A Note
on Psychedelic Sexual Etiquette
by Nick Herbert
I am a male human being on Earth plane 7. My partner wants
to be treated like a goddess. But so do all the others. Is there one goddess or
many? And how can I honor them all?
-- Overwhelmed in Pasadena
Dear
Overwhelmed --
The answer to the goddess(god) dilemma faced by you and so many others on the
Earth planes is contained in two psychedelic visions. Since along with these
privileged experiences comes the conviction that you have been opened to a Deep
Secret, an Undeniable Truth of Nature, you understand that it would be
spiritually hazardous not to base your post-vision life on these psychedelic
insights if at all possible.
Vision
#1: Perception of the All-in-One. Behind the veil of illusion you realize that
your partner is woman in all her guises: goddess, queen, perfect lover, sister,
mother, childhood companion; lewd temptress too, man-eater, whore, black witch,
angry Kali: devourer of worlds. Only the persuasive simplicity of the
commonplace vision habitually blind you to the fact that She in all her moods
and costumes continually plays for your sake at the game of embodiment. In your
relationship you two take turns imitating for each other all the male and
female roles that crowd your imagination -- images out of dreams, movies,
childhood books -- hiding (and seeking) behind the familiar masks that pulled
you together in the beginning. The image of All-in-One supports the notion of
spiritual monogamy: there is truly only one Goddess(God) and She(He) is now,
was, and ever will be at your side. (In the words of the immortal Fats Waller:
"If that isn't love, it'll have to do, until the real thing comes along .
. .")
Vision
#2: Perception of the One-in-All. Beneath the shimmering surface of things, you
suddenly see that everything is alive, divine, and profoundly sexual. Every man
and woman that you meet yearns to be your lover. (In his "Song of
Myself," Walt Whitman managed to write down(!) a glimpse of this unitary
vision.) Every flower, tree, stone, or drop of water is a divine essence that
demands your immediate erotic attention. Why are you holding back from this
invitation to the dance? The image of One-in-All supports the notion of a
spiritual promiscuity so shameless that it includes not only every living
creature in its gooey affection but the vegetable and mineral kingdoms as well.
Goddess(God) is in everything and Goddess(God) is Love.
Reconciling
these two psychedelic insights -- each of them true without a doubt on the
deepest level of existence -- is a real problem for finite creatures such as
human beings, forgetful of their true nature, locked into the separateness
illusion. Keeping both these images in mind, try to do your very best. Follow
your heart and take the consequences. Goddess(God) bless you.
-- Abbie dearest
Nick Herbert resides in the
Santa Cruz mountains and is the author of a series of new physics works
including Quantum Reality, Faster Than Light, and a forthcoming
book on "maverick models of the mind."
