Sexuality is the gateway of life. Sexual union is a sacred offering of pleasure and a journey into the ecstatic horizon — where the manifest and un-manifest, possible and impossible, merge into one.
The woman is the hearth The male organ is the fire The caresses are the smoke The vulva is the flame Penetration is the brand Pleasure is the spark In this fire the gods receive the offering of bliss.
- Chandogya Upanishad 5-4-8
These pictures are of an eighty million year old fossilized Ammonite. Its spiraling inner chambers have crystallized and turned into glistening shards of quarts. It is set as if on a throne, amidst a collage of hand carved erotic figures.
Erotic postures enhance the variety and play of courtship and pure sexual expression. On another level, and since ancient times they were symbolical of creation itself and full of enigmatic significance.
In the East, and scattered throughout world, are temples adorned with finely carved sensuous scenes, often depicting lovers in a number of yogic like erotic positions.
“Fertility festivals in ancient India were times of gaiety and free sexual license... These were considered necessary and extremely lucky... During this phase some erotic stone sculpture was made showing couples in various stages of sexual union... they were used to decorate temples and were believed to be auspicious and protective from the forces of evil... Later, such erotic subjects became even more common, with whole temple facades covered with finely carved sensuous scenes, often depicting lovers in a multitude of erotic positions” Erotic Sentiment
If it wasn’t for the hope of greater joy and happiness would any of us really want to continue living? Pleasure when embraced with respect and innocently experienced enhances each of our live and gives us reason to be.
The cultural dogma of the current hypocritical moralism of the society in which most of us live has all but blinded us to the natural beauty of our sexuality! Under the cloak of fear: guilt, mistrust, victimization and confusion, has breed like a virus destroying marriages and scaring young lovers for life.
Sexuality, the underlying bed of creation, is the simple pleasure of the Creator. By directing this force towards, health, happiness and harmony, the ancient-day cultures recognized, accepted and celebrated the single most powerful fundament of nature.
Creation is indeed the matrimony of the sexes, of yin and yang perpetually dancing in the Tao. Divine lovemaking is an experience of the god and goddess that we have within each of us.
Sexuality is the gateway of life. Sexual union is a sacred offering of pleasure and a journey into the ecstatic horizon — where the manifest and un-manifest, possible and impossible, merge into one.
Divine love is born through the union of the male attribute as embodied in the Linguam (phallus) and female attribute as embodied in the Yoni (vagina). Their sensual ceremony empowers ‘reality’ with the desire for life itself.
Evolved lovers use this passion to direct creative force with intent upon personal and universal growth. Like the Linguam and Yoni, they unite diverse worlds, in the nature of harmony and ultimately come together in the supreme state of Bliss.
Love Ceremony, as depicted in the piece pictured above, invites the underlying expression of latent divinity to come forth and opens the timeless dimension. Evolved lovers experience the transcendent consciousness, whose image the world is but a reflection of.
Divine sexuality regenerates the body and mind. It is the joyous chalice of immortal youth and the highest offering one can make to the power that ordains creation.
To empower a state of transfiguration and enjoy the path of holistic attunement is to drink the ambrosia of the god and goddess who are ever united in the ecstatic beyond.
To fully embody the extreme potency of this, almost unimaginable state, means that we must first surrender the limiting ideas and conceptions we have about what love and sex should be. Expectation is only a distraction in this realm where Bliss itself is the director.
Those who watch with open eyes find the divine, without the expectations, which arbitrarily limit and define.
This unique approach to sexuality has started budding forth through a sort of ‘Tantric Renaissance’. The Tantras are actually a collection of ancient works dedicated to the balance of the genders and the empowerment and worship of ‘universal sexuality’.
Sex is where the unformed desire for life comes into being. It is a chasm uniting Creation with the Uncreated, and as such is closely associated with the matrix that underlies ‘All’ that is.
Although often misrepresented and confused, the Tantras and their counterparts undoubtedly represent the most refined form of Shamanism in the world. Even though they were compiled after the second century CE, they recall wisdom much older than even that of the Vedas (1800BCE). They re-arose during the early eastern renaissance, which sought to resurrect the primordial ‘way’.
The first translators of the Tantras, were Christian scholars, who were hell bent on either making the text palatable, or representing them as bohemian nonsense.
Unlike proselytizing cults, the Tantras represent a mystery tradition whose premises is guarded and reserved only for those initiates who had proven themselves worthy. They contain legends as old as time itself and cover everything from the moon’s cycles to the secrets rites of love.
Since birth represents the opposite of death, and sex leads to birth, all erotic positions dispel destructive forces and inspire fertility through out one life.
