QUESTION: “You saw something in me that I didn’t see in myself.”
QUESTION: “You saw something in me that I didn’t see in myself.” Who have been the teachers, mentors and guides in your life that believed in you even when you didn’t?ANSWER: For a very long time, “drunken love,” was the only sort of love that I could offer.Up and beyond my alcoholism I clung to the idea that Ecstasy would connect all of us to the Divine. My entire world view could be summed up as, “Orgasms are the Gateways that we use to talk to the Gods.” As sex-positive poetry went it was kick-ass, I never ran out of words describing what I saw as the ultimate form of Alchemy: the blending of Flesh and Soul every time we Climaxed.Often the feedback I would get to this idea, however, was that Ecstasy is all fine and dandy but it isn’t a state that humans are meant to permanently dwell in, it could cause cirrhosis and other life-threatening illnesses if indulged in too much. What that statement says to me is that it isn’t about Ecstasy in and of itself, rather it’s the manner that we use to get there. I totally agree; my alcoholism was killing me and since it was the only path that I used I couldn’t imagine reaching climax sober. I still can’t, but that’s not Ecstasy’s fault.For me this is the downside of being a Solitary practitioner—I have very few people in my life that I can ask for a reality check or a second opinion from, having outlived (somehow) almost all my original teachers (linear time does that to a person, I suppose). Having a rich inner-life is a good thing, I suppose, but it feels a lot like life on the Internet—Many people know my name but none of them know my touch. -- source link
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