Gin And Tantra

In this episode Eric gives a story about inherited fear and we then discuss making the unconscious conscious and how we can transcend the primal urge.

We continue our discussion on Esther Perel in this episode and get into how the causes and conditions of one's life effect who you are. We also highlight the importance of one's spiritual tribe, energy coming before form, the affairs of affairs, body image and sexual education.

In this episode we are discussing the relationship therapist and New York Times best selling author Esther Perel. We discuss her thoughts on using love as an antidote to death, identification of Relational roles, monogamy being the new frontier, the Romantic Model and the things hiding in annals of our subconscious.

In this episode we discuss some case studies from people in our lives and their experience in monogamous relationships, Esther Perel and boundaries, the idea of emotional infidelity and long term bonding, a personal tale of divorce and seeing your story as a positive tale of existence.

In this episode we discuss the idea of society's emotional plague as outlined in Wilheim Reich's book, "The Mass Psychology of Fascism". We dive in the idea of living one's life artistically and falling through the cracks of society, personality types and the various forms of intrinsic motivation and the ways in which we effectively apply self-help. We also talked about a research study by Jonathan Haidt.

In this episode we continue our discussion on the ideas of Wilheim Reich, who is credited with the genesis of the 'sexual revolution'.. IE society's shifting views on pre-marital sex, divorce and other related relationship issues. We also discuss the 7 year itch, serial monogamy, the emotional plague and the disconnect between one's fire and water.

In this episode we begin the deep dive in the work of one Wilhelm Reich, Austrian doctor of Medicine and psychoanalyst who was a student of Freud. What Reich wanted to understand was the body, why you might escape or subdue it and why it remains an untapped source of joy and power. We discuss his ideas on the psyche and soma, repression and its effects on our personalities, the physical manifestations of emotions, TMJ, suppression and rumination, tension juxtaposed to pleasure and getting cut off from one's source of joy.

In this episode we continue our discussion on Freud and the idea of our repression of our desires and Christopher Ryan's view on the biological effects of long-term monogamy. We also talk about humans as electromagnetic beings, approaching cultural taboos, redirecting repression and Ester Perel's ideas on dynamism, nourishment and closeness in relationships.