Love, Sex, and the Cosmos!

No! Padre G has not lost his marbles: Of course love, sex, and the cosmos are deeply inter-related; in fact Love is what literally makes the world go round – and what propels the evolutionary thrust of the cosmos forward.  But I’m speaking here of a dynamic, ever new and emerging, Cosmic-Love- Energy; not an idealized or romanticized idea of love.

Isn’t everything in creation subject to the ‘laws’ of attraction and repulsion / bonding and rejection?  Gravitational physicists, systems biologists, romantic poets, and mystics all expound voluminously on this fundamental ‘nature’ of existence.  So let’s play with this for a bit and see what we come up with.

About 10 + years ago I read a wonderfully inspiring book by Ronald Rolheiser titled The Holy Longing; while not his seminal work, it remains for me, one of his most insightful works on Christian spirituality to date.  In his chapter Toward a Spirituality of Sexuality he speaks of how we are born over-charged for life on earth.  We are born with this insatiable desire (passion) for communion with all that exists in creation.  He writes: “We wake up in the world and in every cell of our being we ache, consciously and unconsciously, sensing that we are incomplete . . aching at every level for a wholeness that, at some dark level, we know we have been separated from.”

Where does this passion (fire) for belonging come from?  How is it a holy longing and what do we do if it threatens to rage out of control?  How are we to understand it, befriend it, and learn to tame it?

Methinks that we do this by learning from, aligning with, and paying contemplative attention to the

history and unfolding of the evolutionary journey of the universe.  Everything that has ever or will ever exist in creation is grounded in a love-energy that is dynamic, erotic, and deeply relational . .

So the life-force / energy of the universe is erotic?  Yep – it sure is!  Passion is the sine qua non ingredient of the whole chaotic mix!  And the good news is: deeply interwoven into the multi-dimensional energy fields of the cosmos, and that of every cell in our bodies, is a calming and loving intelligence that knows how to create union, wholeness, and harmony.  That blueprint has been there from the beginning; and it is what lures and orients us to a future of ever greater wholeness and completeness – if we pay attention and act on it’s ancient (but always new) wisdom!

What then can we learn from the dynamic, erotic, and relational nature of the cosmos?  We learn that to ‘become more’ than our earth plane, self-absorbed, sexually obsessive and possessive selves, we need to exist and live exclusively for the sake of giving.  I do not exist in order that I may possess; I choose to exist in order that I may give of myself.

So the next time a retro mood hits you and you go tearing down the street in your VM Bug blaring ‘Come on Baby, Light My Fire’ from your woofers, just remember that the ancient and erotic fire is already ablaze deep within you and around you . .

Until our next yarn: chill! – G

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