sábado, 27 de julho de 2013


Jane Fonda as Barbarella, melting down the excessive ‘orgasm’ machine (1968).

Now In her 70s, she still talks and writes about Tantra, masturbation, porn films, sex toys, hormone replacement (testosterone) for women, and how the best way to stay young and live long is by making love and enjoying good sex.
FULL SPECTRUM TANTRA

Tantra became more exoteric in the 20th Century, and strongly associated with spiritual practices combined with the sex act, varying in gestures, rituals, worship, initiation, secrecy, meditation, deities, bodily friction, wet sexual release, and ‘spilling seeds’. Having the guidance of a Guru is not a prerequisite with Neotantra as with traditional Hindu, Buddhist, and Yoga disciplines. Rather than a specific doctrine often involving denial, spiritually motivated Neotantra is decidedly inclusive, oriented towards partners who include the world, its pleasures, its rewards, and its possibilities, while centered on divine unity. In addition to procreation, liberation, and illumination, most people who practice Tantra understand physically manifested sexual expression to include at least occasional pleasure and satisfaction on the denser planes, without shame, guilt, or fear. For those who refuse to be confined by lust and indulgence, tantric perceptualization can assist in exploring the core of humanity, transcending pre-conceived notions that constrict thinking, while eliminating limits imposed by cultural and linguistic frameworks. Liberation from adherence to traditions, rituals, convention, hierarchies, dogmas and prejudice can allow us to experience Full Spectrum Consciousness, fueled by our creative perceptualizations through Free Thought Tantra. 

Fundamentalists and some scholars, not always with distain, point out that most people misunderstand what Tantra is supposed to be about, that Tantric bliss differs from simple orgasmic pleasure generated from genital impulses in the name of spirituality. To some traditionalists, ‘spilling seeds’ will always be a sin against God; to others it includes Him in your love, whether or not for the purpose of procreation. No discipline has all the answers, truth is like a broken mirror, you find a piece here and there, in Tantra, Buddhism, Hinduism, Judea-Christianity, Islam, Taoism, Zen or whatever. The fragments can construct a screen you feel comfortable projecting your own reality onto. The fabric of your projection screen (Tantra) depends on the country you live in, the culture you were born into, the laws, community standards, traditions, and the way your brain is wired. Your past experiences, reason for being here, and tools that you brought are more important than archaic thought structures foreign to the 21st Century. Orthodox Asian fundamentalism was formulated when self-awareness and concepts of free will, immortality, reincarnation and karma were beginning to construct tunnel realities leading to goals and understanding using literal concepts. The true physical nature of the planets and universe eluded the human mind; apocalyptic destruction was considered a power limited to some Supreme Being or energy. Claiming that one man and a button could destroy most life on earth was unfathomable at that time. Myths and fables can be useful instructors, but Free Thinkers don’t need to carry their lessons around, they absorb truths and values when offered, and then get along with evolution.

Tantra is dynamic, not dualistic or based on static beliefs; it’s a vision of all reality as an expression of Divine Consciousness that also embraces Neotantra when practiced spiritually with love and compassion. Whenever we look at anything, we see through our own eyes with their unique manner of envisioning, depending of the experiences and expectations harbored in our brains, determined in part by all that we have met on our life paths. Dualistic Fundamentalists who claim Neotantra forms are idiosyncratic can’t be argued with. Free Thought Tantra disassociates itself from traditions relying on authority, religion, prejudice, convention and bias. It looks towards empiricism and pragmatism, with respect for neuropsychology and neuro-pharmacology.

When union involves love, surrender, and openness to life in all its expressions, it dissolves the illusion of separateness between material and spiritual realms, producing fusion. It is the same principle that allows for life throughout the universe. Life forms on Earth exist thanks to the Sun’s energy, a product of nuclear fusion when two hydrogen atoms become an atom of helium. Energy is produced when the two atoms fuse, no longer being separated. It is a reflection of how light and shadow, masculine and feminine, the Sun and Moon all dance together to weave the diverse threads of our experience into a majestic tapestry of life, His great celebration. We were all invited to the party, it doesn’t get any better, or any worse, it only depends on which side of the aquarium glass you think you’re on, and how deep you gaze into all He has created.

Free Thought Tantra can utilize sexual fulfillment and the mind stream’s radiance to incubate productivity and personal fulfillment. Self-reliance, communication, self-esteem, bonding, surrender, our reason for being; what we came here for, how we can make a difference, our need to survive and belong to something while still remaining individuals in a communal environment; all can contribute to our destiny and purpose.

