What is Sacred Sexuality?
Hint: It could also be called INTEGRATED Sexuality, or HOLISTIC Sexuality!
Attention
—women AND men—
anyone with a human body!
The Alchemy of Touch and Sacred Sexuality
Most of us on a path of personal development know that spirituality, or Consciousness, is a key component. We also recognize the importance of Love and development of the Heart. However, religious and spiritual systems, both East and West, have been much more ambivalent about the energies of the lower chakras—especially Life Force Energy, including its expresssion in sexuality.
What do sexuality and spirituality have to do with each other?
During one of my women's workshops, I mentioned the term sacred sexuality. One of the women looked deeply shocked. She said, "I've never heard those two words in the same sentence together!"
In some branches of Buddhism and Hinduism, the most accurate representation of the Divine is considered to be God and Goddess in sexual Union, as illustrated in this Tibetan statue.
The two primordial energies of the Cosmos, masculine and feminine in a polarity of opposite values, embody the Creative Power of the Divine when they are united. The entire Creation arises from their Union.
In Hinduism, Maha Shiva Ratri, the holiday celebrating the wedding night of the Shiva and his consort Parvati is one of the highest holy nights of the calendar. Parvati is sometimes called Shakti, translated as "Power." Shakti is another word for Goddess more generally in the Vedic tradition.
In the Judeo-Christian traditions, God is almost entirely thought of in masculine terms. Catholism does entertain an appreciation of the Virgin Mary as a feminine representative of divinity in human form, co-equal to Jesus as an incarnation of the Divine. The Protestants anhilated even this in their theology.
However, in the esoteric underpinnings of Judaism (Kabbalah), Christianity, and Islam (Sufism) both the feminine and the masculine aspects of the Divine are acknowledged.
The Yin-Yang symbol conveys a similar concept in a more abstract way.
In Taoist philosophy, the masculine and feminine polarities of Yin and Yang are seen as in dynamic relationship, and equally valued. When one side gets to an extreme, it turns into its opposite. Each contains a seed of its opposite, and their energies operate throughout Creation.
Sexuality is present in the depths of theologies and mythologies in cultures around the world.
How does this apply to our human bodies and our personal power(s)?
And Why do we need to integrate our sexuality into our path of spiritual and/or personal development at this time?
And How can we do this on a practical level???
These are among the questions we will be exploring in a new Sacred [Holisitic, Integrated] Sexuality course I'm developing. More importantly, the workshop elements of the course are designed to give participants an embodied experience of the sacred, multi-dimensional nature of their human energy system and physical structure. I want people to experience how we individual human beings are designed to connect with all levels of Cosmic Life—and how our Life Force Energy/ Sexuality is an essential element of this design.
The course is partly informed by my knowledge and experience of Vedic architecture, a design system based on archetypal patterns of creation found in human beings as well as elsewhere in creation.
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