Running head: TIMELESS SEX 1

Timeless Sex

Samuel Luke Sohmer

California Institute of Integral Studies

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Timeless Sex

“When the captain sees her, he falls in love like the

Caliph. Don’t laugh at this. This love is also part of infinite

love, without which the world does not evolve. Objects move from

inorganic to vegetation to selves endowed with spirit through the

urgency of every love that wants to come to perfection” (Rumi, p.

55). The enigmatic poet Rumi emphatically utters this noble

truth—his gentle, yet fearless, words still echo the corridors of

our species’ consciousness. The “infinite love” of the cosmos

knows no time; and invigorated animal lovers unite with the

timeless infinitude of the Universe through the gift of amorous

sexuality. Our bodies coalesce around the mystery of timeless

cosmic nature.

But what of time? What is it that grips our awareness and

smears it into a straight line? Physics professor and time

enthusiast Kerri Welch defines time as “a tension between

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frequencies, seeking resolution in timelessness” (Lecture Notes).

Of course, this definition can be fitted, customized to explain

frequencies of all kinds. In our case, what better way to

describe the tension between two human beings veraciously engaged

in sexual connection? These human frequencies, too, seek

resolution in timelessness, illuminating the blessed act of sex

as arbiter of the seemingly clandestine temporal threshold.

For millennia, anecdotal accounts of transcendent sex and

the budding worlds and altered states of consciousness that

result have both mystified and enchanted our species’ crusade

through time. And now there is mounting scientific evidence to

support that orgasmic sex does provide these experiences of

timelessness. Neurochemistry, brain scanning technology, quantum

physics, and psychology unite to uncover deeper understandings of

sex that go beyond evolution and perhaps even the physical

dimension. These novel insights into our sexuality, I will

argue, elucidate the necessity of our re-enchantment of timeless

sex—a combination of love and physical togetherness that can

transcend the known 3rd and 4th dimensions. Therefore, with the

tools of science and tenacity of human voice, the subsequent

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writings will first explore the scientific relationship between

sex and time, and then contend the fervent importance of

revivifying our sexuality as a means of remembering the timeless

nature of ourselves and the cosmos.

What is Sex?

Today’s most popular conception of human sexuality is often

veiled in hedonistic desire and/or reduced to a staunch,

positivist perspective of evolutionary procreation as its sole

utility—supersaturated in the reigning, materialist paradigm of

contemporary society. In simpler words: pleasure and babies.

And while this inquiry’s intention is not to deny the obvious

inclinations and pragmatics regarding sex, it does seek to

understand an experience—particularly orgasm—inherently fraught

with mystery and seemingly beyond our sensory boundaries of time

and space. Thus, in order to adequately address the

relationship between sex and time, a proper definition of sex and

its delineations will be necessarily considered.

The mysteries of human sexuality are constellated in the

essential mysteries of the stars and galaxies, the cosmic

intimacies from which humanity—and all of life—emerged.

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Resultantly then, this universal perspective is necessary in

understanding the origins of not only sex, but its relationship

to time. Therefore, for the purpose of this sexual expose, I

will demarcate our topic into two different—yet interconnected—

categories of experience: 1) physical sexuality and 2) holistic

sexuality. Physical sexuality will include everything from the

explicit act of intercourse, oral sex, and foreplay to any

intimate, bodily act leading in the direction of sex. Holistic

sexuality will be operationally defined for this inquiry as the

embodied, creative impulse of humanity—mirroring the intimacies

of the cosmos. This aspect of sexuality reflects both full-body

experiences—physical sexuality—and psycho-spiritual endeavors

infused with unabridged, creative potential.

The importance of this delineation lies in the increasingly

evolving—and hopeful— perspective that human sexuality and sexual

expression may transcend that of sheer pro-creational, pleasure-

oriented schemas (Komisaruk, Beyer-Flores, & Whipple, 2006, p.

97).

