Reportedly, Elizabeth Barrett-Connor, MD, a leading investigator and distinguished Professor and Chief, Division of …show more content…
In particular numerous cultures have evoked sexual attachments to a divine spiritual union of some type; as a within Hinduism, the practice of Tantric or yoga, where sex is to weave together the polarities of male (represented by the Hindu god, Shiva), and female (embodied by the Hindu goddess, Shakti), into a balanced whole. It may be true that a quantity of devotees shapes their minds and spirits through sexual rituals and exercises, while giving specific meaning to a god or goddess; producing intense feelings toward the beloved “object” of their affection. Typically, in the classical Tantric sexual ritual the participants worship each other as embodiments of deities. In similarity, these actions classically could be comparable to what sacred prostitutes, posing as goddesses and their worshippers did in ancient Mesopotamia and other places; likewise known as the ritual of Hieros Gamos, Greek for ‘‘Temple Marriage’’ or ‘‘Sacred Union.’’ In spite of the diverse endeavors to find God’s sexual presence through time, it appears very few have gone principally within to arrive