Sex and meditation

Religion is for people who are afraid of hell, and spirituality is for people who have already been there.

Shamans are sick people who have gotten well. 

What this means is that religion is for muggles and spirituality is for shamans.

In America, we are living through times that are fast making shamans out of all of us.  Because we have all, in various ways, been through hell.  Most of us are still going through hell.  And we are adapting to life in hell, recognizing that peace on earth requires making it bearable for ourselves without making it unbearable for anyone else.  So don't be surprised that Americans are abandoning religion.  We are embracing spirituality.  America is becoming a nonreligious, deeply spiritual people.

Thank God.  Or Goddess, whatever.  No it actually matters but both of them matter.  Not just one of them or the other. 

Lust is worship of the Goddess.  Lust is desire to reproduce life itself.  Lust is life's desire to create more life.  Lust is how angels fell from heaven, turning their backs to God in order to worship the Goddess.  Lust is the primordial agony, the primordial separation between humanity and divinity. 

Lust is the desire for more samsara.  The spiritual teachers of the ages all encourage us to master our lust, lest we become slaves of it.  True spiritual seekers are encouraged to overcome lust entirely, while the rest, who have no desire to abandon lust, are encouraged to keep that lust disciplined with morality.  This leads to moral repression, and sexual guilt, sadly.  The birth of patriarchy and inequality, dominance and sexual shaming and exploitation.  Religion.  Fear of hell.

Adam saw his own sexuality as a sin, as he discovered for himself the difference between angels and fallen angels.  He discovered both natures within himself, and condemned his own shadow.  He condemned his own yin darkness, not yet realizing that his role was to shine compassionate light into his own darkness, healing his shadow and becoming whole.  Because Adam did not forgive himself he judged himself and cast himself out of heaven, leaving the journey home up to us. 

And our journey home involves seeing our own sexuality, and forgiving it, and seeing our own fallen nature, and forgiving it, and seeing our own shadow, and forgiving it, and by shining light into our own darkness we make ourselves whole and find ourselves again in the garden, free to love. 

And yet that journey home brings with it adoration of the light which creates all love, which creates all opposites, the adoration of the eternal absolute, unmanifest within us as our own true nature.

In our pursuit of sexual fulfillment we worship the Goddess.  If, while worshipping the Goddess, we remember to worship God, and devote our minds to gratitude for the God that gives birth to Life itself, we  honor both the absolute and the relative, nirvana and samsara, God and Goddess, paying homage to both yang and yin, the monastic and the householder.  This is the point of religion - to persuade humanity to worship God as well as Goddess.  Humanity doesn't need to be taught to worship the Goddess -  our own sexual natures do that for us.  Humanity needs to be taught how to worship God, which is the absolute in relation to our relative situations, and this is done not through dogma but through meditation.  We worship the Goddess through sex and we worship God through meditation.