"Chaos is a dance, a flowing dance of life, and this dance is erotic. Civilization
hates chaos and, therefore, also hates Eros. Even in supposedly
sexually free times, civilization represses the erotic. It teaches that orgasms
are events that happen only in a few small parts of our bodies
and only through the correct manipulation of those parts. It squeezes
Eros into the armor of Mars, making sex into a competitive, achievementcentered
job rather than joyful, innocent play.
Yet even in the midst of such repression, Eros refuses to accept this
mold. His joyful, dancing form breaks through Mars’ armor here and
there. As blinded as we are by our civilized existence, the dance of life
keeps seeping into our awareness in little ways. We look at a sunset,
stand in the midst of the forest, climb on a mountain, hear a bird song,
walk barefoot on a beach, and we start to feel a certain elation, a sense
of awe and joy. It is the beginning of an orgasm of the entire body, one
not limited to civilization’s so-called “erogenous zones”, but civilization
never lets the feeling fulfill itself. Otherwise, we’d realize that everything
that is not a product of civilization is alive and joyfully erotic.
But a few of us are slowly awakening from the anesthesia of civilization.
We are becoming aware that every stone, every tree, every river,
every animal, every being in the universe is not only just as alive, but at
present is more alive than we who are civilized beings. This awareness is not just intellectual. It can’t be or civilization will just turn into another
academic theory. We are feeling it. We have heard the love-songs of
rivers and mountains and have seen the dances of trees. We no longer
want to use them as dead things, since they are very much alive. We
want to be their lovers, to join in their beautiful, erotic dance. It scares us.
The death-dance of civilization freezes every cell, every muscle within
us. We know we will be clumsy dancers and clumsy lovers. We will be
fools. But our freedom lies in our foolishness. If we can be fools, we
have begun to break civilizations chains, we have begun to lose our need
to achieve. With no need to achieve, we have time to learn the dance
of life; we have time to become lovers of trees and rocks and rivers. Or,
more accurately, time cease to exist for us; the dance becomes our lives
as we learn to love all that lives. And unless we learn to dance the dance
of life, all our resistance to civilization will be useless. Since it will still
govern within us, we will just re-create it.
So let’s dance the dance of life. Let’s dance clumsily without shame,
for which of us civilized people isn’t clumsy? Let’s make love to rivers,
to trees, to mountains with our eyes, our toes, our hands, our ears. Let
every part of our bodies awaken to the erotic ecstasy of life’s dance. We’ll
fly. We’ll dance. We’ll heal. We’ll find that our imaginations are strong ,
that they are part of the erotic dance that can create the world we desire.
~ Feral Faun
hates chaos and, therefore, also hates Eros. Even in supposedly
sexually free times, civilization represses the erotic. It teaches that orgasms
are events that happen only in a few small parts of our bodies
and only through the correct manipulation of those parts. It squeezes
Eros into the armor of Mars, making sex into a competitive, achievementcentered
job rather than joyful, innocent play.
Yet even in the midst of such repression, Eros refuses to accept this
mold. His joyful, dancing form breaks through Mars’ armor here and
there. As blinded as we are by our civilized existence, the dance of life
keeps seeping into our awareness in little ways. We look at a sunset,
stand in the midst of the forest, climb on a mountain, hear a bird song,
walk barefoot on a beach, and we start to feel a certain elation, a sense
of awe and joy. It is the beginning of an orgasm of the entire body, one
not limited to civilization’s so-called “erogenous zones”, but civilization
never lets the feeling fulfill itself. Otherwise, we’d realize that everything
that is not a product of civilization is alive and joyfully erotic.
But a few of us are slowly awakening from the anesthesia of civilization.
We are becoming aware that every stone, every tree, every river,
every animal, every being in the universe is not only just as alive, but at
present is more alive than we who are civilized beings. This awareness is not just intellectual. It can’t be or civilization will just turn into another
academic theory. We are feeling it. We have heard the love-songs of
rivers and mountains and have seen the dances of trees. We no longer
want to use them as dead things, since they are very much alive. We
want to be their lovers, to join in their beautiful, erotic dance. It scares us.
The death-dance of civilization freezes every cell, every muscle within
us. We know we will be clumsy dancers and clumsy lovers. We will be
fools. But our freedom lies in our foolishness. If we can be fools, we
have begun to break civilizations chains, we have begun to lose our need
to achieve. With no need to achieve, we have time to learn the dance
of life; we have time to become lovers of trees and rocks and rivers. Or,
more accurately, time cease to exist for us; the dance becomes our lives
as we learn to love all that lives. And unless we learn to dance the dance
of life, all our resistance to civilization will be useless. Since it will still
govern within us, we will just re-create it.
So let’s dance the dance of life. Let’s dance clumsily without shame,
for which of us civilized people isn’t clumsy? Let’s make love to rivers,
to trees, to mountains with our eyes, our toes, our hands, our ears. Let
every part of our bodies awaken to the erotic ecstasy of life’s dance. We’ll
fly. We’ll dance. We’ll heal. We’ll find that our imaginations are strong ,
that they are part of the erotic dance that can create the world we desire.
~ Feral Faun
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