Add
in the revelations of Swedenborg regarding the existence of a
spiritual marriage that transcends physical release and this lifetime
and we have a rather compelling proposition or challenge rather. It
is to work with one's partner to achieve a spiritual realization of
ones marriage. Such a goal certainly can replace the demands of
parenthood as that phase of ones life recedes.
Regrettably
that is surely harder to sustain even than a lifetime of mutual love
and respect. Worse, failure is also a greater disappointment because
it also represents a setback spiritually for this particular lifetime
and suggests repetition into another lifetime.
The
core problem in this era of modernism is spiritual ignorance and even
avoidance which makes correction very difficult. After all, you must
start to make progress by unlearning a lot of spiritual error that is
often personal. Good luck on that for most.
Arrested
Development: How Sexual Progress Has Been Hijacked in the Modern
Milieu
Christina
Sarich, Staff Writer
“For once you have
tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward,
for there you have been and there you will long to return.” ~
Leonardo da Vinci
What has happened in
the western world and the countries influenced by a soulless agenda
is akin to a caterpillar worming its way, interminably deliberate,
across a few feet of landscape, instead of flashing brightly across
the sky as a winged-being in full-color flight.
And
swe have
We are no longer
reaching our full potential as spiritual beings, not just
because of the genetically-altered food we eat, the propaganda
programs we watch, and the lower-vibrations we subject ourselves to,
but because our sexual development is stuck in a pubescent froth.
The ancient yogis and
sages taught a more holistic approach to sexuality called urdhva
retas, but post-Freudian psychology has left us with skyrocketing
divorce rates, Edward Bernay’s legacy[1] of manipulated marketing
images to speak to the lowest levels of our animal psyches, sexual
addictions, sexual dysfunction, Facebook affairs, rampant increases
in objectifying pornography, and a ‘battle of the sexes’ we have
yet to overcome.
In cultures that have
not been completely swamped by Western brainwashing, the divorce rate
is incredibly low – Tibetan and many Indian cultures have
rates as low as 3 percent, while the United State’s divorce
rate is at almost 50 percent – and much of the
Coca-Cola drinking world is objectified sexually in ways
that divorce them from their true spiritual natures.
It isn’t just women
that are turned into mere flesh. Consider the icons of male
sexuality: the Marlboro Man, and Old Spice’s ‘sexy’ frontliner,
and Isaiah Mustafa. Then there are the Victoria’s Secret
models, along with teenaged sexual wonderkunds plastered on the cover
of almost every magazine, luxury car ad, and even cereal box.
“. . . since the
1970s and associated with curmudgeonly second-wave feminists, the
phrase “sexual objectification” can inspire eye-rolling. The
phenomenon, however, is more rampant than ever in popular culture.
Today women’s sexual objectification is celebrated as a form
of female empowerment. This has enabled a new era of
sexual objectification, characterized by greater exposure to
advertising exposure to advertising in general, and
increased sexual explicitness in advertising, magazines, television
shows, movies, video games, music videos, television
news, and “reality” television.”
Michael Foucault, in
his book, The History of Sexuality, explains that:
“. . .truth is drawn
from pleasure itself, understood as a practice and accumulated as
experience; pleasure is not considered in relation to an absolute law
of the permitted and forbidden, nor by reference to a criterion of
utility, but first and foremost in relation to itself. . .”
Do we even know what
pleasure is beyond the machinations of the lower libido?
The patriarchal
church has done no better to free us from our sexual delusions. The
Bible itself claims an innate antagonism between man and woman that
started in the Garden of Eden, and bearing children has become a
‘labor’ of punishment as humankind has ‘fallen from
grace’.[2] Society has been trying to subjugate the feminine,
which is the secret energy of inherent kundalini hidden at the base
of the spine, ever since.
Urdhva Retas: The
Alchemy of Sexual Energy into Spiritual Maturity
The science of urdhva
retas is an alchemy. It turns the lust of youth, begun
as the sparkle in our great grandparent’s eyes, and carried into
our own tumescence, into the transcending spiritual experience of
awakened kundalini energy. It allows a mere mortal to channel
the energy of the lower chakras – those concerned only
with survival, lust, and procreation – to higher levels of
awareness that culminate in a dance up the sushumna, or spinal
pathway, to the glorious elixir of full awareness in the center of
the mind – the spiritual eye. It also, as a side-effect of
spiritual alchemy, allows an unbroken chain of familial and community
love that is not relegated to the bedroom, or the latest Internet
porn site. In fact, a relationship based on the practices of urdhva
retas can transcend not only worldly afflictions, but sustain a
couple in ecstatic love through multiple lifetimes.
Sadly, modern society
has been hijacked by the notion that our sexual (which is also the
spiritual) development stops at puberty. This is fallacious in the
most destructive way. The sexual energy, (aroused when we are
aroused) that is catapulted through the pineal gland and allows
sexuality to awaken at the right time in a teenaged child, is the
same energy that facilitates the furtherance of this sexual seed to
accompany our utmost spiritual awakening.
Gopi Krishna believes
that our human brains are in an organic state of evolution toward
higher levels of consciousness, and the driving force behind that
evolution is kundalini energy – the creative, sexual energy of the
‘Mother.’
