I'm not being coy in saying that I have no idea what it
could call forth in you. But I'll go so far as to suggest it may prove
powerful.
If you're doing it somewhere you might be seen by others--like
the public park where I lead a (relatively discreet) Lingam Puja ritual about
once a month--it may elicit a very understandable unease. ("Oh, my
God," a friend told me, recounting how he'd felt the first time he
attended, with a succession of dog walkers passing on the footpath near the oak
under which we gather. "I'm going to fly apart now.")
It may be a way of saying no to shame.
You may be repulsed, if it represents for you yet another
expression of commercialized gay male culture's obsession with cock size and
impersonal sex for its own sake.
Or it may feel like you're embracing an energy that informs
your whole life, and that somehow is far, far vaster and more substantial than
your own sexual experience, an energy that flows though you and unites you with
all of nature, with your male ancestors, with your brothers, friends and
lovers, with your sons and your sons' sons, with the sons of the men you love,
that offers healing and regeneration and reassurance of your place in the
world.
You may feel that, paradoxically, to embrace this energy
fully prepares you better to honor and admire and relate honestly and equally to
the miracle of women's sexuality, their bodies and their experience.
I can't tell you how you'll react, but I can share how I
reacted last week. This is a very partial truth, not the truth for women, not
the truth for trans folk, not the truth for all men. Perhaps the truth for you,
and perhaps not.
Bending down to embrace the Lingam set up in my garden, a
realization blossomed that had long remained curled as a tight bud in my soul.
My penis was my lifeline as an adolescent, at the very time when I felt nothing
but shame over my flowering sexuality, when I thought of it as an affliction
and fought endlessly to pretend it didn't exist. Without my cock, without the
longings of my body and its capacity for pleasure, declaring itself in every
erection, in every wet dream, in every ejaculation after hours of edging as I
tried to hold back, my soul would have imploded to a withered singularity. I
would have become nothing more than my superego, a shell of repression
surrounding emptiness.
My cock saved me. And its energy and reality was and is an
energy and reality that's pulsed through the whole length of human history, and
back beyond that to the beginnings of sexual reproduction hundreds of millions
of years ago. It's the miracle of my father's orgasm that initiated my
existence. It's tied from earth to heaven, from the male human to the Divine,
by its representation in the phallic gods of every tradition. Egyptian Min
masturbating the cosmos into existence. Hindu Shiva endlessly ejaculating the
Ganges. Roman Priapus watching over the garden with his comically outsized
erection. The Sacred Cock of Jesus, sanctifying men's embodiment and drawing it
up into Divinity--as God's Holy Wisdom, the Womb of Creation, divinizes as well
women's experience in the Judeo-Christian tradition. Cernunnos of the Celts,
horned god of the forest. Pan with the flute he plays and the flute that juts
out between his furry legs. Quetzlcoatl, the Feathered Serpent of the Aztecs.
This energy is within me. I am the bearer of this energy. I
want to move through the world as the bearer of this energy. I want to embrace
it, embody it. I want to sit straight in
meditation, stand straight in walking, my spine an erection, my torso a pump
and conduit to draw the Kundalini energy of the Goddess from the earth and pour
it out for the healing of the world, the
crown of my head a meatus shooting metaphysical semen into the universe. I want
my seed to fall as an offering to the earth. In the cycle of longing and
release, I want to embrace change and the impermanence of all things.
OM NAMA SHIVAYA PAN PRIAPUS CERNUNNOS SACRED COCK OF JESUS
QUETZLCOATL AVALOKITESHVARA NAMA OM
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