I have a friend who as a young man was very handsome and flirty, but he ran away from romantic encounters and for a long time lived in an ascetic spiritual quest, repressing his own libido. It took him a while to overcome and transcend that Christian conditioning of guilt and sin in relation to sexuality. Perhaps he is still healing from this atavistic, millennial and misguided notion. It takes a lot of love about it, taking care of yourself, listening and welcoming the hurt inner child. Because thinking about it, on the path of spiritual evolution it is not necessary to renounce the body, the instinct itself. Repression doesn’t help anyone to evolve. The daily practice of meditation in Tibetan yoga has helped you to understand and heal yourself. The many years of ayuhasca work and therapeutic journeys also helped him a lot to transcend his limits.
It has been a great challenge to re-educate yourself, to reinvent yourself by transforming old patterns, but today you can more than understand, feel sex as a blessing, a divine gift of health, vigor and joy: without hurting anyone, with affection, a lot of cuddling , connection and responsibility is a healthy manifestation of Love. A powerful life boost. Dionysos, deity of ancient Greece – symbol of theater, dance, ecstasy, catharsis and transcendence. Far beyond the Roman image of drunkenness and orgies, as Nietzsche warned us; Dr Carl Jung and the Brazilian psychiatrist, Dr Nise da Silveira, taught us. Come to us the Dionysian energy that, in the path of enlightenment, rescues and balances us from the excess of rationality of the current world, of so much rigor in the discipline, so much fear of instinct and distance from the body. Consciousness, courage to live, perfect health, fullness in love and lots of joy. Long live Aphrodite, Eros and Dionysus!
“You’ve gotten drunk on so many kinds of wine. Taste this. It won’t make you wild. It’s fire. Give up, if you don’t understand by this time that your living is wood.”
Romulo
