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Check out those chains. They look loose enough, don't they?
But I have a hunch that Tantra is a cheap shortcut. Many sages have hinted broadly at the real path to union with the One, and some have come right out and told us.
That our good is There is shown by the very love inborn with the soul; hence the constant linking of the Love-God with the Psyches in story and picture; the soul, other than God but sprung of Him, must needs love.
So long as it is There, it holds the heavenly love; here its love is the baser; There the soul is Aphrodite of the heavens; here, turned harlot, Aphrodite of the public ways: yet the soul is always an Aphrodite.
This is the intention of the myth which tells of Aphrodite's birth and Eros born with her.
Plotinus, Ennead 9, Sec. 6
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Originally posted by Aeons
The only times people are being encouraged to use their human wiring, and its to make money and reject intimacy. How sad is that?
The Orphics equated Phanes with the Elder Eros (Sexual Desire) of Hesiod's Theogony, who emerged at the beginning of time alongside Khaos (Air) and Gaia (Earth).
Passion also heightens several cognitive functions, as the brain regions and chemicals surge. “It’s all about how that network interacts,” says Stephanie Ortigue, an assistant professor of psychology at Syracuse University, who led the study. The cognitive functions, in turn, “are triggers that fully activate the love network.” Tell that to your sweetheart on Valentine’s Day.
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These systems are also connected. "Don’t copulate with people you don’t want to fall in love with," she half-jokingly tells her students, "because indeed you may do just that." Testosterone can kickstart the two love neurotransmitters while an orgasm can elevate the attachment hormones."
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Originally posted by crayzeed
But no-one can give you the formula for love else the world would be a better place. I'm sorry if that's to clinical for you but love and sex are 2 different concepts. I do try to love every-one.
Originally posted by Eidolon23
There are many types of love, it is an incredible faculty that way. In the OP I was referring specifically to the type of the love between a couple.
Love and sex are two distinct drives, yes. But would you agree that the romantic is inseparable from the erotic; and that both are contained in the experience of love in the conjugal sense?
These systems are also connected. "Don’t copulate with people you don’t want to fall in love with," she half-jokingly tells her students, "because indeed you may do just that." Testosterone can kickstart the two love neurotransmitters while an orgasm can elevate the attachment hormones."
www.mcmanweb.com...
Originally posted by intrepid
I've always held that love is a combination of respect and lust.
Originally posted by Aeons
reply to post by intrepid
I would tend to agree with you, but I think that it can be processed the other way.
Love into Lust. Lust as an expression of love.
Is is all about "smell" and looks and the right biology?
Then how come I can fall in love with someone I've never met? The human mind - so fascinating.
The sticky thing is that they have a point. That is how we used to function, and to a great extent still do. But we've sprouted some new wiring since, and although the old wiring still asserts itself it doesn't mean that we should go back to the cave because it's hard to be Human.
Originally posted by Aeons
I would tend to agree with you, but I think that it can be processed the other way.
Love into Lust. Lust as an expression of love.
Is is all about "smell" and looks and the right biology?
Originally posted by Eidolon23
Because I have been totally poleaxed by that very phenomenon, to the extent that I haven't even been able to formulate that question. How? I would have deemed it ridiculous and irrational, but no longer have that luxury.
I don't know. I only know that it is very much possible, and that the erotic can be transmuted into something very strange and pure under these highly peculiar conditions. So no. It's not all about who smells like "The One".edit on 28-1-2012 by Eidolon23 because: But smelling right doesn't hurt.
Originally posted by Eidolon23
But the way love shows up on an MRI is very consistent from person to person.
Meaning that while the factors that lead to love may vary, the way we experience love itself is perhaps universal.