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Such a beautifully comprehensive article that I wish many others might read. Thank you! I love your approach to this important work and share with you your consternation about living in the dark ages when it comes to love, sex, and relationships. The hell-realms, indeed. There's so much to reflect upon.

Being in partnership with a significant other is perhaps the most difficult spiritual path one can undertake. For better or worse, the union between men and women has become less about duty, sacrifice, and procreation, and more of an intensely focused wrestling match with our angels and demons. Yet with this challenge there lies an opportunity to see the path of intimacy as a sacred path.

As you are clearly familiar with, we bring to a relationship all the conditioned aspects of our nature that have not yet been integrated—our worries and concerns, likes and dislikes, and a slew of personal needs. Love is a spiritual path precisely because it reveals both the angels and the demons of our nature. Our hearts seem to expand and burst upon the world, only to fall earthward in a death spiral.

Yet we don’t have to crash and burn.

An essential attribute of a conscious relationship is, I believe, to allow both lovers to be the aegis of each other’s shadow aspects. Their role is neither to sit in judgment nor ignore, enable, condone, or mollify. They are an empathizer who holds in sacred trust the wounds of their lover and tends them with gentle medicine, without allowing their beloved to bypass their own inner work. As emotionally charged as some moments might be, each person is at peace with what arises.

The world that awaits us, then, is revealed by men and women coming into their divine essences. It’s the product of men and women in their divine aspects arising to their full potential.

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