The Sex Connection by Alan Fitzpatrick

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Hey everyone,

I just finished reading The Sex Connection by Alan Fitzpatrick. It's a tome on Richard Rose's views about sex which seems to coincide with a lot that is said by Don Juan, Gurdjieff (whose teachings Rose read) and the C's.

Richard Rose calls the entities that feed on our neural energy at orgasm "sex bugs". These sex bugs are from another dimension that humans can't perceive and are strategically superior. He believed that the sex bug becomes attached to a person at the moment they have their first orgasm and it stays with them for life, luring them into sexual reverie in order to compel them into engaging in a sex act which will lead to orgasm. Hence, guaranteeing a food supply. He felt that sex was not something over which we have control. We are compelled. Rose also believes that the particular sex act that served as one's introduction into sex leaves a mental imprint of sorts that is called upon time and time again over the lifespan (with some variation and additions) to put us in the mood for sex. Most important to the mood is sexual reverie. Without it there can be no sex. Rose stated that the experience of drifting into sexual reverie is one's signal that the entity is present. Rose said that the sexual imprint can affect all aspects of one's life. In order to overcome any sexual compulsion, one must stop the reverie involved. This can only be done through intense introspection, uncovering all lies until there is nothing but the truth.

Though it still involved an entity, Rose regarded heterosexual intercourse as kind of the gold standard of all sexual practices. He believed that attached sex bug somewhat less debilitating as a sex bug attached to someone engaging in homosexual sex, oral sex, peadophilia, necrophilia, incest, rape, bestiality, masturbation, etc. -- all of which he considers unnatural and abberrant. Rose's views on homosexuality is likely to raise the ire of those who choose to read this book. He stupidly referred to AIDS as "as a homosexual disease created by Nature as a reaction to homosexuality." He seems to be unaware of the history of AIDS (http://www.sott.net/articles/show/155729-The-AIDS-virus-Made-in-the-USA-). And he also just seems like a bastard for saying it.
This statement is the biggest flaw in the book. It's a complete lie in more ways than one. We all have a sexual lesson, or lessons, to learn. To single out homosexuals as deserving of their own disease is just dumb.

Some topics that are covered in the book: Rose believed that “sex is our greatest obstacle to knowing ourselves and the source of most of our mental turmoil and misery.” He rails against the “do as thou wilst” approach to sexuality and lambasts the field of psychiatry for its behaviorist approach and insistence upon treating symptoms only. Rose discusses transmutation of sexual energy and using it to find the answer to the question of “Who am I?”
So as not to throw the baby out with the bathwater, I found this book to be quite helpful in conducting a frank, honest examination of my own sexual history and how it has impacted my life. By doing this and observing my own "sex bug" I feel like I've increased knowledge of self thereby increasing my Will to Do. I've recently been grappling with sexual issues and I stumbled across mention of this book on the Sex and the Work thread at just the right time.



Well, these are just some of my thoughts about the book. Of course I don’t take anyone’s word as gospel but perhaps this book can become a tool to help someone else in the Work.


Here's an interview with the author:

Interview with Alan Fitzpatrick on his Book The Sex Connection, A Study of Desire, Seduction and Compulsion based on the psychological teachings of Richard Rose.
Alan, you refer to this as the book that Mr. Rose always hoped to write but never got the opportunity to do so. Could you explain this?

There are two explanations, I think. One was the practical side – most everyone that came to see him, came to visit him, or came because they said they were interested in the philosophic message that he had, but in practical terms he worked with them on a psychological level. He always said a person is not going to make progress philosophically until they get their head on straight – until they have a whole mind, a mind that’s free from obsessions, things that are bugging them – that this has to be dealt with first. A person can’t leap frog over it until they take care of that. So that was one reason that he talked so much about practical psychology. The other reason was that when a person begins to work on themselves and if they use the Albigen System, which is a system of negating false things found in the self, it’s the same system applying to the same person whether they work on themselves psychologically or they are on a spiritual path. There’s no difference. It’s not that they put down one method and then pick up another, something different, and then say “gee, I’ve got my head on straight, now I can work on philosophy, where is that system.” No, it’s one in the same. It’s the same ways and means and he always knew that. He once said to a student that I remember, and this student was in psychological trauma – he said if you can ever get your head on straight using the Albigen System, you can take it further. First things first.


