Brian’s Reflection: Friday, June 20, 2009

"The entire cultural and social game of antisexual `spirit against flesh' education is so monstrous, so opposed to incarnate human happiness and human responsibility ………. that it must be considered the primary social and even philosophical issue of our time."

- John Da Free

John wrote this quite a while ago, but it still holds in 2009. And, I would say, worldwide, and in probably nearly every religion. I have very little I need to say about it. Just to ask you to think about it today.

Henry Miller said, “If there is something wrong with our attitude toward sex, then there is something wrong with our attitude toward bread, toward money, toward work, toward play, toward everything. How can one enjoy a good sex life is he has a distorted, unhealthy attitude toward the other aspects of life?" Sexual dysfunction – by which I mean not just physical but relational dynamics – are so profoundly distorted that they surely indicate that all the other things that Miller mentions are in an equally profound state of disorder. No wonder we are in the state we are now in the World – a remarkable collapse of the possibility of most all shared moral and social interaction.

I look at this optimistically. At certain times in history, “Axial” ages come along, bringing new thinking and new ways of understanding and living.

I hope we are on the brink of one now.

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