In the 90s, Richard Barrett presented his ‘Seven Levels of Personal Consciousness Model’ as an introduction to Full-Spectrum Consciousness, referring to seven existential needs as principle motivating forces in human affairs.  His writings and workshops involving performance and leadership have been championed by Bill Clinton and Al Gore among many others. His thoughts have been employed to structure hundreds of businesses and corporations all over the planet. Barrett went on to present, community, corporate, and leadership levels of awareness as a means for cultural transformation through Full Spectrum Consciousness.  The precepts are shared by Free Thought Tantra, which also focuses on serving the collective consciousness, like Clear Light Yoga, intended to produce empathy and compassion to serve and benefit all life, in union with the Divine, the Absolute.

Venturing firmly into the paranormal, Free Thought ‘Full Spectrum’ Tantra considers us potential catalysts and transformers in metaphysical realms involving body jumping (perception through projection into one of the bodies of another being), and body surfing, when more than one other being is involved. Multi and hyper dimensions in the sense of multiple but limited hyperealities, including multi-universes on the other side of our time-space continuum, take into account the hyper dimensional metaforms found there. Psychic driving, the projection of repeated subliminal messages, along with telechanneling are contemplated, even through the use of non-biological means of amplification and modulation. Altered states and ‘out of body flight’ generated by the psyche can connect temporal singularities in space and time so that information may simultaneously flow between them. The result can be neuro-atomic sense perceptions associated with astral projection, out of body experiences, lucid dreaming, and remote viewing.


quinta-feira, 25 de julho de 2013

CREATIVE TANTRIC PERCEPTUALIZATION

Difficulties in trying to define the indescribable make it impossible to include all opinions and suggestions regarding what Tantra means or is, like trying to define love, it is highly context dependent. A fundamentalist will take exception to anything involving New, Neo or liberation, including, New Thought, Free Thought and other concepts that threaten their security, finances, or what they were born to defend. Regardless of the Tantric flavor, color, or tradition, there is at least one practice common to all. Rituals, mantras, japa, yantras, gurus, deities, worship, and sexual practices may vary, but the visualization process is basic. Since vision is only one of our physical senses, and our experiences go beyond merely what is perceived by these senses, perceptualization seems more appropriate, since touch, scent, taste and sound are so much a part of Tantra.
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I learned to autopilot my contemplative creative perceptualizations from a person who never had a guru or accepted followers, he told people to let him alone if they got in his way. If somebody kept showing up for anything he presented, even if he earned money from it, he would chide and scold them saying, “What are you doing here again, you haven’t had enough time to work with what you were given last visit. You’re wasting your money; it’s all the same repackaged stuff with a different label”. He knew some people followed him around to get their battery charged, all he was doing was taking away their symptoms, which were really friends trying to warn there was something wrong. They would only end up with different symptoms if they got rid of the ones they had. In addition, it is easy to get loaded up with a lot of sticky stuff people cast off when somebody tries to assist them in learning how to heal themselves.  A healer has to constantly purify and center their being to keep their Chakras from being compromised or clouded. If your energy supply is compromised through your compassion, you begin to feed others from your own being. Giving people the tools to help themselves, without falling back into the temptation of performing personal healings, is like teaching a person how to fish, instead of supplying his family with something to eat. 

Then there were the women of all ages who became captive by the male essence of an old Dutchman who lit their kundalini flames without exactly being a hunk. He could read minds, and would walk up to them, look them in their faces and say “If the others here only knew what you are thinking”. Among other things, he was an entertainer. Any learning process, including when writing is involved, benefits from lightness, humor, and incongruity; even some gonzo if you have the right audience.

If my friend saw a person or family group privately, he didn’t want to see them again for at least a year unless something critical happened. The one time my step-daughter and I saw him privately instead of in public, a complex symbol I had never seen before kept appearing in my meditations for a week before our appointment. When I entered the room, there was the same symbol face up on a piece of paper centered in the middle of his coffee table. He smiled when he saw my face, saying “You see, I’ve been visiting you!”  He asked at the end of our encounter if I could please stop thinking about him, it was getting in the way of his work.

He didn’t see chakras in the traditionally accepted rainbow progression. He suggested people find answers and determinations without blindly accepting what others believe. He warned of becoming a follower or technician, to remain challenged by the firm belief that everything is dependent on personal experiences and interpretation. His was a world of lights and colors, telling me he felt he was on ‘Las Vegas Strip’ most of the time. Instead of trying to fly, his challenge was to remain grounded. Jack Schwarz waited until the year 2000 to transform, taking his big bounce on the trampoline to the beyond, leaving a vacuum behind that is only partially filed by his Aletheia Foundation.


