When intimate, you are stunned by
a life force which seems to have—without your conscious
intention—descended upon you and embraced you. The only way
that you can express this break-through is to embrace again and
again. To plunge into
your newfound embrace of being wildly imagined as Beloveds. Over
time, through Earthfolk practices and rituals, you sustain this
intimacy
through the nurturing embrace.
In the main, everyone can discover this sense of ecstatically erotic
intimacy. 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—Skin
