Ilsen Making love can be a gateway to unity with the great mysteries, says Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi and Eve Ilsen Sacred sex, which is the experience of ecstasy, is the real sexual revolution. Sacred sexuality is about recovering our authentic being, which knows bliss beyond mere pleasurable sensations. It is a special form of communication, even communion, that fills us with awe and stillness.
Sacred sexuality is about the re-enchantment of our lives.
It is about embracing the imponderable mystery of existence, about the curious fact that you and I and 5 billion others cannot account for our existence and our sexuality. In treating the body as an enemy, the antagonist of the spirit, they doomed themselves to experiences of an amputated God. They failed to see that the body is part of the great Mystery. When I was a student in the yeshiva, I remember thinking of sexuality as that lousy trick that God played on us. This very same urge has been reinforced time and time again since we stopped being amoebas and turned into humans.