Historically, intercourse was the act through which male and female experienced God. The ancients believed that the male was spiritually incomplete until he had carnal knowledge of the sacred feminine. Physical union with the female remained the sole means through which man could become spiritually complete and ultimately achieve gnosis-knowledge of the divine. The sex rites had been considered man's only bridge from earth to heaven. By communing with woman man could achieve a climactic instant when his mind went totally blank and he could see God.
Physiologically speaking, the male climax was accompanied by a split second entirely devoid of thought. A brief mental vacuum. A moment of clarity during similar states of thoughtlessness without sex and often described nirvana as never-ending spiritual orgasm.
Hieros Gamos (The Ancients" View on Sex)
Historically, intercourse was the act through which male and female experienced God. The ancients believed that the male was spiritually incomplete until he had carnal knowledge of the sacred feminine. Physical union with the female remained the sole means through which man could become spiritually complete and ultimately achieve gnosis-knowledge of the divine. The sex rites had been considered man's only bridge from earth to heaven. By communing with woman man could achieve a climactic instant when his mind went totally blank and he could see God.
Physiologically speaking, the male climax was accompanied by a split second entirely devoid of thought. A brief mental vacuum. A moment of clarity during similar states of thoughtlessness without sex and often described nirvana as never-ending spiritual orgasm.