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Recieved: 2003/07/04 04:01
Subject: Re: [K-list] Enlightenment today? Gone tomorrow
From: Julie D
On 2003/07/04 04:01, Julie D posted thus to the K-list:
Hi Rick,
Rick wrote,
> limited mind consciousness(ego) -> complete body consciousness -> animal
> nature -> wanting to re-connect with nature
That's the feeling. So many people are just walking heads. Sometimes I sit
down and look at peoples bodies and how they are moving. So many have lost
a spontaneous and free flowing movement. I was with a 7 month old baby the
other day. She was in a bouncer so that her body was supported in an
unrestricting way. When she laughed it was a full body laugh. Her body
wiggled, legs kicked and arms waved. Her whole face lit up like a lamp.
Such fullness of expression. Her laughter was contagious and she got lots
of attention as we shared her pleasure.
(snip)
>
> I find it very difficult to accept my body, I criticise it a lot and yet
> it's the platform for everything including the spiritual journey. The
body
> sexuality topic is for me the hardest one to deal with.
For me it has been too and I'm still not sure if I'm through it although I
have been fairly comfortable with it for a few years now.
Society's
> repression has caused so much damage, it takes a long time to work your
way
> through the trauma.
Yes. Repression of our sexual nature have been in place now for over 4,000
years in the Western World. We have made our sexual instinct our enemy and
kept it in very limited confines. From it's prison it exerts enormous
influence over our decision making processes. Does the young solicitor
really want the sports car (as he believes) or does he really want the girl
on the bonnet? The society says that monogamy is the ideal yet less than
half of the society is able to live up to it. The more we repress our
instincts the more compulsively they move us and the more guarded we need to
be to stop them from slipping out and sabotaging our intentions.
Just to repeat the words I am a sexual being is so very
> difficult, and sometimes laughable. We should'nt take it seriously,
> seriousness is a disease.
>
> You mentioned the devil. To me the devil is nothing but the ego from a
> Christian viewpoint. It's interesting to view sexuality as the devil.
I don't think the devil is sexuality or ego. I think the devil is all the
things we think we are not, the shadow and anima/animus. Adam and Eve by
eating from the tree discovered themselves to be male and not female/female
and not male. From that time on humanity as a collective and individually
has continued to become identified with things by saying I'm this and not
that. We have an enormous pile of stuff that we think we are and another
that we think we are not. Sexuality fascinates us but we feel guilty about
it because we think we are not animals. Being animals repells us. We are
also afraid of it because at it's peak we loose control and another primary
instinct, our safety instinct, feels that loosing control will put our life
in jeopardy. These two instincts do battle within us sometimes. Other times
one is suppressed at the expense of the other. We become whole again by not
identifying with either pile of things. In physical existence this
translates into recognising that all things are frozen energy patterns
spontaneously arising within the one consciousness and have a place within
it. Yet we don't know the whole story and things often get out of place. We
become aware of awareness (also a part of our one consciousness) that has a
broader and more encompassing view and develop a relationship with it.
Sooner or later we learn to trust it and allow it to guide our individual
movement through matter's energy patterns. The more we transform the
personal unconscious by consciously watching it as it presents the clearer
this direction becomes.
> I do trust Kundalini, however rough the journey is or hopefully is not, I
> like to think of the Self guiding me home for the greater good.
>
Me, too. This greater good includes us as well. Thanks again for another
wonderful post.
Warmest regards,
Julie.
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