Tantric sex for beginners
6:15 AM Posted by 4 Freedoms Energy Sex in Conscious Relationship
“To summarise, it's all about learning to slow down.”
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Shakti Tantra
6:35 AM Posted by 4 Freedoms Energy Sex in Conscious Relationship
“The symbolic union of male and female energies within as a meditative form and expanding to all levels of consciousness, thereby unveiling the supreme reality of creation is the basis of Tantra.
It unifies the masculine and feminine aspects within us, to help us transcend into the oneness of the Divine…
Tantric scriptures — Kaulavalinirnaya Tantra, Niruttara Tantra and the Rudrayamala Tantra — tell us that the universe we are a part of is Brahman: the infinite Supreme Consciousness, manifest through the cosmic union of male and female energies of Shiva, Eternal Consciousness, and Shakti, feminine energy.”
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Desperate Grandmas or Sexually Repressed Author?
2:47 PM Posted by 4 Freedoms Energy Sex in Conscious Relationship
Kay is a clever writer, but her cleverness only hides her own serious hang-ups about sex, sexuality, and aging women. The gist of this article seems to be: let’s make fun of the women over age 50 that yearn for or are reporting that they actually are having great sex lives. The author seems to think that such a notion is ridiculous or even scandalous, and that these women are somehow sad and pathetic. But the article only reveals the author’s own sad and pathetic attitudes about sex. The opening paragraph of this article sets the tone.
“Time passes, and we get old. Our faces wrinkle, our hair goes gray and MIA, our teeth yellow, our knees ache, we forget the names of people we said hello to just yesterday on the way to pick up the Geritol, and there are days when a nap sounds real nice.”
So what? For Hymowitz the reality she describes seems to preclude anyone over 50 from having great sex. Furthermore, the women brave enough to write about it are subtly ridiculed. For example:
“Gail Sheehy puts it in her most recent book, Sex and the Seasoned Woman. They will ‘develop’; they will ‘grow.’ Sheehy and her sister scribes have come forward to tell you that today’s older women are a new breed. They’re busy, busy, busy! They go to the gym! They work in animal shelters! They travel! They get divorced! And yes (Yes! Yes!), they have orgasms!” So what’s wrong with that?
“Betty Friedan gave us The Fountain of Age, in which she proposed that we consider the years past 50 not as a time to play golf and show off pictures of the grandchildren but as ‘an additional stage of development,’ a time of further emotional, intellectual, and spiritual growth.” So what’s wrong with that?
“Christiane Northrup’s bestseller The Wisdom of Menopause describes the years after menopause—average age 51—as potentially ‘the beginning of a woman’s most sexually passionate, creatively inspired, and professionally productive phase of life.’” So what’s wrong with that?
According to Hymowitz, “Desperate Grandmas don’t retire. They ‘pursue the passionate life,’ in Sheehy’s words. They ‘follow their dreams.’” So what’s wrong with that?
“And, of course, there is (Erica) Jong, who in Seducing the Demon describes earth-moving tantric sex with her fourth husband. Even without Viagra—he’s on heart medication—‘He could have a whole-body orgasm while giving oral sex—his orgasm triggered by mine. He could feel electric shocks down his spine—as if the kundalini were rising’—which, despite its ominous sound, evidently poses no danger to cardiac patients.” So what’s wrong with that?
Hymowitz also says: “What these women have to say will raise a lot of eyebrows. They are not just having sex; they are having the Best. Sex. Ever. They rejoice in their lovers, their fantasies, their sex toys, their orgasms—which they have in airplanes, in elevators, in the shower, in the woods.” So what’s wrong with that?
I don’t know how old Hymowitz is or what kind of sex life she has, but she comes across as very prudish in this article, revealing some rather outdated assumptions about sex, such as sex is bad (at least for women over 50), sex is irresponsible, sex is a diversion from more important matters, pleasure is bad, pleasure is selfish, pleasure is irresponsible, sex and pleasure are threats to the stability of the family, and other similar silly nonsense. She does not come right out and say these things, rather she makes it all sound very intellectual as in this paragraph.
“No, what grates about the Desperate Grandmas is not their optimism. It is not their determination to firm their glutes or to do good deeds in West Africa or, for that matter, to study the Kama Sutra like Orthodox Jews study the Torah. It’s their enthusiastic display of that chronic boomer disease: narcissism. Tom Wolfe once dubbed the 1970s ‘the Me Decade.’ Desperate Grandmas seem determined to make every decade a Me Decade. With its consciousness-raising, its denigration of family life, its rejection of the past, feminism has always flirted with excessive individualism, bordering on mere selfishness. Now, as Second Wavers like Steinem and Levine filter out politics, what’s left of graying feminism are the dregs of self-actualization, passionate pursuits, and sexual self-expression.”
