What Ancient Cultures Knew About Sex Which We Have Lost Track Of
About Sexuality and its Importance in Spirituality
Many people, very famous for their discoveries and scientific works, were discredited, with the justification that their discoveries have no effect on humanity, that their work is a fraud. Some of these people lost their licenses for their research, went to jail or were even murdered. Why so much repression if their discoveries have no impact on society, if they do not harm anyone?
Because knowledge is power. In the system we live in, if someone offers economic, energetic, health or whatever freedom, he becomes the enemy of the oppressors, and that enemy has to be destroyed.
Such was the case of Nikola Tesla, Tullio Simoncini or Wilhelm Reich. The discoveries of these gentlemen did no harm, they were liberating. If the cases of Tullio Simoncini or Wilhelm Reich had been malignant for public health, one would understand the prohibition of the techniques, but those particular cases were not invasive, maybe suggestive and maybe not as much real effect as they described, but they were not harmful either; however, the prohibition of the practice of those alternative medicines was brutal. That makes you think, if they prohibit, it is because, if they are afraid of something, there will be some truth in those investigations, and that something can be very liberating in the vital sense.
I will focus specifically on the case of Wilhelm Reich, since his research has a good air of ancestral knowledge, alchemical knowledge, this practice was performed in many pagan rites, and even the very famous father of psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud, developed similar theories.
We talk about sexuality and its importance in spirituality.
Wilhelm Reich (1897 to 1957) believed that there was a "vital energy" within each of us. He called this energy Orgone, and considered that it was depleted by exposure to bad experiences, traumatic events and especially by sexual repression.
According to Dr. Sigmund Freud, the repression of sexual desire would be one of the main causes of hysteria and other psychic problems; and it was precisely this theory that gave Wilhelm Reich the wings to go a little further in his research.
Reich became obsessed with the healing powers of orgasm (which he called "orgone energy"). He invented a very famous box - called "the sex box" - which was analyzed by Albert Einstein himself. He said that when we repress our natural desires and instincts, our body responds by generating muscular tension that, over time, leads to chronic pain and disease.
He also advocated physical touch as a less invasive therapy for psychic illnesses, thus making those very painful therapies of the time seem less painful. Apparently, such innovative therapy, although efficient, was very controversial and rejected by many.
I recommend these book and the movie. (The Strange Case of Wilhelm Reich)
Ancient Sex Practices: The Truth!
It is true that in the times of witches and wizards, sexual rites were practiced (the very famous covens) praising procreation, life, love, etc. Sex at that time was not seen as a sin as the Christian religions inculcated it.
Worship and cults to genitals can be found in different ancestral cultures, it is known that already 8000 years ago there were such cults. For example, the cult to the female reproductive organs could derive in the worship of mother goddesses, such as Demeter, Isis, Cybele or Ma, then. Priapus himself - son of Dionysus and Aphrodite was a Greek god of fertility who "personified the power of male reproduction".
The religions that followed paganism took it upon themselves to discredit this type of practice, attributing this action mainly to the cult of the devil (hence the word covens). The practitioners were brutally burned or tortured, and under torture they would say what the executioners wanted to hear in order to stop suffering, even though it was not true. They admitted devil worship, orgies, rapes, sacrifices, all under agonizing torture. There is also evidence of hallucinations due to the consumption of different hallucinogens and what the consumers of these substances saw, so that from time to time they must have seen themselves copulating with the devil himself and confessed it as if it really happened.
But what were these practices and what were they really for?
Mainly it had to do with the worship of life and procreation. It was sacred, constructive, divine. It was believed that union between a woman and a man produced energy that connected with powerful forces, mainly benign, that would give knowledge and different aptitudes through the energy during intercourse. Generally, this rite was performed by priestesses and priests on a special date and time. No one denies that these rites would also have been used for evil by some practitioners with this tendency, but we are going to focus on the positive part.
The rites with coitus was not as libidinous as the movies portray it, but much more elaborate. The two people shared the same ideology, there was a lot of preparation before intercourse, prayers and specific dances to give a special vibe to the moment and at the end of that moment as well. It was not something of a sodomy orgy as the Catholics described it then. Libido was not the reason for those practices, but the intention of acquiring endowments and knowledge.
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