Ecclesiastes in Sickness and in Health
Tuesday, August 31, 2010 at 8:28AM | by Otter 
The golden bowl, the lifegiving womb and the seat of the feminine energy of procreation. (Can we please stop talking about sex?) Yes, Virginia: your golden bowl will be shattered.This strange little book... what nonsense it has urged from interpreters afraid of its message, which is just that your life counts for nothing in the scheme of the enormous universe... Did Ecclesiastes mean to use sex as a metaphor for some "spiritual" life? I doubt it. Or if it did, it was because sex is (biologically speaking) coextensive with continuing life for apes like us, and we are only spiritual insofar as we have a belief in our connectedness to things beyond ourselves, a connectedness that comes with all the energy and creativity and lifegiving power of sex.
