Sex and the Universe (part 2)

"...Krissy Alice leans back into the booth sofa, smiling, in a cheeky manner at her impromptu date for the night sitting opposite.  Geldas Evan an old lover of hers, who on many occasions she had sex with over a year or so back, as the relationship never progressed any further than brief engagements.  She sips the alcoholic drink, knowing that the drug she administered earlier in the evening as a mild hallucinogenic also has a compound of Thiamine, an intensified version of the B group vitamin, which reduces the effects of alcohol consumption on the brain. 

  "When you were in the Astro-Tech core, setting up the AI moon base and the half way points for the System mining probes, did you ever see any weird things?" 

  "You're a SMT operator, you've probably seen some of the crazy light shows up there. It has all been explained." 

Alice leans back as the overhead lamp of the booth subtly reveals the outline of her breasts with visible nipples. Evan looks briefly at her sexiness revealed in a seductive manner. 

  "Yeah, but you had to complete level one physics to be a AT core specialist. I am just an engineer..." Alice replies, folding her legs over beneath the scratch proof plexiglass table top of the dinning booth.  She then leans forward and has another sip of her drink, placing it down onto the metallic style coaster. 

  "Everything up to now has been verified that these so called unnatural lights and objects that have been viewed and documented over the last hundred and fifty years of space exploitation. Are from natural origins. The strange light shows, yes, the Universe has an odd spectrum at times from cosmic waves, makes everything at different times glow within the electromagnetic array. For the early astronauts...What we know now used to freak them out. Also, as you are aware there are lot of debris in Space, most from remnants of the solar system, ice, metallic compounds, asteroids, small and large. Can reflect within the scope of light from our Sun and create a weirdness..." He leans back into the Sofa, straighten out pants around the crotch area, as he catches another glimpse of Alice's breasts, she then leans forward into the darkened shadow of the illuminated booth...”

Excerpt from the story: "Dystopic of the Prodigious" of the novel THE PRAXIS CONTINUUM (Adrian Glass 2018)

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Black Holes, Quasars, Nebulas, Pulsars.  The gamut of titles that describe an active and particle charged Cosmos, holds in its self a sexual allure of descriptions.   Exploring sex, science, fiction all wrapped about within the possibilities of a Universe in all of its structure.  Is not a new concept in science fiction, touched upon in the 1960s with the New Wave Science Fiction writers, pushed further courtesy of the French writers of the 1970s and 1980s and visually described by the comic book artists such as Jean Giraud ( Mœbius) and Philippe Druillet who were responsible for Métal Hurlant's  (French adult scifi comic) impact on popular culture.  Important milestones in science fiction that at least for me, is the combination of humanity's fragility within the ferocious power of the cosmos.  It is in these brief moments in time - that sex and sexuality, could be the only aspect of power that we can use to offset our predicament.  Despite it also being a fleeting moment.  To understand this, is important to move away from the materialistic reflections of sexuality, more so the gratifying expose portrayed by the mass media.  That, more than not, shows the utter confusion whilst trying to source and lead markets. Sex and the exploration of sex in literature will continue on.  And what more perfect combination is when one writes about 'Sex and the Universe'.   

One of my influences and it is not solely confined to writing.  Is the idealism of early Vajrayana and Mahayana which evolved into Tantric Buddhism.  To utilize the tantric as a medium to turn away from human suffering, which is always self imposed.  That sex and death, have an interlinked relationship.   It is an attempt at achieving enlightenment before or within the realms of destruction. Which has already been counting down since a person has been born.  As the Sōtō Zen Master Shunryu Suzuki once said.  “Life is like stepping onto a boat which is about to sail out to sea and sink.”  So, I inscribe a balance within the urgency of sex, particularly in my books, as an endeavor at trying, to what the Buddhists would say is attaining the Original Mind.  Sex as a temporary moment in time. That under a Tantric experienced, is decreed as the “Mahasukha” (Great Bliss), but what is very important to define, it is not a lingering desire.  Sex ends, just like everything else.  Yet, if it is achieved as a transcendence away from attachment and which I will also add, the indifference of harsh Universe, then it becomes a power.  Of course this still requires practice to which it is an ongoing process.  As the quote from Hevajra tantra says: 

"This practice [of sexual union with a consort] is not taught for the sake of enjoyment, but for the examination of one's own thought, whether the mind is steady or waving..."