Events
Sexuality and Spirituality with Jeffrey Kripal
May 14 2010
EVENT DETAILS
Friday, May 14
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
CIIS Main Building
$15
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ABOUT THE LECTURE
The Greek philosopher Plotinus wrote of nous eron, a transcendent level of mind that is intimately related to the energies of eros. The idea goes back to Plato, who wrote of sublimated sexual desire as the burning wings of philosophical vision. In this lecture, Jeffrey Kripal traces the mystical as the erotic and the erotic as the mystical.
ABOUT THE PRESENTER
Jeffrey Kripal, PhD, holds the J. Newton Rayzor Chair in Philosophy and Religious Thought at Rice University, where he is also chair of the Department of Religious Studies. He is the author of Esalen: America and the Religion of No Religion; Roads of Excess, Palaces of Wisdom: Eroticism and Reflexivity in the Study of Mysticism; and the forthcoming Authors of the Impossible: The Paranormal and the Sacred.