Why do think this information is so important to those seekers who follow a path of self-inquiry?

Well, first of all, someone who is troubled, knows they’re troubled. That doesn’t mean that they don’t have philosophic aspirations. Somebody who is troubled may still want peace of mind and mental clarity, but they also might want to know the answer to the big questions, “Who am I?” “Where have I come from?” “Where am I going?” I’ve met over the years so many people who aimed for the higher but are stuck in the lower. They haven’t solved the problems of the dichotomized mind. They haven’t solved the problems of something bugging them – they can’t get rid of it. Everyday you wake up you’re the same person, you have the same problems until you deal with them, until you heal the mind, until you get rid of these things, according to the Albigen System. By the way, Richard Rose said that the purpose of this system is not to learn how to live with these things that dichotomize the mind, the purpose is to get rid of them, is to cure. The second thing that is important is that there is no cure anywhere else. Psychologists and psychiatrists are at a loss over what causes mental troubles and mental illness. And they are certainly at odds when it comes to treatment. You have a million different things you could use from drug therapy to behavior therapy, some with some success, but look at what some of the psychologists and researchers have said – Thomas Szasz and the fellow that wrote “Psychological Society” – both said some people cure themselves at the same rate as people in therapy by doing nothing. So there’s no consensus in psychology, there’s none that can cure a person. There’s a lot of consensus about how to get them to learn to live with their problem, but getting them to learn to live with their problem is not curing it. And we see what happens when all the good, all the modern psychological work in the world, doesn’t help when somebody goes on a shooting spree. They say, oh maybe he went off his medication.


In light of that response, and in regards to recent events such as the tragedy at Virginia Tech, what is your perspective on the psychological/psychiatric analysis of the shooter, and what do you think Richard Rose might have offered as an analysis?

The clearest – and I followed all the experts from the President, George Bush, [ Hold it! Did he just use “expert” and “President Bush” in the same sentence? ] who said we can’t begin to understand why somebody does this, to several psychologists and psychiatrists who have been interviewed – and the clearest explanation that I’ve found is from a woman psychiatrist who said this individual was psychotic but not insane, was paranoid psychotic but not insane. Now we’re using their labels. If Richard Rose had looked at it I know what he would have said – he would have said there’s a sex connection involved here. This person is sick. They’ve gotten in this trouble, this deep psychological trouble, their mind is deeply troubled because of something connected to sex. And this person is possessed because of it. Now that’s a term that modern psychology refuses to consider because it’s old-fashioned, it’s out-dated, it’s everything that they’re not. It’s not the professional pose that they want to take. And yet they’ll come right on national television and tell you that they don’t know why -- they can tell you that they think somebody is psychotic but they don’t know why. They can’t explain why and they don’t know how this happens. Richard Rose would have said this happened because of a sexual incident that’s connected to the person’s mind and when that happened it put a mark upon them that only got worse.


If there was any one part of this teaching and your research of it that you think stands out as a key yardstick to spiritual work, can you elaborate on that?

