In This Article
- Tantra In India Vs. Tantra In The West
- Neo-Tantra Is A Sexualized Approach
- How Did That Happen?
- Powerful Forces Have Been Visiting The Earth
- The Spirit Of Tantra Arrives
- From Spirit To Tradition
- Tantra Is First A Sphere Of Unlimited Possibility
- The World Is Different With Tantra
- Where Are Human Beings In Pain The Most?
- New Roots On A Planetary Level
- “Pick Me, I’m Here To Help”
- Why It Makes Total Sense To Me
- I’m Just A Transparent Agent
- Tantra Is One Answer Among Many
- A Myth That Feels Like Reality
- An Intelligence Beyond Human Emotions
- Actualizing Tantra For The Western Mind
- The Spirit Of Tantra Goes Beyond Any Tradition
Tantra In India Vs. Tantra In The West
Why is Tantra so sexualized in the West? This is one of the core questions you can ask yourself when you start engaging in the tantric field.
Go to India and check what Tantra means for Indian people. Then go to the West and check what Tantra means for most Westerners.
You will see a big, big difference in interpretation and practices.
Neo-Tantra Is A Sexualized Approach
Go to the West, to California for instance, and ask people about Tantra. They will talk about something we call neo-Tantra.
Neo-Tantra is a sexualized approach to an energy, a set of practices, and mysteries that are much vaster than that.
How Did That Happen?
Why is it that we took that ancient tradition and filtered it, until it became a set of practices aimed at creating intimacy and sexual connection between human beings?
I have a myth story, an interpretation that makes sense to me, and I want to share it with you.
Powerful Forces Have Been Visiting The Earth
Imagine that planet Earth is a beautiful place where angelic forces, beings, gods and goddesses, very powerful intelligences, have been visiting and bringing teachings to humankind.
- Isis: The energy of Isis starts taking root in ancient Egypt 10,000 years ago, and becomes the blossoming of the ancient Egyptian civilization.
- The Vedic rishis: The rishis receive the wisdom of the Vedas.
- The Buddha: Siddhartha, the Buddha, comes and transmits Buddhism.
- Lao Tzu: Lao Tzu comes and brings the way of the Tao.
- Hermes Trismegistus: Hermes brings Hermetic wisdom.
- Christ: The Christ energy arrives and transforms the Western world.
- The Sufi mystics: The Sufis carry the path of divine love.
- Tantra: Other teachers arrive and start picking up on the energy of Tantra.
These are only a few examples. There are many more.
The Spirit Of Tantra Arrives
The spirit of Tantra is a visiting sphere of beauty, bliss, and unlimited potential.
It is a god-like or angelic power, an energy extremely vast, much vaster than any form of human intelligence.
That spirit of Tantra comes and visits the Earth together with the spirit of yoga. They are like sister energies, arriving on the planet more or less at the same time.
From Spirit To Tradition
Tantra incarnates itself and starts touching different human beings, who become channels for that energy.
Those human beings create a system, and that system becomes a tradition: what we call the Tantra tradition.
Today, when most people think about what Tantra is, they think of that tradition.
Tantra Is First A Sphere Of Unlimited Possibility
But imagine that Tantra is first a sphere of unlimited possibility.
That being, the tantric experience, comes and starts helping humankind in its evolution. It means the spirit of Tantra is intelligent and conscious, and it is transmitting a certain knowledge and energy into human consciousness.
Why? Because human beings want to evolve. So they get hit by muse-like energies that inspire them to take certain steps.
The World Is Different With Tantra
The world is very different with Tantra than without it.
Since the spirit of Tantra arrived, it created a tradition and helped millions of people evolve, and perfect or optimize their lives.
Teachings, sutras, practices, and rituals became a system that allows us to evolve as human beings.
Where Are Human Beings In Pain The Most?
Now imagine the spirit of Tantra watching from above.
Suddenly it sees that in the Western world, and on a planetary level in general, there are lots of dysfunctional behaviors around sexual energy.
It looks and asks: where are human beings in pain the most?
What I’m describing is a mental process. But imagine an energetic reaction in the Tantra field that says: I’m going to invest, manifest, engage, and incarnate within the field of sexual energy.
New Roots On A Planetary Level
The spirit of Tantra first put down roots in the ancient system of India.
Now it is putting down new roots on a planetary level, reacting to the needs of the West.
“Pick Me, I’m Here To Help”
Sexual energy is extremely dysfunctional on the planetary level. We literally need help. So where are we going to get this help from?
Here we go. The spirit of Tantra says: “Hey, pick me, I’m here to help. Why don’t you channel some of this energy, and we’ll design a new system.”
- Sensuality and power: A new system of sensuality and power.
- Honoring needs: A way of relating to each other from a place of honoring each other’s needs.
- Resignifying pleasure: Giving pleasure a new meaning.
- Energy sex: Bringing back the idea of energetic connection and energy sex.
Lots of new concepts and ideas that give you a pathway, a teaching on how to use your sexual energy.
Why It Makes Total Sense To Me
From my perspective, it makes total sense.
I can perceive that there is a need on a planetary level. And I can see why a god-like or goddess-like energy would incarnate itself to give humankind a little help.
Within the cosmic scheme of human evolution, it makes total sense that a force suddenly comes and says: let’s go and heal the sexual space a little. Let’s start stimulating different people to become teachers, and activate certain mindsets, beliefs, and ways of thinking.
I’m Just A Transparent Agent
When I’m transmitting and talking about these things, that’s exactly what I’m doing. I’m just a transparent agent receiving insights.
One day I wake up and say: okay, time to record a new set of videos. Why? Because there’s a need for it.
There is a need to understand our sexual energy, and how to use it from a place that is constructive, positive, and respectful.
Rather than being trapped in porn mindsets, very destructive mindsets, abusive mindsets, and traumatic mindsets. We need some healing there. So how are we going to get this healing in? How are we going to get these fresh new impulses of energy?
Tantra Is One Answer Among Many
For me, Tantra is one of the possible answers. It is not the only one.
- Education systems
- Nonviolent communication
- Systems that empower couples and sexual activity
- Alternative lifestyles in full exploration and blossoming, like the polyamory community
- Teachings focused on strengthening the couple, creating very positive communication patterns, and bringing back passion from a therapeutic point of view
All this effort is fresh energy coming into the field of sexual activity on planet Earth. And the reason it’s happening is because we need it.
A Myth That Feels Like Reality
That’s my interpretation. For me, the myth of the incarnation of the tantric spirit is a reality.
When I think of it, I have a feeling that this story might be relatively close to what happened on this planet: a magnificent, incredible light being, coming and incarnating itself here.
An Intelligence Beyond Human Emotions
It’s an energy reality. It’s not a human-like intelligence.
It’s not, “Oh, I feel compassion and pain because humans are in pain.” It’s something vaster than that, beyond human-like emotions.
It’s an energy field that incarnates itself. And right now, it incarnates itself in the West through sexual practices, because this is where the need is. This is where we have a limiting factor in our human evolution.
Actualizing Tantra For The Western Mind
This is why we are not just duplicating a tradition from the past that was born in India.
We are taking some aspects of that tradition and actualizing them for the Western mind, with Western language and Western concepts.
The Spirit Of Tantra Goes Beyond Any Tradition
What makes sense to me is that the spirit of Tantra goes beyond any tradition. Keep that in mind.
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