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Flesh and Spirit
WARNING! Flesh and Spirit is dangerous to the health of your old ideas and expectations about intimate relationship. Reading this revolutionary book dissolves the age-old dispute between sexuality and spirituality and will forever transform the way you and your partner relate. The authors invite you on a journey that embraces everything from ecstatic erotic communion to slogging it out in the trenches of daily life. The journey is at times illuminating, humorous, informative-and, ultimately, profoundly inspiring.
256 pages, Paperback
First published April 1, 1998
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November 22, 2023A relationship transcends when old stories die, and something equivalent to the realization that the sun, not the earth, is the center if the universe. That it is not abt the I, but abt interdependence, expansiveness, and serving others.
Council questions:
What i like/ is troubling me abt our relationship is…
Needs that I want more fully met are…
Describe the sexual attraction in your most important relationship before this one…
In what ways do you fit and fail to fit your partners image of an ideal sexual partner…
What body parts are most sensitive to erotic arousal…
What works well in n your lovemaking…
Any wild fantasies…
Dreamshare and listen
We are the subtle body- an energy field. Spiritual chemistry and magnetism involves this. Awareness of the subtle body increases attraction.
We seek in another what is missing in ourselves
Anger suppression erodes sexual chemistry
Partnerships are two weavers on the same loom without a picture of the final design. The challenge is the interweaving if their personal myths
Develop an erotic connection that is strong enough to break each partners open and willing to be seen
There is a tendency for the initiate to attribute their empowerment to the initiator
The “third”. A conscious presence. A relational soul, Created by the interpenetration of the subtle bodies. Another dimension in which to maneuver.
Partners can co-create. Be present and dialogue back and forth in world creation. Take turns describing elaborate lovemaking. A journey to the realm of God. A journey to the underworld
Practice hand scanning the subtle body
Imagine inhalation through the sexual center, Exhalation spreads it to the whole body and to earth
Imagine the penis as a source of light permeating the body
Imagine the body as a giant phallus penetrating the subtle body field, or flower receiving it
Imagine sex in the temple/cave/cathedral as an act of devotion, with god
Imagine the divine lovers, and you as the gods
In sexual communion, both partners penetrate eachothers subtle bodies
Council questions:
What i like/ is troubling me abt our relationship is…
Needs that I want more fully met are…
Describe the sexual attraction in your most important relationship before this one…
In what ways do you fit and fail to fit your partners image of an ideal sexual partner…
What body parts are most sensitive to erotic arousal…
What works well in n your lovemaking…
Any wild fantasies…
Dreamshare and listen
We are the subtle body- an energy field. Spiritual chemistry and magnetism involves this. Awareness of the subtle body increases attraction.
We seek in another what is missing in ourselves
Anger suppression erodes sexual chemistry
Partnerships are two weavers on the same loom without a picture of the final design. The challenge is the interweaving if their personal myths
Develop an erotic connection that is strong enough to break each partners open and willing to be seen
There is a tendency for the initiate to attribute their empowerment to the initiator
The “third”. A conscious presence. A relational soul, Created by the interpenetration of the subtle bodies. Another dimension in which to maneuver.
Partners can co-create. Be present and dialogue back and forth in world creation. Take turns describing elaborate lovemaking. A journey to the realm of God. A journey to the underworld
Practice hand scanning the subtle body
Imagine inhalation through the sexual center, Exhalation spreads it to the whole body and to earth
Imagine the penis as a source of light permeating the body
Imagine the body as a giant phallus penetrating the subtle body field, or flower receiving it
Imagine sex in the temple/cave/cathedral as an act of devotion, with god
Imagine the divine lovers, and you as the gods
In sexual communion, both partners penetrate eachothers subtle bodies
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