A person can’t think if their mind is not clear. A person can’t think if they’re troubled. A person can’t think if they don’t have mental clarity and peace of mind. And I remember that many times Richard Rose would say that if a person’s going to approach a spiritual path they have to become as a little child, and he referred to the Bible, to Jesus saying, “To enter the Kingdom of Heaven, you must become as a little child.” What did Christ mean and what did Rose take from that and Rose said, look, the mind has to be clear. You’re not going to be able to think on the abstract, and perhaps paradoxically – you know we talked about this world being an illusion – the mind can’t focus on that when the mind is split and troubled. And so if you don’t have peace of mind in this life, just relative life, you don’t have anything. They say if you don’t have your health… if you don’t have your mind you don’t have anything. You can’t think and you can’t think of abstract things. Every moment of your waking time and subconscious will be dominated by what’s bothering you, so the whole point of this psychology that I’m writing about is how to remove these things. And see, he said – and here’s the similarity in the path – you don’t know where truth resides, you don’t know where mental clarity resides. All you can do is remove those things that are found to be untruth -- if you’re working on a spiritual path, egos, that sort of thing, that you remove. Or if you’re working on a psychological end – it’s the same system. You remove those things that are troubling the mind, just like you pull a splinter out of your thumb that’s infected and festering. You don’t learn to live with it. You don’t study it forever, you know, you have to get it out.


Just a couple of more questions here and these are along the lines of spiritual or philosophic questions but I think they can all be applied to the psychological. So, the first question would be “Are you your thoughts – who is thinking?” Followed by “Are you able to get out of or change a mood?” “What habits do I observe as being my biggest obstacle and can I trace them to a root source?” And last of all, “Do you think sex plays a role in affecting your moods and thinking?” Let’s take the last question first.

Mr. Rose was the first person I met and the only person I met who said, look, 95% of us is all about sex. And immediately people are going to say that’s wrong, that’s false, that can’t be. But that all our behavior, all our thinking is in some way, some subtle, some not so subtle, from how we put make-up on and we dress, the clothes we wear to look more attractive, and that all of this is related to sex. All the behavior has its root in a thinking component, and so a great deal of our thoughts, which we can observe, are related to sex, to sex acts we indulge in. This is why children, who are free of sex, are so different than us. They haven’t become us. Our whole thinking, our being, is now influenced by something else, which is sex and the sexual urge and reverie and these types of things.


So what would you say is your primary reason for writing this book? We see that it is to get out the psychological teaching of Richard Rose from his notes and lectures that you’ve compiled. But in summary, what would you say is the primary motive?

In this book you’re going to find the ten steps that he outlined on how a person can cure themselves, where no psychology, no drug therapy, no one else can. And sure, all his reasons for what’s causing a person trouble, which is the sex connection, which no psychologist wants to touch – they refuse to in these politically-correct times – to say thatsex has any connection whatsoever. Whereas he was saying that sex has everything to do with us. But that in this book are the ten steps and that if somebody picks up this book and they want to throw everything else out, if they can follow those ten steps, if they can understand what it is that is bugging them and remove it from their being, they’ll heal themselves. So it’s more than just this philosophy of the sex connection. It’s the ways and means for psychological cure. The book contains the success stories of people that were able to do that. And the people that met Rose who were not able to do that, didn’t because they didn’t deal with the sexual component. And guess what, to this day they’re still troubled by the sex acts that they’re indulging in. He said that there are unnatural and aberrant sex acts – that they’re not all the same as some politically-correct people want to say they are. He said that the things you do sexually can affect your mind. And some of it is irreversible -- once you put that mark on you you‘re in trouble. A person who is troubled knows they’re troubled. Rose said people who are possessed know they’re possessed and they’ll tell you they are possessed. They know there’s an entity.


Additional comments regarding Richard Rose and the sex connection:

