On yellow

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The French and orgasm:

la petite mort.

A release, not just from desire, but from everything.

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 I've read your posts now - I can't really remember reading them at
> the time.
>
> I think back there Cyprian's "orgasm" was a sense of relief at the
> "release from desire"  so complete it was physical.  Isn't a sexual
> orgasm a  "release from desire"?
>
> And this may be the onset of his quest for release from self which is
> found in later pages?
>
> Bekah
>
> On Apr 27, 2008, at 3:00 PM, Mark Kohut wrote:
>
>> Bekah,
>>
>> Great of you to look this up.........and Ian for suggesting
>> it ..................fascinating...
>>
>> were you able, Bekah, to read (my) posts re when Cyprian
>> seemed to have all of his previous expressed sexuality emerge as a
>> kind of full body
>> orgasm?....Related to tantric sex but coming without even trying or
>> thinking of it......
>>
>> Sublimation became its own reward......
>>
>> Mark
>>
>> Bekah <Bekah0176 at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>> On Apr 27, 2008, at 9:38 AM, Ian Livingston wrote:
>>
>>> Look into alchemy.  The four colors of transmutation: black,
>>> white, yellow and red.  See Eliade,  The Forge and the Crucible.
>>
>> Interesting.  So I Googled the definition of "transmutation" and
>> was sent to Wiki which gave me "sexual transmutation" among
>> others.  So I clicked the link:
>>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_sublimation
>>
>> Sexual sublimation, also known as sexual transmutation, is the
>> attempt among some religious traditions to transform sexual energy
>> into creativity, thereby facilitating a mystical awakening.
>> In psychology, sublimation is the transference of sexual energy, or
>> libido, into a physical act or a different emotion in order to
>> avoid confrontation with the sexual urge. It is based on the belief
>> that sexual energy, the creative function of the human being, can
>> be used to create a spiritual nature instead of being let out in
>> hopes of creating physically or sensually.[1][2][3]
>> The term itself means to transform the crude sexual energy into a
>> carrier of spiritual essence. Different schools that describe this
>> energy as vital energy, vital winds (prana), spiritual energy,
>> ojas, shakti, tummo, or kundalini.[4][5][6]
>>
>> "The Yellow Book: Gnosis, the Divine Mother Kundalini and Jinn
>> Science"  is about sexual transmutation.  It's yellow.
>>
>> Btw,  the author of "The Forge and the Crucible" is Romanian - just
>> north of the Balkan area. Do they know about this sort of thing?
>> (paranoid mysticism)
>> ***
>>
>> Good point and interesting but I still see the Austrian connection
>> as the most realistic meaning behind Cyprian's cryptic comment.
>>
>> Another idea might be that yellow could mean cowardly and that
>> could possibly be relevant to a meeting with the Prince.   (I still
>> like the Austrian connection best.)
>>
>> Bekah
>>
>>
>>
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