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Top: Society: Sexuality: Tantra
Most westerners use the word "Tantra" to cover sacred and enhanced sexuality. Tantra, as practised in the West, referred to as "neo-Tantra", borrows from many traditions including Taoism, Hindu Tantra, Native American Quodoshka, African, Polynesian, Wiccan, Christian Gnosticism, etc. Real "Tantra" is a rigorous spiritual discipline and vast field of study -- the sexual aspect is a small but important part of it. Mystical experiences and altered states of consciousness result from many of the processes, especially the ones dealing with sexual energy. Tantricks use the principle of the ritual sublimation of natural impulses to attain altered states of consciousness. Tantrik adepts are trained to direct all their energies toward the conquest of the Eternal. The ritual satisfaction of lust and the consumption of consecrated meat or liquor are esoterically significant means of realizing the unity of flesh and spirit, of the human and the divine. They are not considered sinful acts but, on the contrary, effective means of salvation. Ritual copulation is, for both partners, a form of sacralization, tke act being a participation in cosmic and divine processes. The experience of transcending space and time, of surpassing the phenomenal duality of spirit and matter, of recovering the primeval unity, the realization of the identity of God and his Sakti, and of the manifested and unmanifested aspects of the All, these constitute the very mystery of the Tantra.-The Church of Tantra http://www.tantra.org
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