The mutual fulfillment of man and woman is like the mutual dependence of heaven and earth. Because heaven and earth have attained the tao of union, they are eternal; because mankind has lost the tao of intercourse, he suffers the onset of early death. If we could but avoid those things that gradually injure our bodies and learn the art of yin and yang, this would truly be the tao of immortality. ”

It’s too bad the forefathers of western culture were afraid of these concepts. Think how different our lives and our society would be if these were taught to every man, woman and child coming of age. Read the rest of this entry »

The Mary Magdalene Within

by Joan Norton

“When our bodies twined as one he said he knew how the rivers loved the earth, how the oceans felt about the shores. I gave him knowing of love of the body as love of the Earth. He loved my body as a teacher of the rhythms of the Earth. Men are without knowledge of the rhythms which are the ebb and flow of all Creation, without knowledge of a woman’s bodylife and her experience as an Earth.”

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