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Each of us is like a radio that can be tuned to different frequencies. Many people in modern society have tuned out all higher and lower frequencies and live within a narrow band of their dulled outer senses. Doing so seems to be required of them to earn a living, and this tuning out is reinforced by the surrounding culture, protecting them from their fear of death. A shaman is someone who has learned to listen to many stations at once, integrating the different music and news broadcasts into a coherent whole. Being a shaman does not, however, protect us from our humanness and the often intensely vulnerable experience of showing up within the so-called normal bands of experience. If anything, it increases the shaman’s sensitivity because the extraordinary is curled up inside the ordinary.
When the channels are open, all experiences ride the edge of the miraculous; all encounters are soaked with possibilities, endlessly dynamic. The joy of true meeting is enhanced, and so is the tragedy of all the missed meetings.
Core recognizes and resonates with core, and we share that essential aliveness, but we also celebrate the real diversity in expression. We all have different keys to the sacred locks of the soul and body.
When we meet as energy beings with a mutual willingness to share with one another what has been harvested in our own deep experience—our soul DNA—then humanity can quickly create better software for integrating its sexuality and its spirituality.
We are both on this incredible blue-green jewel of a planet, whirling through an immense cosmos. The material of our bodies was partly fashioned in supernovas, grown and developed through millions of years of biological evolution, flowing down the bloodlines of our cultures and families.
Our souls are ultimately one with the universal consciousness; the same awareness reading these words permeates all space and time. We are love—impossible, irrepressible, eternal. We are the great dance of matter and spirit, masculine and feminine, light and dark. We delight in all polarities and are the spark between them. We are sex. Eros was the child of Mars and Venus, and to the Greeks, sexual attraction meant being in the presence of a god.
In that state, this is my prayer: “Whatever is in me or of me that is of benefit to this other me and serves the evolution of love, may it be given.”
In this moment, you are the other me that I have the great pleasure of offering myself to in this unconditional way. I don’t just want to write to you, but to well up inside you. I want to be that tingle that starts in your body and turns into the warm honey of arousal. I want to be there in that exhale that is a little fuller and in the sigh of the heart as it opens in the presence of love. I want to celebrate the mutual penetration of souls as we reach through the veils of time and space and begin to touch each other intimately.
I invite you to come inside me and be me. In this way we pierce for each other that sacred hymen of separate identity, which is the source of the deep loneliness present at the core of every human soul. As our souls consent to let each other in, our hearts can’t help but blow open to each other. The intimacy of the heart is not in loving each other as separate selves but in falling through each other’s hearts into the common mystery that resides in each of us.
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AI Summary
Sex Shamans by KamalaDevi McClure presents key insights from the contemplative tradition. The 10 passages above capture the essential teachings.
Core Themes:
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Key Passages: Highlights 1, 3, and 10 are particularly representative.
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