Tantric Uses of Sex as a Way to Explode Yourself into a New Being
Since ancient times, Tantric sex has been used as an incredibly powerful tool for the complete transformation of both the psyche and body. It is a pleasurable and evolutionary method of masturbation and exchange of sexual energies between people, with or without engaging in intercourse. Our bodies have been designed with special pathways of electromagnetic energies through which sexual energies can be directed.
Sacred sexual practices are very specific and elaborate and have been passed down through the generations, sometimes so secretly they are forbidden to be written. Secret societies use Tantra in their upper echelons. These societies know how the procedures work, though they may miss some of the more loving aspects of Tantra.
Tantric magic helps accomplish goals and manifest desires. However, much deeper is the less egoistic focus on evolving the self. The entire Indian culture used to be organized around Tantric tools for enlightenment. Now, it is hushed for the most part, gone underground, and to the West. Taoist masters used to keep the methods private, but in recent years, Mantak and Manewan Chia have brought Taoist sexual practices, a complement to Tantrism, to the public in the West. Here, neo-Tantra has now become trendy, and diluted, often an excuse for prostitution. It is sometimes no more than New Age flirting, except for the occasional brilliant teacher and serious student.
Originally, Tantra was Shamanic, and the rishis, or holy men of India, were able to bring forth the wisdom from within by going into expanded states of consciousness. The techniques were presumably taught to them by the Nagas: hybrid, inter-dimensional, reptilian, early man as stated in the scriptures. Shiva is the King of the Nagas. The Nagas were the first teachers of Tantra, and their students were most likely hybrid people with Naga blood. The practices were kept secret to preserve the Naga bloodline, and to help them evolve while keeping outsiders in the dark. Today anyone who is interested can take up the studies. However, one should be discriminating about one's teachers, even now. Tantra should be treated with respect.
The Spirit and Love is the larger force behind systems like Tantra and Taoism. We can be inspired by our inherent understanding of the makeup of reality by going deep into our own true Love. We can cultivate feeling our love for ourselves, our beloveds, animals, friends, people on the street, trees, our organs, the earth, the Divine. We want the best for others and for ourselves, and can emanate bright, glowing loving light from ourselves as one with the Source. We can know how to be of use energetically to another's soul, future, body, evolution. We can send love and healing and pleasurable energy to another, and feel it sent back. We can be our wise selves.
Our bodies contain vortices, chakras, in which the higher levels of our auras, our wise selves, step down the frequency of their vibrations and flow into the concentric levels of the aura. Each level closer to the body becomes denser, until the etheric level, the blueprint of the body about an inch outside of it, in the same shape as the body, spins the energy into the body through the chakras. There are seven main chakras along the center line of the body. There are also minor ones, such as in the hands, through which we exchange energies easily with other people, and can feel their auras, picking up information. Each chakra is associated with certain behaviors, foci, emotions, and powers. We can exchange loving, sexual energy between the chakras with a partner, and it feels beautiful.
There exist many methods of exchanging energy. For example energy can be sent from one heart to another, and back and forth. Or it can circulate up the spine, out the chakra at the top of the head, around, and down the other person's body, sliding down to the ground, and into you again. You can also powerfully circulate energy through your own body. Circulating sexual energy within your own body is said to bring about your soul's evolution quickly, while the sexual forms of Tantra that circulates energy between two people brings about enlightenment even more quickly.
Sometimes the circulation is so powerful that without even having intercourse, you can feel as if you are having sex and even going beyond the act. There can be even more intimacy, a feeling of being inside the other person, merging, revering, truly seeing. Tantric sex exalts your partner, your love, your bodies, and the Divine. You can bring energies up your spines to the crowns of your heads, bringing your sexual awareness into cosmic proportions. It is a dedication of your personal selves to the service of the larger whole. You feel less separated from the world, your whole self, your partners, the Divine. But you are also grateful for being separate enough to experience love for Other.
Sometimes, you can be enveloped in a ball of light with your partner, experiencing concepts, adjustments, new perspectives, quiet and peaceful. You can just be.
Sometimes, the energies are so powerful; you could both be yelling at the top of your voices, your bodies thrown around, thrashing, both be seeing visions and feeling intense movements of sensation through your bodies, feeling as if your auras are on fire.
You can be transformed, and you can transform another person.
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Originally Published July 2006: Stripped! Anniversary Issue