"It is not ouside of yourself that you are looking for a 'twin flame' partner.
You are looking for the integration of the female and male essence within yourself . . . you become complete within"
--Pleiadians / 'Bringers of the Dawn'
We so very often search for completion to come from the union of two bodies, before first becoming complete within.
I, myself, have experienced this. Spirit pressed upon me, through various vessels, to take the time to heal, to become whole within myself.
Clever and stubborn girl that I am, I convinced myself that I had done just that very thing . . . 'ok, yeah, I understand . . . so since I understand, it is ok for me to be with this one (or that one)'. He-he! I did not attract the one whom my heart truly yearns for, but those who carried behaviors that reflected to me the very issues that I was refusing to deal with.
When I finally had had enough, I decided it was time to dig my heals in and put blinders on to men (not easy, for I do so love them! * wink *). My ego pitched a royal fit . . . it hurt, this thing called 'spending time with oneself', the thoughts and emotions that rose were not the most pleasant --but it was such a blessed process. The ego finally hushed, and I could begin to REALLY hear Spirit.
I like to think I have finally done it . . . integrating the female and male essence within. My last relationship was wonderful, however brief. I was able to not place expectations on outcomes and simply allow it to be and express itself. He and I have gone in different directions, but with love and much respect for one another. Is it possible it is just the 'ego' being tricky, yes . . . but Spirit is much more clever, and I trust that all is as it should be.
Full moon today, as I type this . . . watch out beloved brothers, Full moon is the Huntress in full force! * wink *
You are looking for the integration of the female and male essence within yourself . . . you become complete within"
--Pleiadians / 'Bringers of the Dawn'
We so very often search for completion to come from the union of two bodies, before first becoming complete within.
I, myself, have experienced this. Spirit pressed upon me, through various vessels, to take the time to heal, to become whole within myself.
Clever and stubborn girl that I am, I convinced myself that I had done just that very thing . . . 'ok, yeah, I understand . . . so since I understand, it is ok for me to be with this one (or that one)'. He-he! I did not attract the one whom my heart truly yearns for, but those who carried behaviors that reflected to me the very issues that I was refusing to deal with.
When I finally had had enough, I decided it was time to dig my heals in and put blinders on to men (not easy, for I do so love them! * wink *). My ego pitched a royal fit . . . it hurt, this thing called 'spending time with oneself', the thoughts and emotions that rose were not the most pleasant --but it was such a blessed process. The ego finally hushed, and I could begin to REALLY hear Spirit.
I like to think I have finally done it . . . integrating the female and male essence within. My last relationship was wonderful, however brief. I was able to not place expectations on outcomes and simply allow it to be and express itself. He and I have gone in different directions, but with love and much respect for one another. Is it possible it is just the 'ego' being tricky, yes . . . but Spirit is much more clever, and I trust that all is as it should be.
Full moon today, as I type this . . . watch out beloved brothers, Full moon is the Huntress in full force! * wink *
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Re: The Lovers
Fri, August 19, 2005 - 8:29 AMYou described so well the journey I've been moving through, this "spending time with oneself" and finding that balance.
It is so true! It isn't until we are finally complete within, that we can truly hear Spirit and can give love to others as a gift rather than using love as a way to complete ourselves with "another half".
Thank you for expressing it so well!
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Re: The Lovers
Fri, August 19, 2005 - 9:44 AMThis is perfect... and such a major validation for me! I've always questioned people who say they have found their twin flame in their partner rather than within themselves!
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Re: The Lovers
Fri, August 19, 2005 - 10:52 AMas my Mother
beckons
i will stand in the presence
of a masculine flame
indeed
this very night!
as whole and holy
as i am
right now
and as strong and integrated
as he is...
we will share and reflect
what ever
is most needed...
witnessed by
the fullest moon
over the ocean
of our tides
warmed by the
blazing fire
of our creation...
i am not complete
without
the soft balance of
masculinity within my Self
and i humbly permit him
to hold that space
as i will stand in
the Truth of Divine Feminine
for him...
and for me...
for so much that
needs healed in us all
we need support...
this is my intention
to hold the space
for the
unconditional Love
that pervades
even our
most shadowed places...
i will offer him what he may need
and i Trust
that he will do the same
for me...
this society is so isolated
and i don't mean to walk alone
i hold my hand outward
to anyone who may need it
always...
the winds of Time
have spun us together
at least for right now
and i am so very blessed....
