'The Divine Ecstatic' - the sound of Krishna's flute beckons
souls to awaken and to become absorbed in the call of the Divine.
The demonization of sacred sexuality
is with us still, yet we are finally shaking free of its repressive
yoke. Let us restore the wisdom of Tantra, the sacred kundilini
serpent of our own inner divine flame, to the center of our daily life,
finding ways to teach these mysteries …and to venerate the archetypes
that give expression to these forces.
TANTRA - Sacred Sexuality -- The
Art of Conscious Loving
Once the most sacred and the most mysterious path to higher consciousness
…the Divine Union of Opposites
Each individual must achieve inner marriage of their masculine and
feminine natures to encounter true equipoise.
Hindu consort pair images epitomize the social, sexual and spiritual
interconnectedness of women and men.
This sense of sacred marriage was kept secret by Western church fathers.
Tantra promotes/assists male and female energies achieve emotional,
spiritual, and physical harmony.
Tantra images help us to extend this sense of balance out toward all
of creation, both animate, and inanimate.
SACRED SEXUALITY- SACRED EARTH
What would the implications be if our world today viewed sexuality
as sacred? Consider days gone by when the social structure was organized
to highly respect the feminine.
In such a world the most spiritual act an individual woman might engage
in would be as a priestess in the temple of the Great Goddess. Among
her priestess roles, none would be more important than re-enacting the
Great Rite of sacred sexuality in order to keep the Earth Goddess fertile,
receptive and benevolent.
Picture the priestess at night in darkened temple rooms offering her
body, with the most sacred, respectful and tender motivations imaginable.
(…."taking dominion over" would replace the concept of sacred stewardship
of a Holy Mother. Sexuality would evolve from a sacred, venerative function into a power/ownership-of-children function.
The profound psycho-emotional gifts of the feminine would become captive
also. And the vibrant, celebratory, and periodic sexual energies of
women would become associated with temptation, shame and uncleanliness.
Thus the genesis of some false myths we today have inherited. Because
the serpent is the most ancient and widespread archetypal expression
of feminine wisdom and sacred sexuality, it became the central image
for condemnation and eradication. By 3600 BCE, as the new myths
came about, the sexual and serpent energies of woman were associated
with guilt, unworthiness and deprivation of access to the Divine. In
the
…..Serpent energies ….dragons were, ironically, among the
objects of sacred mystical quests by generations of white knights, longing
to re-unite with the fruitful and balancing energies of the sacred feminine.
The demonization of
sacred sexuality is with us still, yet we are finally shaking free of
its repressive yoke. Let us restore the wisdom of Tantra, the sacred
kundilini serpent of our own inner divine
flame, to the center of our daily life, finding ways to teach these
mysteries …and to venerate the archetypes that give expression
to these forces.