Aliveness. Animating energy. Divine vibration.
No matter what you call it, maybe we can all agree that it is an electrical energy that courses through our flesh. There is measurable electrical energy in the body: brain waves, neural stimulation of muscles.
Or maybe not... Maybe we can only agree that it is the Breath - the Holy breath which animates the flesh. (Genesis 2 v.7) How do you identify it if you have never noticed it?
Let me attempt to describe what it feels like - to me anyway. Liken it to creating static electricity as you drag your feet on the carpet and then touch something. It creates a tingly shock. Now try to feel millions of these microscopic bursts inside your skin, everywhere, all of the time. Go quiet. Be still.
And be aware of it alone.
Monday, September 10, 2012
Sunday, August 5, 2012
Hit Me With Your Best Shot.
When I started to write down my theology of sexuality through this blog, I wasn't smart enough to realize that was indeed what I was doing. And I had no comprehension of the amount of negative energy that would be sent in my direction. Guess what feelings it brought up -- feelings of shame. The very thing I am recovering from and that many cradle Christians want to recover from. I know your pain. And I realized 2 things:
1) it was time to stop equivocating and
2) I needed Divine backup.
I guess I was praying as I kept asking, "Where are the texts about the Christian sacred sexual tradition?"
Now I ask, "Why must Sex be demeaned to the level to which we allow it to be prostituted, abused, snuffed-out and defiled?" This is the mindset that allows shame to be used as a instrument of control, especially around our sexual experiences. By agreeing to operate (to judge, actually) from that level, we enculturate these same immoralities. I believe that it is not the sanctified act of sexual touch that is immoral. (A touch full of love is really a prayer of thanksgiving. Another blog. . .)
Immorality is engaging in this sense centered physical relating without a heart full of as much loving and giving as it can hold. That is immoral. Where ego and hate are employed in the use of sex for selfish reasons, then that becomes an immoral act.
That's where The Gospel of Mary Magdalene comes in. I prayed for sacred texts and kept receiving books from friends about Mary Magdalene and finding books about her gospel and it's place in early Christianity. The fragments of her gospel which still exist point us to the importance of authenticity in living our lives, the need for intimacy as one way to experience love and, above all, unity with the source of all Love. These are also the components of Divine Intimacy with a beloved partner as well.
1) it was time to stop equivocating and
2) I needed Divine backup.
I guess I was praying as I kept asking, "Where are the texts about the Christian sacred sexual tradition?"
Now I ask, "Why must Sex be demeaned to the level to which we allow it to be prostituted, abused, snuffed-out and defiled?" This is the mindset that allows shame to be used as a instrument of control, especially around our sexual experiences. By agreeing to operate (to judge, actually) from that level, we enculturate these same immoralities. I believe that it is not the sanctified act of sexual touch that is immoral. (A touch full of love is really a prayer of thanksgiving. Another blog. . .)
Immorality is engaging in this sense centered physical relating without a heart full of as much loving and giving as it can hold. That is immoral. Where ego and hate are employed in the use of sex for selfish reasons, then that becomes an immoral act.
That's where The Gospel of Mary Magdalene comes in. I prayed for sacred texts and kept receiving books from friends about Mary Magdalene and finding books about her gospel and it's place in early Christianity. The fragments of her gospel which still exist point us to the importance of authenticity in living our lives, the need for intimacy as one way to experience love and, above all, unity with the source of all Love. These are also the components of Divine Intimacy with a beloved partner as well.
The Magdalene's texts also reveal the amount of hatred toward women which was being perpetuated in the world even then. That very inequality of men and women is created from the ego. When there is any distraction by ego, then love is replaced with anger, hurt, shame and judgement. But it is only 100% Love that provides the tools humanity requires to build the "Community of Godness" on Earth.
I finally stopped equivocating.
Join me on this journey of discovery. Let's explore all the hurt that rides in on the coattails of sex. Then we will extract the hurt from our Love play, a place where those feelings do not belong. When we can fill that newly found place with self-love, then we will more fully love the other and discover the transcendence of the sacred sexual experience. AMEN
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