In your writings and daily practice you emphasize physicality, movement, and sexuality. Why are these important; how do they help us open more fully to the divine?

Matter is not fallen. Spirit flows within the material. God Herself is present in all things, including myself. Celebration of the body acknowledges this. If I am aligned with an inclusive rather than strictly transcendent religious theology and praxis, than I must bring my body to the work. Inclusion means that all my parts participate in the alchemical Great Work of coming into constant contact with my divine nature.

Pleasure is important. If I believe that the material world is sacred, then why wouldn’t I want to celebrate the pleasures of good food, companionship, sex, dancing, or music? The divine creative impulse is an erotic one. The ancient Greeks knew this. We find it in the writings of Plato and Plotinus, for example. And all mystics, regardless of religious tradition, long for union with the great non-dual, the limitless divine. This longing is often portrayed as sexual, because, genitally based or not, it is. If we are tuned in to the ancient Greek roots of the word, we see that this is the erotic impulse of all things seeking to return to the larger fabric of Being, and to our larger purpose. Sex is a great reflection of this. So is any creative activity.

The over-culture teaches us to either suppress our sex energy or run it at something. This means we never have clear access to this powerful life energy for and of ourselves. This limits both our autonomy and our ability to relate meaningfully to others. As a magic worker, I want as much access to life power as possible. This is the energy that fuels my work and makes me effective in the world. In mystic states, it also connects me beyond myself to the whole cosmos. Clearing up our complexes around sex, pleasure, and the running of life power, enables us to back up our choices and really harness our will to our desire, which becomes the easiest way to enter the flow of our True Will, the Work of this God that is inside of us.

Connecting to the physical helps the metaphysical and in the long run, shows us that really there is no separation between the two.

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