Sex in the Psyche

Humans have an animal nature and an X nature; we have an instinctive force compelling us to survive and to replicate and another force that often works in opposition that compels us to rise above the mundane because we are god-like. We have the power to explore distant planets provide that our latrine does not mal-function. Some have identified this coupling as the organic coupled with the superorganic, and some, as gods with anuses.

Freud labeled our attempt to integrate the organic with the superorganic as “sublimation�; the attempt by humans to heal the ever present war between the organic and superorganic. Sublimation introduces the concept of infantile sexuality, which raises the hackles of all self-respecting gods with repressed anuses and genitalia.

I suspect that one might usefully think of the animal instinctive force as a hydroelectric dam that holds and releases water to drive the turbines that convert the potential energy represented by the stored water into the kinetic energy developed by the turbines in the form of electricity.

Energy for survival and replication is like the river feeding the reservoir contained by the dam. The water stored must constantly flow through the turbines because the energy river is constantly feeding the reservoir; thus there is a constant kinetic energy forced on the animal nature that floods the creature with kinetic energy and must be utilized.

This kinetic energy flowing within the infant is utilized to sustain life and to be dissipated by the child in their childish replication, i.e. sexual, modes; these childish modes of replication, i.e. sexual activity, displays itself in five forms: the oral that is from birth to eight months, the anal from eight months to two years, phallic two to six years, and latency six to twelve. Adult humans utilizes this same energy in ‘a more sophisticated and direct manner’.

“Sublimation is the use made of bodily energy by a soul which sets itself apart from the body;� and as Swift says it is “lifting up of the soul or its Faculties above Matter�. Sublimation is the human effort to direct the “lower bodily� functions toward “higher values�.

Sublimation is an attempt to relate the organic with the superorganic; to heal the war between body and soul. The poet and the astronaut represent the human effort to rise above the body. Sublimation directs the kinetic energy that the body provides for replication and sustenance toward higher values.

Quotes from “Life Against Death: The Psychoanalytic Meaning of History� by Norman O. Brown

Interesting that the Spiritual sciences describe the sexual obsessions as the misunderstanding of proper use of kundalini. Where as when energy rises thru the second chakra that has been muddied by the sensory distractions of ego, and where the senses have continually been driven outward in the need for instant gratification, energy is dumped out into the toilet of illusions.
Soma which accumulates in the reproductive organs to be distributed throughout the body to refine the molecules to superconduct etheric qualities of time and space are wasted through the sexual promiscuity of human lust.
When the stress is removed from the nervous system and soma directed through the refinement process, it is altered into Amrita which is like the miracle ingrediant contained in the mythical fountain of youth.
Not only does it alter the molecular structure of the body but the mind and its ability to see beyond the veils of the physical boundaries.
Spiritual teachings recognize the need for Union, or the extacy sometimes reached when two people that are deeply in love as the life force returning to its source. Being that the mind is far removed from its connection consciously to its source of creation the closest it comes to experiencing Union is in the sexual act.

Long before Jesus' time there used to be spiritual brothels that were run by the priests. The nuns were the concubines that were in service to bringing the experience of god to the man who would patronize the holy house for the purpose of experiencing divine union thru the sexual experience.
The idea was that during the intensity of union when all thoughts were gone in the mind, and passion filled the heart and soul, the bliss of copulation, not necessarily the orgasm but the losing of ones self in the passion, was thought to be the closest one could come to experiencing god without actually taking the mind there through some meditative discipline.
The spiritual beliefs at the time were rather superstitious and not based on real knowledge of spiritual and physical laws.

Psychologists who fail to see the spiritual nature of man for its real value because of physical sciences inability to capture God in any form often mistake the need to survive as part of the sexual act. The ego is in charge of creating the illusion of mortality and as such instigates the thought of survival into channels that continue to distract the mind from its true nature, which is its immortal status. As long as the mind holds onto the values of impending mortality the influence distracts the human intellect from refining actions to turn ones self towards greater states of superconscious awareness.

It is thought that by forcing kundalini through the muddied chakras, one can break the veils of illusion to create higher states of consciousness, sort of like some believe taking entheogens or LSD can force the mind beyond the veil to create enlightenment. But the reality is that if you are carrying the baggage that keeps you on the ground in the first place any artificial attempt to fly is going to result in the abrupt return to the ground. This temporary altered state is nothing like the real thing, where the mind is free and flight is experienced naturally with the ability to expand continually.

Psychology that speculates from a place that is not where it idealizes is perfect, projects its best guess but does it really establish facts that humanity can line up behind, or does it just satisfy the intellect long enough so that it can reason its way back into the box where it feels most comfortable?