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There's something to what you're saying, Adama, but I don't agree with most of it.  What about people who've chosen not to have children, or people who are sterile and have to adopt?  Following your logic would doom them to a life without sex, which I feel serves a larger purpose than procreation.  If breeding were the only purpose for human sexuality, women wouldn't have "hidden ovulation."  You see, most animals have a breeding season or a heat, which makes it obvious to males that they're fertile.  With women, you never know (unless you're REALLY sensitive, LOL)!

Anthropologists have theorized that the evolution of hidden ovulation served the purpose of binding men and women more closely, because the male never knew when his seed will take.  This encouraged him to stick around, thus helping with child-rearing.  This allowed children to take longer to mature, which in turn allowed higher brain function.

This is assuming, of course, that people were allowed to evolve naturally, which I'm very dubious about.  I suspect we were tinkered with.  However, there are other primate societies which use sex as a form of bonding, the bonobo  being the most obvious of them.  But your football analogy still holds up under this model.  Get people to forget that sex is about bonding and closeness, and drive them apart.  The result is alienated people distracted by sex and yearning for love they never get.  Perfect fodder for TPTB.

17 (edited by lyra 2007-05-18 08:30:18)

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Lono wrote:

Anthropologists have theorized that the evolution of hidden ovulation served the purpose of binding men and women more closely, because the male never knew when his seed will take.  This encouraged him to stick around, thus helping with child-rearing.  This allowed children to take longer to mature, which in turn allowed higher brain function.

Their theory sounds well and good, but......what about birds, for instance, who have their specific mating times, and where the male has to court the female and it's all quite obvious and set.  Male birds stick around with the females and help to jointly raise the young after the eggs are laid...despite there not being "hidden ovulation" to sort of bait/trick them into hanging around.  So I don't necessarily buy anthropologist's theory about "hidden ovulation" helping to ensure that the human male will stay.   Which leads to this point:


Lono wrote:

This is assuming, of course, that people were allowed to evolve naturally, which I'm very dubious about.  I suspect we were tinkered with.

Yup!  I think human's have been tinkered with in a massive way and maybe it explains why we're different from the rest of the animal kingdom.   I'm wondering how many other creatures on this planet have "hidden ovulation" cycles, like humans?   And, are up for doing the deed, every day of the month the way many humans are?  Does anybody out there know?   Humans are supposed to be relatively unique in the sense that we'll have sex despite it not being that time of the month to get pregnant.   Humans do it purely out of horniness, which isn't the norm within the animal kingdom.  With the exception of some other primate species, the bonobo being one, which you mentioned.

Bonobos are also the closest primate to humans out of the whole primate family.   So I'm wondering if humans were created with the base genetics of the bonobo?  (Going on the assumption that we were tinkered with in the first place, which I think we were.  Our genetics are apparently pretty corrupted in a big way, and our body is designed all wrong, and riddled with thousands of genetic defects and prone to massive hereditary diseases, unlike how it is for animals in the natural world.  It can only be explained if we were artifically bred and tinkered with on the genetic level.....)   Thinking out loud here, so who knows.  Gettin' into Lloyd Pye territory here!  big_smile  http://forum.noblerealms.org/viewtopic.php?id=3596

So anyway, that led me to think of any higher purposes to the idea of procreating despite it not being during ovulation, which you also mentioned.  You know, bonding, expression of love, and all that good stuff.  And that could very well be the case, either as a planned thing for our species, (by "God", aliens, who knows who at this point....) or just a natural by-product outcome of the fact that we do have hidden ovulation.

