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OK, I know, I know. A lot of people will be pissed off by my writing this blog. What else is new?

Yesterday I was working with a client who was gang-raped as a teen. She grew up in a small Southern California town, and everybody knew everybody - including the rapists-kids.

Here’s the catch; the gang raping teens were not punished. My client was. She was scolded for what she wore. She was psychologically abused and humiliated. Her mom asked her “What did you do bring this upon yourself?” “God,” her mom said proudly, “is punishing you for being a little whore.”

If reading this makes you want to punch the computer screen, you are not alone.

I’m a “spiritual” guy who gets enraged! For me, rage is a positive, transformational emotion. I use it a lot.

In my rage, I asked my client to re-contextualize her rape. I pointed out that, if God is anything, God is sex. Why? Because sex is the creator of life. Most world religions agree that God is the creator. Well, if sex is THE creator of life, then sex is God.

What this means is that God is literally inside of you, part of you, is you.

When people rape and humiliate us, they are trying to break us from, even kill off, our free connection to this intimate, sexual God energy within. That’s why religion is so against sex. Sex is really God, and that means god, and the power of creation is in our hands and our wombs - not out there.

But if we realize that the incredible power of god is in our hands, then it can’t be kept from us and held hostage by the few, the holy, the pompous - like it is now. And even when it is said to be “inside you,” as it is in born again Christianity, it’s a supposedly “non-sexual” power.

Non-sexual power is false power because it hinges on repression. Repressed power is a dangerous power - because it is easily projected onto others in the form of abuse, molestation and rape.

The empowered sexual self has been psychologically raped from us all by parents, religion, culture and school. We have all been asked to live in shame, guilt, and silence, while life quietly, relentlessly, and asexually slips through our fingers.

The reason sexual education is so important is because it places the god power of sex back where it belongs - inside of you and me. In this sense, you and I always have and always will be God of our own universe.