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Recieved: 1999/09/09 16:07
Subject: [K-list] Fwd: BOUNCE from Kimberly
From: Mystress Angelique Serpent
On 1999/09/09 16:07, Mystress Angelique Serpent posted thus to the K-list:
>From: owner-kundaliniATnospamList-Server.net
>Date: Thu, 9 Sep 1999 13:35:21 -0600 (MDT)
>To: owner-kundaliniATnospamList-Server.net
>Subject: BOUNCE kundaliniATnospamList-Server.net: Admin request of type
/^\s*which\s*$/i at line 6>From: SmilingjaguarATnospamaol.com
>Received: from SmilingjaguarATnospamaol.com
>To: KundaliniATnospamlist-server.net
>In a message dated 9/9/99 1:09:28 PM Central Daylight Time, jclATnospamswcp.com
>writes:
>
>> I have been noticing that in the discussion of sex vs celibacy that some
>> folks, like you, Jill, are speaking from a point from within a process
>which
>> has produced a result that others are advocating as a beginning point.
>
>I think this is a very valid point. I've been on this list for about a year
>(except for this recent email change that I forgot to swap y'all over...I
>know, how do you miss 75 messages a day? :-)), and this topic keeps coming
>up...people wondering whether celibacy or wild spurts of sexual activity is
>the right approach with K. For me, the answer is what do I feel when I feel
>the energy, and is there someone around that I have the type of bond to want
>sexual intercourse with? Of course, I'm married, so the latter is always
>available (at least in my relationship), but at the beginning of the
>explosion after I had shut it out for a long time, I was highly active
>sexually...but that's my choice and what I felt at that time. Now sex just
>isn't that important. I'm not "sex is bad" or "celibacy is the best for K",
>but right now I have other matters I'm attending to that weren't accessible
>then. When I have sex I still enjoy it, it just no longer is the first and
>foremost thing on my mind.
>
>> The interesting thing for me in watching this discussion is that the
folks
>> who seemed to focus on the energy and the experience and finding their own
>> appropriate process seem also to be more balanced, joyful, kindler and.
. .
>> better teachers. I am finding it easy to discern which postings and
>> reflections seem most "true" and which seem to be derivative.
>
>It's hard to be happy and teach that which is true spiritually when you
>adhere to dogma over what your spirit needs. We have this knowledge of what
>we need for a reason...once you find your bliss, you teach without thinking
>or trying to teach...you just share and somehow others get it. In this
sense
>I am separating spirituality from religion.....religion stressing
>dogma/spirituality stressing what is good for spirit....truth in
>everything...bliss.
>
>> And, yet, I feel I should be working and striving, even though I know
that
>> shuts down the flow and actually restricts my life.
>
>I used to have the problem with that...for me the answer was to find the
>career that my spirit wanted. I am about to start classes in graphics
design
>and computer programming because I love the freedom that computers offer
>people. Freedom in the sense of what we have here on the K list. I also
>want to know how to work on them, so that as people trash computers I can
>take the good parts and refurbish them to give away to those who couldn't
>afford one. That feels right and good with my flow...and will satisfy the
>ever-present battle between my artistic self and my technical self. Whew!
>Problem solved after 20 years of wondering how to resolve those two.
>
>> But I find it funny, that now, after my sexual desires have quieted some,
>> that so many guys are winking my way and coming on to me. Women too. I
>almost
>> want to capitalize on it now just to make up for the angst of my youth.
<gr>
>
>Oh, but it's so tempting, though, isn't it? Mine happened AFTER got
>married...I can't get people to stop coming on to me. Luckly my husband's
of
>the if others like you it's a complement to both of us variety, or I'd be
>seriously screwed. I'm beginning to wonder if it's the mirroring that does
>that...and also the mirroing that makes some people hate me on
sight...just a
>thought.
>
>Kimberly
>
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