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On Being with Krista Tippett
This poem by Auden was described as a significant influence on the speaker's life, exploring the connection between erotic and spiritual experiences.
He saw his own erotic experience, and by extension the mixed up and in every sense screwed up erotic experience that we all have, as one of the ways that spiritual experience is offered to us.
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This poem by Auden was described as a significant influence on the speaker's life, exploring the connection between erotic and spiritual experiences.
He saw his own erotic experience, and by extension the mixed up and in every sense screwed up erotic experience that we all have, as one of the ways that spiritual experience is offered to us.
that those of us whose experience of transcendence is rooted in our carnal passions still have a place at this staple.