On Gender and Sexuality

I have always thought that LGBTQ folks just identify more with their etheric body than with their physical, compared to the average human in incarnation now. For me, there is no judgment about it. Humanity is going through a natural progression, and as we know, human etheric bodies are loosening more and more from the physical bodies. Along with this loosening comes a greater freedom regarding the physical sexuality one chooses to unite with love. I do believe that there is a progression towards androgyny…over long stretches of time. Eventually, reproduction will be sexless. To me (granted I live in a very LGBTQ friendly place) there is a real need arising in humanity to not be held back by traditional sexual gender roles. Each individual can choose to develop those masculine and feminine aspects which they find fitting for themselves. This is not to say that there is not also true value in the traditional male and female virtues and roles, and indeed, nature presents us with the fact that only female sex bodies can grow a new human being within them. The entire spectrum should be able to find accepted expression. (Thanks to feminism for some things, but let’s not throw the baby out with the bathwater!)

I do have to say that in my experience with homosexuals, they do have an etheric which is less tied to their physical bodies, and has more movement outside the body than typical. I experience this as a freeing feeling rather than as an incarnation problem. There is a connection with the life forces around them that is perhaps more immediate or important than for others. For some, the etheric body is less organized than others, but I think we can say the same of anthroposophists! It is our business now to begin to develop the etheric body into a constitution which can serve to receive the results of conscious spiritual sight. Our real goal now is to embody noble habits that will strengthen new energetic frameworks in our etheric body. There is a whole realm of experience, of etheric give and take, that awaits further charting.