Marc Gafni - A Return to Eros: The Radical Experience of Being Fully Alive

Marc and Kristina are going where few dare to go. They are showing us what it means to live a fully erotic life.

John Gray, bestselling author of Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus

A Return to Eros is the map for the new human. Read it and be forever enlivened and transformed! I believe this is the most compelling invitation ever written to live the Erotic Life. It changed my life.

Kristen Ulmer, former professional extreme skier and author of The Art of Fear

Surrender to this book. Erudite, provocative, and filled with lively insights, there is much to be learned from it about the sexual confusion of our times.

Adam Bellow, author of In Praise of Nepotism: A History of Family Enterprise from King David to George W. Bush

A Return to Eros is a book written with no hang-ups, no compromises, and no holds barred. It rocks!

Jonny Podell, iconic American rock n roll music agent at the Podell Talent Agency

Ive known Kristina for many decades... great to see she is sharing her life work with the world... Join the outrageous love train!

Shep Gordon, legendary rock n roll manager and New York Times bestselling author of They Call Me Supermensch

A Return to Eros evolves our understanding of love, and does it in a way that will transform your own experience of love and Eros. It is a radically inspiring and important book that can help all of us recognize more deeply how loves energy literally drives reality.

Sally Kempton, author of Awakening Shakti

A Return to Eros should be placed on the shelf next to the great works on emotional and sexual emancipation, including Marcuses Eros and Civilization and O Browns Life Against Death. Gafni and Kincaid remind us that eros and ethics are inseparable, that we must free the erotic from the ghetto of the merely sexual, and in so doing awaken our passion for truth and justice. There may be no more urgent lesson for our culture, which now stands on the brink of another descent into barbarism, that it is through and from love that true power flows.

Zak Stein, EdD (Harvard), academic director of the Center for Integral Wisdom, faculty at Meridian University, scientific advisor for Neurohacker Collective, and cofounder of Lectica, Inc.

It is very rare that one comes across a teacher or a book that is changing the game. My friend, Dr. Marc Gafni, is such a teacher. He is a rare combination of brilliance, depth, and heart. Marcs teaching on the Unique Self in an evolutionary context is changing the game.

Michael Murphy, founder of Esalen Insitute and author of Golf in the Kingdom

Your Unique Self could only have been written by someone who passionately lives his own uniqueness. Marc Gafni is a brilliant teacher and heart master with a rare capacity for empathy and a gift for creating community. This book contains the essence of his teaching on what it means to live from an enlightened life from a ground of ones own personal uniqueness. This is a book that deserves to become a classic.

Sally Kempton, author of Meditation for the Love of It

Dr. Marc Gafnis Unique Self teaching is seminal. What you hold in your hands is a radically exciting and groundbreaking book that will change forever not only how you think about enlightenment, but how you understand, from a post-metaphysical perspective, the very nature of human life itself. The Unique Self work is magnificent, and it belongs among the great books.

Ken Wilber, author of A Brief History of Everything

At lasta safe, precise, and potent infusionUnique Self! Not so much a book, as an antidote, Unique Self stands with spiritual teacher, scholar, and master, Marc Gafnis Soulprints and Mystery of Love as a trilogy of love and healing for humanity. Read and be restored.

Lori Halperin, leading clinician and theorist in fields of marital and sexual dysfunction

With exceptional brilliance and an awakened heart, Dr. Marc Gafni speaks to all of us who are interested in the evolution of consciousness. His teachings on the Unique Self enlightenment are essential for the next stage in our evolution. They have emerged from his direct experience, and I highly recommend them.

Michael Bernard Beckwith, author of Spiritual Liberation: Fulfilling Your Souls Potential

Marc, a fellow drinker at the holy taverns has written a fine, fine book. Kabbalists say a Day of Tikkun (evolution, soul-repair) is coming. There are great stories here from the Hasidic masters and from Marcs own life, honoring the unique soulmaking that has brought you to this moment. This book will deepen that astonishing mystery and awaken you to the individual beauty of your path.

Coleman Barks, author of Rumi: The Big Red Book

Marc Gafnis overflowing heart and transmission of the Unique Self teaching profoundly moves me. Dr. Marc holds the lineage energy of the great Hasidic masters of Kabbalah, which he brings with him into the visionary initiative of Center for Integral Wisdom. There is little doubt in my mind that Your Unique Self: The Future of Enlightenment will become one of the classic texts that forms the World Spirit vision that our world needs so deeply.

Lama Surya Das, author of Awakening the Buddha Within: Tibetan Wisdom for the Western World and founder of the Dzogchen Meditation Centers

At this historic moment, our human mind is passing the border toward a new consciousness. Marc Gafni is far enough ahead of most of us to articulate insights he gained beyond that borderline. Yet, like all great teachers, the author becomes transparent. Here is an invitation and a great opportunity to listennot to Marc Gafni, but to your Unique Self. Thus this book becomes an indispensable travel guide into the realm of a vast new consciousness.

Brother David Steindl-Rast, Benedictine monk and author of The Spirit of Practice

Copyright 2017 by Marc Gafni and Kristina Kincaid

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First E-Book Edition: August 2017

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Gafni, Mordekhafi, author. | Kincaid, Kristina, author.

Title: A return to Eros : the radical experience of being fully alive / Marc Gafni, Kristina Kincaid.

Description: Dallas : BenBella Books, 2017. | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2017002508 (print) | LCCN 2017023488 (ebook) | ISBN 9781944648190 (electronic) | ISBN 9781944648183 (paperback)

Subjects: LCSH: Sex (Psychology) | Sex. | Love. | Erotica. | BISAC:

RELIGION / Spirituality.

Classification: LCC BF692 (ebook) | LCC BF692 .G3194 2017 (print) | DDC 155.3--dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017002508

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