First, the biggest deception people have about themselves, generally, is that they are in control and have free will. Rose talks about this on the Farmhouse Meeting DVD. He said that it is only in the "between-ness" state that we have free will. Otherwise we are not in control and most of what troubles us is rooted in sex. There is no "I" or "I want" in our desires. Reverie and thought forms are at the root of almost all of our moods, desires, thoughts and actions -- unless there is a physical disease or some such physiological source that can be directly pointed to as a cause. Our sexual/biological destiny carries over into what we think, feel and do. For example, in a mood of lust our thinking obviously changes. THIS IS WHY HE STRESSED THAT WE MUST BECOME AN OBSERVER even though we are attempting to observe the mind with the mind. But if we are ruthlessly honest with ourselves -- using others as a mirror because we often can't see our biggest obstacles, or we delude ourselves into rationalizing other causes -- we can observe and unravel the mystery to get at the source of our thought patterns and moods. In a moment of clarity (the value of confrontation being that it can bring us to that point) we may discover that these patterns and moods that are the result of trauma, ego, habit, false ideas and sexual habits are IMPOSED upon us. This is the REVERSE VECTOR in action -- we are unraveling or subtracting, not indulging in additive systems. We are OBSERVING DIRECTLY. But again, we usually need someone acting as a mirror to help us see this. Rose's Meditation booklet is very helpful in terms of learning to sit quietly with oneself and observe past traumas and humiliations without becoming emotional. He called it "Going Within." If you find yourself no longer being detached, then move on. A person cannot sit with these kinds of thoughts, however, if they are emotionally or sexually turbulent.


Richard Rose wrote several books and gave many lectures over a period of thirty years.
A selection of these various works can be viewed at the Richard Rose Teachings site.




Copyright©2008, Richard Rose Psychology
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If anyone else has read The Sex Connection it’d be great to hear what you think. Here are a couple of links if you want to read more about Richard Rose.

http://www.richardroseteachings.com/

http://www.richardrosepsychology.com/psych.html


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I am just finishing the Sex Connection. Very provocative, probably a lot longer than it needed to be. And very relevant to the Work.
Rose's ideas will offend many, the are not politically correct. I doubt that what anyone has to say abut human sexuality is Definitive.
But I would recommend this book to anyone who wants to think clearly about sex in their lives.
If you're in a big hurry, you can get the essential ideas from about pages 240-270.
I just sent a little review of the book to Laura via Sott.net
I'd be interested to know how many Cassiopaean readers are familiar with Richard Rose.
 
Odyssey said:
Hey everyone,

I just finished reading The Sex Connection by Alan Fitzpatrick. It's a tome on Richard Rose's views about sex which seems to coincide with a lot that is said by Don Juan, Gurdjieff (whose teachings Rose read) and the C's.

Richard Rose calls the entities that feed on our neural energy at orgasm "sex bugs". These sex bugs are from another dimension that humans can't perceive and are strategically superior. He believed that the sex bug becomes attached to a person at the moment they have their first orgasm and it stays with them for life,
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I haven't read this book, but I'm aware that our sexual energy can be harnessed by other-dimensional beings. As a safeguard and antidote to this possibility, I've heard that, as we project our own positive thoughtform at the moment of orgasm, we can direct the sexual energy for our own purposes, and thus deprive the usurpers from using our energy for their purpose.
 
Elizabeth said:
I haven't read this book, but I'm aware that our sexual energy can be harnessed by other-dimensional beings. As a safeguard and antidote to this possibility, I've heard that, as we project our own positive thoughtform at the moment of orgasm, we can direct the sexual energy for our own purposes, and thus deprive the usurpers from using our energy for their purpose.
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While I have no proof to offer to back up my impressions about this idea, I must admit that it sounds a bit like what 'they' would like you to think (and wishful thinking). I doubt that very many people are self-possessed enough, with a fused center and full control of their states of being, to be able to do such a thing, if it is possible. However, that's just my take on it.
 
anart said:
Elizabeth said:
I haven't read this book, but I'm aware that our sexual energy can be harnessed by other-dimensional beings. As a safeguard and antidote to this possibility, I've heard that, as we project our own positive thoughtform at the moment of orgasm, we can direct the sexual energy for our own purposes, and thus deprive the usurpers from using our energy for their purpose.
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While I have no proof to offer to back up my impressions about this idea, I must admit that it sounds a bit like what 'they' would like you to think. I doubt that very many people are self-possessed enough, with a fused center and full control of their states of being, to be able to do such a thing, if it is possible. However, that's just my take on it.
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I don't know either. It seems that a person kind of loses their mind, in a way, at the point of orgasm with no clear thoughts. It seems that it would be almost impossible to concentrate enough to direct or project a thoughtform someplace. And where, specifically, would you direct it?
 
