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Sex and the Intelligence of the Heart: Nature, Intimacy, and Sexual Energy

by Julie McIntyre

Nature is having sex all the time — that’s one of the reasons we feel so alive when we are immersed in it. Sexuality is essential to the sensation of Nature in your own body, of connecting to the piece of Earth closest to you--your own flesh and bones. Many a couple has been overcome by passion while walking in the woods or on the beach; many a soul has found solace or epiphany in Nature. Living in accordance with Nature depends on you being your true, whole self--a sexual, sensual, erotic, fully alive human being.

Exploring the territory of intimacy, sacred sex, and emotional healing as a journey to wholeness, Julie McIntyre examines the sacred relationship between sexuality and the Earth and reveals how to create deep, lasting intimacy with your lover by recapturing the wild, spontaneous, natural sexuality that is your birthright. Detailing the process of moving from your head to the secret garden of your heart, she provides exercises to heal your psyche of old emotional trauma, reconnect with the intuitive intelligence of the heart, and cultivate a deeper relationship with the Earth in order to trust yourself and become vulnerable and open with your lover and thus truly intimate. She shows how there is a direct relationship between our beliefs and values about sex and intimacy and our beliefs and values about the environment and the Earth. She reveals how, by healing our separation from Nature and our sexuality, we can bring the sacred back into our lives, shape our own ecstatic sexual experiences, and move toward healing the whole planet.

Radio Interview with Julie McIntyre: Sex and the Intelligence of the Heart, April 14, 2012

Excerpts and Signposts from the book:

I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.
 Aldous Huxley

The word sensuous comes from the Latin sentire, “to feel,” and the related word sensu, “to feel and perceive.” Sensuous refers not only to the physical senses but to any means of feeling, as intellectual or aesthetic sensitivity and intuition, as in the sensuous pleasure of walking in the rain, the sight of soft snow falling in the moonlight, and the way the air smells fresh and clean after a spring rain or monsoon.  Sensuous powerfully appeals to the senses in a sexual or quasi-sexual way. John Milton invented the word sensuous to have a synonym of sensual, minus the association with sex.  He used the word in an often-quoted formulation of what poetry should be: simple, sensuous, and passionate.

It’s all too easy to be casual about a thing, a life, a concept. It’s all too easy to fail to follow the golden thread all the way to the finish, to see it through to the end, as far as it will go, heeding the ebb and flow, rise and fall, obvious and sublte oracles. Out of fear is born the habit to hold something back. We never know when we might, once again, find ourselves with a long swim, alas, back to shore.

It takes a long time to be willing to love without reserve.

And thus, as intimacy feeds the soul of love, a new verse, a new story is written. We become something new, something joined, influenced by the other, changing from moment to moment. As we walk in the world with this new thing inside us, those who encounter us can experience this new song that is being written.

The language of love has many forms and expressions. Whether it is expressed through the spoken word, poetry, song, paintings, or the sacred gaze, the language of love is an essence, a meaning-filled communication. It always comes from and through the heart, so the form matters only in as much as it is your medium of expressing the essence in any moment. In sacred sex, the language of love is expressed through the heart, the joyful attention to details, heightened perceptions, and the physical embrace.

Once you trust yourself you will know how to live.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Faust

Man’s task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is, the most important product of his effort is his own personality.

Erich Fromm
Man For Himself

Rigorous self-examination describes the process of interior work. You must be able to notice, account for, and be accountable to each part of you that lives within. The more you work with these parts, hear their voices, and understand each one’s gifts and virtues and what each can bring to your life, the more whole and integrated you will become, the more alive you will feel, and the more mastery you will have over your life. When all of your inner council can make a decision together, in agreement with one another, the more ease and less drama you will have in your life.

Your heart must be in this—a deep desire and dedication to knowing yourself, to awakening your latent powers of intuition, motive force and creativity. You have a right to do this work, to be whole and happy in yourself and your relationships. And if there is to be any salvation for the human species, each of us must do this work. Now, without delay. Gaining facility with interior ego states takes time, devotion, and practice. But it won’t cost you hundreds of dollars and time in therapy sessions, and the effects are immediate, the rewards innumerable.

I don’t want the cheese, I just want to get out of the trap.

Spanish Proverb