It's been said (don't ask who) that the closest we can get to oneness is during the act of sex. Now that's a tuff one, and some would say that's all hype! What do you say from your experiences?

I think it must be a bit more.....if not...all who live by the oldest profession has experienced it a lot, and we male have only to pay the cost to feel it  

The biggest must be the love between two (or more) people, and that might top itself in the act where both give from themself without other thoughts then love.

well thats true only if your in love with the person your having sex with it doesnt work if your having sex with multable partners a day

I'm not a fan of making general statements about broad categories of people so I will try to refrain the best way I can.  

I think it has to do moreso with the individual and not so much a "we the people" kind of thing.  I feel that certain people who invest a lot of energy into the physical realm will most likely obtain a feeling of oneness through sexual intimacy.  As we all may know and agree with, sex can be physical, emotional, and even spiritual.   I think the interpretation of sex is dependent upon an individuals perception of each.  

For some people, sex is mainly physical, for others it can be mainly emotional, and others it can be mainly spiritual.  It can be less physical for some but more emotional for them, or completely physical with the lack of emotions and spirituality.  I guess you can see where I'm going with this.  The number of different combinations and degrees of each are unfathomable.

Because I am not the Creator and lack the omniscience to be able to exact why other people do the things they do with 100% accuracy, I can only give my opinion.  But to make it easier on myself I will speak only speak for myself concerning sexual intimacy.  For a long time, I searched for the things that I felt I lacked in myself through the physical.  Meaning I found security in things that I could see, feel, taste, hear, touch, manipulate, etc.  Because I sought a sense of self identity through other things, I never achieved the level of Oneness with them that I needed in order to feel whole.  Sex was something that never carried a lot of weight with me.  I take that back.  I'm a sexual trauma victim so in actuality, sex carried a huge weight and power with it, but in a whole, sex was something that I experimented with in different periods of my life for whatever reason I sought at that period in time be it peer pressure, curiosity, intoxication, or whatever.  But even in my romantic relationships, there wasn't any single time that I felt any connectiveness or sense of Oneness or spirituality as far as sex was concerned.

That was until I reached a spiritual awakening.  Before I entered into the relationship I am in now, I was single for a very long time.  During that time, I realized that I was on a dead end path trying to seek out things in the physical world that would make me complete.  I was on a never ending pilgrimage to accumalate this vast wealth that society dictates is the only means to happiness and without it one was just left with a sad mundane existance.  Only after I looked inside myself, accepted myself for who I was, learned to love myself, and realize that I didn't need to jump through the World's hoops to feel special, did I start feeling a inner peace and a feeling of Oneness and harmony with the Earth and all living things.

It's an odd thing to describe.  The more and more the world I feel I don't belong in this World, the closer and closer I feel to it.

I do not believe that sexual intimacy is the only door to Oneness but it can be a window if one so chooses.  I have since after entering into awareness of the collective unconscious, experienced a feeling of Oneness during sexual intimacy and it was amazing, but I've also experienced a feeling of Oneness just watching TV, going to the mall holding hands, listening to the birds singing, watering my plants and flowers, volunteering at the senior retirement village, and watching the sunset.

Thinking inside the box may have kept me very limited but it gave me a huge sense of the physical.  When I started thinking outside of the box, I developed my sense of being and Oneness with the Universe.  And then after I realized that, in actually, there was no box to begin with until I manifested it.  It left me with a feeling of balance, power, and dominion over my own destiny that resides so deep inside of me and flows through me that I can't articulate it into words...

I, for one, agree.

MrPhatLips made what I can only describe as an ingenious post, and he certainly makes a lot of solid points.

I still believe, however, that regardless of orientation, sex is still as close as you can get - it just that compatibility is, in my opinion, a much bigger factor than anything else. Essentially; the ideal couple will be as close to eachother as at all possible during sex - they will also be much closer to eachother when one is standing on the north pole and one is standing on the south, than a couple with poor compatibility will - even during sex.

So in short, yes - I believe the closest two individuals can get to eachother is sexual intimacy.