NEW
WAYS OF LOVING:
HOW
AUTHENTICITY TRANSFORMS RELATIONSHIPS
the
on-line Experimental College class
This
electronic discussion group empowers
people living all over the planet Earth
to discuss a book that upends most of the established patterns
of 'love' as it has developed in the Western world.
New Ways of Loving challenges
most assumptions about love
and replaces them with new forms of loving relationships:
Romantic love, sexual attraction, & conventional marriage
are replaced by new relationships beginning with our self-inventing
selves.
We can love freely instead of imposing obligations.
We can love without needing, possessiveness, or jealousy.
We can love beyond our imprinted sexual fantasies
and our enculturated gender-personalities.
We can weigh the pros and cons of having children.
And we might even love beyond our existential loneliness.
This on-line seminar will discuss 8 themes of love
as these questions apply to our own lives.
Over a period of eight weeks,
we will read and discuss the following chapters from
New Ways of Loving:
How Authenticity Transforms
Relationships.
(Chapter
titles highlighted in blue
below
can be clicked to begin reading that chapter.)
Week 1:
Ch. 1 Romantic
Love is a Hoax!
Emotional
Programming to 'Fall in Love'
Week 2:
Ch. 2 Loving
from Authenticity
Week 3:
Ch. 3 Loving
in Freedom:
Choice & Flexibility instead of Security & Obligation
Week 4:
Ch. 4 Loving
without Needing
:
Seven Pre-Existing Needs and How to Transcend Them
Week 5:
Ch. 5 Loving
without Jealousy
:
As We Become More Authentic, Jealousy Disappears
Week 6:
Ch. 6 Multiple
Loving
:
Open
Relationships Beyond Jealousy
Week
7:
Ch. 7 Loving
Beyond Sex
:
Transcending Our Imprinted Sex-Scripts
Week 8:
Ch. 8 Masculinity/Femininity
:
Loving Beyond Our Gender-Personalities
HOW TO JOIN THIS ON-LINE
CLASS ON LOVE:
You need a regular Internet connection,
where you can receive and send e-mail at least once a week.
This could be either your own computer
or a computer you can use at a library, for instance.
You choose the time
and place for your electronic participation.
We will not attempt to have everyone on-line at once.
You join a Google Group called New Ways of Loving.
There is no charge for joining this on-line group,
but you must be accepted by the owner—James
Park.
This group is exclusively for people who are reading and discussing
New Ways of Loving:
How Authenticity Transforms Relationships.
Class
discussion will require about 30 minutes per week,
depending on how much you have to say in response to the book,
how many people join this on-line discussion,
and what they write about their own experiences with love.
You will also need a copy of the textbook.
Most participants will buy their own copies.
Others will be able to borrow copies from libraries.
If your favorite library does not have a copy,
you can recommend that they get one,
either by normal purchasing
or by means of a gift from the
publisher to libraries.
Reading will take one or two hours per week.
And you might
decide to do more background reading
in other books on our various themes of love:
http://www.tc.umn.edu/~parkx032/LVindex.html.
This seminar is for serious persons willing and able
to devote
meaningful time each week to reading and discussion.
You are invited to sit in your favorite chair
or lie on your bed and read revolutionary ideas about love.
Then you will share your thoughts by means of the electronic group.
The author of the book is also a part of this discussion.
The class itself is completely free of charge.
The eight-weeks electronic seminar will be repeated
as new people discover this opportunity, obtain the book,
and request to join the Google Group called New Ways of Loving.
Once you have a copy of New Ways of Loving,
send me your e-mail address
so that I can send detailed instructions
explaining how to join the Google Group on love.
My e-mail address: James Park, e-mail:
PARKx032@TC.UMN.EDU.
OUR DISCUSSION BOOK: NEW WAYS OF LOVING:
HOW AUTHENTICITY TRANSFORMS RELATIONSHIPS
The printed book for this on-line course
is New Ways of Loving.
The complete table of contents will appear
if you click this line:
http://www.tc.umn.edu/~parkx032/NWL.html
From this table of contents you can open
several pages of the book.
This book is available in three different
bindings:
(1) comb binding, (2) screw-post binding, or (3) loose-leaf notebook.
The publisher's website explains the differences.
Search the Internet for "Existential Books".
Or you can write to me for full details:
PARKx032@TC.UMN.EDU.
Explain where you live
and how you would prefer to pay.
OTHER OPTIONS FOR READING AND DISCUSSING:
Of course, it is always possible for anyone to read the book
without participating in this on-line discussion.
Readers who live in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota,
will have the opportunity to join
a face-to-face discussion of love once or twice a year.
Just remain on the e-mailing list for the EXCO class called
"New Ways of Loving: How Authenticity Transforms Relationships".
Here is the website for the Experimental College of the Twin Cities:
http://excotc.org.
Only about 20% of those on the e-mailing list
can actually attend the face-to-face gathering,
which must necessarily meet at a specific time and place.
But the people who do attend a face-to-face seminar
deeply appreciate getting to know
others who are looking for new ways of loving.
This on-line discussion allows people living anywhere on the globe
to participate from their own keyboards and computer screens.
They might later join a face-to-face discussion of love.
Or it might happen the other way around:
People who have already taken the face-to-face course
might decide to join one of the on-line discussions.
People who meet on-line in our discussions of love
might be able to create other face-to-face seminars
at other locations on the Earth.
What other ideas occur to you?
This on-line course will be modified to suit those who wish to join.
Send your questions, comments, & suggestions to me:
James Park, e-mail: PARKx032@TC.UMN.EDU.
Created
November 6, 2009; revised 11-12-2009; 11-21-2009
See
the table
of contents for
New Ways of
Loving:
How
Authenticity Transforms Relationships.