Even though I’ve been studying, experiencing, and writing about sacred sexuality for years, a mist still surrounds tantra itself. The many tantra books I’ve read all seem to have different bottom lines. Some experts advise the man to avoid orgasm…
Love and fear are the two choices, and they appear in all our everyday experiences, moment-to-moment; so too does the choice of where we choose to place our loyalty. Are we aligned with love or with fear? This essential question…
Trust is deeper than LOVE. How could this be? Years of studying Tantra and what I call spiritual intimacy have led me to believe that without trust and a sense of safety, fear-based consciousness will contaminate love, and therefore unconditional…
Perhaps even before the “why” question is the “what” question: What is Tantra really about and what does it set out to accomplish? So the questions include not only, “What is Tantra?” but also, “What do I need to do…
If one listens to some theoretical physicists these days, there is more than a hint of an inevitable intersection of science and spirituality. First Quantum Physics and now Unified Field Theory and String Theory are attempting to understand and describe…
Generally when queried about intimacy most people tend to think first about sexual contact and secondly about emotional and personal closeness. They also tend to imagine intimacy as a private affair, relegating intimate contact to private locations and circumstances such…
This series of articles on Sacred Tantra has addressed the history, evolution, and philosophy of this spiritual path and included references to the value of practices, especially giving attention to the breath and to meditation. I have spoken about the…
The Tantric path with its diverse ways and practices, developed long ago in several cultures, is emerging from a lengthy dormant period and now promises to flourish again. A new Tantra is being created, blending ancient and modern healing and…
Westerners, especially Americans, tend to be attracted to Tantra from either of two ends of what could be seen as a spectrum from sex to spirituality. Either they are drawn hoping to become better lovers and/or more sacred with their…