Or should we say, “right side up”, because if there’s one thing we’ve gotten backwards on this planet, it’s our ideas about human sexuality.
Needless to say, it is a touchy subject — pun intended. Very few people are able to talk about human sexuality openly and honestly, let alone use the proper terminology for it, so taboo has all of it been made by us. More therapist rooms than we could ever imagine are surely filled with people whose deepest issues come down to this common core, in one form or another.
Yet the fact remains that sexual expression is one of the most natural functions we are capable of as humans — something that, in its purest form, is exceptionally uplifting, empowering and freeing. Maybe we all just need to relax a little?
Well, who better to help us do so than GOD? (Don’t be too quick to leave the page — this is not a religious thing—at all.) While we are, by and large, unfamiliar with much of the New Age cannon, there are a few notable exceptions. Conversations With God is one of those.
Yes, it takes an incredibly open mind to swallow the premise, but if one is truly skeptical (that is, actually thinking for oneself and not bowing to any academic or religious dogmas) it is not a recommendation that should be readily dismissed. The entire original trilogy (plus the more recently published Book IV) is chock full of practical, applicable ideas about pretty much everything, not the least being human sexuality.
The following quotes are from Book II in the series. As always, ponder them and see how they sit with you. If you find them uncomfortable, remember, while accelerated change remains best found in the sweet spot between boredom and discomfort, it is impossible to get there without a healthy mixture of the latter. Don’t allow yourself to get boxed in by comfortable, but stagnant, ideas — challenge your mind! No one else is going to.
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“…in some cultures—Aboriginal, some Polynesian—lovemaking is done quite openly… These people you call ‘pagans’ have an enormous respect for life. They know nothing of rape, and there are virtually no killings in their societies.
Your society puts sex—a very natural, normal human function—under cover, then turns around and kills people right out in the open. That is the obscenity!”
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“…don’t you find it interesting that a word some of you use in the height of passion to describe great sex, you also use as your highest insult? Does that tell you anything about the way you feel about sexuality?”
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“Most people have a lot to learn about sexuality, and its most wondrous, beneficial expression…
The more pleasure you give yourself, the more pleasure you can give to another. Likewise, if you give yourself the pleasure of power, you have more power to share with others. The same is true of fame, wealth, glory, success, or anything else which makes you feel good.”
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“The sexually active are no less qualified for enlightenment, no less spiritually evolved, than the sexually inactive. What enlightenment and evolution do cause you to drop is your addiction to sex, your deep need to have the experience, your compulsive behaviours.
So, too, your preoccupation with money, power, security, possessions, and other experiences of the body will vanish. Yet your genuine appreciation for them will not and should not.”
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“Teachers of what you call Tantric sex… know that if you come to sex with a hunger for sex, your ability to pleasure your partner and to experience a prolonged and joyful union of souls and bodies–which is a very high reason to experience sexuality, by the way–is greatly diminished…
The mutual self-pleasuring is all part of the joyfulness, the playfulness, the lovingness of sexuality fully expressed. It is one of several parts.
The experience you call coitus, or intercourse, might come at the end of a two-hour encounter of love. Or it might not. For most of you it is very nearly the only point of a 20-minute exercise. That is, 20 minutes if you’re lucky!”
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“All your life you have been taught that it is better to give than to receive. Yet you cannot give what you do not have. This is why self-gratification is so important–and why it is so unfortunate that it has come to sound so ugly.
Obviously, self-gratification at the expense of others is not what we’re talking about here. This is not about ignoring the needs of others.
Yet life should also not have to be about ignoring your own needs. Give yourself abundant pleasure, and you will have abundant pleasure to give others. The masters of Tantric sex know this. That’s why they encourage masturbation, which some of you actually call a sin.”
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“You see beauty where you desire to see it. You see ugliness where you are afraid to see beauty. It would amaze you to know how many people see [sex] as ugly.”
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“The trouble with ‘propriety’ is that someone has to set the standards. This means, automatically, that your behaviours are being limited, directed, dictated by someone else’s idea of what should bring you joy.
In matters of sexuality–as in all other matters–this can be more than “limiting”; it can be devastating. I can think of nothing more sad than a man or woman feeling they’d like to experience some things, then holding back because they think what they’ve dreamt of, fantasized about, would violate the ‘Standards of Propriety’!”
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“Gay sex? So many people want to say that I am against gay sexuality–or the acting out of it. Yet I make no judgement, on this or any other choice you make.
People want to make all kinds of value judgements–about everything–and I kind of spoil the party. I won’t join them in those judgements, which is especially disconcerting to those who say I originated them.
I do observe this: There was once a time that people thought that marriage between people of differing races was not only inadvisable, but against the law of God. (Amazingly, some people still think this.) They pointed to their bible as their authority–even as they do for their authority on questions surrounding homosexuality.”
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“Children are aware of themselves as sexual beings–which is to say, as human beings–from the outset of their lives. What many parents on your planet now do is try to discourage them from noticing that. …
Somewhere between the ages of 12 and 17 most of you give up the fight already and say, essentially (although naturally not with words–you don’t speak of these things), ‘Okay, now you can notice that you have sexual parts and things to do with them.’
Yet by this time the damage has been done. Your children have been shown for 10 years or more that they are to be ashamed of those body parts… [they] then explode into puberty not knowing at all what to make of what’s going on with them. They’ve had no preparation at all.
Of course, then they act miserable, responding to their newest and most urgent urges awkwardly, if not inappropriately.
This is not necessary, nor do I observe it as serving your offspring, far too many of whom enter their adult lives with sexual taboos, inhibitions and ‘hang-ups’ to beat the band.”
