Isn't this a mind-boggling confirmation of
how all "I"s and "Other"s can be connected. Every human
potentially can intimately and erotically embrace every other human!
This very amazing sense of discovery, of yourself and the Other,
is able to be felt by everyone. In fact, for Earthfolk,
this is the simplest of insights, that is, that
what happens through intimate sexual embrace is a redefinition of
who you are, for you begin to think of yourself as always in
the presence of the other. He/she becomes your Beloved. You live a
life of sensually precious sexuality within the vision of sensual
preciousness.
Clearly, “skin” is
you made present in fantastic and preciously erotic
imagining ways.
Skin is both the boundary of and gateway to
a beloved's preciousness.
As you look around, and as you age, you notice that
skin is ever-changing. Yet, that it is also deathless.
The skin of those who die lives on in the skin of their family, through
siblings, nieces, cousins, etc. Skin changes, but then it seems not to.
It appears to be that "something" which
can be called ever-lasting or forever. An intimate experience of
your skin is a way to make present the Forever-Family.
When beheld as a Beloved, as you
look at, feel, lick, smell skin, you learn everything you
need to know about answers to who, where, when and why you are here
and what “here” will always be. You are present to your
skin and you are present to everyone else, to the precious Other.
We Earthfolk say that you can read the Story of the Forever-Family
(of all time, of evolution, etc.) on the ribbon of flesh of your
beloved.
How, then, are you to relate to
other skins? Notably, male to female skin?
Continue—Reeds
and Wombs
