Becoming Eros-Informed

To be Eros-informed is to no longer relate to healing as a separate category from creation. It is to work directly with the raw material of arousal and use it as the engine of transformation.

Working with arousal is not a basic capacity. It is an advanced form of consciousness that doesn’t just dissolve trauma, but transmutes it into genius. When a person becomes Eros-informed, they stop waiting for healing to be “complete” before they create, love, lead, or awaken.

They learn to operate the drive of arousal as both the solvent and the fuel. Rather than stare at the wound, they engage with the energy underneath it. They stop trying to regulate a problem and start activating a new possibility. Healing becomes the byproduct of a system coming online, not the precondition for aliveness.

Suffering dissolves not through analysis, but through acceleration—through being pulled forward by vision, Eros, and the biological imperative to thrive. Instead of riding a bicycle of mindfulness through hell, hoping for calm, the Eros-informed being turns on the all-terrain vehicle of Erotic intensity, and drives out.

This is the full inclusion of desire as an evolutionary force. Once it is activated, the old self-concepts that once required constant management become irrelevant—burned away in the heat of movement. When you move with Eros, healing is not something you have to fight for, it is something that cannot be stopped.

Read more in The Erotic View on Trauma