It is rare we get an opportunity for two movies in a week, but with the lingering bad taste from the ugliness of Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead, we took advantage of the holidays and went for it. This time we chose very well, with the lovingly filmed and moving French movie, The Secret of the Grain.
One of the unsuspected beauties of this film is it’s portrayal of sexuality, from the base to the sublime, all within subtle motifs and a respectful treatment verging on reverence. Naturally any film or piece of popular culture portraying sex positive (and by that I do not just mean ‘sex is good’) sex sacred messages interests me, as this is a core mystery of many esoteric traditions.
Here is one of the best examples of this, showing (amongst other themes) how older men can nurture, honour and respect young women coming into their own sexuality in a safe manner, without breaking boundaries, sanctifying the sexual force. This is virtually unknown within Australian culture, and was wonderfully presented. The movie also includes one of the best belly dances you’ll ever see. Definitely well worth seeing and pondering over. J
"We are tied together in the single garment of destiny, caught in an inescapable network of mutuality. And whatever affects one directly affects all indirectly. For some strange reason I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. And you can never be what you ought to be until I am what I ought to be. This is the way God’s universe is made; this is the way it is structured." ~
“A religion without a goddess is halfway to atheism” ~
How does my spiritual practice and daily life serve the earth?
How does my spiritual practice and daily life affect the poorest third of humanity?
How will my spiritual practice and daily life affect the generations to come in the future?
"It is through your body that you realize you are a spark of divinity."
“For most of us, however, we only think seriously of food or sex or money when it becomes a problem, which is to say when we feel we are not getting our share. When we find ourselves in that situation then I regret to say that meditational visualisations are really not the best way to remedy the lack. … We are here in a physical condition in a physical world and while in that state we have to abide by the laws appropriate to it.”
"The biblical texts have been strained out through a Greek/Latin mindset, which is very surface and static. I sometimes think it would have actually have been better if Western culture had based so called "Western religion" on Greek philosophy, rather than middle-eastern, because then at least you'd have all one thing. It would be eternally consistent. But what we have now is sort of half of each. And you're left with a basically schizophrenic tradition." 
