How Do I Integrate Sexual Energy with Spiritual Practice?

"What’s the relationship between sexual energy – the impulse toward beauty and pleasure – and being? My upbringing taught me shame around this. Rupert says: ‘The church has completely degraded sexuality and completely misunderstood it because our impulse for sexual intimacy is not really the impulse for pleasure. It’s the impulse to die, to transcend yourself. Pleasure is one of the portals through which transcendence can take place. The impulse for sexual intimacy is the impulse for union. Every impulse, every desire is always the desire for union. What you really want is the union. Sexual intimacy is one of the activities in which this prior union of our being is enacted in relationship. The church should consider it one of the most sacred activities there is, not one of the most sinful.’"

From event 07 - 14 September, 2025 Seven-Day Retreat at Mandali, 7–14 September 2025 – ‘Meister Eckhart and the Love of God’

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