I don't know if anybody here has read the "Anastasia" book series from Russia (translated into English), but this is one of the many Big Subjects covered in the books.  The idea of what happens when a man and woman pair up with procreation being the ultimate goal...and not just lust.  There's attraction and desire, but it's being fueled by "I want a baby...I want a baby..." In the first book in the series, (called "Anastasia") this happens between Vladmir and Anastasia.  Afterwards he notes that he's been with a lot of women in life, women who were skilled in the art of love, leading to enjoyable experiences, but NOTHING compared to whatever he experienced with her.  He was basically left wondering, what in the flip HAPPENED there when we were together???  It was unlike anything he'd ever experienced.  Well, it turns out that both of them went into the union desiring a child.  She'd been wishing for a baby, and he in turn wanted one as well, and both had that on their minds.   He was viewing her body not as a lust object but as a baby vehicle, and envisioned a baby at her breast, nursing, versus the way they're often seen in our modern world.  But this basically created a WHOLE other vibrational level when they paired up, leading to the highest form of sex one can have...pairing up for the purpose of creation and life, based on love and caring, versus lust and objectification and degradation, which is how it's become for so many people nowadays, (tying back to Daisy's original opening comments about what she's witnessed of the kids her age around her). 

Anyway, just some thouughts...

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18 (edited by Worldbridger 2007-05-22 06:28:22)

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What about the cosmic union of yin and yang?
Tapping into the fire to unravel the serpent?
Sexual union to awaken the kundalini

I agree that TPTB have perverted, repressed and generally twisted our concept of sex and sexual energy, but I think there is a lot to be said about Toaist and other practices that teach how to tap into this energy - retraining the body and mind so to speak.  This kind of knowledge is available for any who seek it out, though it has also most likely been tampered with, (as with many teachings) our intuition can help us sort through it.    I stumbled across it a few years ago and some of the most basic concepts took me a long long time to wrap me head around due to all the imprinting and skewed values I have been taught by society, TPTB, etc.

  I don't think that is all about family.  I am in a committed long term relationship and netiher myself or my partner want to have children... contrary to the pressures/hopes of our families.  We just don't feel like that is why we are here in this lifetime.  So am I supporting the NWO becuase of this?  No...   I believe that tapping into this energy for what it truly is, is part of our path of spiritual evolution as a species.




Anyways... that's what came to mind after reading all of this... just lost my flow here but wanted to add my two cents.  Great thread btw!!

19 (edited by Adama 2007-05-18 08:57:21)

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Lono wrote:

There's something to what you're saying, Adama, but I don't agree with most of it.  What about people who've chosen not to have children, or people who are sterile and have to adopt?  Following your logic would doom them to a life without sex, which I feel serves a larger purpose than procreation.  If breeding were the only purpose for human sexuality, women wouldn't have "hidden ovulation."  You see, most animals have a breeding season or a heat, which makes it obvious to males that they're fertile.  With women, you never know (unless you're REALLY sensitive, LOL)!

I'm not dooming people who choose to live without sex, but I'm telling that we shouldn't let go our common sense when talking about human matters like sexuality.
Things are really easy actually when you see things as they are...

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Well, it's like eating.  We eat to survive and nourish our bodies, and eating was made pleasurable so that we would go to great lengths to do it.  But somewhere along the way, that drive has been perverted as well, so that people are eating and eating and eating, but not getting the nourishment they need to be healthy.  Eating has also been confused with love.  You hear about people who eat to feel loved, to fill that void inside themselves, etc.  It's been taken away from its natural purpose, perverted, sent underground, and gotten bound up with other natural drives.

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About the idea of family....

I think one thing that's going on right now is that the more "aware" folk are gravitating away from any blood ties with toxic family members, even if they share genetics with these people. 

And there are more and more people creating families in different ways -- with friends, like-minded spirits, and so forth -- who feel that these people are truly "family."

My "family" has always been very eclectic.  Fortunately I'm close to my parents, but they don't "get" any of the stuff I'm really living or doing.  So it's my mate, and my friends, and my circle of like-minded folks from the Net who are my true companions in energy.

So......I'm wondering these days if the tribal structure we lived under for so long doesn't also have its DARK side that is now getting untangled. For the first time ever, we have a chance NOT to be forcibly tied to our genetic family of origin from life until death, living in the same town.

We have a chance to bond with people who share the same energy as us.

Too often, the genetic family is NOT the soul tribe. Your soul tribe is often completely different than the family you were born into.

The unique mobility that our current era offers us, where we can choose not to have kids and not to be dependent on grandma and sisters and aunts to help us with childrearing, (again, that ties you heavily to your genetic family of origin,) means that we have tremendous freedom to go on a quest and live with like-minded folks. And sometimes that takes a little searching, and it's not going to happen in your hometown or with your genetic family.

