The spiritual relevance of sexual energies.

[Steppingfeet]

"Belief is a kind of attention as well. Or, we might say it is a thought you keep thinking. When you don't believe you can have something, your attention is on the lack of what you want, rather than the presence of what you want. So lack is what inevitably manifests."

Is this from the Seth books?

Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd. Here on earth desire seems to be squandered on things of the illusion.

Well put. I don't think that certainty is categorically absurd - there are many good cases for certainty. (e.g.: "I am certain that I am a male, I love shrimp, and my parents named me Benjamin Buford Blue.")

But many of us are certain on matters about which, with more information/evidence/broader point of view, we might not be so certain. I can see how this class of certainty is an absurdity given that we exist in a situation where "understanding is not of this density".

There is another category of certainty, though, that I think quite valid. Faith is a flexible certainty that isn't based on any information that can be obtained from the illusion, and therefore cannot be contradicted for its real practitioner.

Though there is a difference between faith of the indigo and faith of "I believe this particular proposition/truth claim/religious creed".

It has been a work in progress for me to re-calibrate my own desires towards service and spiritual understanding.

Reminds me of 18.5 Ra: The orientation develops due to analysis of desire. These desires become more and more distorted towards conscious application of love/light as the entity furnishes itself with distilled experience.

And to keep the post in line with the OP:

A) My understanding is that our desires, in general, influence, nay, *create* the life, or the experience, we have. I would imagine that sexual desires (be they positive, negative, or both) fall under the same category.

So, yes, I believe there are a number of ways that sexual desire may lead us to a particular partner, or away from a particular partner, or contribute to or interfere with the dance of partners.

B) I am left only to guess on this question. In general I don't think that human thought is sufficiently strong to have an impact upon an other self when in the realm of inner, personal fantasy. I think anagogy makes good headway in describing the mechanism whereby fantasy thought-forms may gain greater consequence.