From www.kabbalah.com
According to Kabbalah, sex has the power to crackle electrically with intense energy and to provoke a heightened consciousness. It`s not enough merely to turn on. Animals are capable of physical arousal without any forethought. One must have the courage and focus to tune in as well.
Disconnected, tuned-out sex between self-absorbed partners is incomplete sex. It feels small. It shrinks physical intimacy to its most limited possibilities, rendering it hollow; and quite often, predictable or even boring. Like a bad reproduction of a masterpiece painting, it replicates the moves but lacks the vision and inspiration that elevates the original to greatness. Sex that`s divorced from our inner selves and from our partners prevents us from experiencing the kind of connections that evoke a sense of Heaven here on Earth.
The "sex" that saturates advertising and titillating television shows is passed off as evocative of the real thing. It`s nothing of the sort. Mass market, "sexy" imagery is to real sex what the squawk of a trained parrot is to the voice of Ella Fitzgerald-a crudely inadequate cartoon imitation of the genuine article.
In fact, most of the sex we see around us in our culture isn`t sex at all. It`s just commerce in a tight black dress.
Great sex actually begins outside the bedroom. Sensational sex occurs when one begins to grasp the purpose of creation, the origins of our soul, the meaning of our lives, and the "erogenous zones" of our cosmos. The underlying problem behind a lousy sex life and dysfunctional relationships, according to Kabbalah, is that we do not know:
Who we really are
Where we came from
Why a man and woman exist
The structure of the Cosmos
The meaning and purpose of our lives
The role of sex in the physical and metaphysical scheme of things
The tools necessary to arouse sexual energy in our lives.
In Kabbalah, spiritual awareness and sex, Heaven, and Earth are in an ongoing interaction with one another. The Upper and Lower worlds are intimately connected just as two lovers locked in embrace.
Contrast this, for a moment, with the way sex and desire are treated in our popular culture. Sure, it`s there all the time; but in what context? There is a great deal of frankness regarding the nuts and bolts of our naked bodies, but sex is thoroughly divorced from our spiritual selves. It`s either treated as a purely physical pleasure-sport or as a vaguely sinful endeavor necessary for procreation. Kabbalah rejects both of these distortions. It embraces human sexuality as a key to our spiritual development.
This direct and constant relationship between the sacred "Upper World" and the everyday here on Earth is central to this body of ancient mysticism. According to Kabbalah, our lovemaking has an infinite potential. It has the power to be deeply meaningful. Kabbalah does not associate human sexuality with shame. A lover`s kiss or sensual caress contain Divine sparks of energy.
Consider the vivid and frankly erotic Song of Songs. Mystics taught that there were cosmic truths to be found embedded in the sensual imagery of the poem, in lines that lushly describe lips that taste like wine and lovemaking that flows like myrrh. In fact, many medieval Kabbalists agreed that this rich, lyrical text contained more secrets to the Universe than any other scriptural work!
For example, the verse, "I am my beloved`s and his desire is towards me" (Song of Songs, 7:11) is addressed memorably in <^!The Zohar> The Zohar, which finds both "micro" and "macro" worlds to contemplate in a single line of poetry:
"The inner meaning of this verse is that the stirring below is accompanied by a stirring above, for there is not stirring above until there is a stirring below."
Zohar, I:88a
There`s great beauty and power in the way Kabbalistic thinking fuses the cosmic and the carnal, the world of two lovers with the entire Cosmos. Our hearts and souls are stirred along with our bodies. On a macrocosmic level, Kabbalah tells us that the elevated region of the Divine is stirred when our own physical world stirs. The "above" and "below" in this passage refer both to the spiritual and physical aspects of human beings, and to the "upper" and "lower" stirrings of the Heavenly Cosmos and of the physical Earth.
Thus, we discover that sex has a power that extends far, far beyond the door of the bedroom. This wisdom reveals to us how our most intense moments of eroticism and intimacy reverberate throughout the Cosmos-the way a small stone tossed into still, deep water causes ripples that radiate far outward from the original point of impact.
RAW, NAKED ENERGY
The ancient sages tell us something rather extraordinary about Kabbalistic wisdom itself. That is, the spiritual Kabbalistic knowledge is also the sum and substance of passion. In other words, the Kabbalistic wisdom that pertains to sex and the wisdom that pertains to the meaning of life are both, in fact, the actual material and stuff of sexual energy!
Therefore, the intent behind learning this aspect of Kabbalah is both to teach you how to have great sex through an understanding of the fundamental questions of life, and to arouse the primal forces of sexual energy that can enrich and enliven all your intimate moments. Namely, when this knowledge is implanted within your consciousness, the carnal forces of creation are summoned forth during sexual activity. That`s when spiritual worlds on high tremble with delight as divine pleasure rains down upon you and your partner.
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