GOD: An Autobiography, As Told to a Philosopher - The Podcast
GOD: An Autobiography, As Told to a Philosopher - The Podcast
232. From God To Jerry To You- Sex At Its Best: Sacred Intimacy
What if sex, at its very best, is not just physical, but spiritual?
In this deeply personal episode, philosopher Jerry L. Martin reflects on his own experience of romantic love and how it became a pathway to the divine. Drawing from his relationship with Abigail and his conversations with God, Jerry explores the sacred dimensions of sexuality, love, and embodiment.
You’ll hear how love transformed his life, why the body is more than biology, and how sex can point beyond pleasure to something ultimate. Whether you're spiritual, curious, or seeking a more meaningful connection, this episode invites you to consider the deeper resonance of intimacy.
Next week, the podcast debuts a brand-new series: Jerry and Abigail: An Intimate Dialogue.
Topics Covered:
- Sacred intimacy and divine connection
- Romantic love as a spiritual awakening
- How sex reveals deeper meaning and cosmic resonance
- The difference between “junk food” and soul-nourishing love
- The philosophical and theological context for love and embodiment
Visit godanautobiography.com for more information and to get your copy of God: An Autobiography, As Told To A Philosopher- the true story of an agnostic philosopher who heard the voice of God and recorded their conversations.
Other Series:
The podcast began with the Dramatic Adaptation of the book and now has several series:
- Life Wisdom Project: How to live a wiser, happier, and more meaningful life with special guests.
- From God To Jerry To You: Calling for the attention of spiritual seekers everywhere, featuring breakthroughs, pathways, and illuminations.
- Two Philosophers Wrestle With God: Sit in on a dialogue between philosophers about God and the questions we all have.
- What's On Our Mind- Connect the dots with Jerry and Scott over the most recent series of episodes.
- What's On Your Mind: What are readers and listeners saying? What is God saying?
Resources:
- READ: "Nothing Existed But Me and That Itch."
- FROM GOD TO JERRY TO YOU PLAYLIST
Would you like to be featured on the show or have questions about spirituality or divine communication? Share your story or experience with God!
Share Your Story | Site | Facebook | Instagram | Twitter | YouTube
232. Transcript From God To Jerry To You- Sex At Its Best
Scott Langdon 00:17: This is God: An Autobiography, The Podcast, a dramatic adaptation and continuing discussion of the book God: An Autobiography as Told to a Philosopher by Jerry L Martin. He was a lifelong agnostic, but one day he had an occasion to pray. To his vast surprise, God answered in words. Being a philosopher, he had a lot of questions and God had a lot to tell him. Episode 232.
Scott Langdon 01:07: Welcome to God: An Autobiography, The Podcast. I’m your host, Scott Langdon. And I'm excited to begin the exploration of the love story aspect of God: An Autobiography with this, our latest edition of From God To Jerry To You. In the episode titled “Sex at Its Best, Jerry draws on his experience with God on the subject of sex and how love is the key component no matter how you look at it. Next week we debut our new series: Jerry and Abigail: An Intimate Dialogue, where Jerry and Abigail discuss in more detail the way they understand God’s directives in their own lives as philosophical partners and especially as a married couple. Here now is Jerry Martin, I hope you enjoy the episode.
Dr. Jerry L. Martin 02:00: They say about sex when it's good, it's great, when it's bad, it's still good. Well, there might be some truth to that, but it treats sex as an isolated event. Let's set it in context. In fact, let's set it in the context of my life. That's the context I know best. So what is the relevant context for me? It starts with falling in love with Abigail. I was stunned. I had not believed in romantic love. To me it was a startling event. How to understand it? I rushed to see what the relationship books could tell me. Well, they're full of warnings. It's all projection. They say. In about six months you'll get over it. Well, what a laugh. Twenty years later, our love still feels brand new and exciting. Every time is our first time.
Dr. Jerry L. Martin 03:04: For me, life went from black and white to technicolor. God did not appear on the scene until I had prayed several times. Nevertheless, the lines from Martin Buber's I and Thou came to mind immediately, “The lines of relation meet in the eternal Thou.” Well, that's true, but rather abstract. It's devoid of flesh and heavy breathing, brought to earth where lovers kiss and embrace.
Dr. Jerry L. Martin 03:35: The point is more graphic. It involves the female body. I speak, of course, from the point of view of a man in love with a woman, the question is not what is the female body to the physiologist or to the pornographer. The question is, what is the female body to the man who is in love with her? Well, the answer is that it's the most beautiful thing in the world, the most meaningfully beautiful thing, more beautiful than the Taj Mahal or the Symphony of Stars on a Dark Night. One might almost say I worship at her feet. In fact, when we first made love, I found myself thinking of God. It seemed a bit irreverent, but there was more to the experience than the physical act, much more more even than the personal expression of love. The experience was too powerful, too profound to stop there. It somehow pointed beyond itself. Yes, to her foremost, but through her to something beyond, something deep and profound and somehow ultimate. The sexual enactment of love had a trajectory toward the divine.
Dr. Jerry L. Martin 05:07: We're also matter-of-fact about sex these days. I saw a program in which the principal announces: we are a sex-positive school. Do viewers realize how meaningless that is? It's like saying we're a food-positive school. Something isn't justified, a human activity isn't justified just by being “natural”. Envy is natural. Violence is natural. The challenge for all our desires is to desire the right thing and in the right way. Ideally, we would desire food that nourishes and sex that expresses love. Sex without that desire is the junk food of sexuality. If you're fortunate enough to have found a person you love and who loves you back, to have found a person you love and who loves you back, then pay attention to its full dimensions. When you make love what are the resonances of meaning beyond the physical act itself? What reality is realized in the act? Is there a larger, even a cosmic context to it? Pay attention or these deep resonances go unnoticed, and we might well miss the deepest answer to the meaning of life.
Scott Langdon 06:57: Thank you for listening to God: An Autobiography, The Podcast. Subscribe for free today wherever you listen to your podcasts and hear a new episode every week. You can hear the complete dramatic adaptation of God: An Autobiography, As Told To A Philosopher by Jerry L. Martin by beginning with episode one of our podcast and listening through its conclusion with Episode 44. You can read the original true story in the book from which this podcast is adapted, God: An Autobiography, As Told to a Philosopher, available now at amazon.com, and always at godanautobiography.com. Pick up your own copy today. If you have any questions about this or any other episode, please email us at questions@godanautobiography.com, and experience the world from God's perspective as it was told to a philosopher. This is Scott Langdon. I'll see you next time.