HAPPY FULL MOON! -
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Re: The Lovers
Fri, August 19, 2005 - 11:21 AMAs always, exquisite expression, Shannon~ May your encounter be most blessed, indeed, beautiful sister.
I ache for the Moment when I will encounter the one I have been quietly reaching out for --to loose myself within his embrace, in his eyes, in his very essence . . . complete surrender of all that I am.
But in the space between Now and that Moment . . . I am complete, whole and secure within myself. I do not need his pressence to feel loved, to find joy, to be at peace.
Becoming complete within myself, has opened up the Path for him to return to me . . . and return he shall.
So mote it be
So let it be
It is done~
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Re: The Lovers
Fri, August 19, 2005 - 5:30 PM~NAMASTE~
I found this over in the 'Consciousness and Sexuality' tribe posted by 'Ricky'
I have abbreviated it, just a bit . . .
"As women, we have come to distrust that power which rises from our deepest and nonrational knowledge. We have been warned against it all our lives by the male world, which values this depth of feeling enough to keep women around in order to exercise it in the service of men, but which fears this same depth too much to examine the possibilities of it within themselves. So women are maintained at a distant/ inferior position to be psychically milked, much the same way ants maintain colonies of aphids to provide a life-giving substance for their masters.
But the erotic offers a well of replenishing and provocative force to the woman who does not fear its revelation, nor succumb to the belief that sensation is enough.
The erotic has often been misnamed by men and used against women. It has been made into the confused, the trivial, the psychotic, the plasticized sensation. For this reason, we have often turned away from the exploration and consideration of the erotic as a source of power and information, confusing it with its opposite, the pornographic. But pornography is a direct denial of the power of the erotic, for it represents the suppression of true feeling. Pornography emphasizes sensation without feeling.
The erotic is a measure between the beginnings of our sense of self and the chaos of our strongest feelings. It is an internal sense of satisfaction to which, once we have experienced it, we know we can aspire. For having experienced the fullness of this depth of feeling and recognizing its power, in honor and self-respect we can require no less of ourselves.
The aim of each thing which we do is to make our lives and the lives of our children richer and more possible. Within the celebration of the erotic in all our endeavors, my work becomes a conscious decision - a longed-for bed which I enter gratefully and from which I rise up empowered.
OF COURSE, WOMEN SO EMPOWERED are dangerous. So we are taught to separate the erotic demand from most vital areas of our lives other than sex. And the lack of concern for the erotic root and satisfactions of our work is felt in our disaffection from so much of what we do. For instance, how often do we truly love our work even at its most difficult?
The principal horror of any system which defines the good in terms of profit rather than in terms of human need, or which defines human need to the exclusion of the psychic and emotional components of that need - the principal horror of such a system is that it robs our work of its erotic value, its erotic power and life appeal and fulfillment. Such a system reduces work to a travesty of necessities, a duty by which we earn bread or oblivion for ourselves and those we love. But this is tantamount to blinding a painter and then telling her to improve her work, and to enjoy the act of painting. It is not only next to impossible, it is also profoundly cruel.
As women, we need to examine the ways in which our world can be truly different. I am speaking here of the necessity for reassessing the quality of all the aspects of our lives and of our work, and of how we move toward and through them.
The very word erotic comes from the Greek word eros, the personification of love in all its aspects - born of Chaos, and personifying creative power and harmony. When I speak of the erotic, then, I speak of it as an assertion of the lifeforce of women; of that creative energy empowered, the knowledge and use of which we are now reclaiming in our language, our history, our dancing, our work, our lives.
There are frequent attempts to equate porn('graphy and eroticism, two diametrically opposed uses of the sexual. Because of these attempts, it has become fashionable to separate the spiritual (psychic and emotional) from the political, to see them as contradictory or antithetical. "What do you mean, a poetic revolutionary, a meditating gun-runner?" the same way, we have attempted to separate the spiritual and the erotic, thereby reducing the spiritual to a world of flattened affect, a world of the ascetic who aspires to feel nothing. But nothing is farther from the truth. For the ascetic position is one of the highest fear, the gravest immobility. The severe abstinence of the ascetic becomes the ruling obsession. And it is one not of self-discipline but of self-abnegation.
