As I explained in the essay The Spiritual Theology of Climax there are two different ways to thing about "taking the Lord's Name in vain." The banal, majoritarian method is to assume that the Supreme Terms in our cultural lexicon must be reserved for dry theological study and pious liturgical dramas.
The other approach, which I advocate, is to understand that our spirituality is not at all divided from or opposed to our vital energies. Higher reverential dimensions of human experience are constantly emerging out of the biological matrix of life. Thus we come to realize that the use of Ultimate Words (e.g. "God") are natural and appropriate in times of organic excitement -- sex, terror, astonishment, visionary ecstasy -- and are only "in vain" when they are used as an empty, merely memorized, merely hopefuly prop.
In the short online film "Heather Brooke: First Anal Fuck" we are treated to the following spontaneous prayer:
"Oh yeah. I'm cumming. Oh God! Oh God! Fuck -- Fuck me! Oh Unh Uhhhnhhhnh God! Oh Fuck!"
Quite spontaneously, Heather's living body (a bio-spiritual organism) employs its culturally acquired terminology to the maximal degree. She invokes a power that is at once sublimely affirmative ("Oh yeah!"), dynamic and transformative ("I'm cumming!"). She instinctively understand that this Ultimate Power is symbolized both as the highest symbol ("Oh God") and the deepest root of living experience ("Fuck!").
These terms join together naturally to reveal a Single Energy whose behaviour is illuminated in language only by those expressions which exceed the conventional usage of thoughts and words.
In attempting to language the very limit of the symbolic universe Heather performs the role of Priestess -- opening, transcending her usual personality and crying out to the greatest possible symbol regardless of its name.
In other films she employs terms such as "That's it!" "Right there!" "Don't stop," etc. These are likewise means of creatively invoking the force that is suggested by the boundary condition of semantics -- a general but definitely absolute conceptually entity ("It!"), a non-specified but utterly distinct experiential site ("Right there!") and a sense of symbolically unlimited potency ("Don't stop!")
With the innocence of a classic pagan priestess Heather links together
(a) the supreme abstract power
(b) the feeling of eteneral present-moment completion
(c) the dynamic nature of bliss, and
(d) an affirmation of life.
These superlative qualities (the Names of God) provide a sense of Divinity which even the most bleak and depraved, post-modern materialist could readily accept.
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