Spirituality for Living

Tantra is seen as dark, especially among the Ophites. A Tantric practicing Gnostic Christian sect for who the serpent was both eros and wisdom. Thus sex became separate from religion in Christianity. Most of the sexual beliefs in Christianity came well after the time of Christ. He did not teach them himself, and he even advocated for the prostitute. Not to endorse the problem that arose, but to support one who hadn’t sinned as they claimed she had

This is a great evil according to Christians, but recall who Mary Magdalene was before coming to follow Christ? If I recall she did not wed Jesus in part because she was a prostitute and she was a gentile. I may not be accurate, but I will be on this. According to the Gnostic schools she was Jesus lover, and the apostolic succession was a lie because Mary was appointed Jesus successor [...] Continue to Seek…

Normally Tantric rites are observed in a very sacramental way. Selective diet before the coming together, contemplative meditation, prayer to ready the participants mentally and emotionally because during the embrace there is surrender. Totally for the female, and surrender in the context of the forms for the male.

The actually embrace is not hastened through. It is seen much like meditation or communion. Giving into the sexual response and not seeking an end to that tension nor to lessen sexual tension. It is considered a manifestation of the sexual power of the divinity, and the sexual power is considered the raw sacrament of life. To spurn sexual tension in Tantra is to deny life.

Men do this. The heresy in Tantra is not women seeking sexual union. That is a blessing of Kali considered spiritually sound. It’s in that men fail Kali, thus she is often shown with mens heads forming [...] Continue to Seek…

In spiritual pursuits there has always been an element of sexuality. But as far as the philosophies go, like many other things there have been two paths. Seemingly opposed.

One path of austerity and moralism. “Pure” pursuits of selflessness, etc. It’s the dominant path in our culture even today and even in sexual roles. Though the purists recognize that women being given a second place is evil, they are still to a degree in that place because their whole right wing view still needs it to be like that. Regrettably many women support that also.

Now supposedly men are the more sexually driven gender. They need the gender roles seen that way because men are supposedly the leaders. But this also creates an anxiety, because in truth men are not the most sexually driven. They pursue sex as a matter of expediency and often little more. Is this your ladies experience?

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Could you tell the difference between a void and a nexus? Maybe you are already there. Maybe your dreams, your thoughts, your very incarnation are a nexus that is aligned and can realign as is its nature. So how does multiplicity offend the unity? How does your individual self fall short in any way you don’t choose it to? If you choose it to then why? In that ‘why’ is meaning.

Our greatest fear is not that we are powerless, but that we are powerful beyond measure. We indeed are, but we fear and we demonize fear. Putting fear beyond our body of meaning, though all our meanings we adapted because we saw a thing as good, and its absence as bad, or a thing as bad and freedom from that as good. None of that is true and in refusing to see fear we refuse to see faith, and [...] Continue to Seek…

They say no news is good news, and one of our two primal fears is loud noise, a.k.a. news. It is a species wide fear, but humans are supposedly creatures of knowledge and communication. Leading the normal life is a drive, but more news makes the normal life pretty dang weird does it not? Nature behaves beyond human expectation and even human nature behaves beyond human expectation, thus we surprise ourselves.

Sometimes it is meditative to just sit and listen, to let the meaning of it all wash in?  But what of the danger of solipsism? You can focus on an idea of self that you are experiencing so that you fail to see its source. You can come to see only yourself as real, and that is what solipsism is. In fact, we are all figments of each others imagination. There is no one mind. Many people insist that there [...] Continue to Seek…

Meaning is often underplayed in the world, even among seekers. People enjoy freedom or their idea of freedom, but the meaning of freedom is lost. They speak of no barriers, but freedom has meaning in the context of barriers. Seekers seek to transcend, but even ‘transcend’ has meaning in the context of what you feel you are growing beyond. We seek meaning or feel we do, but it seems the majority of what we seek is not meaning but validation for meanings we adopted. In seeking validation all too often meaning is lost, and what can be validated in one turn can loose any virtue in the next as beliefs and trends wend aimlessly.

Today psychologists say that a widely held belief is not delusion. There is a reason for that. We function based on a consensus of meaning and agreement that if I say a word, or even if [...] Continue to Seek…

Ever witness people arguing over what is ultimately a matter of syntax? And in fact they were saying the same thing? It even grows very negative. I would say in a sense it’s the rule with few exceptions. The evil of semantics.

Would you rather be right, or happy?  It seems people would rather be right, thus the stasis and it isn’t even about ego. It is the environmental scanning, reality checking. They are in the panic of normal life so they very much have to be right. Their normal life depends on being right.

You can remove all boundaries, but they don’t go away. Like fear, you just loose engagement with them. They have a life, a reality. There is a world beyond these concerns, but in the effort to transcend and be free…well, we are very busy being free. We get very involved and invested in going beyond. We [...] Continue to Seek…

Tell me what you think anything means. I will describe your world. Sound boastful? Any takers? Our meaning is our reality.
“I’m living, breathing.  With each breath it’s a new world. How can I grasp at that? I try and try to grasp a meaning, but all I get is more questions.”

You grasp it in making that very statement. For you creation is meaning. The seeking is meaning. You are a positive person at this point in your life, and are likely rocked by experience. But at this point your well of resilience runs deep. Probably engage and re engage, and do likely learn. Active mind. Forever we stare into the mirror to see what cannot be reflected, and thus hope and meaning springs anew. Always creating. That is your reality, and are likely aware of something beyond it. But as is right and gainful, you function from your nature. Does [...] Continue to Seek…

Some people faint when overloaded with new things. The resulting stress they don’t assimilate well. Their meaning is being lost, and they often screen the reality of the new experience out all together. Blue screen of death, does not compute!

Now imagine a person who triggers that in people even in their formative years. Routinely seeing that blue screen of death in peoples eyes. What would their resulting world view be like?
‘You shouldn’t be’

Neuro-plasticity varies widely. I have a developmental disorder that makes things too mutable. It allows for new ideas to be incorporated to a degree and permits radical change. People describe me as a shape shifter. So give this person excellent neuro-plasticity, a self absorption as they call it. Well developed meta cognitive awareness. They know what they think, and feel, and why. So they have some mobility in this nothing, this non being. What would they find?
‘More [...] Continue to Seek…

What is meaning and why is it important? To a degree the consensus is love. The common ground we can all stand on. It can be diversified and thus enriched, but still there is the connection. The spectrum of meaning is synonymous with the range of beliefs and these do vary.  But one of the most important aspects of bonding is being able to believe in the person you have a relationship with, thus some need for a common context. Agreed upon interpretations of at least some experience.

When you engage a person, you are engaging your experience of the person. They have their own experience of themselves. Hopefully these have some shade of agreement, thus you believe in “them”. You can stand on some of their grounding. People often welcome that, and sometimes need that very badly. I‘ve heard it said the only thing another person is to you [...] Continue to Seek…