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Invoking the divine female principle
1:31 PM Posted by 4 Freedoms Energy Sex in Conscious Relationship
“The concept of ardhangini, of women being an equal part of men and vice versa, clearly states that without one, the other is incomplete. This is evident in Hindu rituals and symbols. Marriage is seen as a sacred union.
The gods were perturbed when Shiva was devoid of his union with Sati, and rejoiced when Parvati, incarnated as Sati, wooed him into matrimony, through severe austerities.
The scriptures are clear that while the bride must recognise her husband as her Lord, the husband must appreciate the wife as the source of his position and strength as provider and protector.
In pure Shaktiism, Devi is worshipped as the highest divinity, the supreme Brahmn, with all other forms of divi-nity, female or male, considered to be merely her diverse manifestations.”
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Glucosamine to remove age spots from skin
6:47 AM Posted by 4 Freedoms Energy Sex in Conscious Relationship
“For many women, accumulated sun exposure has already permanently damaged their skin cells, causing them to overproduce pigment that shows up as unsightly dark splotches and uneven skin tone over time. But new research indicates that glucosamine - a compound best known for treating arthritis - can actually help stop the formation of new age spots, and help fade existing ones.”
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Kids and sex positive education
6:20 AM Posted by 4 Freedoms Energy Sex in Conscious Relationship
“The shame and taboo of sex is still there. The embarrassment of talking about sex is still there. And we know it’s not working.
Teenage pregnancy is on the rise. HIV figures are not decreasing and sexual abuse is increasing. More children of 12 years old are having sex. We are failing our children and ourselves in an area of life that we could make a real, noticeable difference…
Then we look to the East, to the Tantric and Toaist traditions. Sex is given its rightful place as an integral and important part of life, with accompanying education. Some of the most important principles these philosophies teach, besides their techniques, are respect, honouring, communication and context.”
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Bhutan, mystical Himalayan Paradise
6:02 AM Posted by 4 Freedoms Energy Sex in Conscious Relationship
"Bhutan is a veritable Himalayan oasis, where religion and mysticism play a vital role in defining life…the King since 1972, Jigme Singye Wangchuk, first invented the indicator `Gross National Happiness' to replace Gross Domestic Product, which the rest of the world is obsessed with. After all, the Bhutanese argue (and who can disagree with them?) economic development is only a means to happiness rather than an end in itself. If you wonder what this GNH might comprise, this is what a workshop held in 1999 had to say: economic development cannot guarantee happiness, it must be deemed a necessary but not sufficient condition for happiness. GNH is a composite indicator that puts equal emphasis on environmental preservation, cultural promotion and good governance. Economic development itself is measured more in terms of access to health care and education than in terms of mere accumulation of wealth. Bhutanese want to ‘weave development around people, not people around development’.”
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Review of "Samsara" directed by Pan Nalin
8:06 AM Posted by 4 Freedoms Energy Sex in Conscious Relationship
“Samsara [directed by Pan Nalin] is about a young monk Tashi, who after solitary meditation (of three years three months three weeks and three days) still finds it difficult to resist the temptation of the flesh. He falls in love with Pema, a Ladakhi girl and gives up his monkhood for her love. He tells his mentor Appo that “The Buddha gave up his life at 29 after he had experienced it all. I have known nothing but this life from the age of 5.” At Appo’s behest Tashi meets a Lama in a remote place who would help him make up his mind. The older man exposes to him the sexual mysteries of the sacred Tantric texts; Tashi realizes that one has to experience worldly existence in order to renounce it. Tashi leaves the monastery, marries Pema and adapts to the life of a farmer, takes a few courageous steps and makes a comfortable life for his family, but also suffers a few consequences. In a moment of weakness, he strays into the arms of Sujata, a migrant labourer. The Samsara or the world he wants to live in is far more complicated that life in the monastery. To assuage his stirrings and his fears, he leaves home in the still of night and makes his way to the monastery. Will Tashi emulate the Buddha?”
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Was Gandhi a Tantric?
7:56 AM Posted by 4 Freedoms Energy Sex in Conscious Relationship
“It is now widely known that Gandhi shared his bed with young women as part of his experiments in brahmacharya, a Sanskrit word usually translated as ‘celibacy,’ but generally understood as the ultimate state of yogic self-control. Gandhi believed that Indian ascetics who sought refuge in forests and mountains were cowards, and he was convinced that the only way to conquer sexual desire was to face the temptation head-on with a naked female in his bed.”
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