Questioning Sex #7: What Is Our Sexual Potential?

An excerpt from Book II of my fantasy series, THE SECRET SEX LIFE OF ANGELS, explores the outer limits of our sexual potential.

Thousands of years of patriarchal distortion and religious oppression have kept us relatively ignorant about this defining aspect of our humanity.

I wrote THE SECRET SEX LIFE OF ANGELS series—an epic, erotic fantasy—to explore the mystery we call “sex” and reclaim the lost knowledge of the ancient “sexual mysteries.”

The Ecstasy of Sex is a Naturally-Occurring, Mind-Expanding, Psychedelic Experience

Some anthropologists theorize that psychedelic plants like psilocybin mushrooms, peyote, ayahuasca, etc., were ritually ingested by our hunter-gatherer ancestors for various sacred purposes. It’s even suggested that the mind-expanding properties of these plants may have inspired leaps of cultural evolution.

According to Sobonfu Some, a native of the Dagara people of West Africa and the author of The Spirit of Intimacy, her people don’t have a word for sex. Instead, they use a word that means going on a journey together. To this West African tribe, sex was like a trip, a voyage. But to where?

From the anthropological evidence, one might speculate that during special times of the year (full moon, before or after a hunt, to celebrate a seasonal festival or invoke the blessing of their gods), our hunter-gatherer ancestors (whose sexuality hadn’t yet been stunted and shamed) might have engaged in highly organized group sex rites. By harnessing their sexual ecstasy, they might have “journeyed together” into the Spirit World to receive inspiration, revelation, guidance, and blessings.

Is it possible that during these sexually-fueled, ecstatic “journeys,” our ancestors were inspired to harness naturally occurring fire, to farm instead of forage? Might such sexually-sourced revelations have sown the seeds of the Agricultural Revolution and birthed a new kind of civilization?

Prehistoric caves in France contain 15,000-year-old images of male and female genitals. Why? It’s not because they liked porn. It’s because sex is the source, not only of progeny but of society and civilization.

Ancient goddess-worshipping cultures viewed sex as the Original Blessing that raised humanity from bestiality. Before being banished from Heaven by the Patriarchy’s new male God and demeaned as the Whore of Babylon, the Great Goddess was worshipped throughout the ancient world, and her “sexual mysteries” were taught by Priestesses in Her temples.

THE SECRET SEX LIFE OF ANGELS is an epic, erotic fantasy series about a man’s initiation into the ancient “sexual mysteries.” Of course, the fate of the world is at stake!

In Book II “Ring of Fire,” I imagined a highly organized group rite that harnesses sexual energy to create a portal, a gateway…

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