ZEGG

Love is the home of the divine on earth and the quality that makes us human beings. We want to create ways of living that integrate these sources in a conscious and positive way. „Consciousness in Love" is in this sense an all encompassing cultural work to heal these sources of our life. A peaceful culture is rooted in solidarity among men and women.

Many people see the issues of love and sexuality as exclusively personal affairs and try to solve them in private or within the framework of therapy. We see love as a political issue because social and cultural changes are needed for love to grow.

In the patriarchal era sensual love and sexuality were connected with guilt, shame and fear. They were split into a lived and a suppressed part. Men and women are confronted with this historical heritage. The resulting conflicts can hardly be dealt with inside a relationship as they are rooted elsewhere.

What individuals go through in the end moves everyone who is in touch with them. If communication about love is cultivated love can become more free of the fear of abandonment, lies and pretense. The bigger the social and mental/spiritual context for love is the more we are able to handle difficulties in a playful and unattached way, the less we depend on this one moment of fulfillment, the less we tend to accusations, the more truth we will risk, and the more power and love we have to give to the world.

Community is a lifestyle in which the healing of love can take place in a stable surrounding.

The following conditions are needed:

• the full commitment for one's own responsibility for love
• awareness of our historical conditioning
• a spiritual foundation
• a conscious approach to one's own sexual nature
• developing self-esteem and the capacity to love beyond a partner
• integration of couples and families in a larger social network
• respectful communication between men and women as well as among women and among men

In the community lovers can open to both the inner and outer movements which love needs to stay alive. When there is trust, love can expand and include more people – this also applies to erotic and sexual love. This organically leads to the formation of a network of relationships where everyone has their own place, a tapestry of varying intimacies, intensities and qualities.

People at ZEGG live in various forms of relationships. These include longterm partnerships and spontaneous adventures, relationships between women and between men and sexual friendships with more than one person. We cultivate communication about love issues in mens and womens groups and in the Forum. Consciousness in love is one of life´s most significant opportunities for learning.

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