Some people have called it sacred sexuality. Some have called it energetic sexuality, where sexuality is a way of expanding our awareness, our sense of connection with God/Goddess, and our beloved is a representation of a deity. It is a way of connecting with the energies throughout the universe, and having a cosmic orgasm.
I even think there are four different bodies that can have orgasms. They have very different experiences associated with them. What I call a light body orgasm is like an energetic explosion that does not require erection or sexual arousal, although it may concur with a sexual activity. It can be an explosion in the center of the head, in the chest, in the pelvis area or some people call it a full body orgasm. When one has this type of orgasm it is throughout the whole physical body, and even extends beyond that.
Those of us who are just focusing on having intercourse or oral/genital or manual/genital activity are most likely to have what we would call a sexual orgasm. They are absolutely wonderful but from an esoteric point of view there are other types of orgasms, which may or may not coincide with sexual activity. Yet they still feel explosive or some sort of a connection that I would say are generating experiences. In a moment, I will tell you about why I call that sacred. But I am thinking about different types of orgasms that aren't even considered as orgasms by some people. But most people don't even have these other types of esoteric experiences.
I think they can be achieved easily once you learn how to do it. Some people use intense breathing. Some people use breathing and different body postures or breathing and massage. The way that I focus on it is simply sending energy to a partner and a partner sending energy back. My first ones were in conjunction with intense breathing. I thought I was passing out. It was like an explosion in my head. There was nothing happening with my genitals. It wasn't even in a sexual context, but it sure felt like an orgasm, though I did not have an erection. And I did not have an ejaculation. It had a different type of pleasure to it.
See, we live in a culture where the physical and, I would say the spiritual and the profane, or the spirit and the flesh, the sacred and the secular are considered not only different, but in opposition. It's really hard to think something that is associated with a sexual activity, called orgasm, could be had by a celibate mystic, such as St. Teresa of Avila, about the 15th or 16th century in Spain.
She was having all these energetic experiences. Her body was moving and she was doing cartwheels of different descriptions. The first time I heard about that I thought, “Oh, she's having an orgasm.” This is many years ago and I kept hearing things and hearing ideas, and I began to put it together. This is not uncommon to mystics.
But within a religious context in which so much of us have grown up in where sexuality is not a part of our spiritual expression, it is antithetical. It would be hard to think of something like that as having sex with God, as being sex. So we need to draw that paradigm that the sexual and the spiritual are in opposition. We have to realize that there have been many cultures throughout humankind that have incorporated ceremonial sexuality and orgasms as a part of the divine expression.
If we go to a church like the Pentecostal church today, where people get happening and really rocking and rolling and getting in the groove with the primordial beat from the organ and the piano. People are singing and shouting. The minister is saying something and the audience is singing back. Huh, huh, huh. I've seen this happen, where someone just flops out and falls on the floor, shaking all over. People come over and fan this person who has fallen down. They help him or her back to their feet.
They say they really caught the spirit. Well, that most likely, and I have seen this happen, in a traditional Christian religious context, some people would call this an orgasm, where the person had a pelvic floor contraction at the same time. Or they had what I call a light body orgasm. It's hard to say. But those explosive moments could indeed be considered orgasms.
But these are only two of the four types of orgasms that I think about.
I am proposing that sexual orgasms, and these other explosive types of what I call light body orgasms the way I have just described, actually generate an energy that these other bodies can use, which enables us to be more and more aware of the divine, in each other, in other dimensions.
But basically, this is a very common practice that is taught in a lot of Tantra seminars where you sit or lie across from your partner. You can gaze into your partner's eyes. You go into breathing in unison. But the whole idea is that without doing physical movement, without having explosive, lusty, passionate interaction with your partner, you take the time to just be with your partner.
This is very common in certain types of meditation seminars. It's a way of beginning to have what I call spirit/body orgasm, which is not explosive. But you have a sense of your energy fields literally becoming one with each other and expanding.
When I do this with a person and they are doing it in reciprocation with me, whether they are sexual partners or not, I perceive, after a little bit of time it's almost as if there is an energy field on a balloon around each one of us. And it expands outward to encompass the other person’s energy field. It feels like soft cotton candy. Like we are in this cotton candy balloon. The energies are very soft.
But that is still what I would call a spirit/body orgasm. That is my languaging. That is an energy generating process. But, in terms of a practical sense of making love with someone, it brings us into being very present with each other, dropping the world, honoring and feeling connected to the person, slowing down. Then you might then move into more what we consider a sexual interaction with the physical bodies coming together -touching, smelling, tasting, caressing each other to the point, perhaps of having orgasms or multiple orgasms or multiple ejaculations for that matter.
My perspective is that your partner is there and you gradually hold the intent of expanding your energy field to encompass theirs, not just staring in their eyes, not just breathing in unison, but it really focuses on the intent to expand your energy. You want to send energy to your partner. And, of course to perceive your partner's energy being expanded to include you.
While we are meditating with our partner, sending energy, in a sense, to our partner, and it is reciprocal, we also have the sense of “I am a one with all that is” or oneness. We have a sense of, as we make love, I am making love to all of existence. This is hard to fathom, given again that we think about sexuality as something that is antithetical to our religious spiritual experiences.
But in many cultures, where they have similar sexuality, they call on the deity to provide abundant crops, for example. And I see that sexuality and orgasm are incredibly powerful catalyses for our, what we called spiritual development. The dance of energies in an intimate sexual context with another is available to us in all parts of our lives.
Now that can be really heavy for some people, because that sounds like you're having sex with anybody and everybody. Well, the truth is, energetically that is happening. We are energetically connected with people that we feel good about, negative about, people that we are working with in the work place, people who we have as friends, and when we are having a beer at the bar, when we are in a seminar, when we are meditating in a circle, we are energy dancers.
Learning to do this energy dance in a very intense way with sexuality with a sexual partner is one of the most powerful and effective ways to learn how to dance with energy. Then we can take that out into other parts of our life.
What I am calling a soul/body orgasm has been the most elusive of the four general types of orgasm about which I am talking. With the spirit/body orgasm, I feel a oneness, a merging energy with another person.
If it also expands, and I feel like I am connecting with all that is, that's when I am going to begin to understand how the two are different. Both of them are very subtle. They are not explosive, earth shattering, volcanic type orgasms. They can be in conjunction with an explosive type of orgasm. I think that takes more and more meditation and ceremonial practice of sexuality to experience that.
But it is like I am with another person. We are sending energy to each other. But there is a sense that my energies are listening to, feeling everything in all of existence. That's the best language I can give. It's far beyond my partner and myself. I'm not talking about going into a deeply altered state, where I don't recall anything happening. I'm talking about feeling like I am here and I am everywhere.
It's a very, very expensive type feeling. It is subtle. And it is sweet.
