Lesson 11 - Q&A – Blocking and the evolution of spiritual biology

From: Yogani
Date: Sun Feb 22, 2004 10:34pm

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Q: I just have a question on this technique that you posted - blocked
ejaculation with the finger will result in a retro-grade ejaculation;
the semen goes into the bladder; on urinating it will be found that
the urine is whitish, cloudy having mixed with the semen. So if the
semen is going to be lost eventually (when one urinates), would this
technique preferably be not practised at all, other than as a last
resort.

A: Thank you. It is a very good question. The answer has a few parts
because the expansion of male (and also female) sexuality upward is
an evolutionary process and has different functioning at different
stages along the way.

Yes, you are correct, in the beginning much of the semen goes into
the bladder during blocking and this can be readily observed during
urination, as you mention. But this is only the beginning, at an
early stage of the change in sexual functioning.

When added to bhakti (hunger for the divine), blocking produces an
incentive to work toward staying in front of orgasm. As things
progress, blocking will become less and less needed, like training
wheels. It naturally reduces over time. In contrast to training
wheels, which we throw away, blocking will always be a good measure
of last resort, so we will always have it in our tool kit once it is
learned and refined.

By "refined," I am referring to more advanced stages of sexual
functioning, where much if not all semen is retained without
blocking, even during genital orgasm. So, when we block in this
situation, not as much semen will go into the bladder. Much of it
will be retained in the seminal vesicles, going upward through other
routes in the body. But our goal is not to have genital orgasm
without ejaculation. This is extremely difficult to attain, and
aiming for it will lead to much loss of semen along the way. It does
not help our spiritual evolution anyway. Long preorgasmic cultivation
does, and this is what we want. We want to be climbing that stairway
to heaven in sexual relations, not seeing how many genital orgasms we
can have without ejaculating.

Now, here is the kicker. One of the routes that semen naturally takes
going upward in the body is through the bladder. This does not mean
we do blocking to put semen in our bladder on purpose. This will not
help us, as the bladder has to rise in its higher spiritual
functioning first. As it does, gradually over time, the semen goes up
into the bladder automatically, with no blocking, and even without
deliberate cultivation of sexual energy. See how tricky the
biological change is? Advanced yogis are always having semen rising
up through their body, and they always have it coming up through
their bladder, though not in the quantities you are referring to that
occur in the beginning blocking stage.

Fortunately, all this is not so tricky for us to worry about in
practices, because the biology will change automatically as we do
advanced yoga practices, including tantric sex if we are in sexual
relations.

So, blocking starts out pretty clunky (you've heard me say that
before about other practices, right?), and refines over time. The
refinement is in two areas: First, as we find ourselves increasing in
ability to stay in front of orgasm, the need for blocking becomes
less and less. Second, when we do block, there will be less and less
to block over time because there is more control over ejaculation as
our sexual functioning evolves.

Interestingly, there is an analogous process that goes on in a woman,
though till now it has not been nearly so obvious as in a man. A
woman has the equivalent of a prostate located just in front of the
inside of her yoni. It is stimulated though the so-called G-spot.
This gland releases a milky substance similar to semen during extreme
arousal, and it can ejaculated through the urethra. "Female
ejaculation" has become a hot topic in recent years, a rite of
passage for many women as sexual freedom is being claimed. What its
role is in reproduction is hard to say. The reason it is mentioned
here is because it appears that a woman has similar spiritual biology
going on in the bladder that a man does. And, though it is unlikely
that a woman will need to engage in blocking like a man does, the
same biological components are there. Of course, the woman also has
other sexual components that are part of the spiritual functioning of
sex, so we can't carry the comparison too far. Vive la difference!

In both the sexes, an accelerated spiritual evolution comes with
advanced yoga practices, with various stages along the way.

The guru is in you.

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