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Dear Friends: I am so pleased that my musings have sparked interest, and thank you for adding to the discussion. Part of the problem is that our language has for so long expressed flesh/spirit as polarities, we don't possess adequate terms for expressing them as a unity. I am writing a book called The Spirit is the Flesh, and have a blog of the same name. Just as space/time were once thought to be co-ordinates like up and down, we now express them as a unity. So too with energy/matter, which are phases of the same process. Body/mind, or if you like, flesh/spirit are similarly not ad versus, opposites, they are integral. Ever since the Northern Indo/Aryian sky/master-god cultures overwhelmed the more advanced and less warlike Goddess worshipping cultures of the near and far East, and Eastern Europe, circa 4,500-1500 BC, submission and silence became feminine 'virtues'. The association of woman as body, and sin, became unquestioned and subordinate to the male as spirit, and the idea that God is masculine. It persists even today. I will not try your patience longer, as you have enough to read. Thank you again for responding, Marco

Dear Admin: The reference in the article, that BDSM can be spiritual as opposed to sexual points up the central problem of elevating the spirit above the so called lowly flesh. Aside from the obvious objection to the knee jerk assignment of the spiritual as masculine, heavenly, above and better than the body, what we call spiritual is always about movement and body. The spirit is the flesh. The visceral and sensual are the antennae for achieving the 'higher frequencies' mistakenly accused as being not body, not human, and spiritual. The surest clue to this, and for me a central mystery is that the words we use for sex and the body parts associated with sex are also called obscenities, and the worst things that can be said to one another. The notion of original sin is the villain here, where the blame falls on woman and the body. The professional fantasy salon is theatre, therapy, and the perfect place to exorcize demons. I intend to visit soon. My quandary is whom to choose as all of you feel like artists, and that you seem to treat your work as play. (a true sign of wisdom) Thank you, Marco Runanin