Healing
our Sexuality
Nothing cuts deeper
and is more covered up than sex. By its responding to sex, society has become
divided into two giant opposing camps. Sex has been the root for countless types
of slavery, deprivation, persecution, and even execution. The law of Moses once
demanded the death of a woman who stepped out of the bounds of authorized
sex. Sex has been slandered throughout the ages, and cut
away with the circumcision, with effects that have altered the face of world
on a vast scale.
But sex has many dimensions, higher-level dimension, specifically
human dimensions that are spiritual dimensions, unfolding a growing intimacy with our
profound human nature, and with one another for the general welfare for us all.
The lack of the
unfolding dimension of the 'sex' of our humanity, be it for the exploitation of sex
or for political goals that
undermine the welfare of the whole of humanity, prevents the development of a
new renaissance in our time. Ironically we need to leave the moral ground behind
us as a kind of starting gate, a sleep-state of mediocrity, and step away from it,
but not down into the
sewer, stepping up wards instead, to higher ground, into the native domain of the human being where
the power of life unfolds.
Can this be done?
Suppose that the world was
radically altered, as by a nuclear holocaust, so that many of the
institutions that define the social structures today, become invalidated. What
would one be left with then? Nothing, except one's
honesty to acknowledge what is ultimately real, and an open door to respond to it.
When the sexual division and isolation loose their power over relationships, and
human dimension comes more to the foreground, the scene becomes more open to the
general welfare principle that is a native impetus in humanity. Sex is also intertwined
with the general welfare principle, because biologically and psychologically it
fulfills functions that are but rarely recognized. Researchers suggest that
frequent regular physical sex has a far more wide-reaching beneficial effect
than is generally acknowledged, that it extends longevity in general, and not just for
men by keeping the prostrate healthy. Research suggests that it extends human
life possibly as much as ten years; and reduces stress; strengthens marriages and families; boosts the immune system; reduces pain; and in the course of having sex, it
even generates a hormone that induces pair bonding. It actually builds the bonds it celebrates. And those bonds, shouldn't be narrow, but be as wide as the world, they should be bonds of freedom. Can you imagine that?
In my series of novels, The
Lodging for the Rose, which is designed to explore the potential of society's
power to heal
itself, I have included a number of chapters, listed below, that focus on the subject of
healing unmet sexual needs against the background of the Principle of Universal
Love.
Lunch
Break
The chapter is a
part of the novel, Brighter than the
Sun
- free online access is provided, and also a free
online audio-book version
In the
Brilliance of a Night
The chapter is a
part of the novel, Discovering Love
- free online access is provided, and also a free
online audio-book version
Clothed with the Sun
The chapter
is from the novel, Winning Without Victory
- free online access is provided, and also a free
online audio-book version
Winter
Songs
The chapter is a
part of the novel, Seascapes and Sand
- free online access is provided, and also a free
online audio-book version
The Taj Mahal
Praying in the Wrong Direction
The
Banquet Table
The chapters are from
the novel, Glass Barriers
- free online access is provided, and also a free
online audio-book version
A Sex
Dream Fantasy
The chapter is
from the novel, Coffee
Sex and Biscuits
- free online access is provided, and also a free
online audio-book version
Reindeer Research
Return to Oymyakon
The chapter is
from the novel, Sword of Aquarius
- free online access is provided, and also a free
online audio-book version
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