More often than not, we do not confront tumescence. We allow it to build, we neglect it, and we assume it will go away. Or we try to starve the underlying desire until we’re weak enough that the tumescent desire locks into control.
This process of permitting tumescent energy to build in the background without directing it with attention until the only relief we can get is a “discharge” of some kind is called climax consciousness.
This long-game relief is guided by attention to remain in a “dropped-in” state outside of time and internal narrative. But from the location of the dropped-in state, the natural result is the excellence Eros wants to nurture in all.
Climax consciousness results from neglect of tumescent energy, which can either be our worst nightmare or, when harnessed, our most vital resource. Discomfort builds until it must be addressed, reaching a point where there is an urgency to release it. Climax consciousness results in a mind locked in its aim toward that perceived relief of release. Tumescent pockets are areas of stuck energy in the body. There are places in the body where the energy of an experience has gotten stuck. Tumescence locks against the experience instead of opening to it.
We learn to consciously combust, or better, utilize tumescence, and thus produce the relief we are looking for without entering into the intermittent release and suffering of climax consciousness.
