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   From: eottoe@netscape.net   
      
   >> Societys who practiced the Great Rite almost exclusively did so at the   
   >> Winter Soltace or at the latest early spring. I suggest this implies   
   >> they had a distorted understanding of cause & effect.   
   >   
   The problem is that for northern climates where you have four or five months   
   of winter, when March   
   and April come, you can understand reasons why for all the poetry and love   
   songs.   The smell of   
   that Spring soil is like perfume.   It is not a belief issue, it is primal.     
   You just feel so much   
   better.   It is Chaucer and it is Chinese poets a thousand years before him.   
      
   One of my college teachers teaching about acupuncture told me that the points   
   or meridian change   
   with the changing of the seasons.   He keyed that in with passage from the I   
   Ching about how in   
   winter the energy withdrawls into the earth.    That "feels" more than   
   metaphore to me.   
      
   >> Most interesting to me is WHY such beliefs were required to give   
   >> permission for sacred sexual practice. Some exceptions to the once a   
   >> year event can be seen in various tantric sects of Indian origin--even   
   >> Ananda Marga allows sacred sexual practices (married couples only!)   
   >> once every new moon.   
   >   
   If I were human biology in temperate zones, I'd plan for the mating cycles to   
   be nine or ten months   
   before June when food is plentiful at conception and at the birth in the   
   Northern Hemisphere.   
   August or September, we should be going at it like bunnies.   
      
   >> The resultant 'illicit' sexual practice going on behind many ashrams   
   >> on dates other than the new moon, may tell us something about the   
   >> wisdom of such restrictions. Or does it?   
   >   
   Is it another level of control and artiface?   Control seems to be the way of   
   all kinds of   
   civilizations.   There is not a lot of organic form to it.   It's the luna   
   calendar or Saturday   
   night.   
      
   Eric   
      
      
      
      
       
   
   
   
Societys who practiced the Great   
   Rite almost exclusively did so at the   
   
Winter Soltace or at the latest early spring. I suggest   
   this implies   
   
they had a distorted understanding of cause &   
   effect.
   
   
   
   The problem is that for northern climates where you have four or five months   
   of winter, when March and April come, you can understand reasons why for   
   all the poetry and love songs.   The smell of that Spring soil   
   is like perfume.   It is not a belief issue, it is pri   
   al.     
   You just feel so much better.   It is Chaucer and it is Chinese   
   poets a thousand years before him.   
   
One of my college teachers teaching about acupuncture told me that the   
   points or meridian change with the changing of the seasons.     
   He keyed that in with passage from the I Ching about how in winter the   
   energy withdrawls into the earth.    That "feels" more than   
   metaphore to me.   
   
   
   
Most interesting to me is WHY such   
   beliefs were required to give   
   
permission for sacred sexual practice. Some exceptions   
   to the once a   
   
year event can be seen in various tantric sects of   
   Indian origin--even   
   
Ananda Marga allows sacred sexual practices (married   
   couples only!)   
   
once every new moon.
   
   
   
   If I were human biology in temperate zones, I'd plan for the mating cycles   
   to be nine or ten months before June when food is plentiful at conception   
   and at the birth in the Northern Hemisphere.  August or September,   
   we should be going at it like bunnies.   
   
   
   
The resultant 'illicit' sexual   
   practice going on behind many ashrams   
   
on dates other than the new moon, may tell us something   
   about the   
   
wisdom of such restrictions. Or does it?
   
   
   
   Is it another level of control and artiface?   Control seems   
   to be the way of all kinds of civilizations.   There is not a   
   lot of organic form to it.   It's the luna calendar or Saturday   
   night.   
   
Eric   
   
    
      
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