Odyssey said:
anart said:
Elizabeth said:
I haven't read this book, but I'm aware that our sexual energy can be harnessed by other-dimensional beings. As a safeguard and antidote to this possibility, I've heard that, as we project our own positive thoughtform at the moment of orgasm, we can direct the sexual energy for our own purposes, and thus deprive the usurpers from using our energy for their purpose.
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While I have no proof to offer to back up my impressions about this idea, I must admit that it sounds a bit like what 'they' would like you to think. I doubt that very many people are self-possessed enough, with a fused center and full control of their states of being, to be able to do such a thing, if it is possible. However, that's just my take on it.
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I don't know either. It seems that a person kind of loses their mind, in a way, at the point of orgasm with no clear thoughts. It seems that it would be almost impossible to concentrate enough to direct or project a thoughtform someplace. And where, specifically, would you direct it?
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Maybe it's just another way of talking about intentional or conscious sexuality. For example, a couple hoping to conceive a child might think and discuss ahead of time what qualities they would like to see manifested in their child. This "conception" becomes a kind of program (thought-form) which is activated/triggered at the point of orgasm.

Sexual energy is creative energy, whether it's used for conceiving a child, a project, or a universe. It belongs to the individual/individuals participating in the creative act. And as a matter of principle, something in me wants to proclaim that my creative energy cannot be usurped by anyone or anything else. To proclaim this is one thing; to demonstrate it is another.
 
Elizabeth said:
Sexual energy is creative energy, whether it's used for conceiving a child, a project, or a universe. It belongs to the individual/individuals participating in the creative act. And as a matter of principle, something in me wants to proclaim that my creative energy cannot be usurped by anyone or anything else. To proclaim this is one thing; to demonstrate it is another.
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Have you read the Wave Series?
 
Elizabeth said:
I'm on Chapter 18 of the first Wave.
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Great - continue on, because once you've completed it, you'll have a much fuller understanding of our position as human beings and energetic exchange and all of the implications. Buckle your seat belt! :)
 
anart said:
Elizabeth said:
I'm on Chapter 18 of the first Wave.
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Great - continue on, because once you've completed it, you'll have a much fuller understanding of our position as human beings and energetic exchange and all of the implications. Buckle your seat belt! :)
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Thanks for the preview! I'm loving the journey, even while looking forward to the destination. :)
 
I can tell you from experience that there is a truth in what is said in this book, you do feel like a child when you get rid of all those thoughts and compulsions, there's no desire, you are relaxed while others are being blind, I thought about that few days ago that there could be some sexual beings that are attached to me(In wave there is said that everyone has many attachments) but also i think you have control over that because when you accept that thoughts because you want relief or softer to yourself then it's your own choice! I don't think that people can sense entities because they will stop doing this and got troubled by this about that, and when you start to think you have some of that attachments then it busts your will to work on that, yes it could be your mind that isn't you but many people react seriously when they know something alien is in them(mind is alien but they don't know that because it seems normal to them)! Thanks for sharing this, it made me think about myself!
 
I do agree that by observing your own "sex bug" you can learn a lot about yourself.
I haven't read the book, only what has been described in the thread so its hard to tell what this dude proposes as a solution.
I hope not completely forsaking ones sexual energy in total, as something parasitic and ugly. Turning to asexuality. IMO that would be the same denial of creation as reckless abuse of sexual energy.


I will not even start on his equation of homosexuality with bestiality and necrophilia :shock:

I don't think I will ever read this book so if someone could quote the most impressive parts I would be grateful.
 
