By: Taylor Pircey

We came from the earth, bathed in intimacy & connection from the very beginning. Are these not our not our deepest desires? Is Divinity not simply intimacy & connection incarnate? Why do we enjoy closeness, the safety of a lover’s touch; the sensation of being held, consumed by the weight & pressure of another’s presence? Are not our most magical, wonder-filled moments we experience rooted in our sexuality? Kissing, touching… communing?

Why do we embrace one another in greeting? Why do young children wrestle, grab & hold each other? Why do lovers & friends choose to sit near one another, wishing to be close? Why is face to face so much better than phone to phone? Could these longings be a psychological reaction stemming from our first nine months of life, sequestered safely in our mother’s womb? The comfort, pressure, tightness…the sheer warmth of her heart beating nearby, floating blissfully in embryonic fluid. Utter encapsulation, an initial embrace from our mother’s body embedding in our psyche; a memory of perfect love.

Is not every embrace by friend & lover to some extent an attempt to return to that embrace we first knew? Literally connected to our mothers by a cord of blood sustaining us – sharing her very heartbeat. The intimacy of sharing blood & breath, pulse & presence. Is this not what lovers long to share? To absorb one another in deep connection? Not only to be inside one other, but to exchange blood & breath, pulse & presence? To feel the weight & pressure of each other, to be wrapped in love once more?

I suppose that even before this, we were in the loving embrace of the Divine, a thought cherished & imagined before we found a home within our mothers. We come from perfect connection & perfect presence of love, made after the image of love itself. Why else would we crave it? If our most primal and impressionable experience is intimacy & connection through love, of course we will pursue it all our days.

I wonder why the sensation of being naked in bodies of water is so appealing to us. It strikes me that the root desire is once again connection; to be one with nature & our surroundings, to remove all barriers preventing our bodies from being as close as possible to earth. I believe that the vulnerability of being fully nude in a natural setting is a cry from the heart to return to the earth we came from. To be the iconic Eve in her garden, hoping to regain some of that innocence, that longed for un-woundedness our hearts tell us we once knew.

Is it not the privilege of vulnerability that I get to undress my heart before another & them before me, my body, too, if they’ll let me? To be seen by each other the way the Divine sees & knows us, to be wrapped in the embrace of eternal connection. This is the beauty of connection & intimacy…somehow by sharing it with one another we return to the heart of perfect love. No wonder we crave it!

Is not darkness an act of hiding from love, a divorce from its embrace & knowing presence? When we realize our vulnerability, we hurry to put up barriers between each other, nature & ultimately the Divine. Each attempt to crawl into the bosom of a lover or friend, to crawl into the heart or mind of a loved one is ultimately a desire to crawl back into the arms of the everlasting, Divine love – to be consumed by love’s eternal flame. □

About the Writer

Taylor Pircey currently resides in Thousand Oaks, California where she works as a film photographer and mortgage processor. Taylor loves cooking, reading, road trips, hiking, and all things community-oriented.

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