Relationally, these two definitions may nest within or exist

entirely independent of one another; they are not mutually

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exclusive. For example, physical sex may transcend simple bodily

pleasures, activating the creative, universal impetus of holistic

sexuality—a timeless, loving, spiritual encounter—but it may also

remain solely within the domain of 4-dimensional, flesh and

bones, space-time reality; and holistic sexuality may involve the

act of physical sex to enter a state of timeless oneness. That

being said, in care of this delineation, and for the sake of this

inquiry, physical sexuality will refer only to the visceral

experiences of the body—within space and time—and holistic

sexuality will encompass both physical sexuality and the

experience of timeless, loving oneness. It is also important to

mention that the term “orgasm” will be broadly defined as a

sexual state of aliveness that is in part characterized by the

experience of timelessness, to be differentiated from solely

climax or climactic orgasm—although this, too, is an experience

that may elicit timelessness. And with respect to simplicity, I

will often refer to physical sexuality as sex with a lower-case

“s” and holistic sexuality as Sex with an upper-case “S.”

Transcendent Sex

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In essence, there is a difference between sex and lovemaking,

or Sex. Sex without love is just physical sex, while love infused

sex may result in timeless, transcendent Sex. Jenny Wade Ph.D.

(2004), consciousness studies researcher, offers this eloquent

description: “Time becomes plastic, usually slipping away too

quickly for normal reckoning, at other times spreading out into

an infinite pool” (p. 132). This engagement of time “slipping”

often shimmers only fleetingly in the beginning of relationships,

Wade continues, as the neurochemical changes that persist at the

onset of a loving relationship tend to diminish, echoing

elemental similarities to the phasic rhythms of psychosis. In

technical terms, the excess dopamine levels present in both

loving infatuation and psychosis are quite similar (Robinson,

2006)—more on dopamine and the neurochemistry of sex, later.

Similar to the trance-inducing methods of archaic drumming,

chanting, repetitious movements, and intake of plant medicines,

Sex can greatly alter the experience of time and space, leaving

one swirling amidst the infinitude of past, present, and future,

disintegrating into the oneness of the Universe. Dr. Wade (2004)

recounts a story from a research participant:

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It was like a dance, like synchronized swimming where one

stance would just flow into another. In the exhilarated

feeling, the lightness of being, when all my senses were

engaged I was not even in my body all the time, but feeling

as though the whole world is in me, and I’m the whole world.

That’s a beautiful feeling. (p. 133)

Differentiating between self and other, time and space, here and

there, and dualities of any kind may become more than

challenging, but impossible and unnecessary. Essentially, time

becomes a malleable dimension, waxing and waning with the

fluctuating undulations of sexual experience. And though beyond

the scope of this paper, research in the field of parapsychology

posits that future-time may influence events in the present

moment, suggesting a teleological impulse of the Universe (Radin,

2006). If true, then the elusive nature of time during loving

Sex may, in fact, originate in dimensions outside of time itself—a

position that will gain further traction in the following pages.

The experience of Sex does not necessarily entail physical

stimulation or climactic release—a state of pure timeless oneness

can emerge without partners even touching one another. Barbara

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Carrellas (2007), author of Urban Tantra, provocatively details an

experience with her friend, Annie, in which the two wade in a

warm bath, exchanging sexual sounds:

As my sexual energy started to build, I became less aware of

the sounds I was making and more aware of what I was

hearing… Then the sounds faded into the background… I

floated into some vast space that certainly wasn’t Annie’s

apartment. I heard the beginning of a hum. It was deeply

soothing and comforting and drew me toward it… I have no

idea how long I stayed inside that hum. (p. 94)

The last statement in the above quote is highly pertinent to our

argument: how long did it last? One would imagine that measuring

time becomes not only impossible, but irrelevant in a pure state

of timelessness. Perhaps more interesting, however, is how one

remembers this timeless experience; how does one remember a lost

sense of time?

