The Authentic Lover

Reclaiming love's beauty and power

By: Chris Hakim

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Paperback | 1 April 2017

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202 Pages

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What if everything you have been taught about love and sexuality is keeping you from experiencing true intimacy? In this groundbreaking exploration of human connection, Chris Hakim reveals how four invisible enemies - violence, pettiness, vanity, and our reproductive agenda - sabotage our capacity for authentic love. Drawing from evolutionary psychology, ancient wisdom traditions, and decades of personal inquiry, The Authentic Lover offers a radical yet practical path to transforming our most intimate relationships. Discover how to:

â- Move beyond the competitive "mating marketplace" to find genuine connection

â- Transform sexual energy into a source of spiritual vitality and deep communion

â- Navigate the tension between biological drives and conscious choice

â- Cultivate four essential qualities of love: gentleness, grace, charm, and mystery

From medieval courts of love to the love encounters of the Tuareg, from Zen warriors to Sufi mystics, Hakim weaves together insights that challenge our assumptions about attraction, commitment, and what it truly means to love without condition. This is not another relationship manual promising quick fixes, but an invitation to embark on the hero's journey of the heart.

The Authentic Lover is essential reading for anyone ready to move beyond the superficial and discover love as a path of awakening - challenging, transformative, and liberating.

Industry Reviews

This genuinely helpful relationship book reads smoothly and quickly, propelled by often graceful prose... Powerful, persuasive encouragement toward better and wiser loving.

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Readers will gain a deeper understanding of their own divinity, the sacredness of their interpersonal connections, and the depth of the human soul as they begin to catch a vision of how to transcend the ordinary-the violence, pettiness, vanity, and agendas that limit us-to reach toward the ineffable and glorious. This is a truly wise and beautiful book, a gentle, mindful, essential read for anyone seeking closer, deeper, more meaningful relationships.

Manhattan Book Review

This thought-provoking and beautifully presented text is a treasure-house of lore on how to best build a deep and enduring relationship with a loved one. The Authentic Lover: Reclaiming Love's Beauty and Power is most highly recommended.

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