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CHAPTER 1 __________________________ INTRODUCING EVOLUTIONARY RELATIONSHIPS & UNIQUE GENDER REALITY IS RELATIONSHIP The essential quality of Reality is relationship. Being in relationship, being in connection, makes us feel alive, brings us to life.
THREE LEVELS OF RELATIONSHIP There are fundamentally three levels of relationship. First, there are Role Mates, where we play specific roles, like the breadwinner, who was usually the man. The woman is the homemaker.
Then we move to level two: Soul Mate relationships: We’re really loving each other. We’re trying to create space together. We’re going dancing together. We’re working on our wounds together. We’re accessing each other’s inner children.
Soul Mate relationships are insufficient to activate and sustain the love that truly enlivens us, the love that blows us open and makes us feel the pulsating, alive, awake Eros, which is self-evidently valuable and meaningful. After the early stage of falling in love, we often fall into a pattern. Our relationships may sustain themselves, or they may not; they may have more depth—but they’re not alive.
We look at the horizon together. When we share a vision, we have shared values, we have something we want to do together in the world, we want to awaken together and give our gifts together. As Whole Mates, we want to create a unique “we” which has unique gifts. A unique “we” in which we come together as evolutionary lovers, as love expressing itself, as evolution awakening in us, in person. We want to create not just ordinary intimacy, but outrageous or evolutionary intimacy. This fully emerges when we come together as a unique “we.”
We create a unique “we” together, in which we have unique gifts that together we give to the whole of Reality.
In an evolutionary, Whole Mate relationship, each individual is a distinct Unique Self, and each serves the other’s Unique Self emergence, so there’s a shared space where a unique “we” is created that infuses our separate gifts.
conscious. Because: Reality is lines and circles, all the way up and all the way down: The allurement of lines to circles begins at the very moment of the Big Bang.
Elementary particles are attracted and repulsed. There’s autonomy and there’s communion. Lines move forward, circles rest. The circle attracts, the line separates. There’s attraction and repulsion. Protons have positive charge; electrons have negative charge. It’s all actually happening at the very subatomic level of reality: Reality as lines and circles, attracting and repelling.
REALITY IS AN EVOLUTIONARY LOVE STORY
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The Erotic Cosmos of Lines, Circles, and Spirals by Marc Gafni presents key insights from the Taoism tradition. The 10 passages above capture the essential teachings.
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Key Passages: Highlights 1, 3, and 10 are particularly representative.
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