Saturday, January 4, 2025

Sex: Forbidden Fruit? (Robert Sepehr)


The Forbidden Fruit: Robert Sepehr
(Robert Sepehr) In the Bible, the forbidden fruit is a name given to the fruit growing in the Garden of Eden, which God commands humankind not to eat. Historians have speculated that it may have been a pomegranate, fig, grape, apple, or [entheogenic] mushroom. This presentation addresses the esoteric interpretation, and its occult significance passed down by various mystery schools and secret societies.

[A "mystery school," according to Dr. Ammon Hillman, is essentially a drug cult teaching the "mysteries" of ecstatic union with the substance or with a divinity through practices and the substance. The dedication of adepts is around a goddess or deity, in which initiates are introduced to reality through plant helpers and divine beings.

Yin yang at the center of the bagua
Taoism, founded by a divinity named Lao Tzu, is perhaps the oldest of China's three main religions, rounded out by Buddhism and Confucianism.

Celibacy is an excellent way of conservation of energy for spiritual purposes. But Taoism and Tibetan yoga might also suggest tantric sex with semen retention to cultivate the forbidden "fruit" of internal energy.

It is a powerful practice with the power to awaken our divinity if undertaken properly and with guidance. It is a significant component of esoteric Tibetan Vajrayana Buddhist practice by its yogis and yoginis.]

Tibetan sexual yoga?
Vajradhara and consort union
[Female deities like Vajrayogini, sexually suggestive and streaming with blood, overturn traditional separation between intercourse and menstruation [19].

In some forms of Buddhism, tantric sex is strongly associated with the practice of semen retention, as sexual fluids are considered an energetic substance that must be reserved for higher purposes.

Many Buddhist tantric texts direct the focus away from sexual emission towards retention and intentionally prolonged bliss. More]
  • Robert Sepehr, Jan. 2024; Pat Macpherson, Dhr. Seven (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

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