344: Fifth Way Love: The Spiritual Alchemy of Pleasure, Passion, and the Beloved

There is a level of partnership that goes beyond what we typically think of as soulmates. This is what author Cynthia Bourgeault discusses as Fifth Way Love, and once you understand it, you may never see intimate partnership the same way again. The territory we are entering is intimate partnership as a path of spiritual alchemy. There is a dimension of pleasure available within a sacred relationship that goes so far beyond the physical, it has the potential to dissolve the ego entirely and birth something neither partner could create alone.Join me for the beauty and deepening of pleasure in this week's episode as we explore:Why the most profound pleasure available in relationship requires you to first know the love you already areThe difference between ego driven love and a love that moves like breathingWhat kenotic love actually means and how it creates a surprising doorway to deeper passionHow divine masculine and feminine presence hold one another in ways that cannot be seen but are profoundly feltThe hidden danger of seeing someone's potential and why it can lead you away from the love you are seekingWhat Mary Magdalene and Yeshua's relationship reveals about this profound expression of loveWhy this type of love creates what can only be described as lightning bolts of pleasure and what that actually means spirituallyFifth Way Love is the exact opposite of looking to another person to complete you. This is a path for souls who, whether consciously or unconsciously, desire to know the love they already are. It is a deeper soul agreement that need not be spoken but is felt as two people navigate the terrain of being human together, discovering more of the love that becomes possible when they create a spiritual union. That union is experienced as both deep joy and pleasure in human form and as a unitive field of love that extends far beyond the two of them, touching everything and everyone their love reaches.