frankly speaking: SOULFUL SEX III

             SOULFUL SEX III



   FRIENDS,

    This is the third of a six part series.

It would be helpful to read

            Soulful Sex I and II

         before considering this one.

They are available by scrolling down

    past today's posting,

                  or from the

                Blog Archive

at the bottom right of the online version.

Thanks

    John Frank

                      *****

Hi There !

So, let's check out

some sexy spirituality.

Not to worry.

No need to send

the children to grandma's

and pull down the blinds.

Sexy spirituality isn't

something left over

from the Beatniks,

the Hippies

and now in

the exclusive domain

of New Agers.

So then, just what do

sex and spirituality

have to do with each other?

For starters,

the sexual experience of

a genuinely spiritual person

would certainly be Genuine:

   wholesome,

   loving,

   moral,

   responsible.

It gets even better.

There's a whole

( as in "wholistic" )

lot more to the connection

of sex and spirituality.

But let's start not with connection,

but rather with disconnection.

That's because the word

           "sex"

comes from the Latin

        "secare,"

    meaning

    "cut off from,"

   "disconnected."

How about that?

Most of us think sex

has to do with people

being together.

In it's widest and primary sense,

sex means dealing with

   the disconnect,

the distance

that exists between

      us
         others
                 all of creation,

      and finding it
   intolerable.

In its amplitude sex means that

every inch, cell and element

of us and all creation aches,

aware or unaware,

sensing, experiencing

incompleteness -

   longing, straining,

yearning for

connection,

unity,

wholeness.

Because of that,

aware or unaware,

      all creation

seeks out

wholeness,

      strives for

connectedness,

labors for unity.

That happens

in all sorts of

ways, styles,

manners and modes.

Everything and every one craves

         relationship

                 intimacy

                         unity,

divine union/ecstasy.

It's way more than just

emotion or genitals.

The very words tell the tale.

Let's check them out.

in their root meanings

          "Relatio"

in Latin means

    "to bring back to,"

"to relate."

   "Intimus"

   in Latin means

   "inmost."

Sex means we are separate

and we can't stay that way.

All needs to connect with all.

The "inmost" of all

must be brought to

the "inmost" of all else.

Intimate relationship.

There is a cosmic call

for unity in diversity.

Yes, words tell the story.

In Latin

   "Unio"

means one,

"Divinus"

means God, Sacred

   and in Greek

   "ec"

   means outside

   and

" histanai"

means to stand

( Thus beyond the ordinary).

Most fully, sex is about

the separation in existence

that isn't meant to stay that way.

Sex starts with separation and

is passionate as it strives for union.

It is so wonderfully critical

to get this and be gotten by this!!

In its widest sense,

sex is about the

     cosmic drive/energy

uniting

    not just two people,

           but

everyone and everything

     in all of creation.

All people and elements seek

             union

with all other people and elements,

delighting in unitive diversity.

So, yes, a rock has a sex life!!

Sex is a movement to synthesis,

a weaving together of all,

inmost to inmost,

in a tapestry of diversities

interrelating to a whole.

The Love Who Is God

is the energy that transforms

   separation

   to

   unity.

   Love makes one

and lifts all to a divine

   union and ecstasy.

In a more narrow and

conventional sense,

sex is the separation

between two people

and that separation

being diminished

to communion.

There's an ancient myth

that at creation

God was split in two,

into masculine and feminine,

and God has been striving

ever since for

connectedness,

          unity,

              wholeness,

                     oneness.

In its own way

that myth bespeaks

     "secare"

     "sex"

the painful awareness

         of

   separation,

   and

vigorous striving

        for

      union.

Bearing in mind and more so in heart that

"God is love."

( I John 4:8 )

please consider this, pray and ponder over it.

"Love is the pervading passion of all things

   that draws diversity into oneness,

   that knows and pleads for union,

   that aches for goodness and beauty...

   Love is the energy that fuels, fills,

   and embraces everything everywhere.

   And there is no end to it, ever."

Gerald May,

Wisdom of Wilderness

In its purest sense

sex is separation

not willing to stay that way.

In its purest sense

sex is Love drawing

all into unity.

In its purest sense

sex is a movement to

Cosmic Holy Communion.

In its purest and widest sense,

sex is creation that just can't quit.

Next time we'll pick up right there:

Sex and Creation.

So good to be together here.

   In God's Dear Love,

   John Frank

   *****

PS

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to join us here each week.

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*****

A warm welcome to those

who joined us this past week

for the first time.

How blessed are we to welcome

first time participation from Nepal.

It is great to be together.

   "frankly speaking"

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Friday, May 10, 2019

SOULFUL SEX III