Union, sexual

Copulation Sexual union of male and female coitus sexual intercourse also, conjugation between two cells that do not fuse but separate after mutual fertilization. 

Visions of sexual union may sometimes be followed by visions of conception - you may actually visualize the sperm uniting with the ovum -, of intra- uterine life and birth through the womb. Some people claim to have re-lived their own physical birth in psychedelic sessions and occasionally confirming evidence for such claims has been put forward. Whether this is so or not may be left as a question to be decided by empirical evidence. Sometimes the birth visions will be clearly symbolic - e.g., emergence from a cocoon, breaking out of a shell, etc. 

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It is perhaps needless to say that this kind of self-centered sexuality has little in common with the sexuality of transpersonal experiences. Physical union can be one expression or manifestation of cosmic union. 

Reproduction is the power possessed by an organism of giving rise to new individuals. This may take place through the agency of either asexual or sexual cells and is accordingly asexual or sexual in character. Whenever a union of cells or their protoplasmic contents takes place the process is called sexual reproduction if, however, there is a mere separation of a cell or cells from an individual which later form a new organism, the process is termed asexual or vegetative reproduction. ... 

Fertilization.—K union of two unlike gametes or their nuclei, the product being an oospore. One gamete, the male sexual cell, is smaller and active, while the other, the female sexual cell, is larger and passive. This process is seen anjong the higher and many of the lower plants. 

Isog amy.—The union of sexual cells of similar form. 

East began to reach Europe, that it became apparent that a different sort of alchemy had for a long time been practiced in China and India. This was a sexual alchemy. The transmutation took place entirely within the alchemist who sought through various sexual, respiratory, and mental practices to achieve immortality through union with the Universe. 

The fusion of cells and of cell nuclei (A) occurs in sexual fertilization. Hybrid cells containing several nuclei, including examples of union from different species, have been prepared by fusion of the separate cells using killed virus to effect the fusion. In some cases, fusion of nuclei was observed also (Harris and Watkins 1965). 

In the previous chapter, we explored the assertion within multiracial discourse that consensual sexual relations between white male slaveholders and enslaved black females allowed genuine interracial intimacy to flourish under the regime of chattel slavery in the antebellum United States. We found the assertion to be not only unsupported on its own terms but also entirely misplaced given the questions at hand—an ethical evasion of the foreclosure of black female consent under the conditions of enslavement, as detailed by a number of noted black feminist scholars. Further, the peculiar historical demand for black female sexual consent in relations with white male slaveholders symbolizes for multiracial advocates a broader problem oipolitical consent from the captive community and its descendents for the project of multiracial democracy up to the present moment. The objective of the current chapter is to reveal the notion of healthy interracial relationships advanced within multiracial discourse as an ideological lure insofar as they are considered to be disconnected from supposedly unhealthy interracial liaisons and, beyond that, a real union of differently... 

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