Intending to Worship
Intending to Comfort
is the emotional ground for preparing to initiate
other rituals. The ultimate comforted presence to
be evoked through all rituals is that of the worshipping
moment. This is the instant of breakthrough to the
sense of thirdness, of the two beloveds as freshly
One. It is that ecstatic moment when two flames merge
to flare as One.
Intending to
Worship is a practical way of filling your day with expectation
of your beloved. What you
anticipate when you Intend to Worship is what you
savor from your past coupled acts or rituals. Intending
to Worship is lingering in the memory of ritual
ecstasy. It is reliving through sensual memory
the deep sensuality of the nurturing embrace. As you look at a picture
of your beloved your hands are caressed
by the touch of her. As you inhale the fragrance
of flowers which he has sent, you taste the deliciousness
of his tongue upon your cheek. So it goes, throughout the day!
You recall rituals because rituals
are consciously designed and enacted sensory performances. Rituals
are the necessary preparations for that transcending
and transforming moment called worship. Worship is that Flash!
when two beloveds flow together into a newborn presence.
One cannot worship alone. Nor can
one worship an Other without that Other’s invitation
and intentional participation. Without mutual invitation and intention
“worship” becomes idolatry as seen, e.g.,
in Hollywood screen idols or Rock ‘n Roll stars or Playboy
Playmates.
Intending to Worship seeks to sustain
the worshipping Flash! You Intend to Worship
when physically or communicatively separate so as
to avoid an “egoism of two.”
That is, you seek to remain within
the nurturing and parenting moment which worship is. It is nurturing
in that it unleashes the dynamic nuclear intimate
energy—vital zest—which nourishes the
personal relationship of the two who are intimate beloveds, each for
the other.
Continue—Worship