Carrella found years later that this profoundly altering

experience mirrors what many Eastern spiritualists and traditions

dub the “Universal Hum.” How fascinating that sex—a seemingly

mundane human interaction, in the sense that it necessarily

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precedes all living existence—could elicit or, more

appropriately, tap into a collective, cosmic vibration!

And while the spiritual implications and influences

regarding human sexuality are numerous, certainly requiring

further exposition later in our inquiry, a more imminently

provocative question arrests this author’s attention: what is

happening in the brain/body during climactic sex to produce this

enigmatically timeless experience?

Brain Activity & Quantum Physics

Brain functioning continues to mystify the most erudite and

ardent researchers of our time; the topography of the human brain

symbolizes the voluminous caverns of understanding waiting to be

explored. Hesitantly then, it may appear premature to attempt

making sense of an already elusive human experience with a still

nebulous discipline; however, the developments in both

neurochemistry and quantum physics are shedding new light on a

panoply of experiential phenomena, including sex—pre-orgasm,

orgasm, and post-orgasm.

A well-known neurochemical relationship surrounding orgasmic

climax is the dopamine/prolactin inhibitory process. Dopamine is

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often considered the neurochemical correlative of our experience

of time. For example, children, and some adults, experiencing

symptoms of ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder)

typically have low levels of dopamine, skewing their brain’s

ability to focus attention on specific stimulus and “creating

problems with timing” (Gilden, 2011). Dopamine, then, is thought

to relate directly to how one experiences time.

Regarding the sexual experience, events leading up to climax

are characterized in the brain by high levels of the

neurotransmitter dopamine, and an overall sense of tension in

both sexual partners. This tension, embodied in the brain as

dopamine and analogous to that of the tension identified in Kerri

Welch’s definition of time, seeks resolution. Partners attune to

this tension, discharging more and more dopamine, through the act

of foreplay and sexual stimulation, e.g., intercourse, oral sex,

clitoral stimulation, etc., until the moment of orgasmic climax—

sexual resolution. At this moment, the protein-hormone prolactin

inhibits the further release of dopamine, relieving the tension

and inducing both calmness and a dissolution of time. This

process is termed the “refractory period,” characterized by a

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marked rise in penile/vaginal hypersensitivity and an overall

“loss of arousability” in both men and women (Cioe & Humphries,

2009, p. 127).

As prolactin is metabolized and dopamine levels rise and

return to their normal states, desire and a sense of time return

to conscious awareness. Therefore, as Welch (2014) so eloquently

offers in her book The Fractal Topology of Time:

These neurotransmitter correlates for desire and

satisfaction can be tied to our temporal experience. If

dopamine is the neurotransmitter associated with our

perception of time, then prolactin is the neurotransmitter

associated with our experience of timelessness, and the two

alternate through mutual inhibition in the way we alternate

between desire and satisfaction, time and timelessness. (p.

152)

What is more, Welch explains that this same hormone,

prolactin, is responsible for fostering the growth of new cells

that become lipid layers for axons—lipids that then facilitate

the protein-stimulated signal transfers in neurons. These

proteins have been thought to play a role in quantum

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superposition, which is defined by physicist Stuart Hameroff

(1998) as “simultaneous existence in two distinct states.”

Hameroff continues clarifies that these proteins rely on this

quantum state of uncertainty regarding their conformation before

collapsing on a chosen one (p. 1874). In this state, reality

lingers in the quantum foam, undefined, containing all

potentialities. Welch (2014) expands Hameroff’s postulation by

provocatively stating that these proteins (multiplied by

prolactin) may “engage timelessness through superposition” (p.

152), a unique stance that likens the quantum state to perhaps

the scientific understanding of the experience of timeless

reality

One potential benefit of the float in quantum superposition

resides in this state’s infinitude of possibilities. Theoretical

and quantum physicist Amit Goswami (1993) radically suggests that

Western society’s directive to act and do constantly collapses the

quantum probability of events, never leaving space for being—a

state that fosters deeper insight and creative movements into the

future. Goswami states: “…uncollapsed coherent superpositions

can act upon other uncollapsed coherent superpositions, thus

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creating many more possibilities to choose from in the eventual

collapse” (p. 227). Thus, if Sex procures a state of quantum

superposition, then the infinite, creative potentials of the

Universe become more readily available, perhaps offering those

engaged a more aligned perspective on life, love, and

connectedness.

