Phallic Cross

This book is about the origin of religion. It's dry and wordy.  In short it says that the original concept of worship was simply male and female idols.  These gradually took on characteristics as males and females divided labor and partitioned the purposes.  From this we started incorporating nature into worship, trees, fruit, and animals.  These concepts where embodied in symbols that became language.  From this we continually partitioned and compartmentalized humans and the world around us.  Throughout history we have gone back and forth from male and female worship, currently were in an all male tri-fecta of father, son, holy spirit, though a female has also represented the holy spirit too.  Christianity is an entirely male concept, male god, male prophets, etc, females there just to progress man's seed.  The cross was originally representative of a tree; the tree of life, which itself has had many alterations that are far from Jesus and redemption.  Interestingly, when the supreme god idea was a women, it proponents claimed that a woman would have a virgin birth.  This claim is the story of Mother Mary.  The book destroys religion.  It's a bit sexist though.  I don't believe one sex is superior to the other, but she was coming from a time of extreme sexual prejudice soooo I'll let it slide.  I don't believe we can simply remove language and go back to nature people, that's ridiculous.  We can however hold this in our heads that society, religion, language, came from sexual worship.

Perhaps the karma sutra was considered lame at the time, kinda like someone reading a "how to dance book" would appear today.  It's derived from tantra,  it's original methodology is different than most people believe.  It involved a controlled enjoyment of life's pleasures.  They would drink/smoke, eat and have sex, all in moderation with the goal of uniting with their partner, usually led by some master.  This was heavily practiced by ALLOT of people for a good thousand years or so.  It's main point was to enjoy life, that by uniting with it in physical enjoyment you become "one" with it, ya know.  Meditation and denial of life's pleasures, like many associate with Buddhism, is exactly what this is not, though it is focused with moderation.

Back to the creation of language from symbols from sex.  This is why words do have power, they personify the unified natural world we came from and still partly inhabit.  I bet it's also why wholesome, felt things, like comfort food or simple movies convey so much feeling, or black and white photography/movies.  The ideas are simpler and thererfore embody a large expanse of our conscious reality.  A complicated story line might partition life more then bring it together, maybe.