Hello Lovlies!
So why all the sexual energy, you may ask? Well, you are asking hahaha!
Well, the answer is because it is part of my evil agenda to make a jailbreak and get us out of the quagmire of this materialistic paradigm!
Not that material is boring perse, there is lots of lovely stuff evidently within the material realm, and not that matter is not spiritual! On the contrary, the material is right at the very heart of the spiritual! You could even say that material is the spiritual condensed.
The problem is, more specifically, that the spiritual is out of sight, out of mind. We barely think about it, little own interact with it, and I thought, well, we all know sex sells, right. If I could get you interacting with your very own invisible, it might make you curious about the broader universe of all invisible things!
Also, I have it on good authority that the Upanishads teach that it is impossible for us to learn elsewhere what we are incapable of learning within our bodies. So I am obviously onto something, and quite frankly, sexual energy was my gateway before I began to play with plant medicines, mediation, journeying etc.
And look, if we really want to get real about Ancient Egypt, then we need to start thinking along these lines, or we will not get very far and speaking of Ancient Egyptians, and depending on who you talk to, the Ancients believed that each of us had at least three, or as many as nine bodies depending on who you talk to, and only one of them was the Physical body with which we are all obsessed.
Schwaller De Lunicz, who inspired ohn Anthony West, Robert Lawlor, Chance and I, among many others, in his book The Temple In Man. This is the little one that caused the big kerfuffle within Egyptology, which explains that the pharaonic teaching shows us Man composed of three beings: the sexual Being, the corporeal Being, and the spiritual Being. Each has its own body and organs. These three beings are interdependent in the flux of juices and the nervous influx; the spinal marrow is the column of "fire" that connects the whole. ( Now, did not Ingo Swann say as much! )
The man Schwaller is on fire, but not so much for me via his meticulous work on The Temple as Luxor ( I got messed up by all the math), but because Schwaller brought home to me two essential points that I took aboard very early and which have haunted me ever since, and have inspired much of my work today!
1) Is that the Ancient Egyptians did not think like us
2) That if we want to understand and embrace the legacy they have left for us, we are going to have to understand their paradigm and the way they thought...and this is what I have been trying to do with you by pointing out to you our paradigm, its shortfalls, some of the stuff we are missing out on because we have a limited perspective, and trying my hardest to open us all up!!!!
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Schwaller wrote on this in a far more eloquent manner than I could.
"Rationalism is based on the data provided by the senses, and the senses perceive only a meager part of what is. Thus, through rationalism alone, we can know only what is encountered through the senses, what is ponderable, quantitative. Yet mathematics have demonstrated the existence of elements that fall outside the physical; we must take this into account, and if rationalism brings us up against an impenetrable wall, in so doing, it in fact teaches us that it has its limits and that we should seek another means of knowledge.
It follows from these observations that either there exists only a concrete world perceptible to the senses, or we lack a faculty that would enable us to grasp the abstract, without having to concretize through thei magination. The process is ingrained in us, in accordance with a mode that always leads toward the quantitative definition. This is the inverse of the Egyptian mentality. "
Schwaller calls the Ancient Egyptian Mentality Pharaonic Thinking...and I have bastardized it to "other ways of knowing". What ways? Well, Ingo's book is all about other ways of knowing. A vast amount of Rudolph Steiner's work is about bringing back to life or bringing online these organs of perception that we cannot see with OUR eyes...again, Ingo could, and so now maybe you see the connection!
But we do not NEED our eyes to acknowledge these energies or organs, which is why playing with them and these energetic sexual organs is a good step because they are REAL. They are hard to ignore! Moreover, we feel these energies when aroused, so they are not so much of a mystery!
It might not be a full-proof method, but it is my small contribution to helping us take a small step for mankind!
Schwaller felt the pain or trying to open us up too...he said: "Pharaonic Egypt remains unknown in terms of its true science, its' contingent psycho-spiritual knowledge, and its philosophical mentality.
The funerary texts develop the myth transcribed into images, but it has not been possible to translate the deeper meaning of these images into comprehensible language. The philosophical connection of the accumulated data is lacking. One tends to seek in ancient Egypt, as well as in Babylon and other traditions of the past, what might be called a rational expression of esotericism. This is an error that arises from the prejudice that there is no esotericism or that there exists an intent to conceal a certain knowledge.
However, simple reasoning shows us that, for example, if the Gospels were written to teach the way of Truth and to show us what this Truth consists of. then the form of parables and enigmatic phrases chosen for this revelation would be nonsensical if its purpose were to conceal this Truth. The purpose of these parables and enigmatical phrases is not to hide anything from "he who has eyes to see and ears to hear," according to the evangelical formula. The purpose is to select those who developed the necessary understanding and who are for this reason worthy of these "secrets" (that is to say. they will not misuse them for selfish motives). There was never any intent to conceal, from those thus prepared, any of the wisdom transmitted by texts, traditions, or monuments. The enigma does not lie in the thing itself but is the result of our under- standing, our faculties, and our intelligence, which arc not attuned to the mentality according to which the idea was expressed, and it is just this that our present education prevents us from admitting."
So basically, if we want to understand what they left us, we need to have eyes to see, and our material prison paradigm eyes are not going to cut the mustard.
As Robert Lawlor explains in the preface to The Temple in Man:
Lawlor: "This doctrine ( The doctrine of the Ancient Egyptians ) encompasses a vision of the principle of matter as a field of existence responsive to and capable of being transformed by spiritual influences brought about through the evolution of embodied and individualized consciousness. The West today could benefit from a philosophy of spiritual depth that does not suppress, diminish, or deny our intellectual and material nature but rather fulfills our commitment to the meaningfulness of human life and this material expression of the universe.
This lost alchemy, the pursuit of which extends back to its flowering in ancient Egypt, can be seen as the hidden esoteric roots of both civilization and individuals throughout recorded time. It is this same alchemy which is at the core of the vision of the anthropocosm—of Man as being and containing within himself the entire universe. This vision, which is introduced by Schwaller de Lubicz in these pages and expanded and brought to life in his major work, The Temple of Man, leaves us with a single, enduring message: the inevitable resurrection of the spiritual essence which has involved itself in matter in the form of organic creative energy.
With Egyptian alchemy we arc considering, then, a science in the highest sense of the word, and one very different from our own. It was science directed toward the embodiment of spiritual knowledge, toward the internalization and corporeal expression of intellectual and spiritual powers, rather than the mechanistic utilization of knowledge-power for the exploitation and manipulation of the earthly environment.
The Temple was the pinnacle of the collective life, ever guiding the energy of the long-lived civilization of the Nile Valley toward the gestation of a divine humanity out of the transitory human form. "
Next week we will dig in further to what Schwaller meant and how we can make ourselves worthy of understanding the Ancients.
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