Awakening and Sex (Communicating towards The Answer-7)

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The common approach to matters of sexual feelings, thoughts and actions are kept mostly “private”. Guilt is often not recognized and the experience perceived limited to sense perceptions until the mind starts to focus on the joining in Mind and Soul which reveals God. As long as minds are hiding from God, shame and guilt will sneak in with its identity reduced to a body. Giving raise to fear that sex and this source of pleasure might be taken away, or would get lost in the awakening process, might result in hesitation to give it all to the Holy Spirit. In certain ancient traditions, e.g. in some eastern approaches, the practice is leading one to the supreme Happiness or divine Ecstasy, and “pleasure” is understood as a vertical alignment with God through joining in Light, and not through some specific ritual of sexual contact. The highest form of these traditions is not expressing the body at all any more.

What needs to be learned and practiced is that the energy needs to be given to the Holy Spirit so that it can be used for transformation and for the awakening. Suppressing this energy or denying it will not help. There are many feelings as a form of suppression and denial active in the subconscious like shame, guilt, remorse, fears etc, as well as the meaning of joining in peace, joy, love and ecstasy which the thoughts of sex invoke. Everyone at some point has asked if there is a right or wrong way to have sex? What does the Course say about this topic? What is it about sex and the power of sex? Is it really just for procreation? Why were we given the ability to procreate and feel such intense feelings? Can it be used to bring us closer to God and to a real experience of Him or is it simply used to further verify us as a body in space time that has physical needs? Even further: is the pleasure from sex a weak substitute for that ecstatic joining we experience in the Light that transcends the physical? Spiritual disciplines in many established religions suggest celibacy and abstinence as a necessary path for awakening and enlightenment. Have we successfully freed us from these doctrines that teach a perceptual reality?! ◊

Jesus teaches us in A Course in Miracles that we can change our mind in regard to this limited thinking, and offers us a new basis of relating with Him inside our Heart and Soul. (Text, Chapter 1-II-1. – Urtext version & 1-VII-1.-2.). ◊

Devavan, Erica & Cameron invite you in this new series “Communicating towards The Answer” to join us in the purpose of looking at “personal and transformational questions” which we are willing to bring to an Answer that let’s us feel connected to the Truth. ◊ ◊ ◊

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