How Many 'Alters' Per 'Organism'?

[Soul_of_Shu]

Or ... What's up with that may be about desiring to get down and dirty ...

[SanteriSatama]

After taking a plunge in ice-cold water, walking naked in the snow feels quite warm.

Hmm ... I was more imagining Santeri making steamy love in the sauna, before frolicking naked in the snow.

Sweet thought <3. Not that it could never happen, but with real Finnish Sauna, 80 celcius is considered a mild minimum, and that creates certain physical limitations of what is doable and what is not by some minimum degree of comfort and pleasure. I'm aware that some others tend to associate sauna with sex, because puritanic inhibitions tend to associate being naked with sex. For us being naked in sauna is about being naked and getting a good wash for both body and spirit. Our Sauna is quite informal, but as shared sauna for both/all genders is also fairly common in addition to gender specific, family specific etc., the sacred social and communal aspect of the purification requires very trusting and considerate atmosphere that is comfortable for all bared body shapes and souls.

The water vapor in sauna is not same as steam (höyry), it's löyly. The distinction is very important, because löyly is also a word for soul or part of soul. Steam/höyry refers to the physical phenomenon, not the holy spirit of löyly. In wintertime, it is a common custom to take plunge in avanto, a hole cut in a frozen lake. It's quite wonderful, especially afterwards, and very good for formation of brown fat which has very significant long term health benefits.

[Soul_of_Shu]

Santeri ... sure, go ahead, burst my fantasy bubble about sauna sex. To be frank, I'm fast approaching the stage in life when performing sex under any circumstances is a fantasy.

[SanteriSatama]

To be frank, I'm fast approaching the stage in life when performing sex under any circumstances is a fantasy.

Same here. And also... fantasy sex can be fantastic.

And sorry to burst your bubble, but our cultural fetish of Sauna can get us bit talkative, eager to explain what we think it's really about.

[Soul_of_Shu]

Curious, I did a cyber search of 'sauna sex' and every entry was a link to a porn site. Enough said

[Lou Gold]

Lou ... Viewing that artwork depicting a queue standing before a stairway to a window view, I'm reminded, in contrast, of someone claiming that entities of the empyrean domain are lining up for a chance to experience the constraints of the tragic-comic corporeal domain, as attracted to it as we might be attracted to their realm ... if so, what's 'up' with that?

artwork depicting a queue standing before a stairway to a window view

Is that really the important thing you see?

[SanteriSatama]

Curious, I did a cyber search of 'sauna sex' and every entry was a link to a porn site. Enough said

Cool. With search "sweat lodge sex", not even that.

[Soul_of_Shu]

Is that really the important thing you see?

It wasn't intended as a nuanced interpretation of its symbolic or allegorical meaning, just as a reference point that reminded me of the claim that trans-corporeal entities are lining up to experience the corporeal realm, and so it may not be just a oneway 'upward' attraction, in keeping with the involution><evolution theme.

[SanteriSatama]

artwork depicting a queue standing before a stairway to a window view

Is that really the important thing you see?

It's sometimes better to hear. There's a song that starts from the image of a stairway to heaven. You know, that's what the song is called.






Note before preparation for the highly uplifting guitar solo starts, the question:

"And Did you know your stairway lies on the whispering wind?"

[AshvinP]

Is that really the important thing you see?

It wasn't intended as a nuanced interpretation of its symbolic or allegorical meaning, just as a reference point that reminded me of the claim that trans-corporeal entities are lining up to experience the corporeal realm, and so it may not be just a oneway 'upward' attraction, in keeping with the involution><evolution theme.

Surely we can be attracted in both directions if our choices have meaning, but isn't the question about which direction we should go? We can't go up and down at the same time without remaining still, which sounds a lot like death to me.

PS - JP has an interview with the person who did the artwork for the book, so maybe they discuss that image more. I haven't listened to it yet, still feasting off of that one with Weinstein.