Sorting the pieces

Tuesday, April 5, 2005
11:05:00 PM CDT
Hearing Al Green, I'm So Tired of Being Alone      I've recently read about a location in the brain that some researchers are calling the "God spot."  When it's stimulated, a person loses some sense of their physical boundaries, feels the presence of another and a sensation of great peace.  For people who believe in a deity or deities, finding this location has reaffirmed their faith in that we have been given the ability to receive the presence of the Divine.  For people who don't believe, it reaffirms the belief  that the brain can pull tricks on the mind.  Either way you look at it, it's interesting.  This spot has been viewed in action by the use of MRIs.  Some Buddhist monks participated in the study, and their MRIs showed the center to be highly active during meditation.  In other people it's been highly active during prayer. Another time it's shown increased activity is immediately post-orgasm.  Don't you love that?  Physical passion is a route to connect with the Divine, not just feel divine.
     It reaffirms my belief that the mind, the body and the spirit are so closely intertwined that what affects one will affect the other.  It's only when all three are working together that we're really at our best. Each different aspect nourishes and supports the other.  I like the idea of chi, energy flowing from and through everything.  When we disconnect part of ourselves, we disrupt our own energy and suffer for it. 
     I need to tend my spirit. I need to pray.  I need to feel connected to God/dess, my own personal spirit, and the world around me.  I have found that in my writing and in being a mother and a nurturer is where I tend to best make that connection.  Mentally, I need to keep growing.  My curiousity can be as hungry as my body.  I like to ask questions.  I like to solve problems.  I like to use my imagination.  I like to dredge up skills from my now ancient education and see if they're still usable.  I drive myself a little crazy trying to figure out estimated time of arrival using old equations when I'm driving.  Slowly I'm learning to give my body the same care and attention.  I know that I need good nutrition and food for pleasure as well. I know that I need exercise and rest.  I also respect my need for passion, and I love the idea that I can enjoy more by tending the mind and spirit more as well.
     In this respect, spirituality seems like a very selfish thing. Become smarter, more physically fit and sexier in the guise of becoming more spiritual.  That sounds like something you'd hear on some televangelist's program, and that's not what I mean.  It's about being less fragmented and more whole, which comes down to having more integrity.  Ultimately, integrity calls upon a person to take action, and that means slipping beyond the borders of self, and there, we come back to real spirituality.  Like the best sex, it's not something that can really be done alone. 

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• #7 Comment from teaganfire77 
  4/8/05 6:00 PM | Permalink

  I think that the "God Spot" connection to the divine is exactly why some people practiced "sex magick" in ancient and even modern times.
  
  Nikki
• #6 Comment from rivercitygirl1 
  4/6/05 9:03 PM | Permalink

  A powerful read.  You write so incredibly well.  If there is one person that I learn a lot from, it is you.  Thank you.
  Tami
• #5 Comment from b4i8clover 
  4/6/05 10:43 AM | Permalink

  The early explorers of the geographical mysteries kept journals of their travels and discoveries. Today, the inner geographies are being explored, and we still keep journals to track our discoveries.
  - Malcolm
• #4 Comment from yeolecontractor 
  4/6/05 8:45 AM | Permalink

  Quote:
  Slowly I'm learning to give my body the same care and attention.  I know that I need good nutrition and food for pleasure as well. I know that I need exercise and rest.  I also respect my need for passion, and I love the idea that I can enjoy more by tending the mind and spirit more as well.
      In this respect, spirituality seems like a very selfish thing. Become smarter, more physically fit and sexier in the guise of becoming more spiritual.  That sounds like something you'd hear on some televangelist's program, and that's not what I mean.  It's about being less fragmented and more whole, which comes down to having more integrity.  Ultimately, integrity calls upon a person to take action, and that means slipping beyond the borders of self, and there, we come back to real spirituality.  Like the best sex, it's not something that can really be done alone.
  
  This section of your write is, to me, perhaps the most enlightening of all your words. The power of love and sexual expression increased tremendously with me when I allowed myself to love me more, first. In doing so it was much easier for me to love and give more and as a result I got "sooo" much more back in return. The lovin became almost a constant "out of body" experience as well as sex itself.
  Good stuff you wrote.
  
  Spencer
  http://journals.aol.com/yeolecontractor/SpencersPlace/
  
  
• #3 Comment from judithheartsong 
  4/6/05 8:01 AM | Permalink

  beautifully written and expressed and oh so true. judi

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