High School Reunions and Tantric Sex
9:05 AM Posted by 4 Freedoms Energy Sex in Conscious Relationship
“Despite your fantasy, reunions are not typically a place where people connect at a deep level. (For this experience, you must enroll in yoga camp or a tantric sex workshop.)”
Al Link
4 Freedoms Relationship Tantra
Top 10 Spa Trends for 2005
9:06 PM Posted by 4 Freedoms Energy Sex in Conscious Relationship
PR Newswire, Financial News, December 13, 2004
"Spas on Wheels, Frozen Spa Cuisine, Diamond Massage Oil and Spa Living Predicted By Largest Spa Marketing and Publishing Company
During the past decade, spas have become an increasingly relevant cultural force, influencing not only how we manage our health, appearance and stress, but also how we shop, socialize, spiritualize, travel and work. According to Spa Finder, the largest spa marketing and publishing company, the spa's impact on many of our most important lifestyle pursuits will only continue to grow in the year ahead.
With the largest network of spa marketing partners and the largest consolidated spa consumer audience, Spa Finder sits at the center of the unfolding healthy living phenomenon. From this unique vantage, Spa Finder has compiled a listing of the top-10 spa trends to watch in 2005 -- covering everything from the rise of online spa travel to the over-the-top opulence of the new ultra-luxury spa experience..."
Al Link
4 Freedoms Relationship Tantra
New Movie "The Fockers" and Tantric sex
1:48 PM Posted by 4 Freedoms Energy Sex in Conscious Relationship
“…meet The Fockers is a sequel to the $166 million-grossing 2000 comedy Meet the Parents. Actually, it's an excuse to watch some of America's most iconic actors ply their craft as they get electrocuted, teach Tantric sex to senior citizens and rescue dogs from RV lavatories. (Imagine a Royal Shakespeare Company production of Meatballs, and you're close.) TIME's Josh Tyrangiel sat down with the Fockers (Dustin Hoffman, Barbra Streisand and Ben Stiller) and the Byrneses (Robert De Niro, Blythe Danner and Teri Polo) to discuss comedy, Cialis, the unexpected tenderness of Kevin Costner and, in De Niro's case, to grunt quite a lot.”
Al Link
4 Freedoms Relationship Tantra
Sherlock Holmes and Tantra
3:58 PM Posted by 4 Freedoms Energy Sex in Conscious Relationship
Alfred Hickling on Leslie S Klinger's definitive “New Annotated Sherlock Holmes”
The Guardian, December 4, 2004
“When Holmes miraculously reappeared in the pages of the Strand after a three-year absence, he explained the hiatus as a necessary period of lying low to avoid reprisals from Moriarty's gang; and claimed to have spent the time travelling through Tibet disguised as a Norwegian explorer named Sigerson. Most Sherlock scholars will have none of this, however. T Frederick Foss posits that Holmes was actually on secret secondment to the British government, collecting information on Russian intrigues in India. Harry Halen thinks he underwent a ‘tantric materialisation ritual’ while in Tibet, and travelled to Russia in the guise of a tobacco merchant at the invitation of Anton Chekhov. And in ‘Sherlock Holmes: A Spectra?’ Robert Keller suggests that Holmes did indeed meet his death at the falls, but came back for subsequent adventures as "the world's first consulting ghost".
Al Link
4 Freedoms Relationship Tantra
CBS & NBC Blacklist Inclusive Religion
10:11 AM Posted by 4 Freedoms Energy Sex in Conscious Relationship
“The CBS and NBC television networks are refusing to run a 30-second television ad from the United Church of Christ because they deem its all-inclusive welcome ‘too controversial.’
The ad states that the United Church of Christ (UCC) seeks to welcome all people, regardless of ability, age, race, economic circumstance, or sexual orientation.
According to a written explanation from CBS: ‘Because this commercial touches on the exclusion of gay couples and other minority groups by other individuals and organizations, and the fact the Executive Branch has recently proposed a Constitutional Amendment to define marriage as a union between a man and a woman, this spot is unacceptable for broadcast on the [CBS and UPN] networks.’
So if an ad disagrees with the President, it can't be published? -- Wow!!
And if it celebrates loving, sacred sexuality instead of rapacious sex and gratuitous violence, it can't be published? -- Wow!
