To Be in Joy
Our purpose on this Earth
Dear Reader;
Some years ago I hosted a small Salon in a lovely home in the Toronto Beaches. On this occasion, I received a transmission on the subject of one of our greatest human wounds, sexual shame. When I speak of this quality of shame, I am not simply referring to embarrassment or shyness about intimacy, nor even the sexual trauma so many of us carry. These are also important but are part of a much larger picture. I am referencing the deep, underground river of toxic shame that runs within every institutionalized religion and so many cultural traditions worldwide, tainting the truth of our experiences of pleasure, union, and pure, blissful, creative, life force energy.
Remember also that sexual energy is not always expressed through intimate union. This is the same energy that generates sensual beauty and vitality, interwoven with great art, music, dance, and poetry. It lives in nature, in the scent of roses, the taste of delicious food, the sensation of sliding into a hot bath, a mother’s first kiss upon her baby’s head, in every act of raw creation.
We have much to learn about the healing of this wound.
Today I offer a taste of the Healing Sexual Shame transmission:
"Our first chakra, the system of elimination by which we release the unwanted toxins from the body, is where our survival fears live. It is where we are connected with the earth. We walk with our feet, but we feel with our bottoms. The base of the skeletal system, the spine, and the root hold us in our bodies. It is possible to be so out of body that our feet barely touch the ground. Yet it is not the job of our feet to connect us, it is the job of the first chakra to bring us down to earth and to keep us here. And to say, yes, we’re in physical form and yes, physical form can be coarse and brutish and unattractive and painful and dark, it decays, it betrays us, it hurts us… and eventually it leaves us. It is a gift that does not last. For from the moment we are born we begin to die. There is a reason that the second chakra, the heart of our sexual desire lives so close to this place. It is because our purpose here, on this earth is not suffering, it is not to conquer suffering, it is not to alleviate suffering… It is to be in joy.
The experience of being in human form and discovering divine sexual union with another is an experience of divine bliss. There is no greater bliss state available to the vast majority of people alive on the planet today. Even the great yogis and yoginis, even the ones who have spent years in meditation… They miss a piece when they sever themselves from the physical experience of allowing the pleasure centres in their body to awaken and express. Without the allowance of this joy in our lives it is very difficult to find a reason to remain alive. And so our sexual energy is not simply an aspect of procreation, it is an aspect of co-creation, of our willingness to be on the planet at all.
It is part of the bargain, when we say we want to be here, we wish to embody. We do this with the understanding that pleasure is our birthright. And it is. There is no reason in existence for this to be denied other than fear. And so when we look at the thousands and thousands of ways sexuality is denied on the planet, we must understand and accept that we are looking at the thousands and thousands of faces of fear. And what we are afraid of is beauty, delight, pleasure, joy and permission to feel all of this, to experience all of this, to recognize that this is our true nature. Nothing less...”
~ Healing Sexual Shame
The image above is of Madam Jeanne Louise Calment, who had the longest confirmed human lifespan: 122 years, 164 days. She was born in Arles, France, on February 21, 1875.
When she was 85, she took up fencing, and still rode her bike when she reached 100. At the age of 114, she starred in a film about her life, and at age 117 she gave up smoking, having started at the age of 21 in 1896. She didn't give it up for health reasons; her reason was that she didn't like having to ask someone to help her light a cigarette once she was nearly blind.
Some quotations attributed to Madam Calment:
"I'm in love with wine."
"All babies are beautiful."
"I think I will die of laughter."
"I never wear mascara; I laugh until I cry often."
"I have a huge desire to live and a big appetite, especially for sweets."
"I took pleasure when I could. I acted clearly and morally and without regret. I'm very lucky."
“Being young is a state of mind, it doesn’t depend on one’s body. I’m actually still a young girl, it's just that I haven't looked so good for the past 70 years."
My upcoming SASS Salon series offers an opportunity to receive intuited guidance about your own life force energy; both your wounding, and your activating permission for joy.
This program is not about Tantra. It is not explicit or intrusive. There is no touching, no nudity, no requirement to share what may be uncomfortable. What the SASS work offers instead is a depth of insight into your self-denial that may touch your heart and soul as much as it may awaken your body. Our own permission for joy must be reclaimed before we can effectively serve others. We must learn to allow ourselves to be loved, before we attempt to love others.
You are deserving of beauty in your life. You are worthy of passionate energy in your days. You are meant to remember how to reach out and touch the Divine, even from this Earthly realm.
much love, Adi