Turned On: A Creative’s Guide to Awakening Presence, Pleasure, and Possibility

Summary

Awaken your potential for a creative, playful, and sensual life by embracing the energy of Eros.

For far too long we have relegated the erotic to the bedroom, when in reality it is a fundamental energy that helps us connect more deeply with ourselves, each other, the earth, and the creative potential within us. We also live in a world that equates our productivity with our worth, leaving us feeling overtaxed, exhausted, burned out, and completely disconnected from ourselves and others. In Turned On, artist and musician Brie Stoner redefines the erotic, stating that it is more than just human intimacy; it can be the antidote to feeling anxious, disconnected, and uninspired. By reframing Eros as the energy of life and creativity itself, Stoner invites us to reawaken presence, playfulness, and possibility as the gateways to transformation.

“Brie Stoner tunes us to the most vastly embracing and most intimately touching energy of the universe, releasing afresh the ancient imagery of the cosmic Eros."—Catherine Keller, George T. Cobb Professor of Constructive Theology, Drew University Theological School, and author of Facing Apocalypse: Climate, Democracy, and Other Last Chances