Learning the Spiritual Side of Smut

I’ve always been quite careful to let everyone make their own meaning when they encounter the wisdom in their sexual fantasies. It’s important that you get to interpret the exciting, taboo-charged, and profound non-dual experiences that crack you open.

You are in charge of interpreting your own subjective experience of where you go inside yourself when you can finally understand your Desire Signature. After all, the method works no matter how you interpret it. An atheist can feel it as well as a monk. I’ve taught christian ministers and witches alike.

To protect this, I have kept my own spiritual interpretation and practices to myself. If I reduce the deVinery Method to my personal panpsychism-adjacent spiritual lens, that means far fewer people will walk through the door and try it for themselves.

I was also protecting something else. The part of the deVinery Method that is the Grammar of Desire is not subjective. That part is functional and measurable in a way that spirituality and qualia alone are not. The grammar applies to both sexual and non sexual desire.

If I am right, it can even serve as a meta-system for all global systems. It can be used to predict and be falsified.

That means the grammar part of the deVinery Method may just pass the tests that science uses to assess something’s validity, while simultaneously coming from a category that science claims it cannot measure.

Which is a big deal.

Put it this way. Interpretative systems like Myers-Briggs or Human Design may be subjectively useful for people to understand their lives and make choices, but you cannot build measurable, predictable global systems with them. You cannot turn them into an algorithm that measures generative outcomes or failure loops across governance, law, tech, sex, relationships, economy and more.

It’s looking like a strong possibility that the deVinery grammar of Desire can.

Most folk will miss that part if they think this work belongs to the category of spirituality. So I have held back from sharing the spiritual side of what I do.

I’m aaalllll in baby. Full-blown spiritual ritualist who uses the erotic to cultivate and celebrate body, mind, heart and soul. I draw on all sorts of esoteric, philosophical, and scientific techniques. That changes how I personally apply the deVinery Grammar of Desire and how I experience sex.

Sex is how I discover and relate to Life itself.

I mean, it shouldn’t come as a surprise, really, since I treat Desire itself as an intelligence… Eros and Agape too… and actively cultivate the right states to ask them what they are and how they work.

I don’t mean I treat them as psychological projections (though you are free to). I mean, I operate as if these intelligences operate outside of, and independently of, my personal existence. That’s how I discovered the grammar of desire in the first place.

I asked Desire why it was like it was. It answered. Not in English. It has its own way of communicating with me, but it did answer.

While I can never know anything at all for sure, I choose to approach Life as if it is inherently intelligent at all levels. Intelligences nested within intelligences murrurating like starlings. At least when we don’t fall for the illusion of separation, or reductive physicalism. You know, when we don’t make choices that go against the ecology of intelligent Life.

I can’t say I belong to a particular tradition or label, though I have tried on a few over the years. Not even shamanism, panpsychism, or animism fit perfectly, though they rhyme with my way of being in the world.

What I can say is this.

I get a whole different quality experience of being a human, on with crazy rock, hooning through space. Life doesn’t respond passively. It relates back.

I had yet another profound, ecstatic union with existence again last night by harnessing the erotic. By following the wisdom encoded in my sexual fantasies and creating real-world embodied experiences out of them. AKA erotic ritual.

And it reduced me to shaking, weeping, ecstatic awe and wonder. In utter love with Life itself. Again.

This doesn’t come from bypassing the smutty or taboo parts. Nor does it come from trying to “live out” those fantasies as we literally see them in our mind’s eye. Focusing on the consent aspect doesn’t get you there either. Consent is important, but it still misses the necessary technique.

Instead, I get there from understanding my unique way of navigating the universal grammar that powers all desire. And by knowing how to turn that into an embodied experience that changes the state of my body, heart and consciousness. By reading the existential paradoxical tensions that generate excitement, and knowing how to engage them on purpose in ways that create powerful, positive outcomes. Joyful play that generates emergence. And from cultivating both my consciousness and my kundalini.

Though, honestly, the word kundalini has too much baggage to be quite right.

I mean, I harness Eros as an actual life-force current I can run through my body in ways that fill me from head to toe viscerally. I can only describe it as golden clouds of incense smoke rising up through me and waves coming back down. It feels as real as someone stroking my arm, only it’s on the inside of my body.

My heart expands like a love-filled sun that becomes waaaay bigger than my actual body.

And my ego dissolves (the default mode network quietens), changing my cognition. This allows me to connect the dots and gain profound insights normally not available to me. The same level of insight that people talk about in the psychedelic world or in meditation circles.

You can learn things directly from life in that state. Again, that’s a significant part of how I learned the grammar of desire in the first place…

And I get there through smut. Sometimes tenderly romantic smut. Sometimes primal smut. Sometimes the smuttiest of the smut. Or sometimes through non-sexual desire, creating the same category of friction.

Yep, by harnessing the grammar on purpose.

All this to say, I’m considering running a group for those who want to learn the spiritual version of the deVinery Method. The method itself and the part that I normally hold back on.

If I did, would you be interested?

Let me know, and tell me your country and time zone, because if there is enough interest in your area, I might just go ahead and do it. Yes, country too. I can’t mind-read, and I don’t have time to waste looking up every code to see where it is in the world.

I also don’t have time to run a whole marketing campaign, so I will only go ahead if you express your interest now.

Or if you are keen enough, I’d be willing if you organised a group and invited me to teach.

Once I know there is enough interest, I will decide on format, times, price, etc and get back to you.

Where are my other sex magick weirdos? Calling philosophically inclined smut lovers! Those who know in their secret unspoken places that there is something more to sex and life than meets the eye. Those who know that the parts of life that truly matter are outside of what science can measure. I’ll be damned if I am going to miss out on that part! So fuck it, I’m all in. Are you?

Artemisia de Vine

deVinerymethod.com