Intimacy and Sacred Sexuality: From Essence to Presence

When intimacy becomes reachable, it becomes workable and transformable.

 

This week’s article offers a grounded orientation to intimacy as a learnable capacity, and to sacred sexuality as life force lived with ethics. The movement is from within to outside, from essence to presence, and from inner union to shareable relational peace.

 

What intimacy means in this framework

 

Into-Me-See names a return to inner contact. It supports truth with the body, clarity with the heart, and workable pacing with the nervous system. Intimacy also includes relationship to community, land, waters, and the more-than-human world. In this wider view, belonging matures into care.

 

Why sacred sexuality matters

 

Sexual energy can be approached as vital life force that fuels creativity and expression. Sacred sexuality emphasizes consent, attunement, and responsibility. Inner union becomes shareable in relationship through clean boundaries, tenderness, and coherent choice.

 

This work is held through a trauma-informed lens and a transgenerational timeline that honors ancestral lineages. The ethical spine remains simple and strong: Respect, Reciprocity, and Responsibility in service of future generations on Grandmother Earth, within the quantum universe of interdependence.

 

A three-step practice to try this week

 

Step 1, Contact. One hand on heart, one on lower belly. One breath. One sensation.

 

Step 2, Tap in with courage. Ask: Where do I choose to bring my attention today in order to expand my experience of intimacy as Into-Me-See, with care and devotion to myself, to life, to the world? Choose one quality to practice for five minutes, such as honesty, softness, boundaries, or devotion.

 

Step 3, Offering. Make one small relational act aligned with that quality: a clear request, a kind no, a listening pause, or a gratitude line.

 

What quality of intimacy can you cherish today?


Dr. Regina U. Hess, Visionary Founder/Director

Regina U. Hess, Ph.D. (Netherlands/Portugal), is a clinical psychologist from Germany and holds a joint Ph.D. in transpersonal psychology (USA/UK). Regina is the visionary founder/director of Birthing an Ancient Future - Multidisciplinary Psychedelic Council, bridging ancient wisdom traditions and modern psychedelic science, a globalinitiative offering events, retreats, and different educational programs ‘Stewards of a New Earth.’ Regina is a faculty at international universities such as the Alef Trust, UK, and transpersonal educational institutes and is an independent researcher. Dr. Regina U. Hess is on the Board of Directors of the EUROTAS Global Transpersonal Network and the International Transpersonal Association.

Email: drreginahess@birthinganancientfuture.com

Webpages: www.birthinganancientfuture.com

https://independent.academia.edu/DrReginaUHess

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