{"id":27,"date":"2014-12-15T10:05:00","date_gmt":"2014-12-15T10:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/pitstopforthespirituallybamboozled\/2014\/12\/love-sex-and-the-cosmos.html"},"modified":"2016-04-14T21:31:08","modified_gmt":"2016-04-15T01:31:08","slug":"love-sex-and-the-cosmos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/pitstopforthespirituallybamboozled\/2014\/12\/love-sex-and-the-cosmos.html","title":{"rendered":"Love, Sex, and the Cosmos!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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No! Padre G has not lost his marbles: Of course love, sex, and the cosmos are deeply inter-related; in fact Love <\/i>is what literally makes the world go round \u2013 and what propels the evolutionary thrust of the cosmos forward.\u00a0 But I\u2019m speaking here of a dynamic, ever new and emerging, Cosmic-Love- Energy; not an idealized or romanticized idea of love.<\/p>\n

Isn\u2019t everything in creation subject to the \u2018laws\u2019 of attraction and repulsion \/ bonding and rejection?\u00a0 Gravitational physicists, systems biologists, romantic poets, and mystics all expound voluminously on this fundamental \u2018nature\u2019 of existence.\u00a0 So let\u2019s play with this for a bit and see what we come up with.<\/p>\n

About 10 + years ago I read a wonderfully inspiring book by Ronald Rolheiser titled The Holy Longing<\/a>; while not his seminal work, it remains for me, one of his most insightful works on Christian spirituality to date.\u00a0 In his chapter Toward a Spirituality of Sexuality<\/i> he speaks of how we are born over-charged for life on earth.\u00a0 We are born with this insatiable desire (passion) for communion with all that exists in creation.\u00a0 He writes: \u201cWe wake up in the world and in every cell of\u00a0our being we ache, consciously and unconsciously, sensing that we are incomplete . . aching at every level for a wholeness\u00a0that, at some dark level, we know we have been separated from.\u201d<\/p>\n

Where does this passion (fire)\u00a0for belonging come from?\u00a0 How is it a holy longing<\/i> and what do we do if it threatens to rage out of control?\u00a0 How are we to understand it, befriend it, and learn to tame it?<\/p>\n

Methinks that we do this by learning from, aligning with, and paying contemplative attention to the<\/p>\n

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history and unfolding of the evolutionary journey of the universe.\u00a0 Everything that has ever or will ever exist in creation is grounded in a love-energy that is dynamic, erotic, and deeply relational . .<\/p>\n

So the life-force \/ energy of the universe is erotic?\u00a0 Yep \u2013 it sure is!\u00a0 Passion is the sine qua non\u00a0<\/i>ingredient of the whole chaotic mix!\u00a0 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 <\/i>how to create union, wholeness, and harmony.\u00a0 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 \u2013 if we pay attention and act on it\u2019s ancient (but always new)\u00a0wisdom!<\/p>\n

What then can we learn from the dynamic, erotic, and relational nature of the cosmos?\u00a0 We learn that to \u2018become more\u2019 than our earth plane, self-absorbed, sexually obsessive and possessive selves, we need to exist and live exclusively for the sake of giving.\u00a0 I do not exist in order that I may possess; I choose to exist in order that I may give of myself.<\/p>\n

So the next time a retro mood hits you and you go tearing down the street in your VM Bug blaring \u2018Come on Baby, Light My Fire\u2019 from your woofers, just remember that the ancient and erotic fire <\/i>is already ablaze deep within you and around you . .<\/p>\n

Until our next yarn: chill! \u2013 G<\/p>\n

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