Poemander

Sex is a major channel to life force in humans, some non-humans, animals and plants. Life force is not your force, it is the potency of nature that flows through the open channels. It can be either creative or destructive, because for nature there is no difference. What seems destructive to human can be creative to nature and vice versa, but nature is not preoccupied with human undertakings. Life force needs to flow and where one channel is closed it will find another channel. You cannot stop it. Nature, like water, always find its way, but not always the way that benefits humans. Besides sex, there are other channels: creativity, violence and harmony. Where the channel of sex is closed, the life force can flow into creativity or violence. In humans, harmony can only be cultivated, it is not there right away like in plants. Harmony is when the life force flows through you without obstruction. In humans it requires conscious work to remove these obstructions. An unobstructed flow causes neither creativity nor violence; both can be seeing as floodgates that allow the release of water, yet causing the excessive turbulence. Sex can be seeing as a river with the dam that still allows overflowing, and only the deliberate effort of building up the dam will close this channel provoking life force to find another way. In the same context, harmony is a river without a dam.

Geniuses and psychopaths are not far from each other; it is the same force and only a matter of which floodgate they open to the release this energy.