Sex Is Spiritual

A winter morning.  Pure clean whiteness.  You are an observer but also belong to it. You feel a deep peace, sensing that you are part of creation, feelings that seem religious because they are spiritual – knowing  the greatness of Nature that has caused you to exist. This has been known as “The Great Spirit” – God.

This emotion is not your personality.  This is something else.  This is your essence, the part of you that formed your entire self before personality became so important.  As your parents began teaching you life, your essence faded into the background.  Your essence still experiences life apart from the way personality experiences life,  it is the original you – still functional but less obtrusive than your personality. Your personality is practical, it is the you that makes a living, knows how to relate to others in your society,  enjoys sports, makes jokes and keeps obligations.  It can be entertained. However, your essence is there relating to your experiences in a quieter, more emotional way.

Now,  please, consider sexual experience.  Of course sex is entertaining.  In fact it is wildly entertaining.  Is there anything in life that is more entertaining than the peak sexual experiences we all crave.  I don’t think there is.  Personality is very gratified by such pleasure and our modern tendency assumes that the quiet appreciation of spirit is absent.  We are led directly to such belief by the dogma of Christian tradition .  Many of us grew up with sexual inhibitions that are waning now but not yet absent – notions that sexual pleasure is sinful were taught us by our well-meaning parents,  a part of growing up,  parental preparations for a useful and appropriate personality. This is simply incorrect. 

“God is love but sex is the work of Satan.” This incredible bit of stupidity was at the heart of Christian doctrine for 2000 years and remains among us still in various disguises.  The pleasures of sex were given to us as part of nature that we may  continue to evolve in Nature, to procreate but also to experience our deep nature – our essence  as part of nature.  That we may find it in the nature of an other person offers an appreciation  – an awareness not unlike the moving experience of the silent winter morning.  It is essence that enables you to find love in yourself and in others.  When you feel the nature of your partner and are flooded with appreciation and closeness , you can recognize the spiritual nature of sex – the rightness, the wholesomeness, the goodness, the little bit of God in each of us