Aftertaste: Marc Gafni

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AFTERTASTE:

Now if we are courageous enough to walk one step further, we will see that sex follows the same exact formula. Every human being engages in two very different forms of sexuality. The first is, by whatever your own inner standard may be, sacred sex, and the second, fallen sex. Everyone’s examples will be different but everyone understands the distinction.

How to tell the difference? Aftertaste. The first leaves you with a wonderful aftertaste; the second leaves you with an uncomfortable feeling which you try and shrug off as quickly as possible. A very minor or major spiritual hangover.

Watch your-self very carefully over an extended period of time (really the only path to enlightenment). You will see that shortly before you feel a sexual arousal towards what is, in your own value system, fallen sex, you somehow brushed up against your emptiness. It may an old tape triggered in your head by some association, perhaps a tape from childhood which says you are not worthy. It could be a feeling of jealousy or incompleteness triggered by friend’s accomplishment or one of a hundred other things. As soon as your system receives that jolt of emptiness it moves frantically, yet imperceptibly, to send you symptoms of sexual arousal, hoping to quickly fill the void.

Next time you find yourself following your arousal in whatever way, ask yourself, are your nourishing yourself with sexuality or are you filling up the hole inside of you, desperately trying to a-void the void.

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