RED TANTRA, DARK TANTRA, BLACK TANTRA, and CLEAR LIGHT YOGA

Tantra is a term that can lead people to hear and believe what they have been programmed for by conditioning. Colors are often used to differentiate between practices, though fine lines certainly don’t exist to separate them. Full Spectrum Tantra is very different from traditional White Tantra. White is a combination of colors visible to the human eye, whereas the electromagnetic spectrum extends far beyond ultraviolet, into the telecommunications frequencies. White Tantra is refered to as the right hand path, dealing with philosophical doctrines of merging masculine and feminine energies within the practitioner, avoiding outward physical sex reaching a climax. It uses orgasmic energy to surrender and become an instrument of the Divine as a way to obtain guidance while on a journey. In this case, orgasms are astral or ‘external’.

These ‘colored’ descriptions for Tantra should not be confused with the practice of ‘Clear Light’ Yoga. Although Yoga is generally considered a form of Tantra, and Yoga refers to ‘union’, certainly an element of Tantra, Clear Light Yoga does not always include elements of compassion and integration with partners, or mankind in general. Like many advanced Yoga disciplines, it involves death, or near death experiences, the time of passing ‘into clear light’ understood to be similar or identical to the experience of a definitive sexual orgasm. The Yogi might take advantage of this entrance in the Bardo to assist other souls or entities to evolve, find release, or unite with the Divine. The practice of Clear Light Tantra might do the same, while remaining connected to the planet earth through the sharing of sexual essences with a partner. Silver threads connecting those in lucid dreams, or astral and out of body experiences with their physical bodies, can be compared to the threads in the fabric of Tantra connecting partners during their sessions.

One reason the guidance of a Guru or capacitated instructor is recommended for students of esoteric practices involves the dangers of out of body experiences, and the loss of contact with the reality shared with other entities. Out of control practices, conceptions, and perceptions can do damage to oneself, along with others; that is why some knowledge, especially regarding things like Black Tantra, is kept secretive. Dark practices, hedonism, and dense energy planes can get complicated, and there are no guarantees when messing around in psychic swamps and the afterworld. Not everybody wants to return from a death experience, the best cosmic surfers and swimmers can take a bad dive. Even those with the experience and capacity of a person like Jack Schwarz can get lost. He had the ability to close his chakras, and then open them up again. A born showman, he used to demonstrate his talent for researchers and students, until one day when he closed his heart chakra, and then became distracted. When he went on to close another chakra, he died. Chakras, being components of the human energy system, need to be able to function in order for the energy body to breathe in and out. Like the serpent in the kundalini chakra coiled 3 ½ times at the base of the spine with its tail in its mouth, the other major chakras also must have vortices rotating 3 ½ times in one direction, and then reversing. Each major chakra is related to organs and the endocrine glands, Jack had shut himself down. Luckily there was a medical physician in the crowd when Jack put on his show, he resuscitated him. It took Jack a while to get over the after effects; he learned his lesson and stopped showing off by closing down his energy system. If Jack could slide and fall, so can other incarnates.

 Just as when looking for lawyer, doctor, mechanic or technician, you can get a guide, guru, or teacher that is less than perfect. Being guided by spirits can be as problematic, just because an entity lacks a physical body doesn’t mean they are superior or have something to offer. I think of communal Tantra with a lover like spiritually swimming or surfing on God’s surfboard while employing the ‘buddy system’. The practice of spiritual Tantra has the advantage and security of communion with a companion, along with the Divine Absolute. Darkness cannot exist where there is light, dense energies are destroyed or rendered powerless by high frequencies. The primary goal of all spiritual Tantra practices includes focusing on the radiance of the mind stream in its essential nature, with either a physical or imaginary partner. White Tantra is less democratic, being the least inclusive form, rejecting many practices it considers aberrations.

If angels have a Tantra, it must be Pink, cultivating love without attachment, possession, or expectations. In the case of this flavor of Tantra, connections are developed without emotional involvement.

Red Tantra is sometimes called ‘Sacred Sex’ in Hindu and Buddhist traditions. Refered to as the left hand path, gestures (Mudras), repetition (Japa) sound (Mantra), visuals (Yantra), and breathing may be combined with massage and tactile stimulation to produce full body orgasms. Practiced with a partner or group, communion and integration may accompany physical orgasms in the process of becoming one with the Divine. My understanding is Red Tantra was originally a highly advanced spiritual practice in India, only taught to those who had mastered White Tantra, the focus through Red Tantra being on thoroughly exploring the bliss, ecstasy, and pleasure of love making. It is associated with sex sessions lasting for hours, ideally leading to multiple, seizure type orgasms, without or without ejaculation. Practiced with a partner, the union is considered a form of worship that creates not only an intense physical bond with the partner, but also union with the Universe through the joining of heart, mind, body, and spirit.  All chakras are involved in the connection, directed towards euphoria transcending the physical act of sex, reaching a high level of spiritual vibration.

Dark Tantra is a fusion of Red Tantra with Sex Tantra (or Sex Magic) often including role playing, usually involving either submission or surrender. Since there is no fine line between Dark and Red, or Dark and Black Tantra, nor surrender or submission, it all depends on your projections and point of view. It makes me think about the Masochist and the Sadist, where the Masochist pleads “Beat me, please beat me!”, and the Sadist refuses, being truly cruel by saying “No!”

Dark Tantra is a challenge to define, considered a recent term produced by Western civilization. Associated or confused with Black Tantra, and commonly being promulgated by sex professionals on the Internet who indicate larger financial donations are required for Dark Tantra sessions. Preliminary sessions are normally required before a student can be fully exposed to more intense disciplines, sliding scale rates are charged for the degree of illumination and satisfaction expected from these ‘$piritualized’ sex professionals. The priestess often needs to hear about their client’s fantasies beforehand, since submission, bondage, domination, erotic hypnosis, strap-on toys, teasing and denial, drugs, breathe play and goddess worship may be called for. Some of these ‘spiritual escorts’ claim credibility by calling themselves Dakinis, which is not good news for real life Dakinis.

Dark Tantra was invented in western civilizations out of necessity for those suffering from western religions. Childhoods crippled by repression, subjugation, denial, and desires treated as sinful, usually produces guilt, shame, and blame, often leading to anger and hatred of one’s self. Feelings of worthlessness, or the need to be punished, are evident in many seeking help through Dark Tantra. The unfortunate result of guilt and shame can be a lifetime of carrying around luggage and dark memories. Trying to force yourself to forget, or attempting to disconnect yourself is much more difficult that allowing yourself to be unconnected through expression and release. Most everybody carries denseness of some sort; the path to enlightenment helps us face these shadow forms through the focusing of consciousness, sometimes by playing out the script and facing consequences through role playing. Fantasies involve adult parents with children or their babysitters, uncles with nieces, teachers with students, children with children, photographers with young models, doctors and dentists with their patients and nurses, and of course porn producers with actresses. These fantasies share the theme of guardians and children, or young and old being together, sharing sex and/or love for the purpose of spiritual union or pleasure. Tantra was originally born in a place and time when children and young people were included and treasured for their psychic potential, purity, innocence and rightful position in spiritual ceremonies, pursuits, and practices. Denial of natural latencies and curiosities in a culture where many families don’t openly discuss sexuality can produce walking time bombs that too often express themselves with violence, or some form of psycho-sociopathic disorder. Common to all forms of traditional ‘colored’, along with pseudo-Tantra, is the understanding that repression leads to corruption and sociological abuse, denial increases desire in most cases, guilt and shame that evolve during maturation lead to social ills and suffering by individuals, and all result in societal pollution.