So, while the breakdown of the old notions of family can be bad in some ways, I see it as very, very, very good in other ways. People are free to bond with others who truly honor and love their essential nature instead of becoming victim of an arranged marriage concocted by the genetic family, usually as an excuse to keep you close by.  If you come from a really dysfunctional genetic family, you  have the real option to get away and to support yourself in the world apart from those dark, bad vibe, people.

This option, if you think about it, did not exist for most people until the latter part of the 1900's.  It still doesn't in much of the world.

So the flip side of the breakdown of the old notions of family is that is allows us to find a truer, more compatible family that we create through the heart instead of the DNA.  And I think that can be a very very very good thing, ending thousands of years of lifetimes where we've been trapped and limited by those who might share our genetics but who don't share our soul's goals.

LipstickMystic aka Jennifer

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Jennifer, as usual, you've brought some very thought-provoking ideas to the discussion!  It DOES take the breakdown of old structures in order to build new ones.  As much as I see value in the way things used to be, I would have felt stifled in many ways.  It's time to revise our notions, take what's good from the past, and chuck the rest.  I think too many people throw the baby out with the bathwater and assume all old ideas are outdated, but it's a mix of both.  Oftentimes when people did the "right" thing back then, it was because they didn't have a choice.  More choices mean more room for mistakes, but also for more growth.

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LipstickMystic wrote:

About the idea of family....

So the flip side of the breakdown of the old notions of family is that is allows us to find a truer, more compatible family that we create through the heart instead of the DNA.  And I think that can be a very very very good thing, ending thousands of years of lifetimes where we've been trapped and limited by those who might share our genetics but who don't share our soul's goals.

LipstickMystic aka Jennifer

Great idea!

I was shopping this afternoon in a big city mall, and I was seeing all women and girls being so sexy, even mothers with child, and all men being dressed as if they were on tv, shining and too clean....It is all about being a sexual mate for each others, being attractive or not. After all the time I've spent in Afrika, this was so shocking and obvious I wanted to throw up every minute!
And I really think building a real happy family based on true feelings can "channel" all these sexual energies we are dealing with, making us responsible and stable,and seeing other people as they are, not just predators and preys.

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Adama,

I'd love to hear more about your time in Afrika -- do you mean South Africa, or somewhere else on the continent?  What sort of town did you live in, what cultures did you connect with, and what did you see there that stands in stark contrast to what's going on in the US?  There must be some interesting stuff you can share with us!  Please share!

LipstickMystic aka Jennifer

PS Also, I welcome more input from others outside the US who may be observing completely different things going on in relation to families, family structures, whether people are having kids or not and how that is working out for the average person, etc.  I know that the US is NOT the center of the universe, even though we often think we are! There's so little I know about other parts of the world and the situations there. Educate me! smile

25 (edited by Adama 2007-05-19 12:26:04)

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LipstickMystic wrote:

. Educate me! smile

That will be very hard, when I see what you already know ;-)

Actually I've spent most of my time in Mali (West Africa), living in the biggest city Bamako...

It's really hard for me to speak about that country because each time I go there I see things very differently...

But the more I go deep into that culture, the more I feel humans are always dealing with EXACTLY the same things but using a different point of view. But for me (that's my experience) it always comes back to one point: dealing with parasites (it's funny there is a lot about that right now on NR).

Staying months in Mali and coming back home is like coming with a different point of view on the same thing I've known since childhood, so I'm really shocked by what I see when I go into a mall here: sex, sex, sex ,sex.

Not that sex is not a huge thing in Africa (it is!), but you will never see it with your eyes in the street in a conservative place as Mali (it's not the same in other countries like Ivory Coast for example). You have to date African girls and have close friends to feel it...

So it's always the same song but the rythm is different, and moving back and forth from home to there is always discovering something that was there but that I had never noticed before. Actually it's like moving the assemblage point from one point to the other...

As I said it's hard for me to speak about this country, if you have specific questions, just ask ;-)