Justin
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Some thoughts on lust. Lust seems to me to be a combo of mind focus and body reactions. Overall, it seems to be more a body reaction than other emotions.
But is lust and are emotions purely neutral even in the context of no interaction with others?
Is anger or sadness purely neutral in nature? Seems that these create poisons within the body, especially when over focused on. Yes, they are fairly natural human emotions, but is it good to be so affected and limited by the personality's and body's reactions?
Some people let sadness or anger overwhelm them and drown out their quieter voice, the one of their consciousness.
Many have this issue with lust too. Some continue these body based addictions even after they leave the body--remember Monroe's "pile"? What a limited existence to be so focused on a body based reaction and energetic.
As mentioned earlier, lust is both a mind focus and a body reaction. Let's look at the body part of it in a more holistic context.
An interesting finding in the research of anti social personality disorder spectrum formerly known as psychopathy and sociopathy, is that it's common that people, both male and female (more rare than males), that fall into this spectrum, have higher amounts of the hormone testosterone in their bodies than the average.
Testosterone is more a male hormone than a female one overall, though most females often have some in their bodies too.
Not surprisingly, these types of individuals often have a higher sex drive than the average, which goes along with the greater than typical amount of testosterone.
If either a male or a female artificially raises the levels of this hormone in the body, some common symptoms occur besides physical changes of greater muscle mass, hair, etc. More prone to anger, higher sex drive/lust experienced, more forcefulness of personality, etc. In astrological terms, you could say that they become more "Mars attuned" in nature.
In auric terms, you could say they become more red in nature, and certainly in adults with a very high sex drive, who are prone to anger/easy frustration, impulsiveness, and self centeredness red is often a strong and/or dominant color in their auric patterns.
Psychopathic type personalities are essentially "slow vibratory" and entrophic type personalities. I'm not saying that everyone with a high sex drive, who experiences a lot of lust, is psychopathic or spiritually immature, course not, however that there is a strong correlation between higher amounts of testosterone and sex drive in both males and females within this spectrum, is quite interesting.
Testosterone seems to be a very earthly and slow vibratory hormone, and as it goes up, so does lust, often anger, often self centeredness, impulsiveness, and other traits we could describe as limited and anti-spiritual/anti expanded consciousness in nature.
So, lust may not be such a neutral pattern and experience after all, and it makes sense that if one has spiritual ideals and wants to grow both consciousness wise and attune the body to the highest within, that indulging in lust will not be a helpful or constructive thing on average.
There may be individual cases of say sexual abuse or the like, wherein an individual may need to focus on the issue of sex in order to heal something, but generally speaking, over focus on sex and lust essentially has the effect to slow down the vibratory patterns of one's energy system.
Just as redirecting or re-routing that powerful bodily energy, can have a strong affect on stimulating the higher centers of the body, such as the Pineal and Pituitary. But it's not something that should be forced, it's something that will happen if you are living a certain way otherwise.
Nor is it about lust being "immoral" or wrong, or evil or anything so silly as that, but that like Albert said, it's a body based energetic that is limiting in nature and tendency, especially in the context of over focus.
Directed into certain channels, it can be a very constructive pattern. But the tendency for most is not constructive or spiritually uplifting in nature, but yet another box of limitations based on body reactions.
If humanity spent less time and focus on body based reactions and energetics, and more time on spiritual ideals, Love, service, etc, then humanity would begin to free itself from the limiting pull of the Earth. We would begin to collectively raise our vibratory patterns, and we would start to perceive and experience life differently--more positively, more harmoniously, more spiritually.
I've noticed that in my own life, that during periods of greater sex drive and lust, i've generally also been slower vibratory in other ways as well. As i've attuned my body more and more to the level of my Expanded self, the less i experience lust or a strong sex drive, and that is without much regular or consistent meditation.
So in this, i agree more with Albert. However, i do think Albert is painting it overly black and white. As mentioned, there are constructive uses of the sex drive, though most don't use it in that way.
On a side note, i'm convinced that a vegetarian diet, eventually lowers testosterone some in the body, because of some studies done in prisons where inmates fed a vegetarian diet became more peaceful and calm after eating vegetarian. I noticed some changes along those lines after i started to eat vegetarian.
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