As a side note: research on Transcendental Meditation (TM)

has also observed high levels of prolactin in meditators,

supporting the correlation between prolactin and expanded states

of consciousness (Hagelin, 1987, p. 63).

Zooming out, it can then be scientifically purported that

sexual engagement resulting in climax—inhibiting further dopamine

release (experience of tension, or time) with increased prolactin

levels—leads to a state of resolution in timelessness.

Beyond neurochemistry, exists the curious relationship

between time and brain waves/activity during sex as measured

using fMRI (Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging) scanning

technology. Kayt Sukel (2011), a journalist for NewScientist,

found herself the sole participant in a study performed by

Rutgers’s researcher, and author of The Science of Orgasm, Barry

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Komisaruk in order to “tease apart the mechanisms underlying

sexual arousal.” Sukel was asked to both imagine sexual

stimulation while tapping her finger and thumb, and then to reach

orgasmic climax through self-clitoral stimulation, which she

successfully performed. The fMRI results found that the

prefrontal cortex (PFC)—an area of the brain responsible for

functions of consciousness—is less active during actual

stimulation, suggesting that a diminishing of some aspects of

consciousness is a key component to the achievement of climax.

Further studies in the Netherlands found that not only is

there less activation, but there is “significant deactivation” in

a part of the PFC called the orbitofrontal cortex (OFC). In

Sukel’s (2011) article, Netherland researcher Janniko Georgiadis

claims the following:

The OFC may be the basis of sexual control - and perhaps

only by letting go, so to speak, can orgasm be achieved…

[T]his deactivation may be the most telling example of an

‘altered state of consciousness’ and one not seen, as yet,

during any other type of activity.

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The primary differences between the two studies is the path to

orgasmic climax: masturbation in Komisaruk’s study and partner

stimulation in Georgidis’s. And though still inconclusive as to

whether particular sexual methodologies equate to deeper orgasmic

satisfaction, research evidence suggests partner stimulation

reaches greater overall satiety and higher levels of prolactin

secretion (Brody & Kruger, 2006). Regardless, there is clearly

an alteration of consciousness reflected in the brain’s activity

during orgasm that, as Georgiadis advocates, requires a “letting

go.”

But a letting go of what? As affirmed by the researchers,

the area of the brain that requires a loss of control—the

prefrontal cortex (PFC)—governs aspects of consciousness. In

particular, these aspects of consciousness include the temporal

organization of events, or the 4th dimension: time (Fuster,

2001). It appears, then, that in order to reach orgasm, one must

autonomously relinquish control of this area, and perhaps other

areas, of the brain. One potential explanation involves letting

go of “collapsed coherent superpositions” as suggested earlier by

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Goswami. More precisely, however, I want to posit that one must

willingly let go of time.

But can one simply “let go” of time? This suggests that

time is an aspect of reality that humans choose to participate in,

not a governing dimension of our conscious experience.

Presumably, it is more complicated than choice. Evolutionarily

speaking, humanity has evolved reflective consciousness, which

has progressed to experience and contemplate an ebb and flow of

unidirectional time; this would suggest that we are locked into a

structure of linearity, inhibiting any alternative temporal

perspective. It may very well be, however, that before this

radical shift in our species’ development, a perception of

eternality, or cyclical time, pervaded our consciousness. A body

of dedicated work focused on epoch related structures of

consciousness sheds light on the fluidity of time perception

across human experience, including sex.

