My first guess is that you have simply made up the term because it sounds cool and sophisticated - or you've heard it from someone who made it up because it sounded cool and sophisticated. The word 'quantum' gets used a lot these days by New Age folks because it combines the feel of something scientific with something mystical at the same time. I, myself, am a mystic who loves science, so I happen to know about these things. Most of the mystical people using the term 'quantum' don't really have much of a clue what it really means. Ironically, however, they might be on to something, despite the fact that they don't understand it scientifically. In college I spent a semester working through the mathematics of quantum mechanics is painful detail. Luckily you don't really need to know all of that stuff, and frankly at this point I couldn't discuss it intelligibly even if I wanted to. But if you can bear with me for just a moment, I can actually tell you something interesting about the notion of a "quantum orgasm." So buckle your seatbelt cuz I going to try something a little crazy here.
When a pair of physical systems interact, they form a composite system, and of course there are mathematical rules for saying what this composite system will be like. Perhaps I should mention that the term 'state-space' is generally used in physics as a technical way of saying, more or less, "what all the little parts are doing". Basically you have two state-spaces, call them HA and HB, and the idea is that you want to describe what happens when HA and HB are combined. (You can really impress your friends at a party if you call it the ‘tensor product’ of Hilbert spaces – in fact, this might even impress your date so much that you are able to get into his or her pants, which I suppose could lead to a "quantum orgasm", so to speak). Anyway, the way the math works out, there are some surprising consequences for the relations between a complex system and its parts. It turns out that the state of a composite system is not uniquely defined by the individual states of its component parts. In common lingo, you might say that the whole is "more than the sum of its parts." And on the subject of impressing the hell out of people: the next time you are sexually pleasuring your partner, you might want to whisper the naughty philosophical word 'supervenience' in his or her ear. It is such a naughty word that I dare not even tell you what it means for fear that you might get overly excited and end up having to change your underwear. But here is how you can use the word in a sentence: "There are facts about quantum composite systems that don't supervene on facts about their components." (See link below for the source of this lovely quote).
So what is a quantum orgasm? Well, you start with some interacting parts. (In England they call them your "naughty bits.") In your ordinary orgasm (personally, I find this phrase oxymoronic; I relish each and every orgasm and can't imagine how any of them could be called "ordinary")…but as I was saying… in your ordinary orgasm you have basic biology doing its thing; waves of sensitive tissue doing, well, "the wave" I guess. But quantum mechanics gives us a tantalizing hint that we (sentient beings) may possibly be more than the sum of our physical parts. You are a whole who cannot be reduced to the sum of your atoms. Your lovely sex partner is also a whole who cannot be reduced to the sum of his or her parts. The two of you (or three, or four, or whatever if you are kinky like me) are the component parts of an even larger whole, which is a composite system that cannot be reduced. So notice that sex is about holes, but it is also about wholes. In other words, it is a mingling of bodies, but also a mingling of souls (which, conveniently, rhymes with "holes" and "wholes"). Mystics like to use a phrase: "As above, so below." This typically refers to something like "heaven and earth" or the cosmos on a grand scale and our puny little lives on a daily eating-a-donut-for-lunch scale. But you can also think of "above" as the heart/mind combo deal, and "below" as the warm, moist, salty god or goddess hanging out between your legs. In any case, the basic point is that nothing exists in isolation, or as Francis Thompson put it: "thou canst not stir a flower, without troubling of a star." The point is NOT just that things are connected; the point is that there is ONE Being, and what we call "connections" are actually a sort of intermingling of essences. Mere connections in the ordinary sense don't do the trick; there must be a sharing of essence somewhere down at the very roots of all Being. So we are not merely connected to the cosmos, like your ankle bone's connected to your leg bone, rather, our very essence is cosmic at the root of our being.
So, after all of this, what the heck am I saying? Here it is: The original or primordial "quantum orgasm" was the Big Bang. But the Big Bang was not an "event" that simply happened in the past; it is THE event that is always happening everywhere and everywhen. Consciousness is the revelation of Being to Itself. When Being presents Itself to Itself as Itself, this is a conscious moment. In our everyday ego-centered mode of being we (mostly without realizing it) fear the implications of our Being and find a lot of clever ways to avoid thinking about it. True Understanding is a fearful thing, for reasons too involved to discuss at the moment. Most of our inhibitions about sexuality stem from this fear. If and when you are ever able to shed the inhibitions bequeathed to you by your society, with a little help from the sheer mind-blowing awesomeness of your existence, then your orgasm will be more than just a biological feel-good-event of the year; it will be THE feel-good event that underlies the possibility of every event, and makes us all more than the sum of our squishy parts.
2006-12-05 03:15:48
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answered by eroticohio 5
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