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When our sex energy is connected to our hearts and the higher centers of consciousness in the brain, Eros can create renewal in our lives through increasingly positive experiences. As we learn to feel the subtle ecstatic flow of sexual energy being converted into divine bliss and joy during expanded periods of extended spiritualized orgasm, we ascend with Eros to the transcendent states of being that have no opposites. To have truly successful relationships we need to know, with every fiber of our being, that we and our beloved are not mortal, decaying physical entities, but that our bodies can be converted into vessels of truth—Sat, Chit, Ananda, ever conscious, ever new, ever existing bliss—the ancient Vedic description of the nature of God!
Miraculously, by learning to “eat” the energy of love, we can eventually become that which we ingest. Instead of just momentarily experiencing peak flashes of ecstatic communion with our lover, the love that we experience becomes who we are. Eventually, through extended practice over years of shared commitment to growth, two lovers can learn to embody the bliss and joy of love as a permanent state of being.
When we “fall in love” we are re-experiencing and re-remembering that one flame of love. It is a core awakening of our own innate but forgotten divinity. So we don’t actually “fall in love” with another person, but fall into a state of love within ourselves and through that, with the other person.
as if shouting with joy to the sky, which was itself awash
Divine Dopamine: The Ultimate Pleasure Rush You will recall from Chapter Three how the hypothalamus gland becomes infused with dopamine in a pleasure-reward dance within the limbic system, the emotional part of the brain. A drug user’s indulgence forces the hypothalamus to produce a quality of dopamine that is limited by the vibratory atomic density of the ingested triggering substance. Those who are addicted to sex as a gross experience also look for dopamine response.
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Eros Ascending by John Maxwell Taylor and Linda E. Savage presents key insights from the Taoism tradition. The 5 passages above capture the essential teachings.
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