Polish philosopher and writer Jean Gebser (1985) provides a

scale for staging structures of consciousness; they progress in

time as follows: 1) Archaic, 2) Magical, 3) Mythical, 4) Mental,

and 5) Integral. Currently, we are lingering within the Mental

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structure of consciousness, which is characterized by blunt

rationalism, logic, and scientific empiricism. I suggest that

these structures also coincide with brain development, i.e., we

are presently—as reflected in the Mental structure—developing

areas of the brain associated with higher consciousness and

cognition, such as the aforementioned prefrontal cortex (PFC) and

the neocortex. Furthermore, these stages of consciousness can be

associated with the five known brain wave levels; respectively:

Delta = 0-4Hz; Theta = 4-7Hz; Alpha = 7-12Hz; Beta = 12-25Hz;

Gamma = 25+Hz. Subsequently, as humanity rests comfortably

within the Mental epoch, our typical waking life brain waves

vacillate anywhere between 12-25Hz—Beta waves.

Minding his rationale only briefly, Gebser places the

characteristic experience of timelessness at the Magical

structure—synonymous with Theta waves (4-7Hz). Fascinatingly

during sex, partners’ brain waves synchronize, dropping from Beta

to Alpha to just above Theta at 7.8Hz. These measurements

suggest that the experience, in regard to brain waves, mimics

that of the Magical structure of consciousness, or timelessness.

What is more, Rutgers’s researcher Barry Komisaruk found that,

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just after sexual stimulation begins, the limbic system activates

—an area of the brain involved with “emotional and physiological

responses” (Bliss, 2013). And analogous to the developing PFC

and neocortex as brain areas associated with the current Mental

structure of consciousness, the limbic system may be associated

with—and perhaps may have emerged during—the Magical structure.

All of this is to support the claim that the sexual

encounter has the power to reengage the body with an actual

physiological conformation that renders a sense of timelessness—

an experience now highly elusive in contemporary society.

Why Timeless Sex?

How do we make sense of all the budding research and novel

information regarding the sexual experience? Why should we care?

And more importantly, why—and for what benefit—do we experience

timelessness during Sex?

With respect to this paper’s thesis, it is necessary to

differentiate between the potential to catalyze a moment of

timelessness through physical sexuality and the timeless oneness

experience brought on by love-infused Sex. While timelessness may

be reached via sexual release characterized by a “pathologically

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high level of prolactin” (Komisaruk et al., p. 197), this does

not necessarily equate to anything more than an addiction to

timelessness. Welch (2014) clarifies that dopamine is in fact

the neurotransmitter most closely associated with addiction. And

not surprisingly, there are plenty of sexual addictions, from

excessive masturbation to mindlessly promiscuous sexual

encounters. These addictions become “positive feedback loops,”

the desire for the next fix is encouraged, and subsequently,

highly sought after (Welch, p. 153). This imploded, raw sexual

desire to acquire more of something simply for the sake of its

acquisition is not the type of Sex that I am advocating may

facilitate greater human connection and togetherness.

Sex is a gift given to us by the cosmos through life

evolution—a reminder of the inherently intimate and timeless

nature of being; however, physical sex alone is not enough to

surface this remembrance. If simply reaching a state of

timelessness through sex—which frequently occurs mindlessly and

without love—were enough to remind humanity of this inextricable

connection, our global situation would be much different. I will

argue that it is necessary—perhaps imperative—that the human race

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revivify the sexual experience and imbue it with love if it is to

utilize the true beneficence of this cosmic gift. A pure re-

enchantment of Sex is not possible without a loving connection.

In a scientific-materialist paradigm, however, humanity

needs this information presented through measure and number—the

Cartesian crutch of modern society. Fortunately, related data is

now surfacing. For instance, research at the non-profit

organization the Institute of HearthMath has tested the

electromagnetic resonance of organs in the body; in particular,

the heart. Amazingly, according the HearthMath website, the

heart’s electrical field “as measured in an electrocardiogram

(ECG) is about 60 times greater in amplitude than the brain waves

recorded in an electroencephalogram (EEG).” The research also

posits that:

…our heart’s field changes distinctly as we experience

different emotions. It is registered in people’s brains

around us and apparently is capable of affecting cells,

water and DNA studied in vitro. Growing evidence also

suggests energetic interactions involving the heart may

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underlie intuition and important aspects of human

consciousness.

