On the cusp of change everything is uncertain, everything is full of potential, everything is possible. Choice matters. Decisions matter. The next step matters. Each day matters as much as the day before mattered. Each moment offers an opportunity to do the right thing. Whether to choose the sword or to choose the path of love may be the biggest decision one can make at this time in human history. Each brings results, one with bloodshed and one with compassion. Both require intent, strength, and commitment, but only one requires kindness to be its guiding force. Let the path of love be the fire that fuels the change, for it will do no harm.
Without desire human reproduction would lose its potency; there would be no future generation. At a fundamental level, desire is the vehicle of the High Soul’s intent for human life to continue and evolve.
The human ego possesses the consciousness to act from its own free will. The ego, with this freedom, enjoys its ability to take control over its inherent archetypal promptings, employing its instinctive energies as it sees fit.
Thus, for example, the ego can break ranks with the archetypes governing sexual behavior, in an exploitative way. This is what gives rise to sexual abuse, where the ego chooses to deviate from the inherent rules of sexual behavior, an example of which would be ignoring the incest taboo.
The ego is also freed to engage in sexual relations at any time of month, breaking ranks with the archetypal programs that control hormonal activation of desire at fertile times only. Individuals can create hormonal releases and bodily changes that activate desire through their own mind’s conjuring of fantasy.
Senior citizens can engage in sexual activity without any support from instinctual urging, simply through the spiritual refinement of love for their partner. When does one ever see senior citizen animals engage in sexual behavior?
Freud called the energy of desire libido. Besides supplying the energy for sexual functioning, Freud declared that sublimated libido provided the energy for creativity, and civilization itself.
Yogic science calls the energy of desire kundalini. Kundalini energy rests at the base of the spine. From there, it rises to innervate the ascending chakras, throughout an individual’s lifetime. Spiritual aspirants often close the door to the second chakra, the sexual center, to pressure kundalini to rise through the chakras with the goal of enlightenment.
Shamans call the energy of desire dreaming energy. For shamans, reaching the energy body with lucidity and control are the requirements to explore life beyond the physical body while in human form.
While not explicitly prohibiting sexual activity, shamans encourage their apprentices to accumulate their sexual energy in order to accrue the sum of energy necessary to explore infinity. All religious traditions similarly place a premium on regulating sexual energy for spiritual advancement.
The soul of sexual desire insures our birth as human beings, which then initiates a developmental journey that introduces us to sexual desire, as well as the ability to have power over, and desire for, objects of the material world. For many, this might represent the fullness of life.
For others, that soul journey might rise to the spiritual dimension of love for all interdependent beings, as well as union with the High Soul in infinity.
It could be argued that desire is the High Soul’s vehicle for the ego to ultimately reach love, which is the operating principle of the next stage of human evolution. Beyond the battlefield of now is love, the inevitable victor.
The world will only survive and thrive when it rises to the heart center, where love alone governs human behavior. That journey is fraught with a labyrinth of perils and illusions, but traversing it successfully is the key to the kingdom, both here on Earth and beyond.
For certain, the journey of desire, regardless of its current fixation, is indeed, a journey of soul.
It cannot be stressed enough that the antidote to hatred is love. It may sound simplistic to say that love conquers all, that love is the answer, that love is what matters most, but there is in fact no other solution to combat hatred that is as free, as easy to access, and as powerful as the love you all have within you. Not only is it accessible to one person but it is accessible to millions. Give it a try, one person, one heart at a time, and see what it can do. It’s the most practical and lasting answer there is to the troubles that now bind you. Give love a chance.
Time for a power shift. There will be little lasting change in the outer world if there is not honest and truthful change within the self. Each individual is charged with finding the light within and exploring the darkness there, that which is the unknown self. In so doing, the beauty and the truth will eventually emerge, that which is unknown will become known, and the fear, hatred, and anger now so powerfully prevalent will dissipate and become null. Only the love will have power and you can’t go wrong with love. Let the love have the power.
All things that matter are matters of the heart, for the heart is the center of knowing, beauty, and love. The heart does not discriminate but seeks always another heart of like knowing, beauty, and love to connect and communicate with. Such is the possibility for all beings if they choose the language of the heart, where all dispute, dislike, and disparity fade away, for such differences are useless when only the matters of the heart matter. Seek your own heart’s intent so that the same intent of all beings may emerge and merge in unity and justice for all.
