riclapaz said:Thank you all for this thread, sex is something that has been troubling me during my youth and adult life, sometimes I control and sometimes not, this gives it as emotional "lows", where I just feel dirty, that worthless, is that this is all part of the programming that instilled in me as a child about sex is bad or ideas of this kind, I think seeking sex to feed the ego currently have no steady partner, this clearly does everything harder, I tried for months not to have sex, and I succeeded, but it has not worked well for me, I think this I cause a blockage of sexual energy (in the session of spiritual liberation with Patrick, the medium found this blockade, apparently, by force of will had created this barrier of sexual energy) to remove this barrier, again I get this unbridled sexual appetite, try not to think more than necessary on this issue, I try to put all my energy into other Things, however is something that remains a thorn in the side, a piece that does not fit into my life, it is a lesson I need to learn, and the fight is always present. :/
I can resonate with this. I had an interesting dream that, upon seeing the archetypal "mysterious and beautiful woman", I would run 50 miles an hour to impress her, racing cars down the road! Afterwards my legs would be broken and bloody stumps, but I would heal and repeat the process again. Funny how this described a lot of my life the past few years - a combination of workaholism and complete exhaustion, struggling with a sexual blockage, and yes the joke was on me.
Ultimately the manifestation of our sexual energy, at least on the level we are, is mechanical. More information on the different psychological systems as outlined by modern neuro-biology can be found in this thread. Slowing down and consciously acquiring information adds more of "us" to this machine. But, like you say, the fight is always present, and it's a real pain. If it feels chaotic now just remember that the constant input of information will add more and more "order" to your system. So it sucks, but it has to in order to fuel our knowledge quest.
As Gurdjieff said in In Search of the Miraculous, on pages 84 to 86 [without taking the meaning too literally]:
The study of the forty-eight orders of laws to which man is subject cannot be abstract like the study of astronomy; they can be studied only by observing them in oneself and by getting free from them. At the beginnign a man must simply understand that he is quite needlessly subject to a thousand petty but irksome laws which have been created for him by other people and by himself. When he attemtps to get free from them he will see that he cannot. Long and persistent attempts to gain freedom from them will convince him of his slavery. The laws to which man is subject can only be studied by struggling with them, by trying to get free from them. But a great deal of knowledge is needed in order to become free from one law without creating for oneself another in its place.[...]
The liberation which comes with the growth of mental powers and faculties is liberation from the moon. The mechanical part of our life depends upon the moon, is subject to the moon. If we develop in ourselves consciousness and will, and subject our mechanical life and all our mechanical manifestations to them, we shall escape from the power of the moon.
So if you see a lesson to be learned don't delay. We're rooting for you!