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 SENSUALITY~SEXUALITY~SPIRITUALITY...SAME DIFFERENCE?

 From years of his own contemplative practice as well as his experience working with people on the contemplative spiritual journey, Gerald May came to recognize that a spiritual awakening often is accompanied by increased sexual energy. He offers an explanation, along with a warning:

 Spiritual growth—the growth of appreciation of meaning, purpose, belonging, and loving in life--requires the opening and freeing of spirit and therefore of sexuality. But as with everything else a balanced middle ground must be found. … This is an especially difficult problem for people who have led lives of considerable sexual repression and then find themselves opening to increased passion in the course of their spiritual practice. … people can spend months or years displacing their spiritual longing onto interpersonal sexuality… when a person begins to evolve greater liberation of sexuality as a consequence of spiritual growth, or when spiritual awakening occurs in the context of interpersonal loving, one often feels caught as to what to do, how to express the tremendous surge of loving, living energy that has so dramatically come into awareness. The answer is certainly not to be found in channeling all one’s spiritual energy into sexuality. Time and again throughout history human experience has shown that this is bound to result in confusion and despair. But neither, do I think, is the answer to be found in attempting to channel all one’s sexuality into spiritual expression. …

http://jungiancenter.org/essay/jung-enantiodromia-part-ii-surprising-example

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