"Sacred
Sexuality is about love—not merely the positive feeling between intimates but an overwhelming
reverence for all embodied life on whatever level of existence. Through sacred sexuality, we directly participate
in the vastness of being—the mountains, rivers, and animals of the earth, the planets and the stars, and our next
door neighbors...
...Sacred sexuality is about recovering
our authentic being, which knows bliss beyond mere pleasurable sensations. It is a special form of communication,
even communion, that fills us with awe and stillness...
...Heaven is not separated from Earth by
an impermeable membrane. Reality—or the Divine or the Self—is not miles apart from our ordinary state. It is what
the Swiss philosopher Jean Gebser called the ever-present origin, the tao, which underlies all the psychic states
of our waxing and waning consciousness. We merely need to switch our inner focus to consciously sense ourselves
immersed in that conditon to the point where we become it...
...The desire for transcendence must not
be propelled by egoic motivations. Rather, it must be guided by the ideal of surrendering everything we seem to
be so that, paradoxically, we can become what we truly are...
...The Kingdom of God is indeed near. It
is the turn of a key away. We do not need to go anywhere—especially not up—to open that hidden portal; rather,
we must be willing to be fully present in and as our body. We must also be prepared to acknowledge and demonstrate,
through compassionate action, that we share our somatic reality with countless other beings with whom we are interconnected
and interdependent. Contemporary spirituality is, then, meaningful only to the degree that it is ecological in
the broadest sense of the term. The connecting link between each individual's body-mind and the multitude of others
is eros, love-desire...
...The ecological spirituality called for
today is founded in a deep recognition of the unity of life—a unity that is celebrated in the act of love, whether
sexual or erotic in the larger sense. Eros is connective energy par excellence. Through erotic passion we overcome
our habitual egoic insularity and reach out into the core of other beings. Blazing eros recognizes no barrier;
it is the organic impulse toward wholeness."