If you want to call CBS and/or NBC, these are HQ numbers in New York. The presidents are Andrew Heyward (CBS, 212/975-4321) and Robert Wright (NBC, 212/664-4444). Join the internet campaign organized by the UCC.”
Al Link
4 Freedoms Relationship Tantra
Bill Viola's production of "The Tristan Project"
9:56 AM Posted by 4 Freedoms Energy Sex in Conscious Relationship
staff writer for U-Music, December 2, 2004
“For more than 30 years, [Bill Viola] the 53-year-old Belmont Heights-based artist has used video imagery to explore the phenomenon of sense perception as an avenue to self-knowledge…
More than four hours long, it’s a collaborative effort with the Los Angeles Philharmonic designed around Wagner's opera ‘Tristan und Isolde’…
‘The Tristan Project' turns Wagner's opera into a multi-discipline art experience…
…says Viola… ‘The images are intended to function as symbolic, inner representations that become reflections of the spiritual world. The images in the three acts contain interweaving, recurring threads, but are distinct in reflecting different stages of the lover’s path toward liberation.
‘They trace the movement of human consciousness through one of its most delicate and poignant states - the surrender to an absolute, all-consuming love’…
At the same time, Sellars first made Viola aware of the libretto's connection to the same Far Eastern spiritual traditions that have long preoccupied Viola, including Tantric Buddhism and Hinduism.”
Al Link
4 Freedoms Relationship Tantra
Washington funds false sex lessons
9:45 AM Posted by 4 Freedoms Energy Sex in Conscious Relationship
“The Bush administration is funding sexual health projects that teach children that HIV can be contracted through sweat and tears, touching genitals can result in pregnancy, and that a 43-day-old foetus is a thinking person.
A congressional analysis of more than a dozen federally funded ‘abstinence-only programmes’ unveiled a litany of "false, misleading and distorted information" in teaching materials after reviewing curriculums designed to prevent teenage pregnancy and sexually transmitted disease.
There are more than 100 abstinence programmes, involving several million children aged nine to 18, and running in 25 states since 1999. They are funded by the federal government to the tune of $170-million, twice the amount when George Bush came to power.
The money goes to religious, civic and medical organisations as grants. To qualify they may only talk about types of contraception in terms of their failure rates, not about how to use them, or the possible benefits.
The survey was conducted by the staff of congressman Henry Waxman of California, a longstanding Democratic critic of the Republican administration's approach to sex education. His team concentrated on the 13 programmes that are most widely used, and found only two of them were accurate.
‘It is absolutely vital that the health education provided to America's youth be scientifically and medically accurate,’ Waxman said. ‘The abstinence-only programmes reviewed in this report fail to meet this standard.’
Other ‘facts’ include that abortion can lead to sterility and suicide, half the gay male teenagers in the US have tested positive for HIV, and condoms fail to prevent transmission of HIV in 31% of incidences of heterosexual intercourse. US government figures contradict all of these assertions.”
Al Link
4 Freedoms Relationship Tantra
FDA Panel Votes Against Intrinsa Testosterone Patch for Women
10:59 AM Posted by 4 Freedoms Energy Sex in Conscious Relationship
FDA “Says there's not enough safety data to support approving treatment for those with diminished sex drives”
(HealthDayNews) -- U.S. health advisers late Thursday voted against approving a controversial testosterone patch for women struggling with diminished sex drives, citing the need for further safety studies.
The members of a U.S. Food and Drug Administration advisory panel said preliminary research only suggested modest benefits from the patch, called Intrinsa, which is designed for women who have had their ovaries removed, the Associated Press reported.
Panel members also expressed concerns about the potential health risks involving testosterone use.
…the FDA's Advisory Committee for Reproductive Health Drugs -- said they weren't satisfied with the number of women studied so far, and were also uncomfortable with the length of the clinical trials. They cited a lack of safety information for women who had used the patch longer than six months, the AP said.
The panel also heard testimony that three of four women who developed breast cancer during the trials were using the patch. Lisa Soule, a medical officer in FDA's division of reproductive and urological drugs, said those reports of breast cancer underscored the limitations of short-term clinical trials…
…any comparison between Intrinsa with Viagra misses the point, since Viagra leaves the system a few hours after use, whereas the testosterone patch is designed to emit a steady level of the hormone over time…
‘The data epidemiologically shows that 43 percent of American women have this problem’ at some point in their lives, he said.”
Al Link
4 Freedoms Relationship Tantra
