well, I'm new

topic posted Thu, October 27, 2005 - 7:30 AM by  Veru Mamo
Hello. I'm Michael.

I've recently been exploring aspects of tantra with a beautiful friend of mine, and am curious to learn more about it from others. This all started when I quit my job in retail at the beginning of the summer intending to travel. One of my friends then convinced me to wait around for Burning Man, and I did. And on the playa, I had a traumatic life changing event that I later learned to be something similar to how Kundalini awakenings have been described. I was thrust desperately through every Jungian archetype in my psyche, from the victim to the guru and back, over and over again, for at about three hours. All of this was framed within the understanding that sexual energy is the basis for the transmutation of human consciousness into pure energy. And then, when the man came down, I wandered around the playa, laughing non-stop for about 4 hours. Needless to say, I came back from Burning Man changed, at the end of a summer that had already changed my beyond recognition, into a relationship that would change me even further. Anyway...that's the short version.
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Veru Mamo
SF Bay Area
  • Re: well, I'm new

    Sat, October 29, 2005 - 11:08 PM
    Sounds pretty intense Michael... me likes.

    Yes, sexual energy is important aspect of our be-ingness that tends to get overlooked in a lot of traditions. That said, sexuality is not what Tantra is all about.

    In the circle, we're trying to introduce some of the traditional Tantric philosophy to complement and expand on the "neo-tantric" stuff that's traditionally been taught here.

    A lot of Tantra is about self exploration and discovering things about yourself through experience... sounds like you're well on your way!

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