From: smd@sl0091.srl.ford.com (Steve Dahmen)
Newsgroups: talk.religion.newage
Subject: Re: sexuality in today's world
Date: 6 Oct 1992 16:05:52 GMT
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WOW!

Karen, Toshi, Thyagi, Lorenzo, and others...

Thanks for some really frank, clear points concerning spirituality and
sexuality.  I haven't contributed in some time to trna because of the relatively
mental bantering that has been known to characterize this group.  But this
topic is one that is dear to my heart, as well as my second chakra.

I think the basic points have been well-communicated, so I'll try to avoid
heavy recapitulation.

I just happened to have picked up a WONDERFUL book called "Enlightened Sexuality" or "The Sexuality of Enlightenment" (can't remember which),
subtitled: "Essays on Body-Positive Spirituality."  That sums it up so well
for me.

Most traditions, with a few exceptions being Tantra and Taoism take a
body-negative view towards spirituality, or simply give a lip service to the
body but do not wholly embrace it lovingly as a part of God.   I've also seen
a painfully large number of new-agers either a) ignoring their body,
b) trying fitfully to heal it (without dealing with the underlying spiritual
emotional causes) or c) rationalizing that they are Light and so the body
is what it is and I will just try and fill myself up with light so I can leave
it.

This was the path I was on for a good part of my Path.  Now I am feeling,
from a place so profound that it defies even point toward, that it is Time
to embrace All of Us again, All of Me to start with.  The end of Mastery
Over and a beginning or remembrence of Mastery With.  Mastery With our 
emotions, Mastery With our bodies, Mastery WITH our Sexual expression.

This newage obsession with the paranormal, the psychic, the light bodies, the
UFOs, etc. etc. tends to be reflective, IMHO, with our continued alientation
from our bodies.  I know of few spiritual people who have fully resolved their
relationship with the issue of Corporeal existence.  Some people hate it.
SOme people have rooted themselves in ascetic traditions that will punish the
body and force the spirit away from it.  There is such a subconscious loathing
in many Spirits about the body, and this loathing goes WAY back to our first
experiences in Body and the loss of consciousness that ensued "shortly" 
thereafter.

Have you ever thought about what it was like for the/your soul the first time
it entered an embodiment?  Depending on where and when you did that, the exper-
ence could have been manifold.  But most deeply affecting was the fading of
God's Love from our continual awareness as was had pre-incarnationally. I've
done some very interesting work with people, some in and some out of body
in terms of processing these deep feelings of confusion, loss, rejection,
falling, horror so that the Body can once again be embraced as an EQUAL part
of God's experience.

If we look back (as if Time were Real) to these experiences,we can see why
every tradition (most every) has one form or another of rejection of Body
experience.  If we can expand ourselves enough to get this viewpoint, we
begin to see that MANY of the hardened belief systems contained in even some of
the most elevating Spiritual Systems on Earth need rethinking and
 re-examination.  We can accept them carte blanche, but we do this more than
likely from our soul's habit of falling into belief systems most comfortable/
comforting to our soul's beliefs.

For example, I saw a few references to Death in relationship to Sexuality.
Death was treated as hard and fast rule, and expectation.  My own perspective,
shared by many, is that Death is what we manifested to deal with our
inability to cope with Physicality.  We slowly forgot how to take our bodies
with us, and began leaving them.  Many (some) are re-learning how to take
the Body with them.  I believe that once we regain enough Presence via
emotional body clearing work, re-sanctification of the body, and healing of
soul traumas, that we can choose our Ascencion when we are ready, just as we
choose what we're going to have for lunch.  Come and go as we please.  But
because of beliefs and lack of clarity in/with the soul/God/Emotion/Body/Heart,
we are bound by our lessons and beliefs.  I myself am working on "youthing"
daily, rather than the totally engrained belief that time == aging.  I don't
know what effect, if any, it may have, but at least my mind is not accelerating
my own body deteriorization as much as if I allowed the Death urge to have its
full sway.

As I had mentioned in my earliear article regarding meditation and emotion,
many also carry an "emotion-negative" spirituality as well.  Our emotions
and body have been in ill-repute with light seekers for most of our written
and scriptual history.  It's time to go back even further, though, and consider
our roots, our Source as well as our Destiny.  The purpose of incarnation.
Maybe it's NOT just a cosmic joke, a tortuous, hellish school where lessons
are worked out.  Most people, in my journey at least, have this soul-set
hardheadedness about going back that far.  They are content to leave their
emotional bodies clogged and their bodies behind.  I have seen great Beings
of Light sit and talk about emotions and their bodies almost as Christians
talk of the Devil.  I for one, can no longer leave my Body outside my process.

Let's see what openness exists, and perhaps I'll write some more.

Sex and Light and Rock and Roll!

-- 
Steve Dahmen ** Graphics Application Programmer
Ford Motor Company
smd@sl0091.srl.ford.com
313-594-3229 (work)
-- 
Steve Dahmen ** Graphics Application Programmer
Ford Motor Company
smd@sl0091.srl.ford.com
313-594-3229 (work)
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