THE EROTIC FUNCTIONS FOR ME IN several ways, and the first is in providing the power which comes from sharing deeply any pursuit with another person. The sharing of joy, whether physical, emotional, psychic, or intellectual, forms a bridge between the sharers which can be the basis for understanding much of what is not shared between them, and lessens the threat of their difference.
Another important way in which the erotic connection functions is the open and fearless underlining of my capacity for joy. In the way my body stretches to music and opens into response, hearkening to its deepest rhythms, so every level upon which I sense also opens to the erotically satisfying experience, whether it is dancing, building a book- case, writing a poem, examining an idea.
That self-connection shared is a measure of the joy which I know myself to be capable of feeling, a reminder of my capacity for feeling. And that deep and irreplaceable knowledge of my capacity for joy comes to demand from all of my life that it be lived within the knowledge that such satisfaction is possible, and does not have to be called marriage, nor god, nor an afterlife."
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Re: The Lovers
Sat, August 20, 2005 - 11:50 AMI really enjoyed reading this article because I feel the same truth within myself. I am an erotic being and in my womanhood, this is expressed in the fullness of my creative power.
I find it in my interactions whith others (and sex doesn't have to be part of this). It is the ability to be totally present in any given situation, opening to that well of Shakti that bubbles up when I am stirred by music, the written word, the touch of a friend, the absorbtion of the creative process...
It is present with me in all that I do and I love beeing in tune with this part of myself. When I acknowledge this "self-connection" I feel completely in tune with Divine Shakti and the goddess within.
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Sat, August 20, 2005 - 9:06 PMOh lovely!
I have found myself feeling depressed last night and craving chocolate... today I wake from a string of nightmares which I only want to forget and read this posting and consider...
The power of chocolate is that it seems to enable a self-connection. Chocolate doesn't CAUSE it, however, any more than an external lover does. In fact chocolate almost just provides an excuse for self-connection, which is the Goddesses' divine joke:
All that we need is within. Are we ready to let go of misery and melodrama to access it?
So I choose to connect with a friend today instead. "I" is already whole and complete, and needs only the sharing of that inner connection to finesse the awareness of the lovers into consciousness!
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Re: The Lovers
Sun, August 21, 2005 - 4:28 PMDecided to do some back tracking on paths once traveled and came across this article I wanted to share. Again, I have abbreviated and emphasized, but only slightly.
SEX
According to Kabbalah, desire is the core essence of a human being. Desire is the stuff from which we are made. Desire is what fuels the entire human experience: art, literature, music, scientific discovery, and political revolution. They all begin with the ignition of a desire and longing that yearns to be
fulfilled. And there is no more profound, potent, or potentially spiritual conduit for the expression of our desire than sex.
This essential Kabbalistic truth is so important, it bears repeating:
There is no more profound, potent, or potentially spiritual conduit for the expression of our desire than sex.
SEX AS SPORT
It's true that our bodies are complicated pieces of biological "machinery," and that we want them to "perform"; but where does that leave our souls?
A man might very will be adept in the art of sexual mechanics, and his wife may be able to match him move for move; but the seed of sexual pleasure is not purely physical, as most couples who've been together for some time can attest to.
What the bulk of pop gurus, slick magazines, sex therapists, and climax-counters leave out of the "how-to" equation is the ineffable human soul. Yet it's that very soul that animates our bodies and propels our every action. It's that soul energy that can give our lives meaning beyond "how-to" and "how many."
Whether we repress that energy, compartmentalize it as somehow "separate from sex," or recognize it and eventually cultivate it, it's there.
It pulsates and permeates our entire being as a profound desire to connect with someone... with something outside of ourselves.
According to the Kabbalist, eroticism and arousal begin in the mystical intersection of our heads, hearts and souls.
When we are willing to expose the totality of ourselves, and to focus on the emotional and spiritual aspects of our partners as well as their physical charms, then sex can be deeply intimate.
When we become aware of the spiritual purpose and cosmic role that sex plays in the grand scheme of things, it becomes charged with discovery and spiritual energy.
SEX WITH SOUL
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.
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.
www.kabbalahcentre.com
I particularly enjoyed the closing paragraph *mischevious wink*
Endlessly Searching~
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Re: The Lovers
Tue, August 30, 2005 - 11:40 AMa very provocative piece indeed . . .
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Re: The Lovers
Tue, August 30, 2005 - 11:45 AMNice. Love! I am love, I love you all.
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