Welcome back to the podcast. We have the return, the long-awaited return of Dr. Mark Goughney.

I hope I say that correctly. I'm always like Gaffney, Gaffney, like some nasally old turd.

Just like when Goldie used to announce me as Kingsbury, Kyle Kingsbury, to the cage.

And I was like, you know, that's a U, not an E-R-R-R-Y, but I'll take it. Anywho, my apologies, Dr. Mark, you are a dear brother and one of my mentors I consider. So I absolutely love doing these. We are continuing the 12 faces of Eros. These are starting to get shorter and shorter on purpose by design. We want you guys to just chew through these. This is meant to be a series that you can actually just pick up and go. If you'll notice, I don't say a lot on these podcasts with Dr. Mark. And, you know, we have had a couple of podcasts on other things like his other Brooks, where it was a back and forth. And they were great. They were solid, totally different type of podcast.

This is meant to be short-form lecture for you to get a deeper download as you go through

the book yourself, straight from Dr. Mark's lips.

And if you're like me, it's going to hit home in a way that helps you expand your

understanding of consciousness, the nature of reality, and God itself. Welcome back to the podcast. Here we go, 12 faces of Eros. Eros is

perception. This one is so important. Let's try and go slow for a second, okay? So the word Eros,

which we've talked about in our early conversations quite extensively,

right, we did at least an entire conversation on eros and what it means, you know, in its very core.

So we said that eros is the experience of radical aliveness,

desiring ever deeper contact and ever greater wholeness.

And that that definition of Eros, which is love by any other name, but it's love in the cosmic

scale, in the personal scale. That's the whole point of Eros, right? The whole point

of Eros is for anyone who who's kind of coming in in the middle or just needs a little

refresher for a second, and I always need a refresher. So let me refresh myself and renew myself.

Eros is both utterly cosmic and utterly personal. That's the point. We've alienated our personal

eras from the field of eros, which is why our personal eras collapses. There actually is no local

eros. There's no local eros. There's no local eros desire. There's no local desire. No local desire doesn't exist. There's no local eros desire there's no local desire no local desire doesn't exist there's no local desire

running through you i'm filled with eros no no you're filled with eras which is the eros of all

of reality moving uniquely through you. Huh. Okay. So Eros is loved by any other name. It's the

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