Sexual Suppression...

You'll need to read this more than once. OK? Good. Now, take a deep breath
and begin. Some say we are alive in form to become more loving and to grow spiritually, to achieve Nirvana in the here and now. I agree. 

In most religions (which in turn conditions a society where that religion is predominant, such as southern Christianity around here, or Moslem in Iraq), sex is thought of as something against God. Celibacy and abstinence are being heralded in America, while natural and joy-filled lust has been condemned. Most religions tell true seekers to drop their earthly desires, including sex, as if it were an article of clothing. 

Yet, if enlightenment, as they say, is knowing that all the Universe is contained within the infinite, doesn't the Universe also include sexuality and lust? Are you supposed to somehow cast out an essential part of your human nature to become truly spiritual? Just think of it. 

Celibacy, the spiritual vow to give up sex, creates unhealthy repression. Ditto abstinence and asexulality. It is simply unnatural. Period. Sexuality can be a vehicle into spirituality rather than an hindrance to it. One beautiful way to express your desire to be reunited with Divinity is by merging with another human and sharing sexually. And yes, I realize that some of you are feeling somewhat uncomfortable even reading this. See how real the conditioning feels? Can that feeling ever be love? See what I mean? 

Yet, is not sexuality a true physical affirmation of human Love? Why not include sex and God in the same breath? Why would you ever want to see them as opposing forces rather than as loving partners? God, we were created through the act of sexual intercourse (unless you were artificially inseminated or cloned), how can we place such restrictive feelings and emotions to our natural self? We must get our minds, hearts and our love out of society's proverbial gutter. 

However, sexual freedom can be frightening to some. It is a movement from conditioned restricted consciousness into an expanded, energetic level of beingness. Expressed sexuality has the potential to expand human consciousness, and can and should include meditation. 

The mind, however, is quite cunning and very powerful. When you allow it to control you, rather than you control it, your conditioned thoughts of negativity restrict your sensuality and sexuality...and your very life-force. Because of this conditioning, you do not surrender to your sexual nature, thinking that sex and pleasure is wrong, and not spiritual, and that it is something against God. When you listen to the mind you cannot discover the joy and ecstasy that you could be experiencing if you were to truly let go. 

Spiritual sex has little to do with any appearances of "holier-than-thou" stereotypes. In fact, holding on to your conditioned view of spiritual sex limits the possibilities of it being used as a spiritual tool. Spiritual sex has more to do with love and let go, than with the physical act? Yet, only when you surrender to your physical nature can you begin to experience ecstasy. I suggest this deep craving has significantly contributed to the creation of today's drug society as well as a viciously hostile society…from childhood on. Spiritual sex is experienced when both partners' melt into the desire for union through total uninhibited self-expression. 

This I call the Tantric, or holy orgasm. Scientists like Wilhelm Reich, MD, Carl Jung, MD, Messmer, and to a certain degree Freud, and others understood this as bioenergy. Contemporary lovers call is the "vibes" they have for each other. Poets and pornographers address it yet differently. 

You are on earth in a body, not to transcend your humanness, but to understand and honor and love yourself as you are in form, as a true spiritual being...a loving child of God. As you let go and become one with your lover, what takes place a union between your Divinity and your earthly animal being A merging of heaven and earth, as it were. As you surrender to your lover, you can worship each other's Divinity as well as each other's humanness. 

Lust and love are not enemies waging battle against each another. They indeed cry for union. When you surrender, the battle ends. Sexuality is a doorway into bliss. If you release your view of conditioned sex, you will enter into a dimension of pure ecstasy. This is true yoga (meaning union in Sanskrit). As you continue the dance of uninhibited sexuality, you will enter into a state of consciousness that goes beyond mind. It is here that you can touch the face of God I call this unconditional love. As you fully embrace your pure animal nature, a magical embracing of heaven and earth comes into existence for you. As you celebrate the gift of physical joy, you do not have to wait until you die to go to some imaginary heaven. Nirvana is now, begin experiencing it. Be sure to check out Tantra, the spiritual path of ecstasy, and until next week...expect the unexpected. What is reality? 

Website of the week: 
Tantra http://www.newfrontier.com/tantra  

Chattanooga Spirit
http://www.newfrontier.com/chattanooga

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