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Living the Divine Masculine
RW: Tell me a little bit about what you do and how you came into this work.
SN: I started out twenty years ago doing bodywork as a component of spiritual mentoring. Basically, I wanted to help people integrate what they knew spiritually into their everyday life. To have knowledge of a spiritual perspective and to implement that knowledge into your daily living are two completely different things. As people came to me for spiritual instruction, I began to realize most of them had deep repression that was not allowing them to accumulate the energy needed to develop spiritually. Each time I investigated the source of this stagnation, most of my discoveries revolved around the person’s sexuality and/or sexual energy channels. How the person is handled as a child or as a young adult around sex or sexuality related issues impacts them in their adulthood. As a young person the amount of shame, guilt, confusion, ignorance, and fear tied to the sexual energy was overwhelming.
It is sex that brings us onto the planet. We must realize that if we have difficulty with the primal energy that brought us here, then we are going to be mired in self-hatred and be confused about the very thing that has brought us into being.
The next revelation I had was the relationship between spirituality and sex is like the relationship between a butterfly and a caterpillar: If the caterpillar is not in good health and not strong, then you're not going to have a butterfly, or you are going to get a very weak and scrawny butterfly. So I started to realize that in order for people to open up spiritually, they had to come back and totally embrace their sexual energy and be clear about it in order for them to take that same energy and transform themselves.
RW: How did you make that connection?
SN: Well, the link was already there in the sense that the same energy that comes up through the tailbone of the person in order to animate their whole body and their whole existence is the same sexual energy that is needed in order to develop spiritually. So once it works its' way up the spine to the crown of the head and other adjoining head centers, it is the flowering of the very same energy. As an experienced teacher of bodywork, I could sense and feel and really connect with these energies in the body through my intuition, my sense of feel and touch.
The other thing that I started to see was how the use of sex or the sexual act itself was a way of eliminating psychic toxicity-- or I'm going to even call it neuroses -- out of a person's field. And the more an individual has confusion around sex, while having no proper outlet for that energy, the more neurotic they become. I also came to realize how the sexual act itself was a way of catalyzing and balancing the creative energy inside a human being.
The more these similar findings showed up in the people that came to see me, the more I started to understand that many of the difficulties people were having, such as a lack of creativity and struggling to find purpose and so forth, came from their energy being shut down. They had no outlet for their creativity and purpose to flow through. In listening to various recounts of people’s childhoods, I've become aware of how as a society, we systematically shut the child down early on in life. We make the child stop following and being true to their own energy exactly the way it is. The moment the child is running for a mud puddle and we yell stop, the child has to do something to suppress their internal energy in order to follow that order. So immediately the child has to create a tension in the body and clamp down around this powerful energy that's moving through him or her in order to be able to conform to what is being asked of them.
In my field I frequently encounter spiritual teachers who firmly believe that enlightenment is the ultimate orgasm, and basically orgasmic bliss is your natural state. So I started to work with people, not to remove their tension, but to get them to re-embrace orgasmic bliss and to allow themselves to let the orgasmic bliss move through them again. As a result, the tension falls away effortlessly. The tension is just there to keep the orgasmic bliss at bay, because in our society nothing supports your walking around in orgasmic bliss. So much of the work consists of assisting people in becoming courageous enough to be orgasmic in a non-orgasmic world.
RW: This became the intention behind your work, to bring people to this state of constant orgasmic bliss?
SN: Yes. I started to utilize different ways of working with couples, mainly focusing on bringing the feminine energy back to its rightful place. That was crucial because at one point, I became aware of the fact that women represent the parasympathetic nervous system of our planet as far as the human species is concerned. Men represent the sympathetic nervous system, and when I looked and allowed myself to assess the situation, the parasympathetic nervous system was in dire straits. It was not healthy at all. And not only was it unhealthy, but it was as if the parasympathetic nervous system woke up one day and said, "It's not comfortable, it's not desirable, I don't like being the parasympathetic nervous system. I want to be a sympathetic nervous system." As a result, we're on the verge of both the parasympathetic and the sympathetic systems perishing.
RW: Can you explain these different systems for non bio-enlightened readers?
SN: The parasympathetic nervous system regulates all of your organs, hormones, enzymes, and all of the involuntary functions within the body - the things that keep the body alive. The sympathetic nervous system controls the larger muscle systems, the ones you use for hiking, running, and doing all the outer activities. In the medical profession, we already know the parasympathetic nervous system is essential. The sympathetic nervous system could actually collapse --totally collapse -- and the person would still be alive because the heart would be beating, the organs would still be functioning, the brain would still be functional even in a dormant state.
Now if the parasympathetic nervous system goes, it actually doesn't matter how strong the sympathetic nervous system is, the body immediately falls to the ground - done, finished. So in light of that, I realized in order for us to come back to a place of balance, and for humanity to actually start to move on as far as evolution is concerned,
