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Community & Compersion

One role that polyamory plays in culture is to help us rebuild our fragmented communities. Households meet other households, lovers meet one another’s lovers and group events based on intimacy appear in cities around the country. What makes that possible is dedication to multiple relationships. This in turn is facilitated by compersion, the emotion of allowing and embracing the pleasures and life path of the people we love. Compesion is based on the recognition that your partner is a whole person, based on your own experience of yourself as a whole person. This sense of wholeness is extended into our community experiences and becomes the experience through which we embrace one another in a cooperative rather than competitive way.

Eric Francis

Eric is a self-described astrologer, photographer, journalist, writer and activist, though he takes a whole-system approach to everything he does. Eric has presented at poly, lifestyle and sexuality conferences since 1997, initially giving an astrology-based keynote at the Celebration of Sacred Sexuality. He has taught astrology workshops and conferences since 1998, specializing in the depth-psychology material of the newly-discovered planets. His daily Internet magazine Planet Waves is one of the few astrology publications that approach sexuality and relationships in a direct way. Eric’s Book of Blue “is a self-exploration play space, where models, collaborators and I get to know ourselves and one another through mirror sessions documented in photographs.” Eric lives in New York. http://planetwaves.net/, http://bookofblue.com/