matrix (2005) Future without War (2007) Eros Unredeemed. The World Power of Sexuality (2010) Towards a New Culture (2012) Terra Nova (2015) Books in English with his contributions: Madjana Geusen, Ed.: Man's Holy Grail is Woman (2006) Martin Winiecki, Ed: Setting Foundations for a new Civilization (2013)
Sabine Lichtenfels, was born into a family of artists in 1954. From a very early age she was concerned with questions of love and was connected to Jesus as a revolutionary role model. Already at 16 years old she envisioned “a village in which all lovers live together and no one has to abandon each other.” She studied theology, married and gave birth to her first daughter. In 1978 she met Dieter Duhm and along with their common friend, Charly Rainer Ehrenpreis, she supported in founding the Healing Biotopes Project. In 1981 she left the church and became the co-initiator of a three-year social experiment – a research and community project in the Black Forest in Germany, where the foundations for peaceful co-habitation were discovered through real life experiences. By the consequent exploration and presentation of her own deep soul processes in love, she began her research for the reconciliation and truth between the genders as the basis for a peace culture. In this way, she shed light in an exemplary manner on the structures of the worldwide war between the genders, especially through the example of her long-term partnership with Dieter Duhm. At the points where fight would arise she ever more persistently replaced it with the big power of trust. By this she became an orientation for many young people and continuously supports them in their questions around love, sexuality and community building.She dedicated her work to peace in crisis- and conflict areas. She goes to places that most people avoid – the Colombian rainforest and civil war areas, Palestinian refugee camps and Israeli settlements and military bases – and negotiates between the frontiers.Through her skills as a medium she is connected to prehistoric matriarchies and early temple cultures in Malta, Crete and Nubia, and also with indigenous cultures and early Christianity. She translates their sources of knowledge into our time in her books, seminars and speeches. By connecting erotic, spiritual and social knowledge in a societal perspective, the media often seeks her out, but this also occasionally spurs controversies and resistances. From 1988-1992 she led “desert camps” – a spiritual education in various places in nature. These camps include dream research, trance, the power of prayer, as well as communication with nature. From 1992-1995 she led the Erotic Academy in Lanzarote. These projects led to the founding of Tamera in 1995 with Dieter Duhm and Charly Rainer Ehrenpreis. She was attracted to the land of Tamera by way of her psychic research in the stone circle in Evora. In 2004, alongside Marko Pogacnik, she began creating a geomantic community art piece in Tamera – a lithopuncture circle as an acupuncture point for peace. Shocked and shaken in 2005 by the impending war in Iran, she went alone on a peace pilgrimage for several months without any money. Her walk led to the first Grace Pilgrimage through Israel and the West Bank in Palestine, and along with it came the founding of the first Global Grace Day on November 9th, which since this time has served as an annual day of commemoration for overcoming all walls. Almost every year since 2005 a Grace Pilgrimage takes place, mostly in crisis areas such as Colombia or the Middle East. Also in 2005 she was nominated by a Swiss initiative for the Nobel Prize as one of the worldwide “1000 Women for Peace.” In Tamera she leads the Global Love School and “Terra Deva,” the department for spiritual research. Sabine Lichtenfels is the mother of two daughters and the grandmother of three grandchildren.
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Explanation to the English Edition
Preface by the Publisher
Acknowledgements by the Authors
A Personal Foreword
PART I – Dieter Duhm The Primal Love between the Sexes and the End of Sexual Violence
Collective Misery in Love: A Global Issue
Beyond all the Tears
Why the Focus on Man and Woman?
The Historical Shadow and Its Dissolution
An Impenetrable Wall
Ave Maria – Man’s Fundamental Love of Woman and the Fight against this Love The Primal Love between Mother and Son
A Daughter’s Primal Love of Her Father
Eros and Religion
What is the Sacred Matrix?
The Story of the Fall
Sexuality and Violence
Sexuality is a World Power
The Problem of Relationship
A Second Level of Love
The Intimacy of Truth
Jealousy is not Part of Love
The Fisherman’s Tear
Arousal
Affirming our Wild Sexual Nature
It is Still in the Eye of the Hurricane
The Rage of Woman
Eros and Agape
Transsexuality
Free Sexuality and Partnership
Don’t Leave
A Home for the Children
A New Women’s Field
The End of the War between the Sexes and Sexual Violence
Defend the Sacred
PART II – Sabine Lichtenfels The Female Voice and the Gateway to Forbidden Lust
Chapter 1: The Forbidden Gateway and Its Opening
The Female Voice
The Forbidden Gateway: How Could It Come to This?
From the Religion of the Great Mother to the Patriarchal God
The Fight against the Body and against Woman
Primal Love
Sexuality in the Time of Expulsion
Sexual Revelation, Woman’s Shame and Man’s Power Game
A Turning Point in History
Partnership and Free Love
An Encounter with Lilith on Malta
Lilith’s Words
The Longing of Eros (Lilith’s words, continued)
I am Soul, I am Flesh
To all Son-Men
Chapter 2: Key Personal Experiences
Where Have all the Fathers Gone?
My Experience with my Teacher of Religion
A Rape Prevented
A Project to “Save Love”
Faithfulness and Freedom Belong Together
Kostas – a Sexual Experience on the Island of Corfu
My Experience During Forty Years of Partnership
At the Source of the Feminine
Chapter 3: Liberated Eros and Its Realization
Sexuality and Violence
Awakening from Hypnosis
Sex and the Sacred
The Connection between Eros and Agape
Women’s Power
Twelve Theses for a New Women’s Movement
The Global Love School
Final Note: A Birthday Party
Appendix
An Epilogue by Leila Dregger
Further Information
Bibliography
Pictures of the Authors