Barbelith Underground > Temple > Global Orgasm 12/22/06

I think I see where we are diverging on the intent here. For myself I'm looking at the intent of the organizers who go do stuff out in the world and the people they communicate with.

So I'm looking at a group of out in the world doing stuff activists who are putting a toe in the pool of magical group workings via a collective orgasm.

I suspect from your posts you're looking at the guy on the street who doesn't already recycle and doesn't do ritual work. I was referring to them too in my last post but my focus has been primarily on the first group.

Okay so my understanding is there is the approach of use the shovel first then try levitating rocks second, which I agree is often the best approach. However, however in terms of human awareness and perception sometimes you have to go outside of the expected everyday experience to radically change the internal POV. (Me thinks this is one of the main functions of the daimonic btw)

So yes doing the basic everyday stewardship of the planet activities is essential BUT taking that guy on the street or the lady in the cafe and having them choose to participate in something that is outside of their everyday perceptions/activities can have profound effects because it is not an activity they can perform everyday and is taboo breaking.

Let me break this down as much as I can so you can poke the parts with a stick.

My assumptions:

1. Most the people doing the group event are Westerners. Even if they have done substantial work on their sexuality they are heirs to a very big bundle of sexual taboos. They do not often have the chance to experience collective sexuality with potentially thousands of strangers

2. People attracted to doing this work have at least some interest in World Peace.

3. The people who are going to join in and actually do it on the day are going to be highly aware of joining in a sexual activity with a whole lot of strangers even remotely. In a magical ritual sense I believe a large portion of these people (while hopefully having a good time) are going to be made aware of their simple yet profound connection to other human beings. Yeah you can get this from a letter writing campaign but I suspect the heightened state of interacting with potential social taboos will bring the experience up a few notches. Will it be like linking arms in a human wall against the oppressors? No but it is more mythic (IMO) than today we all pick up trash.

So we have our our activist who may for the first time experience an insight into a sacred ritual form of sexuality. I think from your posts you're okay with this idea?
Then we have the person who may rub one out whenever who you're concerned will see this activity as a free pass on the planet stewardship? I see this person as potentially getting that wake up call via the moment when they conceptualize how many other people are doing this right now and for Peace.

Maybe I'm expressing this poorly but I believe a person who engages with a sacred sexual mystery will be affected by it even if on a conscious level it just seemed like an excuse for pleasure. If you enter a house of worship for the floor-show there's a good chance you will be transformed by it. Some part of you elected to enter, some part of you accepted the label on the tin, and so there is a good chance what you experience will be what it says on the tin.

So to me the change is not going to be external to those doing the working as much as transformative of the people doing it. Which I tend to believe is the primary function of ritual.