Sexual Ecstasy

Sexual Ecstasy

Dr Raven Dolick MsD Nov 17, 2014

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Sexual ecstasy brings us face to face with the irrational. It is the Dionysian activity par excellence.

While it will always be the case that society is run along Apollonian lines - reason and logic - it must always provide an encounter with the dark Dionysian world of passion and mayhem.

Nietzsche, in The Birth of Tragedy, argued that only ancient Greece had ever got the balance right (in the pre-Socratic Age) but then it succumbed to over-rationality thanks to Socrates and the playwright Euripides. Once Apollo had become dominant, Dionysus was banished to the unconscious realm, only to erupt savagely and without warning, wreaking horrific damage. The Abrahamic religions have waged war on Dionysus, effectively transforming the god of passion into the Devil. Much of the iconography of the Devil - horns, cloven hooves, bestiality etc is taken directly from the Dionysian myths.

Dionysus was always associated with the goat. In his childhood, he was disguised as a goat to hide him from his enemies. The Greek word tragos means goat, from which we get the word tragedy: a "goat-song". Tragedies, as originally conceived, were the tales of the adventures of Dionysus, involving dreadful punishments on those who refused to acknowledge him.

Aristotle said that tragedy should evoke pity and terror and provide catharsis. He wrote: "The plot ought to be so constructed that, even without the aid of the eye, he who hears the tale told will thrill with horror and melt to pity at what takes place."

Dionysus was accompanied by satyrs - forest gods or demons with the legs and hindquarters of goats, budding horns and goat-like ears. They were notorious for their uncontrollable lusts. Brutish, sexually voracious men are described as satyrs. Men in a state of permanent and overwhelming sexual desire are said to suffer from satyriasis, the male equivalent of female nymphomania.

A condition like satyriasis is priapism, named after the god Priapus, the son of Dionysus and Aphrodite. He was the god of the fertility of nature and the reproductive forces of man (hence his association with the libido). Statues of Priapus with enormous phalluses were placed in fields and gardens to ensure fruitfulness. Priapus came to be regarded as the chief deity of lust, lasciviousness, and obscenity. The phallus was his symbol.

The god Pan had a great deal in common with the satyrs and with Priapus. He had a man's upper half and goat's lower half. He was a symbol of lust and fecundity and he too fed the depiction of the Devil.

Dionysus was the god of wine and intoxication, the noisy, rowdy and uncontrollable god. Originally portrayed as a bearded man, he was later represented as a beautiful youth with black eyes and flowing hair, his head crowned with ivy and vine. He wore a purple robe in times of peace, and a panther's skin when he was on the warpath.

While conventional religions sanctify rules, regulations, taboos, commandments and prohibitions - the rigid control of behaviour - the religion of Dionysus smashes all of that control. It brings chaos and madness, and plunges people into the whirlpool of the deepest carnality and sin. Hence, Dionysus is equated with the Devil.

Nietzsche identified himself with Dionysus and set himself against "the crucified" (i.e. Christianity). Nietzsche's Dionysus dialectically embraced Apollo and stood for a healthy balance of the rational and irrational. He thought it lunacy to attempt to exterminate irrationality, and thus his philosophy was itself often labelled irrational.

Nietzsche had hoped that Wagner might resurrect the culture of ancient Greece with his astounding multi-dimensional operas that assaulted every sense, but he was disgusted when Wagner turned to the apparently Christian themes of the opera Parsifal.

Nietzsche was right that we need to create a world that gives both Dionysus and Apollo their dues. Society should be designed along Apollonian lines, but be full of Dionysian outlets through which we express our deepest selves, our Will. The people who lead the most satisfying lives are those who feel the power of the cosmos coursing through their veins. In the name of control and order, the Abrahamic religions and the materialist ideologies such as capitalism (the cult of consumerism) and science have tried to prevent us from accessing our true selves. We have been turned into Apollonian machines that the privileged elite can easily manipulate. The Dionysian Man is one that cannot be controlled. He is pure Will. Hence he terrifies the elite.

Apollo = rationality = thesis; the domain of Reason.

Dionysus = irrationality = antithesis; the domain of Will.

Society must offer a synthesis of these two forces, and must be alert to any ideology that seeks to eliminate one or the other. The history of the world has largely revolved around the attempts of the world controllers to kill Dionysus, except where he can generate profits for the elite. For example, there is a great deal of officially sanitized sexuality in our world, but no Dionysian unbridled sexuality. We get lots of kitsch sexuality, mere titillation and teasing - but no raw, hardcore, uncensored sex in the mainstream sphere.

Middle America was outraged at the Super Bowl show of 2004 when there was "wardrobe malfunction" and Janet Jackson exposed her breast. How ludicrous can you get? That reveals the nature of the sexual hypocrisy that's embedded in our society. Female flesh is on show absolutely everywhere; why the horror because it made an appearance at the Super Bowl? The complainants would die of apoplexy if they ever saw Dionysian sex at the Super Bowl.

Dionysus is the arch enemy of the controllers, hence we, like Nietzsche, venerate him. In a Dionysian world, all of the monarchs, popes, rabbis, imams and presidents would be swept away.

Everyone must have their Dionysian side brought to the fore. Then they will no longer bow to false gods and brass idols.

Sex is the antidote to the masks we wear. All masks slip during Dionysian sex.

Sex is the antidote to smug bureaucrats.

Sex is the antidote to stuffy pomp and ceremony.

Sex is the great leveller.

Sex punctures inflated egos.

What caused the Emperor in his new clothes to be humiliated? It was being exposed in his sexual nakedness.

None of the great moguls, potentates and barons of our world could ever be taken seriously if we saw them having sex or standing naked before us.

In pagan societies, sex was a link between the human and the divine. With Abrahamism, that sacred link was destroyed. Sex became the Devil's domain. Women were portrayed as evil temptresses leading men astray.

They need to be returned to the status the ancients and geniuses like the Illuminati's Grand Master Goethe accorded them. His masterpiece Faust ends with the lines:

"Everything transitory

is only an approximation;

what could not be achieved

here comes to pass;

what no one could describe,

is here accomplished;

the Eternal Feminine

draws us aloft."

In other words, the Eternal Feminine has the power of salvation. It draws humanity ever closer to perfection. Through the eternal feminine, we can ascend to the higher sphere of existence - Paradise itself.

So why not liberally sprinkle the eternal feminine over this world of ours?