How I am transmuting my “me too” through cock worshipping.
When the “me too” movement first happened, I felt all the feelings. It brought up so much. Myself, like many many other humans (1 in 10 chikdren will be sexually abused before the age of 18) had experienced sexual abuse. When I was 14 my first high school boyfriend, mentally, physically, and sexually abused me. I was in this abusive relationship for almost two years. When I ended it I was brutally attacked and raped violently, I had to fight for my life and the rape ended in a pregnancy that was aborted in secrecy. It all happened it secrecy but really the adults in my small town knew partially what was happening including my parents and the sheriff’s department.
I kept this inside for 14 years until my body started to break down and I could no longer hide my symptoms of PTSD.
I went to therapy and started to meditate, restarted yoga for the 100th time. I left my husband for the love of my own life. I started making art again. Not for anyone but myself. I started to write for the millionth time again. I started to remember what I loved again. I started to find myself again. I started to go to nature alone again. I started to give myself what I wanted others to give me. I started learning about healthy boundaries, neuroscience, trauma in the body, and slowly I started to heal myself.
I signed up for yoga trainings and started practicing kundalini yoga and somewhere between childs pose and breath of fire I found tantra. I devoured David Deida’s books. He spoke of opening to the full human experience. Opening your heart not only fully to love and light but to the death and darkness, the truth of it all.
Something happens when you are abused when you are raped. I have read that rape is worse than murder because the victim survives and is left with the trauma. I can’t speak of what being murdered is like but I can say the trauma of rape is not only mentally and physically harmful in short and long term but also spiritually to me, felt like a death again and again. Not only the times I was raped but the hours, days, years, a death of my soul again and again. But something happened as I started to love myself again, I knew that I didn’t have to live in depression and death every day. I wanted to transmute this deep hurt. I wanted to fill this deep longing to feel human again.
Through the study and practice of tantra and kundalini yoga I started to transmute this pain. I feel women who are abused and raped developed a mistrust in the least for men. I shared this feeling but as I started to trust myself I desired to be held in a masculine energy. I desired to love and be loved by a man I could trust and love. I desired the ultimate transmutation of my experiences in my first love as a teenager. So I started to practicing worshiping cock.
I didn’t run out and start having sexual relations with people, I started to become aware of my thoughts and feelings around men. I practicing looking at men as my brothers. In the grocery store, the bookstore, the men in the cars next to me or walking alongside me, I would energetically hold them in love. Imagining myself hugging them and giving and receiving unconditional love. In that practice i developed a deep compassion for myself for having so much anger for so long, I was able to start to release the self-hate. In that I was able to hold men and women alike in a deep space of compassion, releasing my feelings of anger towards them.
When “me too’ happened I started to see women and media lash out at men for the statics of abuse. I see the hate and understand the resentment and anger but I do not believe that is the way to heal our culture. The boy who abused me was hurt, he was abused, he was expressing love in the only way he had been taught. MY forgiveness was the gift I gave myself.
How can we as a society transmute this collective pain? The abusers are hurting the same. As the divine feminine steps into her power, we must recognize the softness and power of compassion and forgiveness. We must dance and create and hold hands to release and move back into our bodies. We must sit and breath and circle to move our spirits back into these beautiful bodies. How do we worship ourselves, by touching ourselves and taking long baths and standing naked in front of the mirror. What has been my alchemy of my “me too”? Worshipping the thing that caused me so much pain for so long. The cock, the entire being connected to it. Surrendering to the masculine energy of being held. Opening my throat and pussy and heart to fully taking in cock and love. Planning less and feeling more. Becoming powerful, open and soft. I have found safe masculine energies and friendships with men where I can explore these ideas of surrender. The more I open to others, the more I have been able to open to myself and honor yin and yang. The more I opened my heart to worship cock the more I opened to being loved, the more I opened to feeling human again the more I opened to being touched again. The day I stopped longing to be healed, love found me and held me forever…..
Here is a poem I wrote about finding forGIVEness and compassion and love again.
Dying while you are alive
Yogis spoke of it
Maybe like a surrender
Knowingness of the oneness
Near death experiences people
See the light
Either by spirit or on their death bed
The wildflower knows of it
If it does not die
It will not live again
Everything you took and gave
So was it your gift to me
Holding a knife to my throat
To my heart
Even if It took me a while to take a breath again
Even if I forgot to say thank you
Even if you forgot the pain was temporary
Slitting your own throat
To go back to the light again
Tried of tears you wanted to be the rain
So now I keep opening
There is no other choice
I know death will come to me again
And again
She is not fear
Only love
It does not matter how far you go out. or
How small, contracted, dark, invisible
It is still in infinite
It is still only love
You see this
You remember this
And like the seed
Buried deeply
Darkly
The rain, the mud, fat worm friends.
Playing roots like guitars.
True nourishment. Maybe a longing to expand
Again
So you feel this
With everything in you
Cracking open
Only infinitely
To push through the ground
Past the grinning grubs
The pebbles seems like boulders
At last the light
The place to expand
Bloom
Grow without patience
None is needed
Timeless. Always. Never ending.
Feeling the wind as endless as the mud was.
Blooming
Seeing yourself reflected 8 million times
Your fragrance 25 miles all around
A soul 1.5 ounces
Practicing love
Learning love
Feeling the wind
Listening to the grasses practice their music
They never stop practicing
They know love has a sound
Determined to find it
And what are you determined to do?
To soften your ears. Eyes. Heartspace.
To embroider with the golden thread
Humming while you make art
Letting it save you
Letting yourself be found
Through your brush strokes
Through your hands.
Nectar dripping from them.
From letting yourself be held.
From finding you here.
Your fingers in my ribcage.
One and one makes 11
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