BISEXUALITY
&/or
HOMOSEXUALITY
from
Michael as channeled
by Shepherd
Hoodwin
Your soul
has no gender. Each soul has varying percentages of
male (focused) and female (creative) energy, but
everyone has both male and female energies, and each
soul can relate energetically to any other. The soul
in this sense
is bisexual -- it can take either side in a creative
act. This flexibility
is the natural state of the universe. Whether or not
you express this
bisexuality through physical sex, everyone has the
ability to relate in
some way to both male and female energy, and must,
if he is not to
become one-sided. It is common for people to be
physically bisexual to
some degree in many of their lifetimes. In addition,
virtually everyone
will have at least one lifetime in which he is
homosexual, because that
is part of life on earth.
When you are in a male body, your primary
lessons are about male
energy, and in a female body, about female energy.
However, the more
lifetimes you have in both male and female bodies,
the less your
identity is limited to the sex of your present body.
Therefore, you can
use both your male and female energies as
appropriate.
Satisfying sexual relationships are as you define
them. All other things
being equal, you have more balancing sex with
someone of the opposite
gender because, by definition, what is opposite is
balancing. However,
this does not invalidate sexual experiences with
members of the same
gender. If a sexual experience fulfills your
particular needs and is
satisfying to you, that is what matters. The choice
to be heterosexual,
homosexual, bisexual, or nonsexual is individual.
There are no wrong
choices. Every soul will choose each of those
options at one time or
another in order to experience growth.
The physical body has tendencies apart from the
personality living in
it. For example, a forty-year-old physical body
tends to be most
comfortable with others in approximately the same
age range.
Nevertheless, the person living in the body may feel
differently, for
whatever reasons, and nullify the body's tendency.
For instance, he may
have made an agreement before the lifetime to mate
with someone who
happens to be much older or younger than he is. Or,
he may have
unresolved issues that he can work out with an older
or younger partner.
Therefore, he is attracted to such partners.
There is much more to you than your physical
body. You are the total of
all your parts. This aspect of balance between
opposite genders is just
one element of many that can contribute to sexual
satisfaction in a
relationship. If it is missing because you are with
someone of your own
gender, there are many other elements that can bring
satisfaction. It is
not "wrong". Bisexuality
and homosexuality are valid.
Your sexual orientation was not specifically
determined by your soul
before your lifetime began; rather, you
unconsciously chose it early in
childhood at the same time you chose other key
ideas on which to base
your life. However, your soul can set up your life
to point it in a
certain direction through its choice of family
dynamics and
circumstances, among other things. Your life plan,
which includes
agreements and karmic debts to be repaid, can also
make a particular
choice of sexuality all but inevitable. Past life
factors being worked
on in the present lifetime also influence this
choice. Nonetheless, the
choice itself occurs on the level of personality,
since the personality
has free will. The personality usually ratifies the
soul's influences,
but it may not.
Some souls need same-sex relationships for
internal balance. For
example, those who have not been male frequently and
who want to learn
as much as they can about male energy might choose
both to be born into
male bodies and to have sexual relationships with
males as a way of
reflecting their own experience back to them. Souls
may also use
homosexuality to learn to have loving relationships
with the same sex if
their same-sex relationships were often unloving in
lifetimes when they
were heterosexual. Those who persecuted homosexuals
in a previous life
may choose homosexuality as a way to learn
compassion.
Often fixed homosexuality is a reaction to a
culture's excessive
polarization of the masculine and feminine. Like
many other cultures,
yours tend to see masculinity and femininity in
terms of "either/or",
rather than as two interrelated aspects of one thing
on a continuum.
They are promoted as extreme, limited, and rigid
stereotypes rather than
all-encompassing aspects of human potential. The
softer qualities of
manhood and the more focused qualities of womanhood
are not adequately
acknowledged and respected. Those who exhibit them
are often seen as not
being fully acceptable and are not allowed to simply
be who they are.
At an early age, many children are given the
message that they must fit
into their gender's sexual stereotype. Boys often
repress their softer
traits, and girls, their more focused ones. This has
begun to change in society, but there is a long way to go. Young
children who find
their own gender's sexual stereotype unacceptable,
unattainable, or both,
might identify with the other. This is a factor in
some homosexuality.
Another factor can be unresolved rage toward
the opposite sex. Where
this is present, a child might reject that gender
sexually.
Of course, a child's relationship with his
parents, as well as beliefs he brings in
from past lifetimes, can influence his sexual
orientation, so rage toward the opposite sex parent
can be a dominant influence.
As with anything, those who choose same-sex
orientation simply because
they want to, because it will bring valuable
lessons, rather than in
reaction to external factors, tend to have an
easier, more comfortable
experience.
Many who classify themselves as strictly
heterosexual or homosexual are
capable of bisexuality and might be more comfortable
if that option were
truly open in them, not necessarily for sexual
intercourse, but at least
for physically expressing affection. If their
boundaries were not so
rigid, they would have greater freedom to express
love to others in
whatever ways seem appropriate.
Any stimulation of the body in a pleasurable
way can be construed as
being sexual. This is why those who are homophobic
sometimes have
difficulty even hugging someone of the same sex. A
hug can be
pleasurable, and that brings up fears that they are
being sexual with a
member of the same sex. Having such rigid
definitions of one's sexuality
is not conducive to loving relationships. We
encourage openness, letting
your experience be whatever it naturally is.
This
article is excerpted with permission from:
Loving
from Your Soul -- Creating Powerful
Relationships
by Shepherd Hoodwin.
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The Author
Shepherd
Hoodwin is an intuitive, workshop leader,
and teacher. He also does past-life therapy,
counseling, and channeling coaching
(teaching others to channel). He is
the author of The Journey of Your Soul-A
Channel Explores Channeling and the Michael
Teachings, Meditations for
Self-Discovery-Guided Journeys for
Communicating with Your Inner Self. Shepherd
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