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In a healthy environment, our first spiritual moments are moments of awe and wonder, and delight. The mystics call this the Via Positiva. When we
We have been discussing our experiences of the Divine as we undergo our oneings, our breakthroughs, our ecstasies even on an everyday basis. We have
If God is near and vitally present in all that exists, all of life, we see why ecstasy is the experience of God. Speaking theologically
Sister Jose Hobday, the Franciscan sister and Native American whom I cited a previously regarding the spiritual leadership of gay and lesbian people, told me
Marcia Falk proposes that the “Song of Songs,” may have “something new to teach about the redemption of sexuality and love in our fallen world.”*
We will soon be moving on from our discussion of sexuality as a natural ecstasy and a God experience. But we cannot ignore the political
One glaring example of the shadow side of sexuality that is alive and well in our times can be religion’s negative teachings around it. A
An old medieval axiom says “the corruption of the best is the worst.” While our last essays have been celebrating our power of Eros as
When anthropocentric religion lacks a cosmology, it has very little to tell us that is good news about sexuality, which is so special a gift
Following are further testimonies to the Natural Ecstasy of sexual love as an experience of God. From theologian Dorothee Soelle: “I remember a feminist group
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