As the Aletheia web pages say, Jack was an exoteric teacher, the opposite of esoteric. He had no use for initiations, and turned away disciples. The people closest knew his love for mankind was like the light that shone from his eyes. Jack had the most intense life energy and male essence of any man I have known, he lived in Tantra. His magnetism allowed him to work as a hypnotist, magician, mind reader and healer, when he was young his family had to move from village to village in Holland to avoid the wrath of religious fanatics.  Even in Grants Pass Oregon, the religious right protested outside of his office. He said he practiced his own form of Yoga; I would call it Clear Light or Free Thought Yoga. He could literally stop and start his heart on demand, dying and returning like a Master practicing Clear Light Yoga, with a compassion for mankind so great it exceeded his desire for liberation and return to the Oneness.   
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Rather than go into details about the human energy system, chakras, or creative perceptualization techniques, there are plenty of guidebooks similar to Jack’s out there for those who want to hitchhike. I never formally studied Tantra, Clear Light Yoga or Free Thought Buddhism, but discovered from Jack I had been practicing Creative Tantric Perceptualizations without ever reading or hearing about such a thing. I’m not a disciple or follower, Tantra for me is a natural and sensory based practical and applied science, a description of reality based on sexual manifestation.



Creative Tantric Perceptualization can be practiced without a Master, Guru, or teacher other than the inner self. That isn’t to say they have to be avoided, at times people need one, others don’t, sometimes they get in the way. Those who are born followers run the risk of following the path of others instead of their own. The belief that secret and ‘dangerous’ knowledge has to be carefully administered by a qualified Master in customized measures might be appropriate for a student determined to study Black Tantra in its more sinister forms. Consciousness expanding Tantra however, just as learning creative perceptualization exercises, shouldn’t start off scaring and qualifying people who are able to learn from books and other media. For Free Thought Tantra, even rituals that include sound, chanting, music, geometry, colors and illumination are merely stepping stones leading to a place you can learn to project yourself to. Mental gymnastics involving both the material and immaterial are tools, techniques, and processes that combine thought forms, images, techniques, sound, and breathing rituals, therefore they can be dominated by the mind, and made less relevant if one chooses. Tantric traditions and dogmas, along with authoritarian teachings, are rejected or modified in Free Thought Tantra. In place of altering our personal reality through a linear relationship with our own evolution and illumination, union and integration among two people, or those in a group, allows our awareness to be considered part of the ‘Fabric of the Universe’.

domingo, 7 de julho de 2013

21st CENTURY FREE THOUGHT TANTRA

Spiritual Tantra is matriarchal, natural, and sensory based; a practical and applied psycho-spiritual science, it treats the universe as a manifestation of pure consciousness divided into two poles or aspects. Reality is expressed within an illusion of separateness, which can be dissolved through sexual manifestation via fusion of polar opposites, masculine with feminine. Energy bodies ascend as twin souls propelled by perceptions involving touching, body language, sensations, recognition, sound and vibration (Mantras), geometric forms (Yantras), chakra clearing, harmonization, and integration. One of the objectives is to induce liberation from the chains of sexual lust and indulgence, masculine essence integrating with feminine to propel relations to astral levels, where spiraling spirits dance together in communion.

Tantra is a set of practices, techniques, and perceptualizations for liberation, expansion,integration, and illumination. Some who follow Buddhist Tantra practices maintain a physical partner is unnecessary, an imaginary partner can be perceived in their place. For this flavor of Tantra, rechanneling of energy is more important than the integration of essences; sexual activity is peripheral, not central. Such White Tantra involves re-directing sexual energy for spiritual transformation, creative endeavors, healing, expanded awareness, enlightenment, and deeper connection with the Divine. Individuals who enter into exercises with you are considered mirrors more than partners. 

Tantra is about the divinity of persons, regardless of age or exterior differences. It does not judge or possess moralistic attitudes. Fantasies and curiosities are opportunities for gathering knowledge about the true nature of the self, while expanding consciousness and experiencing love, the highest form of religion. Sex and pleasure are only components of an experience leading to awareness. Tantra is most appropriate for partners and polyamorous groups who love, though erotic consciousness and Tantric sexual methods may be practiced alone, or with the etherial body of a physical, even virtual entity.

Sexual experiences are sacred, capable of elevating participants to a higher plane. Massage and touching are aimed at awakening the Kundalini, with exercises frequently containing erotic elements. Some forms of Tantra include orgasm by a person being massaged, liberating Kundalini energy to activate the Chakras in worship of the feminine Divine, the objective being full-body orgasms. Other forms of Tantra do not preclude mutual orgasms, opening a plethora of realms for exploration and gratification. Even the path of indulgence can lead to spiritual expansion, integration, and communion if the mind is properly focused, especially in the presence of unconditional love.

