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Evolver Spores: A New Look on Love
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February 17, 2010 - 7:00pm
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A New Look at Love
Wed, February 17
With Valentine’s Day around the corner, corporations are gearing up to sell us diluted and dated notions of love. While divorce rates soar and traditional gender roles break down, new forms of love and new relationship paradigms are beginning to emerge. It’s time we consider the ever-growing varieties of the age-old subject of amour. Alongside traditional love relationships, do we also need to develop models for sacred and ceremonial sexuality that go beyond familiar ways of relating? And is it possible that we are entering a more heart-centered age, where love and forgiveness will radiate across our damaged earth?
For February’s Spore, get intimate with fellow Evolvers as we discuss the changing dynamics of union, love, and sex as a transformative process to heal the traumas of our world. Local Spores may explore the pleasures and complexities of monogamy versus polyamory, the innate intelligence of the heart, as well as the intentional side of sexuality through Tantra, holistic lovemaking, and healing touch. In this Spore, Evolvers will create a conscious space for vital issues around love and relationships, sex and spirit, to be courted, danced, and embraced.
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A New Look on Love
— Feb 17, 2010
As with everything else in this commercialized society, the concept of love has been morphed into merchandise. The pains of the economic emphasis equalling value has us looking at the best way available to define our love. But what does this love create? A society of discontents, divorcees and Hallmark well-wishers hoping that they can buy the best representation. It's quick, it's easy and it can be shipped. This is love?
What happened to making that human connection, creating that bond that lasts a lifetime. It's obvious that the consumerist definition of love follows the instant gratification of a product we can throw back out to sea if we tire of it. Time constraints have made the chances to explore the avenues and depth of our relationships have slowly been wiping out the basis of a loving society: namely, empathy.
The idea that we can buy our way in or out of a situation has made love into another industry where money must be spent, erectile dysfunctions corrected and bliss to be planned like a scheduled luncheon. Where's the impulsiveness that typically generates passion? Why do we still believe that love can be bought, though the Beatles reminded us years ago that this isn't so.
When we value our relationships, the presence of friends and lovers is the only necessary fuel to build on its intensity. We are not taking the time to build quality into our relationships. Is this because there are 7 billion other people out there that might be able to take over the position? Are our choices of consumption being echoed through our choices of relationships?
If our attitudes towards others is reflected in the policies that we adhere to, we are simply just another statistic. This is something impossible to put an arm around. Our relationship with love must coincide with building our relationship with empathy and with caring for the stranger and standing behind their efforts, not just our own. In the end, I suppose it comes down to values and what we will accept as treatment for ourselves and of others. Love is out there, but we've got to dig it out from the ambition and competition and place it as the centre piece to structure the next phase of our social evolution.
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Namaste all.
- Melanie D.