Jason Talks Spirituality on YNOTRadio

I appeared on YNOTRadio.com as a guest for Darklady's Sexpose this afternoon and had a lovely hour long chat with the Darklady herself where we talked at length about my involvement in Kabbalah.

ON CHRISTIANITY

Darklady: I don't believe that sexuality and spirituality have to be separated and being an atheist, I have not agreed with a lot of modern day Christianity too, but what I try to do is find a common ground where we I know that we both believe in peace and that violence is not the answer.

Jason Sechrest: Well then, I guess that depends on your definition of violence because for me, some of the most violent acts I've experienced in my life have not been physical, but mental. And when you talk about that separation of sex and spirit and any holiness of the Magdalane being castrated from the text and beating into someone mentally that there is only one path and that any other opinion will make you damned for all time, I consider all of that to be abhorrently violent. There's your bloodshed and that's where it extends physically too and it's been going on since the gnostics were put to death and the Christianty that we know today began. Most Christian churches and their teachings are wading in things like fear and things like power and those are things that I consider to be of Satan. So who is really in rule of the Christian church today? But I also know that's just some people's path and that's fine. I don't believe in extremes like good and bad. I believe that the gray area is where you find holiness; that there is light in all darkness and darkness in all light.

ON SEXUAL OBJECTIFICATION

Darklady: You and I have that in common. We de-mystify, if you will, the porn star.

Jason Sechrest: I think we all fall guilty, but especially men, of objectifying people sexually. One night stands will do that to you. You get so used to making someone out to be whatever you want them to be in your head that you forget how to have sex with a human being and really connect to them. Someone wrote about my site that I deobjectify porn stars by showing who they are behind the scenes and I became very proud of that. I think people can come to my web site and if they have a favorite porn star, find out who they are as a person, and then with the sex shows we have on that porn star, still find themselves getting off to them. Hopefully it plants a seed or makes them think.

ON KABBALAH STUDY

Darklady: I've seen your web site, KabbalahCurious.com. Are you Jewish?

Jason Sechrest: I'm a little bit of everything. I had this conversation with someone recently who was under the impression that the Kabbalah Centre is Kabbalah which is very far from the truth. The Centre is run by Rabbis, so naturally it is looked up as a Jewish thing, but I know Christian Kabbalists and Wiccan Kabbalists and Buddhist Kabbalists. You can apply the study to any religion. I have heard stories about the Bergs and their greediness and the energy drinks and what not and I get asked about that all of the time. I don't know because I never studied there. I just bought their books when I was 18. And I applaud the Centre for taking something that is very complicated and dumbing it down to its most common denominator so that it can be understood by children even and open a spiritual vessel within them. But personally, I found, in the past few years, that with their books I was reading the same thing over and over again. I started wondering if there was more out there. I started looking online for other study groups and found that what the Centre is teaching is probably only 5% of what Kabbalah entails. There are so many more pieces of the ancient text, so many more books, so many more branches, the meditational and magical for starters, that they're not teaching. I'm at the point now where I'm starting to teach myself Hebrew so I've really gone to another level with my studies here than I think a lot of people are aware.


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