For the Warrior's Quester, such a feeling of tenderness
and of being back in the womb is, itself, an evil
thought and temptation. They deny these tendernesses and cover their
feelings with acts of domination, that is, of sexual abuse,
verbally and physically.
When you move beyond the Warrior's
Quest shadow of sexual abuse, what you discover is
that sexual coupling evokes a powerful, somewhat overwhelming intimately
erotic sense of yourself, that is, you realize intimacy within relationship.
You realize that the word “intimacy” can hardly contain
the break-down of yourself which the ecstasy of
embracing causes. Your body no longer seems
your body. And the body of your beloved no longer
seems to be his or her own. Somehow you
are together. United. One.
It is a strange,
bizarre, unsettling experience where, as Beloveds, you gaze
at each other and find yourselves
knocked senseless. You have no words. You
seek a new vocabulary of intimacy.
