Perhaps pleasure is holiness

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Picture: St Theresa and the serpent.
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It has been suggested that the experience of consensual sex is the experience of God.

It is doubtful that one can fully understand the experience of God if one does not fully understand the experience of sex.

On this view, the more sex the better, because more sex is more God. And the better we get at sex, the better we get at God.

Feel-good spirituality is feel-God spirituality.
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Picture: Perhaps pleasure is holiness (2).
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Perhaps pleasure is holiness. And perhaps the most important book in the Bible is the Song of Solomon.

A work by the Italian baroque sculptor Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1598-1680) may be relevant here. Sited in an out-of-the-way location in Rome, it is called "The Ecstasy of St Theresa".

A good image of this curious artwork can be found online here. Or, a detail from a slightly different angle here. In full frontal view here. And a two-angle collage is here.


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The saint and his virgin
Sacred sexuality in early Christianity and the inner teachings of Jesus - an article by Walter Last

Sex and spirituality
Healing with sexual energy - an essay by Walter Last

Sexuality, Appreciation, Higher Self
Thoughts on the spirituality of sex by Joyful Spirit (Ted Murray)

Sex and Spirituality
Thoughts on the spirituality of sex by Neale Donald Walsch

The inner wisdom of the Hindu Tantrik tradition
Mike Magee’s UK website

The Biological Basis of Tantric Sex
A physical guide by Catherine Yronwode

What is Tantra?
An essay by Suzie Heumann

Picture: The Path to Divine Sex. Ananda through Tina Louise Spalding.
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Adam and Eve under The Tree of Knowledge
A picture by Ernst Fuchs

Adam Mysticus
A picture by Ernst Fuchs

The Gate
A picture by Rowena Morill

Wet
A picture by Julie Bell

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Picture: Mary Magdalene. The Holy Grail.
Picture: Joan of Arc, Mary Magdalene, Quan Yin, Taiwan and France.
Picture: Ljubljana (Slovenia).
Picture: Ljubljana (Slovenia) on The Goddess Leyline.
Picture: The Goddess, the Black Madonnas and the Isis mysteries. ..............................................................................................................................................
The five images immediately above and their clickthroughs relate to the Goddess, the Black Madonnas, the High Priestess and the ancient Isis mysteries. More background here, here, here, here, here, here and here.
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Picture: Goddess energy - the energy the dark forces fear the most.
Picture: Kriya Yoga - An Introduction.
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