Healing and Hypnotherapy Volume 5, Issue 1, 1 July 2020 | Page 15

Spiritual Sex: 3 Types of Divine Union
Many of us haven’t been taught that sex is actually a powerful tool of
transcendental development. In fact, spiritual sex is the quickest and
easiest way to have something resembling a mystical experience.
The powerful thing about sexual energy is that it’s one of the few instincts
within us that can rarely be completely “civilised.” If you are tired at home
from work and a friend offers you to go out to watch a movie you may pass
on the offer. But if you were to meet an attractive person instead who was to
make him/herself available to you, it would arouse a deep energy within you
that you weren’t aware existed.
Any type of ecstatic experience – like sex – is an ideal starting point to
begin cultivating spiritual moments of “no-mind” and bringing them naturally
into our daily lives. In my experience, there are three main types of sex that
you can benefit from:
1. The Alert Union
Most first time sexual experiences with partners fall into this type of union.
When we make ourselves vulnerable, intimate, exposed and “work” toward
that mutual pleasurable moment of bliss, our conscious awareness
becomes heightened by the novelty of exploring the other person’s body.
This union is not so much a mindful awareness but an alert awareness that
instinctively takes over. Our feelings of vulnerability and excitement make
our natural adrenaline mechanism stimulate alertness making the
experience much more primal than spiritual. This type of sex is very
addictive as the novelty of pursuing new sexual partners rewards us with
that momentary “god-like” state of consciousness.
2. The Conscious Union
It’s typical however that as our sense of vulnerability and stimulation
weakens so too does our desire for the first type of love-making (The Alert
Union).
In The Conscious Union, we learn how to cultivate a more balanced form of
spiritual sex, one that creates harmony between the passionate animal and
sensually playful side of our sexuality In The Conscious Union we listen to
our sexual desires, explore our bodies and those of our lovers, build deeper
intimacy through eye-gazing, sensually caress, and follow our deepest
forms of sexual expression. These often generate intense feelings of union
and love that briefly take us beyond our sense of self.