tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6889910938799271565.post8055236491205428113..comments2024-03-16T10:58:10.065-04:00Comments on Consciousness Unbound: Sexual Temptation and LevitationMichael Grossohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06044309674467126746noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6889910938799271565.post-41434668483302363372021-05-31T17:03:56.654-04:002021-05-31T17:03:56.654-04:00The sexual explanation is partial. Your remark mi...The sexual explanation is partial. Your remark misses the point. It's where the controlled energy is directed, toward the business of biological replication or toward the transformation of yourself in the bosom of the divine. Plato understood this dialectic of transformation, and so did the great Tibetan Buddhists like Milarepa. And so do artists of various stripes.Michael Grossohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06044309674467126746noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6889910938799271565.post-3649675425578002792021-05-29T14:37:26.457-04:002021-05-29T14:37:26.457-04:00People did ask Joseph of Cupertino’s for an explan...People did ask Joseph of Cupertino’s for an explanation of his levitation during his lifetime. Nowadays his explanation is always dismissed by commentators who don’t share his world view as superstitious nonsense that can’t be proven by science. Yet this explanation —equally unproven by science — is accepted as much more plausible and rational. <br /><br />If suppressed sexual urges were capable of being expressed as levitation, every incel raging on the interwebs would be floating above his gaming chair and every parish and monastery would be spared the cost of a car for the priests and nuns.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08530026328957272349noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6889910938799271565.post-85565596648295661732021-05-25T08:43:13.224-04:002021-05-25T08:43:13.224-04:00Thank you for this highly intelligent comment. F...Thank you for this highly intelligent comment. For the good use of these natural energies we should probably use the term 'sublimation'rather than repression.The same distinction could be applied to anger, which we should be able to use creatively and constructively.Michael Grossohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06044309674467126746noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6889910938799271565.post-38892550426574854972021-05-18T10:46:17.654-04:002021-05-18T10:46:17.654-04:00If only we could learn how repressed sexual energy...If only we could learn how repressed sexual energy can be rerouted from triggering neuroses and other more serious psychopathology (re Freud, Wilhelm Reich) to transcending states of consciousness. Perhaps it's all a matter of the cultural-spiritual context in which one is operating. Raised in a strong, all-encompassing spiritual context such as that found in a Buddhist monastery in, say, Bhutan, repression of sexual energy can lead to these wonderful consciousness-expanding, revelatory, spiritual states. Raised in a certain other religious context in a Western, technologically-inclined culture such, as in the state of Georgia in the US, repression of sexual energy is perhaps more likely to lead the person to go on a shooting spree of sex workers! :( Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com