RadarOnline via The Mirror; Wisdom Quarterly
WARNING: R-rated cartoon depiction of the wheelchair-bound science hero ("Family Guy")
Renowned physicist Stephen Hawking is somewhat of a regular at a Devore [a trucker's paradise in the boondocks of San Bernardino], California sex club.
According to a source who has been a member of Freedom Acres swingers club for nearly half a decade, Hawking, 70, shows up to the club with a bevy of nurses and assistants and has naked woman grind on him.
"I have seen Steven Hawking at the club more than a handful of times," the source revealed.
"He arrives with an entourage of nurses and assistants. Last time I saw him he was in the back 'play area' laying on a bed fully clothed with two naked women gyrating all over him."
The source notes that Hawking, who is wheelchair-bound due to a long-time battle with Lou Gehrig's disease, has his staff stand nearby watching while he's with the women. More
When does sex end?
When and under what circumstances does our overpowering human sex drive -- exacerbated and exploited by out exploitative capitalist society that sees no taboo when it comes to generating profit at the expense of the "human" -- taper off?
"The world's smartest man," Lucy's father, Dr. Hawking
For a healthy individual not suffering from chronic inflammation and degenerative oxidation due to diet (most of what we eat is garbage because we eat so far from the field, a plant on untainted ground being the best choice), chronic stress, and uncleared environmental toxins, sexual response will continue for a century.
However, one hopes the mind will not remain obsessed that long. Teenagers under the strain of unfamiliar hormonal spurts may, assuming they have not been molested or otherwise traumatized and had their boundaries erased by such trauma, manage to get it under control. Marriage was instituted primarily to contain and channel the expression of this habit. Sex is not a necessity; countless celibates prove that. But sex does tend to be an overwhelming obsession many of us cannot even imagine living without.
But 70 and suffering from Lou Gehrig's disease, the ego that often accompanies money and fame, and the conviction that there is nothing beyond this life -- no other friendly worlds, no higher dimensions, no shamanic states -- all add up to visits to sleazy, seedy "gentleman's" clubs.
"See ya, b*tch!" shouts a shocking Dr. Hawking
So is Christian fundamentalism, American puritanism, or Islamo-Catholic moral policing the answer? Blame [the love of] money. Blame [boundary bending] parents. Blame our genes. But it is often the case that
"The root of all evil is the desire to root out all evil."
It's nice to have sex; it's not so nice to have to have sex. The Buddha spoke of overcoming our craving for sensual pleasures for the sake of much more lasting, reliable, and enjoyable pleasures.
Absorption
But what happiness transcends sensual happiness? The meditative absorptions are far more pleasurable than sex. They are full of rapture, joy, zest, buoyancy, and exquisite bliss. And they evolve into happiness and equanimity. The same cannot be said for sex. But bliss and sex are as nothing compared to the vision of nirvana, which is brought about by continuing through the bliss to equanimity to the development of insight. It does not happen organically and effortlessly. Nirvana
Most of the world's meditation traditions never get beyond the supersensual bliss to something permanently beyond time to be unending. Heavens last for aeons and then end. Only nirvana actually gets beyond time to timelessness.
Why is nirvana any different than just another heavenly state or realm? Nirvana is the unconditioned element. Heavens, humans, hot tubs, all "things" are conditioned with nirvana being the sole exception. It is therefore said to be inconceivable by the conditioned mind living in a conditioned universe surrounded by conditioned elements.
But for all its inconceivability it is experiential. Nirvana can be experienced in this very life, not after death, but while one is yet alive and striving on the quest.
Hawking in his own words: likes The Simpsons [Family Guy, not so much]
