Pornography as a stumbling block on your path to enlightenment

Excerpt: It's easy to fall into the trap of morality and judge pornography as bad. I do not do that on my blog. I do not judge as I have no agenda about you or the world. I observe issues from the standpoint of consciousness and enlightenment, and in that regard, my opinion is that pornography is a stumbling block on one's path to realization and mastery. Here I explain why, and I am sure you can add your reasons in the comments. My advice - stay away from the duality and avoid judging.

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For the past months and more, I have been addressed by several readers who asked for my opinion regarding the issue of pornography. It seems that in our contemporary society the use of pornography for personal pleasure has become socially acceptable by youngsters and adults alike. Men and to lesser degree women, consider sexual pornographic material (still photos and videos) as an appropriate addition to their sex life.

My reply regarding the issue of pornography has been stalled mainly my concern that the following opinion would be interpreted wrongly. Touching such a controversial issue can always lead to the impression that the writer, my self in this context, takes one side of the duality whereas the case is not.

So let me say it upfront - I have no judgment at all regarding your sex life and pornography in particular. Not only that, your own soul-self has no judgment at all and therefore you should release any shame or guilt, if exist, revolving around your sexuality,

Instead, I am using the term appropriate. Pornography and the consumption of it by those who wish to achieve realization/enlightenment is inappropriate. Such event is neither good nor bad but simply inappropriate.

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Why? Mainly for the following reasons:

• Pornography, in the shape of still and moving pictures, almost always fails to move the viewer to exercise emotional response. Because feelings are the venue through which the individual communicates with his/her whole essence, it means that pornography impedes the development of reunion with the inner world. One of many outcomes is the disconnection from the physical reality. Hence, the loss of the individual’s capacity to create his/her own reality.
• Pornography takes one’s focus away from a loving relationship. Hence, if one is already in a relationship one is bound to ruin the potential to build that relationship to be a deeper one; if one is searching for a loving relationship, that can propel one to enlightenment, then pornography would lead them further away from that goal.
• From a purely physical point of view, excessive consumption of pornography might lead to unbalanced masturbation that could become addictive. (I will dedicate a separate post to the nature of addictions and how it is seen from the consciousness point of view).
• Pornography brain-washes the mind with twisted beliefs about life, sexuality, and relationships in particular. Since the personal reality is shaped by one’s beliefs, a twisted reality is consequently bound to be created.
• Pornography nowadays has become a mass-consciousness commodity. It is widely used, cheap to consume and well advertised. Enlightenment, on the other hand, still remains in the outskirts of the mass consciousness. Therefore, focusing on pornography automatically places one inside mass-consciousness and away from realization. This is a simple physical principle.
• Resorting to pornography for lack of a better option means compromising. Compromising is not compatible with your enlightenment.
• Because pornography uses images, it forces those who consume it to exercise visualization rather than to use imagination. The former solely uses the mind and causes the individual to get out of the now moment, to lose the grip on the immediate reality and hence to break the relationship with one’s whole essence.
• Due to the fact that the internet is a genuine reflection of the psychological etheric network that wires our physical world, using pornography to reach satisfaction is becoming identical to having sex with someone whom we do not love or do not have any feelings towards.
• Pornography might contradict one’s own value-fulfillment in this lifetime and especially if one is to be working with various and different groups of people.
• But perhaps the most prominent reason for the inappropriateness of pornography is the dynamic that happens on the set of the shooting. When a person, a professional or an amateur, is paid for sex the dynamic between the actors is of abuse, power, shame, guilt, lack of self-worth, just to name a few of the imbalances. When you watch pornography you connect your consciousness with the consciousness on the set and, in a way, bring those into your own energetic field. Such adoption of foreign, undesired, essences is highly destructive to your goal of realization.

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Remember, pornography is neither good nor bad and I can think of several, focused situations in which pornography may serve as a valuable tool for a therapy. If you have been involved with pornography, either as “consumers” of the material or “producers” of it, you should not scold yourself or feel guilty upon reading the above. Pornography has served you so far and was a valuable tool in your growth.

However, now that you have made a different decision, you may want to give it up altogether as it is no longer serves you.

Say goodbye to pornographic contents and in case it is offered again order it to leave: ‘Thanks, but no thanks! '.