An implication of this research, in my opinion, is that one’s

heart and brain have the innate ability to, not only heal, but

entrain, or synch with, those of another. Stasia Bliss (2013),

journalist at Guardian Liberty Voice, writes that foreplay provides a

poignant opportunity to engage with both heart and brain wave

synchronization. Lowering brain wave cycles—the aforementioned

7.8Hz—and entraining hearts not only lowers the risk of

cardiovascular problems and cancer but can set the stage for a

transcendent sexual experience that reengages one with universal,

cosmic intimacy.

Further evidence for the importance of time dissolution

during the sexual encounter is addressed in the work of

psychiatrist and transpersonal psychology progenitor Stanislav

Grof. In Beyond the Brain, Grof (1985) explains that during sex

“one can either experience only one’s own feelings in the sexual

situations involved or have simultaneous access to emotional

states and physical sensations of a partner” (p. 221). In

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essence, a melting or dissolving of personal ego and self is

present—akin to Gebser’s Magical structure of consciousness.

What is the value of dissolving one’s ego? The dissolution

of self—an experience achievable during Sex—can not only lovingly

connect one to another, but blur boundaries entirely between self

and Other, allowing a pure embodiment of the Universe. In fact,

Grof writes of divine intercourse—an experience characterized by

identification with a supreme being, a divine entity, or—for the

sake of this argument—a timeless cosmic force (p. 223). A

similar conceptualization coined by Grof is oceanic sex, which he

describes as “the experience of cosmic unity and, on a more

superficial level, with the ecstatic symbiotic unity between the

child and the maternal organism…” This state of “blissful unity”

may be reached through a “playful and nourishing flow and

exchange of energies”—aspects of holistic sexuality, as defined

earlier in this paper—without a directive toward climax. In

fact, Grof speculates based on anecdotal evidence that the

tension experience surrounding climax may be necessary only to

facilitate “a more total and diffuse unifying experience” (p.

229). Overall, the meaningful distillation of this material is

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that sexuality can unify seemingly separate selves, re-

identifying humanity with the Self of the Universe.

Conclusion: Sex & Consciousness

Despite myriad scientific, anecdotal, and spiritual evidence

that sexuality can reconnect humanity with a benevolent, timeless

existence, physical sex is still misunderstood and unconsciously

exploited. Humanity’s desire to dissolve time through sex is now

often truncated in the mundane desire for dopamine release

(though, interestingly, it is the curtailing of dopamine that in

fact provides satiety). In other words, without a conscious,

loving intention, we are simply chasing our desires with the hope

of their relief in desire-less oblivion—a state of timelessness

with diminished significance; this includes everything from

physical sex to consumerist needs, and so on. The diminished

significance lies in the inability to integrate the qualities of

timeless oneness into everyday reality. The integration of

timelessness into daily life through sex requires loving

intention—a combination that extends beyond mindless desire and

its subsequent relief.

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As human beings—frequencies seeking resolution in

timelessness—we crave time’s dissolution, desiring respite in the

entrainment of our hearts and minds—a release in love’s sexual

embrace. The truth of the matter is that we have little grasp on

the fundamental origins and implications of sexuality beyond our

physical dimension. The experience of cosmic unity and blissful

orgasmic timelessness are beyond time and beyond space.

Therefore, our consciousness, too, “despite… being so

tantalizingly within us… is exasperatingly elusive” existing in a

fifth dimension of ambiguity and total mystery (Komisaruk et al.,

p. 291). These mysteries are the fundamentals of our reality,

yet our understanding of time is only what our physical form will

allow. And as humanity continues to explore the cavernous

landscape of its own reality, it may find that the brilliant gift

of sexuality is far more than simply a means to procreate and

experience pleasure, but a resource for realigning with the

timeless nature of the Universe—more than just a reminder, but a

guiding light into the great mystery of our own consciousness and

cosmic existence.

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