Eric,
Sari says that the word Hell was coined in the 16th century. The word is a much older name for a Northern European goddess by the name of Hel or Hella from which the name of the country Holland is derived. The word was stolen, appropriated, corrupted in the 16th century, not coined. Interesting synchronicity tho as her image is half skeleton, half beautiful woman. Reminds me of the lead photo from Book of Blue, the discussion of Nessus and recognizing our wounds and all that. To worship her is to accept the whole wave of existence, not just the part above the horizon. The Teutonic Kali? Yeah I think a huge part of our culture’s wound is to sweep Hella under the rug and hope she goes away, all the noise and poison of our culture a ruckus of massive proportions to drown out our fear of the silence of the dead.
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Also I wanted to continue the conversation about non-ejaculatory orgasms we started in your daily blog a couple of weeks ago. I lost the thread as the speed of my life went into warp drive for a little while. So with non-ejaculatory orgasms you’re not forcibly holding back the semen. I see it as integrating the inner feminine in that you’re not rushing to the edge and falling over into squirt-gasm, but slowing down, even stopping for long enough to fall back from the edge. You don’t chase after an orgasm, you let it find you when it’s ready. Part of the technique does involve strengthening your pelvic muscles, principally the Pubococcygeus muscle that’s like a sling stretching from the tip of your tailbone to the pelvic bone holding the root of the penis and prostate gland in a man and the vagina in a woman. But you’re using the pelvic muscles more to direct the Qi away from the automatic desire to make babies into a more intentional desire for healing and self actualization. Sperm has more functions that simply to make more humans. It’s vigor is also like a battery in your root.