Eroticism

• “Teaching empowerment and enlightenment through eroticism is always a risky business, and anti-cultists have long insisted that any group teaching sacred eroticism is merely a front for abuse.”

• “If art is understood as the creation of forms that transform the viewer, then Tantric eroticism is already an art. If eroticism is understood as the cultivation of heightened awareness through embodied experience, then art is already erotic. The union of the two—art as eroticism, eroticism as art—is simply a return to an older, more integrated understanding of human creativity.”

• “The erotic is a measure between the beginnings of our sense of self and the chaos of our strongest feelings. It is an internal sense of satisfaction to which, once we have experienced it, we know we can aspire. For having experienced the fullness of this depth of feeling and recognizing its power, in honor and self-respect we can require no less of ourselves.”

• “The erotic is not a question only of what we do; it is a question of how acutely and fully we can feel in the doing. Once we know the extent to which we are capable of feeling that sense of satisfaction and completion, we can then observe which of our various life endeavors bring us closest to that fullness.”

• “Recognizing the power of the erotic within our lives can give us the energy to pursue genuine change within our world, rather than merely settling for a shift of characters in the same weary drama. For not only do we touch our most profoundly creative source, but we do that which is female and self-affirming in the face of a racist, patriarchal, and anti-erotic society.”

• “When I speak of the erotic, then I speak of it as an assertion of the life force of women; of that creative energy empowered, the knowledge and use of which we are now reclaiming in our language, our history, our dancing, our loving, our work, our lives.”

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