Date: 2012-12-31
What is Tantra? From where did it emerge? How is it practiced? Mark A. Michaels and Patricia Johnson, authors of the new book Great Sex Made Simple, discuss the history of Tantra and how simple skills and principles can expand sexuality and emotional connection.
Date: 2011-05-17
Tantra is:
Tantra is an ancient tradition that recognizes sexual energy as a source of personal and spiritual empowerment. This sets it apart from most Western traditions and helps explain why most Westerners have reduced it to its sexual elements alone.
Tantra is the magic of transforming your consciousness and thereby transforming your entire being. Your body is the most powerful tool for...
Date: 2008-07-15
A friend of mine recently posed an impossible hypothetical question. If you had to choose to live your life enjoying just one of the following—books, movies, or music—which would it be? I thought about it for about a quarter of a second and said books, like it was a foregone conclusion. Books have always been my main muse, shaping my education, life path, and career. But, in letting the question...
Date: 2007-01-08
Although women are highly revered in Tantra, most sacred texts are written with male practitioners in mind. Mark Michaels and Patricia Johnson, authors of The Essence of Tantric Sexuality, explore this paradox of the sexes and delve deeper into the spiritual history of the male and female roles in Tantric lovemaking.
Date: 2005-02-28
Nothing lies in our minds that hasn’t before been in our senses. ~Aristotle For many people – especially in the Western world - Kamasutra is merely a colletion of different love-making positions, a combination of acrobatics and pornography. ...
In my last column I wrote about the similarities between the Kabalah and Tantra. Part of the column discussed the idea that classical or traditional Tantra involves far more than the sexual aspects of Tantra — more accurately called Neo-Tantra — ...
In 1976, Dr. Jonn Mumford (Swami Anandakapila Saraswati) delivered a series of very important and influential lectures at Gnosticon 5, an extended conference sponsored by Llewellyn Publications that brought together experts from a variety of occult ...
