I feel that many of our issues with duality go back to our very basic nature, not our good/bad, male/female or light/dark side, but even deeper to the Id and Super-Ego. It's extremely easy to see these as the basis for all of the others with the battle being between the untrained, instinctive Id and the overly intellectual Super-Ego and the need for balance.
I wouldn't be surprised to learn that all of this started with some old shaman sitting around the campfire trying to put it into terms that his people could understand. "Look at it this way" he might have told them, "On this side you have Order and Law and Creation, let's call that side God, and over here you have chaos and disorder and acting intuitively on your baser instincts, let's call that side Satan…"
Balancing the Masculine/Feminine
The Battle of the Sexes has raged for hundreds of years now and in my opinion it's really beginning to screw up the planet. We all have a masculine and a feminine side, and apparently most of us are severely unbalanced towards one or the other.
Some of the heinous acts of our major religions are designed to keep the feminine energies in check. Kundalini is by definition, sexual energy. Everything that lives is created through a sexual act of some sort and it's that very energy that we seek to elevate and awaken. Pick almost any major religion or path and you'll see some sort of sexual dysfunction displayed as celibacy, clitorectomies, or the domination of men or women.
What you're actually seeing here in many cases is the level of individual discomfort with their own internal energies, a non-acceptance of that part of themselves manifested in some sort of external sexual inequity. I won't argue that there are times when abstinence can be used to strengthen a spiritual journey, just like any other form of fasting. I will point out though that it's also frequently used as an escape that can leave the practitioner in a severely unbalanced state. Having occasionally experienced periods of abstinence for a variety of reasons (primarily by using my personality as a means of birth control) I can definitely say that it leaves one unbalanced and reactionary.
I believe the human body was intended to operate with a certain balance of male/female energies and that these energies are meant to balance one another just as in any of the other dualities. I also believe that it's possible to draw these energies from the world around us without the need for an actual sexual partner; I'm just not very good at it.
"The Big Red Book" officially known as Sexual Secrets (Douglas and Slinger) goes into a lot of detail on the various sexual energies and it's a lot of fun to read also. As with some of Mantak Chia's books on sexual techniques I can't recommend it strongly enough. I think the world would probably be a much better place if it were issued to everyone and we were tested on it regularly.
© 2006 Robert Morgen. This article may be used by anyone, anywhere as long as the author's bio and links are included.
"Balancing the dualities" is an excerpt from Robert Morgen's book "Kundalini Awakening for Personal Mastery 2nd Edition" (ISBN: 978-0-9790400-5-4)
Robert Morgen is a Reiki Master who holds a Black Belt in Hoshinjutsu. He’s founder of the Mystic Village Online Community at https://www.mysticvillage.org
He writes a regular column on subtle (or internal) energy for Fight Times Magazine and a column on Kundalini Awakening at Alumbo.com. He’s the author of 3 books and 4 CDs on meditation and energy work.
He’s a member of the Order of Bards, Ovates and Druids as well as the International Bujinkan Dojo Association, Canemasters International and the International Combat Hapkido Federation.
You can learn more about his books, Kundalini and Martial Arts Seminars and free events and newsletters at his website at https://www.mysticwolfpress.com
