What is Sexual Energy?
For us to understand this, let us get down to the topic at hand. If we are going to talk about sexual transmutation we need to know exactly what sexual energy is.

Normally, whether we think about it or not, the status quo understanding of sexual energy has only to do with chemicals and hormones in our body. From an esoteric perspective or understanding, sexual energy is a lot more than just molecules, hormones, just material and fluids.

We must understand that the sexual energy is the essence of our life. It is a reduction of all the factors of our life, coming in and reducing to an extract. That extract is our sexual energy.

More than that, the sexual energy is a culmination of all these factors, so it is like when you buy an extract, it is a reduction of a lot of different things into a little powerful potent vessel. Our sexual energy is to be understood as that.

Furthermore, when we talk about sexual energy, we need to understand it is not just a physical thing. Sexual energy is not just the material, it is not just the hormones or the fluids that we normally associate with the sexual energy. We say energy because beyond all those physical aspects, the physical vessel there is what we can call the soul of that energy and the spirit of that energy. There is the body, the soul , and the spirit of the sexual energy.

These are more subtle and superior aspects. Just like we have physical body, but we are not merely the physical body, what is many times more important than our physical body is our soul , and what is even more important than our soul is our spirit. So, we have aspects of the sexual energy that are related to these aspects. Ultimately we should understand that the sexual energy is our creative energy. All creative expressions: mental, emotional, sexual, is some refinement, some expression on a level of the sexual energy.

Aspects of sexual energy:
1. Body: physical fluids, hormones
2. Soul: the energic component, or subtle aspect of the physical
3. Spirit: the image of truth; the basis of spiritual archetypes.

In esoterism, “semen” refers to all levels of the sexual energy, in both men and women

Let us review this graphic regarding sexual energy. It shows all the channels that the sexual energy is reduced to what is within us in this moment.

On the left side it starts with the Mulaprakriti. The Mulaprakriti is the cosmic origin of nature. The Mulaprakriti is the root of which everything originates from. It is a base, super abstract, undifferentiated energy which everything emerges from. That whole left column is a stratification or a condensation of different layers of subtle energy descending until it reaches us, and every part of nature, every planet, everything. Everything comes out of these abstract super subtle forms of energy.

The Mulaprakriti descends into a more manifested state, the Prana. Prana which is another Sanskrit word that means life force, it is the great breath. This is the universal vitality which then gets differentiated in to the Akasha, in to the ether.

Then the ether can be subdivided in to the four elements, the four Tattvas which is tejas, vayu, apas and prithvi, which is the fire, air, water and earth subtle elements.

From there we have our chakras. Now this word is very popular today. The word chakra means a disc or a wheel. The primary reason why we are interested in them is because they are the place where energy is transformed from the more subtle dimensions into the more external concrete dimensions that we are normally used to.

Our chakras are like a vortex of energy. Often, we talk about the main seven chakras but there are many more chakras. The most important ones are usually associated with a gland, an endocrine gland. So, at that interface between a chakra and a gland, or other times a chakra and a certain organ, there is an energy transformation going on there. Life force is coming into the body. It is this interface between our physical body and what is called a vital body which is the subtle component, the energy body, or the body of chi that many people may be familiar with. That vital body is what interfaces the physical body with even more subtle aspects.

The basic thing to understand here is that there is a cosmic energy coming down into our system. There are cosmic energies coming down through the endocrine glands, and endocrine glands obviously excrete certain chemicals or hormones into the blood.

Our sexual energy is an outcome, or a reduction, of aspects of our blood.

Moving on to the column which starts with food. Obviously, we need food, we digest the food, we absorb the nutrients of that food from our small intestines, which goes into our bloodstream. Again, a reduction of our blood forms our sexual energy.

Our breathing: we breathe in, and we have what is called a gas exchange. That is where the carbon dioxide which is the waste of our cells becomes exchanged for oxygen that we breathe in through our lungs. Those oxygen molecules attach themselves to our red blood cells, to the haemoglobin, which is the iron element that makes our blood red. The red blood cells transport oxygen to feed oxygen to all the cells in the body. That oxygen of course keeps the blood pumping, the heart beating, it keeps all the cellular machinery going.

Finally on the right side we have the condensation of the impressions of life. When we are experiencing things like, right now, you have sensations when you listen to me talk or you see this slide. We can have extraordinarily strong impressions when we watch something intense happen. Those impressions, they strike our psyche and inevitably we have some type of response to that. That response, it should not be a surprise that there is a physiological response to any mental or emotional response, just like when you get stressed out, those stress chemicals are released into the body. That is going to change the quality of our blood.

Our sexual energy is a reduction of what is in our blood. The blood and sexual energy are very closely related. Obviously, the sexual organs, in order to reach a state of excitation needed to become appropriate for sexual union, blood enters the blood vessels of the sexual organs.