Tantra is dynamic, not dualistic. One method of expression may lead to another, or back and forth. Tantra sessions can evolve to full-bore hot wet sex, celebrating the realms of the senses. Respect for Tantra doesn’t mean you have to withhold energies, or abandon ephemeral pleasures for fear of offending the Divine. The illusion of separateness was created through the individuation of Spirit, as our learning tool in a theater for His entertainment.

The Soul is an individuation of Spirit; the mind is a byproduct, an observer.

The physical body is manifested as an energy configuration of Soul-Spirit interaction.

The mind’s attempt to dominate this Soul-Spirit interaction causes many of our problems; its surrender to love allows us to share His greatest gift.

If you Google the word Tantra along with the name of a large city, you’ll see no shortage of temples, teachers, massage therapists, healers, Shamans, priestesses, princesses, sex therapists, experts, authors, cosmologists, and people who have gone to Asia or a mountain to study with a Guru or Master.  Some are on the paths of service and transmutation, writing, teaching, assisting and inspiring. There are also sex professionals waiting to relieve stress, cleanse, purify, and bless, along with reorganize your spirit, body parts and finances.  

A conflicting variety of opinions, practices, exercises, and beliefs surround Tantra, from orthodox fundamentalist Asian spiritual practices, with accompanying metaphors and myths, to vague promises of sexual, emotional, and spiritual fulfillment laden with confusing terms used interchangeably to fit the occasion.
Manuals and books amounting to ambiguous compilations, and psychological exercises disguised as workshops and seminars deal with life force energy, Tantra, Chi, Prana, Eros, Ka, and Ki, or finding Soul Mates, Twin Souls and Flames.

There are many formulas combining harmony, liberation, expansion and integration leading to higher states of consciousness, many paths to synergy with Divine Light. Tantra doesn’t recognize age, race, class, or sexual category. Souls are genderless. Soul and Spirit collaborate to manifest physical form and gender to permit expression and offer learning experiences. Androgyny can provide an appropriate balance of essences; the perception of being born into an incongruous gender may be a Karmic opportunity to understand prejudice and intolerance, manifested in a previous life cycle, or on another dimensional plane. Same sex relationships, and meta-sexual expression involving fusion and Tantra are not excluded from the communion of essences; they merely represent alternate forms of manifestation.

After centuries of discrimination and repression by Asians, and then the British, Tantra experienced a rebirth outside of India as a remedy for western religions and their side effects. When it deviated from Traditional Orthodox Hindu and Buddhist practices, Tantra earned the name Neotantra. There are now so many philosophical permutations that Tantra Fundamentalists have taken to snubbing some as Plastic, Pop, or California Tantra. Quite often, teachers, writers, and scholars find the need to distinguish traditional spiritual White Tantra from Red, Dark, Black, Left Handed, or the generalized category of Neotantra.

Western civilization often hypocritically pretends to embrace sexuality with liberalism, while using it to control and enslave through laws and cultural mores. Religions and the religious serve a purpose benefiting humanity, but only when they’re not busy campaigning for denial, suffering, and sacrifice. Tantra on the other hand, is a vehicle for spiritual transfiguration using the essences of sexual energy liberated through love. Sexual union producing love carries humans to their divine origin. When they exchange energies to reach loving union with one another, their souls integrate with the universe, helping to hold it together. Tanta is a philosophy designed to eliminate shame and guilt, not prey on it. This doesn’t work very well into the plans of those wearing red caps and slippers in Rome and Asian mountains who want to monopolize spirituality and redemption by controlling blind followers through fear, shame, and guilt. Especially Christian religions sell salvation by trying to displace sex, attributing erotic pleasures to the Devil, making them an offense to God. Denial of pleasures gives disciples more time and energy to sacrifice themselves, better able to provide for the privileged religious aristocracy. Placing a price on $piritual evolution, and suggesting that God knows when a person is being generous should always raise a red flag. Donations, generosity, and tithing need to originate from the heart and free will. Though all contain at least some truths, Sacred Books and Orthodox teachings are too often utilized for merchandising both the material and immaterial.  Rituals, myths, fables and traditional cultural beliefs, along with organized hierarchies have served useful purpose throughout history, but we have now entered the information age.

There is nothing wrong with tried and true ancient rituals and techniques when appropriate, as long as they’re not taken too seriously; they’re only road maps after all. Free Thought Tantra is for adventurers wary of those with their hands out, not for followers or disciples.  Plastic Shamans are everywhere, some of them do wondrous work, help others, and can’t be criticized for wanting to be supported. However, when you are given the impression that you need them, or it’s unsafe to go it alone, you need to carefully consider what they have to offer. Suggestions, indications, or at the most questions are all anybody has a right to offer you, not manipulation, direction, or mind control. At that point their true motives have to be questioned. If you need to be a follower, remember the consequences, and be prepared to accept the outcome of going along for the ride.