Stormy Knight said:
I do agree that by observing your own "sex bug" you can learn a lot about yourself.
I haven't read the book, only what has been described in the thread so its hard to tell what this dude proposes as a solution.
I hope not completely forsaking ones sexual energy in total, as something parasitic and ugly. Turning to asexuality. IMO that would be the same denial of creation as reckless abuse of sexual energy.
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Yes, I see it that way too. It would be adopting the Judeo Christian view of sex as sin, which hasn't really helped humanity becoming more spiritual, has it?
Extremes are bad. Either way (repression or excess), it's still abuse of the sex center - having to do with the left brain function (abstraction, anticipation) overpowering the right brain (creativity, spontaneity, observation of things as they are). This left-brain mode of functioning might describe what this author is talking about when he mentions "sex bugs", since "sexual reverie" is typically "left brain"? Just a thought.

Re-reading this chapter of the Wave might be helpful:
http://www.cassiopaea.org/cass/wave12b.htm
and of course this thread.
 
Last paragraph, bottom of page 254:

"Rose was serious about abstaining from sex for a period of time to determine what sex was all about. He hinged a great deal of his psychological and philosophical teachings on the need to know how much
of your thinking is the result of entity influence. Once a person determines this,then that person's psychological and philosophical future depends upon freeing oneself from the entity-inspired thoughts, especially thinking, moods, and states of mind that prevent the person from progressing mentally and spiritually. Privately, Rose talked to students about the Thalmaturgical Law (Denekin:I think the author means Thaumaturgical)which was the belief handed down from magical alchemists and religious thalmaturgists of the Middle Ages who prescribed a minimum twenty-eight days of total abstinence in order to be free of entity influence so as to understand the complete meaning and motivation of sex and its overwhelming effect upon us and our mind. By challenging a person to attempt to be celibate, Rose was calling the bluff of materialist skeptics who found the idea of unseen entities intellectually abhorrent and socially unfashionable in a politically correct world..."
 
anart said:
Elizabeth said:
I haven't read this book, but I'm aware that our sexual energy can be harnessed by other-dimensional beings. As a safeguard and antidote to this possibility, I've heard that, as we project our own positive thoughtform at the moment of orgasm, we can direct the sexual energy for our own purposes, and thus deprive the usurpers from using our energy for their purpose.
Click to expand...

While I have no proof to offer to back up my impressions about this idea, I must admit that it sounds a bit like what 'they' would like you to think (and wishful thinking). I doubt that very many people are self-possessed enough, with a fused center and full control of their states of being, to be able to do such a thing, if it is possible. However, that's just my take on it.
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Below quote from Session 950107, it seems like there is no way to use the orgasm energy for useful purpose:
[quote author=Session 950107]Q: (L) Let's go back to a question I asked in another session on this same subject: what happens to our energy at the point of orgasm? Where does that energy
go?
A: Drains to 4th level STS.
Q: (T) Is this a manifestation of the Lizards feeding off of us?
A: STSers there retrieve it.
Q: (T) So, orgasm is a 3rd density manifestation of the 4th density consumption of 3rd density energy?
A: One of their methods.
Q: (D) In "Bringers of the Dawn" it talks about sex and it says that it is an expression of love and so forth and that you should not have sex with someone who
does not really love you.
A: Love is all that is needed.
Q: (L) If two individuals, as an expression of true love at higher levels, desire to express this love in a physical way, is it possible to channel the energy in a
positive way without feeding the 4th level STS guys?
A: Nope.
Q: (L) In other words, no matter what you do, how you think, or whatever, that's where it goes?
A: Sex is a physical craving.
[/quote]

But put under the idea of the wrong work of centers, this idea opens up a very interesting thing described by Mouravieff in Gnosis as quoted somewhere in the EE thread by Trevizent.
Mouravieff explained that sexual energy that is energy from the sex center is the finest energy available for men, but is often usurped by other centers for negative emotions expressions. He continued on to explain that this can be changed: this high energy can be made available for useful work through persistent introspection. One can then see the negative emotions forming up and chooses not to express it, saving thus the sexual energy liberated for valuable work.

Edit: grammar.
 
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