Eros and Psyche: Why Now Is a Time for Eroticism and Deep Thought

We are in a moment of collective reckoning. Everything feels sped up, but also stretched thin. The world is changing in visible and invisible ways, and many of us are left wondering how to respond, how to keep our minds and hearts intact, let alone our relationships- to ourselves and each other.

It’s not just about survival anymore. Something deeper is being asked of us. We all are posed with the question of how to stay connected to our aliveness.

Now more than ever, we need eroticism.

Not just sex, not just ideas. But Eros as life-force, as the spark that animates connection, creativity, and vitality. And with it, we need connection to our psyche, to our souls, to the part of us that dreams, that listens, that dares to ask questions our minds alone can’t answer.

We all know how much this world we exist in encourages our numbing out, drives us to endlessly scroll, and commodifies even our most intimate desires. In this world, eroticism is a political act. Tending to the soul is an act of resistance.

Though it feels fresh and overwhelmingly current, none of this is new. The external forces have always been there, pushing and pulling us at will. But so have our internal places for resistance.

Eroticism is not just about bodies, although it lives in them. It’s not just about pleasure, though it is fueled by it. It is about what moves us. What turns us on to being alive. What helps us remember we are not machines.

Deep thinking is not just about intellect. It is about slowing down enough to wonder. To feel the edges of what we don’t know. To let the questions live for a while before we try to fix them.

I work with people who are trying to find their way back to this kind of aliveness. Sometimes that means exploring kink or polyamory. Sometimes it means processing a psychedelic journey or preparing for one. Sometimes it means sitting with grief, or confusion, or numbness, and letting the psyche speak in its own strange and poetic language.

The truth is, many of us were not taught how to listen to either Eros or psyche. We were taught to override, to perform, to prove. But underneath all of that is a deeper rhythm. And when we make space for it, something shifts. Something softens. Something wakes up.

This is not work that happens overnight. It’s a practice. A remembering. A slow rewilding of our internal landscapes.

So if you’re feeling disoriented by the world, or disembodied in your relationships, or just craving something you can’t quite name—maybe this is your invitation. To get curious. To listen differently. To court both your erotic intelligence and your soul’s longing.

They are not separate.

And now is the time to let them meet.