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sacred sexuality

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A-Seeker

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C-Belover

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Part 2 - Resources

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We Earthfolk are staggered by the dreadful terror which grips humanity. As fitting a people who have drifted into a dread-filled age—wherein they are ruled by the Shadow of their Dark Side—those of the Warrior’s Quest live in denial. Their basic denial is that they are not living in dreadful fear. To Earthfolk, the Warrior’s Quest's dreadful fear is clearly manifest in how the individual and the group approaches the Other, that is, as Intimate Enemy. Yet, the Warrior’s Quester denies that Endless War is his/her ritual. Rather, the Warrior’s Quester claims to be what he/she is not, namely, a Peacemaker. For Earthfolk, this claim is an artful act of misdirection because the Warrior’s Quester will not cease waging war until he/she has achieved complete Dominion over all forms of life. Her/His is an End-Time chant of, “War is Peace,” and, “We make war so that we can live in peace.”

Of greater note is that for the Warrior’s Quester there is no intimate space. When intimacy is discussed, the Warrior’s Quester images it in militaristic terms, that is, as a “War between the Sexes.” Indeed, the Warrior’s Quester’s denial is counter-evidenced by millennia of endless wars which, for Earthfolk, clearly reveal that the core ritual practice of the Warrior’s Quest is warring at every level, from intimate to global. Moreover, we Earthfolk find that the three Big Stories each finds expression in the denial of intimacy as a power. This is manifested in several ways.

One, through the denial of the existence of or a need for a Mother Goddess to create the world. It is claimed that Life and human life does not come from a Sensual Preciousness coupling of a Mother and a Father god. Quite conversely, the Religious Big Story can be read as a War against the Goddess. In this light, through its core story of Genesis, the Religious Big Story claims that “God is Dead” in respect to the existence of a Goddess. Genesis, then, is properly seen as an atheistic tale. It is a story of disbelief, and an account of a lack of faith in the fullness of the spiritual presence of Mother and Father. Earthfolk judge this to be both a secularizing and atheistic claim, and it clarifies the common grounding between the three Big Stories.

Furthermore, a peculiar biology is expressed in the Religious Big Story, namely, that the male body is the procreative birthing-body. It is claimed that women, in flesh and spirit, are derived from male flesh and spirit. This is a scientism claim which is common ground for the development of the images and “truths” about women and the feminine forwarded by the Scientism Big Story. Collectively, these three dominant Big Stories appear to claim that intimacy is not a Big Question. Yet, each one’s denial stands, as we Earthfolk see it, as a Big Answer.

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