(08-18-2016, 10:32 PM)Billy Wrote: I am confused by this Aion. If it were an energy based attraction, surely then we would see more people engaging in homosexual relations. It would be far more common. I suppose you could argue that people repress their attraction to people of the same sex because of their fears and taboos. What role then does the body play? Does the body have its own innate charge or is it completely colored by the spirit (which I'm assuming is where the charge is coming from)? I have struggled with the concepts of male and female for quite a long time now and don't really know if you can say anything conclusive about either (i.e. x characteristic is male, y characteristic is female) or if it is completely open to interpretation. What makes someone a man and someone a woman? I'm really interested to hear what peoples frameworks are for understanding the nature of the sexes.
It seems to me that hostility towards homosexuals is a fear based response. Something founded on ignorance. I think it probably has something to do with the questions I have outlined above. I feel the same fear inside of myself and I can't figure out where it is coming from and which belief or idea is responsible. I have read that homophobia is a result of people repressing their own homosexual desires, and with the world around us being as a mirror, when those desires are reflected, they lash out in fear. I don't know how true that is, but it is food for thought.
Seth has a lot to say about homosexuality and he often talks about 'mans bisexual nature'. The book 'The Nature of the Psyche' is loaded with stuff about sexuality, although I have not read it myself. I could post some quotes from it about homosexuality and sexuality in general if anyone is interested.
I think that the body has its own charge which is predisposed to certain behaviors, and most human bodies would be attracted to the opposite sex; I think that what Ra is referring to is when that genetic information is overridden by one's time/space attachments to a different configuration.
How do you figure that there would be more homosexuals if it was an energy based attraction? Maybe it's an energy-based attraction that is not as common for numerous reasons, one being how society frequently rejects this configuration as invalid, and another being that most people don't naturally resonate with it for whatever reason. And if there is a genetic component in some cases, it'd be hard to pass along (at least by vertical gene transfer), for obvious reasons.
Men and women are just different sets of energetic patterns that we've grouped into two categories based on their physical function. There are always exceptions.
Also, I'm pretty sure that the Ra material doesn't use "bisexual" to mean the same thing that we think of as "bisexual"; it has a different definition entirely. I don't think that humanity in general has a tendency to be attracted to both sexes.