Achieving Enlightenment through Sacred Sex

Achieving Enlightenment.We are all human.Sex is important.We all want and need sex.These are basic facts, just in the same way as we all breathe and we all dream. We all want. There have been many people throughout history – even to the present day – who seek to deny such basic facts, who seek to control others through the restriction of natural, basic humanity. These people were wrong then just as they are wrong now.Sex is important not only because of the physical act of sex, not only because of the orgasm, but because it reaches to the very core of our being – and in a real sense, to the core of our humanity. It gives us a route to feel deeply, to touch deeply, to share completely … and to communicate with our partner in THE most human, non-verbal sense through honesty and unselfish behaviour.The real outside world is hustle and bustle and unwelcome stress. The real inside world of sex is a touch of purity that shows life can be sublime and as such is enabled by the physical yet goes beyond the physical into enlightenment.Without a doubt sex is what it should be at that time. Sometimes it is lust. Sometimes it is love. Sometimes it is more even than love. Just as this is so, it is also so that there is no need to be afraid or wary of sex. There is no need to hide from sex or to accept as normal anyone who seeks to make you feel guilty about sex. We all want. Within a relationship there is every need to be open and honest. Within a society that confines and restricts and suppresses individuality and creativity, sex is a gateway to something greater.It allows us to experience the divine, something beyond normality. Something we crave for and desire and fantasise about. Something lasting.And as sex allows us to experience the “divine”, for countless centuries it has been used in mystical rituals and deeply held beliefs to ensure the continuation of life, rebirth, a celebration of life and light. Just as some civilisations prayed to the sun or the moon or other outwardly deities, some civilisations used sex and se