Erotic Spirituality
Posted by mywpthemes
My quest started as a teenager in a typical repressed New England village. As a newcomer to puritan New England, having been raised in slightly more liberal circumstances, I was not about to allow my sexuality to be taken from me. I instinctively knew that sex was the source of my spiritual power, and through early explorations discovered it was a way to contact my core Self—that inner spark of the Divine. Through sexual encounters I was able to access ancient memories of energy pathways within the body that could open the heart and induce altered states of consciousness. But how to make those around me understand that a sexually awakened woman is not a slut but rather a priestess and a healer? How to overcome the double standard that applauds a sexually active man for being stud while judging his consorts as whores? How to transform the cultural view of sexual pleasure as sinful and dirty into a realization that sexual pleasure is sacred and potentially a source of peace and harmony and healing?
These questions led me to graduate school at the University of Washington where I was trained in Masters and Johnson style sex therapy in the late seventies. At that time the UW psychology department, under the direction of the late Dr. Nathaniel Wagner, was accomplishing much pioneering work in human sexuality, but the spiritual dimensions of sex were not being addressed in academia. I wanted to go study in India, but fortunately it wasn’t feasible for me. I say fortunately because as Daniel Odier relates in his beautiful book, Tantric Quest, it took him many years of searching to find a Tantric master in India. As it turned out I discovered incredible teachers right here in the Pacific Northwest!
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