From Root to Crown
The pineal
gland contains a number of peptides, including GnRH, TRH, and
vasotocin, along with a number of vital neurotransmitters such as
somatostatin, norepinephrine, serotonin, and histamine. The major
pineal hormone, however, is melatonin, a derivative of the amino acid
tryptophan. Melatonin was first discovered because it lightens
amphibian skin, an effect opposite to that of melanocyte-stimulating
hormone of the anterior pituitary. Its major action, well documented
in animals, is to block the secretion of GnRH by the hypothalamus and
of gonadotropins by the pituitary. While it was long thought that
a decrease in melatonin secretion heralded the onset of puberty,
it is also known that melatonin is a precursor to the consciousness
raising chemical DMT (N,N-Dimethyltryptamine).
The pineal gland is
the ultimate destination of the sexual energies. Not the gonads, the
vagina, or the breasts. This gland, is in fact, the all-seeing eye
that allows us to awaken our true Divine nature.
“The retina and the
pineal gland are the organs primarily responsible for the body’s
recognition and sophisticated processing of external light. Until
recently these two organs in mammals seemed to have little else in
common and were consequently studied by separate groups of
scientists. But a new alliance of researchers is now
exploring striking similarities that are speeding research
efforts in both fields. Their findings suggest that the pineal gland
was the evolutionary precursor to the modern eye. While it
turned out that the retinal rhythm is independent of the pineal
gland, once the groups of scientists began working together they
discovered surprising similarities between the two organs, including
the presence of photoreceptors.”
The light that shines
within us is no metaphor. It just gets murky with mistaken ideas
about the nature of sexual energy.
In my own sexual
development, I was also relegated for many years to the lusty
yearnings with which we are all so familiar. I mistakenly looked for
something ‘missing’ in every sexual encounter, as men, not just
women do, all the while unknowing that what I was looking for wasn’t
the perfect physical climax with the perfect man, but the union of my
dormant kundalini energy with the all-seeing eye of the pineal gland.
The awakening happens
differently for different people, and by utilizing the practice
of urdhva retas, meditation, several types of martial arts,
and other tools, one can experience the ‘quickening’ of spiritual
alchemy, that has moved past the first and second chakras.
For me, I suspect it
was a slow gathering of these energies, and then the sudden,
unexpected initial release, strangely, just after a mature, loving,
and intimate moment with my life partner. As Gopi Krishna has
described in his book Living with Kundalini:
“If this store of
cosmic prana were inanimate, without a will and a direction of its
own, we could very well flatter ourselves that every thought and
fancy that we have is the product of our own volition, but since we
are ourselves the products of this superintelligent cosmic power, it
would be illogical to the last degree to presume that our individual
ideas and fancies are exclusively our own creations and have no
relationship to the ocean of which we are but a tiny drop. When it is
once admitted that mind and consciousness are cosmic entities, it
would then be ridiculous to suppose that the thoughts and ideas in an
individual atom of this cosmic consciousness can have an entirely
independent existence and not reflect the will and design of the
cosmic whole.”
Our ‘fancies’, are
in fact, the very first rung on an evolutionary ladder to higher
spiritual development. The prana, or kundalini shakti, that
gives us our first stomach full of butterflies when seeing a
potential mate, also opens the cosmic gates to ‘connect with the
entire Universe.’
The same energy which
drives Middle Eastern belly dance, Islamic Sufi ‘spinners’,
meditative paths like Taoism or Buddhism, resulting in spontaneous
kriyas, Greek Dionysian revelers, the ‘Holy Ghost’ that moves in
gospel congregations, the spontaneous arousal in celibates, and the
gyrations even of Elvis’ pelvis, are all kundalini in action.
In the West, this
energy is stuck at the perineum and spine in most people, but
increasingly, the kundalini energy is pushing for higher vistas along
the spinal column. In fact, it must travel from perineum to pineal
for us to reach\ full sexual maturity. As long as we see sex as
merely a pleasurable past-time, or a momentary but empty exchange
between individuals, then we are missing the point. We are not meant
to stay stuck in this stage of arrested development, and Kundalini
awakening is not meant just for the saintly. It is meant for all, and
as a human society, our entire spiritual potential hangs in the
balance. Full-color flight awaits.
“When you succeed in
awakening the Kundalini, so that it starts to move out of its mere
potentiality, you necessarily start a world which is totally
different from our world. It is the world of eternity.” ~ C.G.
Jung
[1] Edward
Bernay’s was Freud’s nephew and the man largely responsible for
today’s media manipulation of the herd instinct through highly
charged sexual messages. As our country was becoming formally
democratic in the late 1920s, the leading companies associated with
the Creel Commission and the Rockefeller family decided to use
Bernay’s propaganda to sway public opinion. He also engineered the
PR effort behind the U.S. coup that overthrew the democratically
elected Guatemalan
government. http://www.historyisaweapon.com/defcon1/bernprop.html
[2] In his
book Advanced Spiritual Intimacy: The Yoga of Deep Tantric
Sensuality, Stuart Sovatsky, Ph.D. explains how sexual development
does not end in adolescence. It was meant to continue, in a lifelong
journey of ‘puberty of the spine,’ otherwise known as the
kundalini awakening wherein the Shiva and Shakti, or male and female
aspects are united in sacred union at the pineal gate, to allow one
bliss that would make a merely physical orgasm seem like a
match-light in a multiverse of stars.
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