Arem invites you to video-based Spiritual Guidance sessions, via Skype, and to book with him retreats. Also, you are invited to the following: his FB group pages "Lotus of the Heart" and "Qualified Nonduality (Advaita)" and his YouTube channel briankwilcox. To contact Arem, see the email at the end of this presentation.

Conjugality: intimate intercourse; can refer to physical intercourse between two persons, or as a metaphor of the mutual indwelling between Universal Spirit and persons, and as the mutual indwelling experienced within persons in communion with each other, or one another.

Ecstatic Intercourse: refers to conjugality, in which the sense of self is absorbed within the sense and act of Oneness.

In Oneness, to experience God, or the Whole, is to experience the other and the self, or the parts, as One. There are "movements" in consciousness from separation to communion to union - in union (or, contemplation) separation and communion is dissolved; however, union can, then, encompass the senses of separation and communion within itself.

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Spirit births into spiritual Life. Gospel of John 3.6 has: "That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit" (KJV). This is a universal, spiritual Truth.

This Spirit within continues to affirm our of-GOD status, our Essence, our participation in Life as persons deriving a transformed being-Presence from the Spirit: "For the Universal Spirit joins with our particular spirit to affirm that we are of the Creating One" (Romans 8.16).

I Peter 3.4 refers to our Center as the place of the "hidden person": "Do not let your adorning be external - the braiding of hair and the putting on of gold jewelry, or the clothing you wear - but let your adorning be the hidden person of the heart with the imperishable beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which in God’s sight is very precious" (I Peter 3.3-4, ESV).

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In this place of the hidden person, a mysterious Intimacy takes place. This arises within and as a communion of Silence.

Mystical Prayer, the Prayer of Silence, flows from trust that we can enter, by Grace, into the Silence of communion already going on in our hearts, the hidden person. This same Knowing allows us to enter with confidence into silent communion of heart with another person, or persons, in Joyful loving and being loved by the Mystery together, in One. In this communion the hiddenness is communing with hiddenness, within One in One in the thought, feeling, and Beyond. Therefore, this One, or Oneing, penetrates and embraces the ego-consciousness, enfolding its limits within the Limitless Grace of Loving.

The Christian mystic Bernard of Clairvaux refers to the contemplative experience as "sleep" or "death." This sleep, then, is sleeping to the consciousness of what keeps us from loving union with Spirit in Oneness, and sharing this Intimacy among ourselves and with Creation. This death, then, is a death to what keeps us from living out of the inner, or hidden, person of the heart, where spirit is with and is Spirit.

This kind of ecstasy ... is alone or principally called contemplation. Not to be gripped during life by material desires is a mark of human virtue; but to gaze without the use of bodily likenesses is a sign of angelic purity. Each, however, is a divine gift, each is a going out of oneself, each a transcending of self, but in one one goes much farther than in the other.

*On the Song of Songs. Trans. Kilian Walsh, Irene Edmonds.

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We are by natural birthright fit to enjoy the bliss and freedom of loving intercourse with the Other, wherein Spirit flows into spirit and spirit flows into Spirit in ecstatic conjugality, a unioning in which all lesser goods find their end and purpose.

On the journey of consummating Love for the Beloved, Whom we find to be ourselves, we may get fortastes of it, which Teresa of Avila called spiritual betrothal. She reserved the designation spiritual marriage for a loving union without interruption.

So, let us learn by action and receptivity what it is like to be engaged to Love, enjoying conjugality with the Divine, until we enjoy that intercourse without ceasing. Let us open our hearts and enter the Silence, the communion already going on in our Heart of hearts, even amid our speech; our Beloved waits for us there, we wait for ourselves there. Love being Infinity, possibly we will enjoy becoming more intimate with our Beloved eternally and intimately.

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... All I Want Is
YOU...

*silence, lifemage, Flickr

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*"San Diego Botanical Gardens 9," Marcie Gonzalez, Flickr

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Namaste'

The Sacred in Me bows to the Sacred in You

OM Shanti Shanti Shanti OM

AREM .

©Arem Nahariim-Samadhi, and Lotus of the Heart, 10.12.11. To contact Arem, you can request to be his friend at Facebook, or contact him at 77ahavah77@gmail.com ; Arem offers Spiritual Guidance sessions via Skype, and is open for booking for workshops, retreats, and other meetings.