Psyche
The Gifts of Boredom
When you make a spiritual practice of boredom, you are creating new neural pathways that allow you to relate to unpleasant stimuli in new ways. The point is to use boredom as a gateway to pure awareness.
When you make a spiritual practice of boredom, you are creating new neural pathways that allow you to relate to unpleasant stimuli in new ways. The point is to use boredom as a gateway to pure awareness.
An exploration of how "intentional sexuality" – or "sacred sexuality" – is used to reclaim the link between sexuality and spirituality, an ancient bond severed by the anti-carnal elements within early Christianity, Protestantism, and American Puritanism in its old and newer forms.
I think we're meant to stop having fun, at some point, because of a sense of deeper responsibilities. And yet, I still find myself making choices that lead to more juiciness. On good days, I am at peace with this decision.
The point of the spiritual search is to stop seeking. But not in the way it seems.
Are peak experiences real? How do we know anything is true? Certain things are logically provable, but many other kinds of truths are not. Secret mystical teachings are not esoteric; they are experiential.
In the Christian story of the Last Supper, Jesus distributes the flesh of God, initiating the first communion. To a Catholic, the significance of the scene is its mythic and
theological context. But to a Buddhist, it's about fresh baked bread.
On a recent 40-day meditation
retreat, I experienced a wave of self-hatred so shocking, so intense, that it
changed the way I relate to sexuality, guilt, homophobia, and healing. I want to tell you the story.
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Why would precisely those spiritual traditions which emphasize that "all is one" – Hinduism is the great example – multiply into infinity the faces and manifestations of God, gods, and goddesses? It may be that polytheism and polymorphism are more accurate, not less, than traditional monotheism.
Since Aldous Huxley published "The Doors of Perception," most spiritual practitioners have assumed that the point is: All is One. But as more spiritual seekers pursue non-unitive paths – including drinking ayahuasca and smoking DMT – I have a hunch that it is about to change.
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