This question is really dear to my heart and relate to another project that I’m doing called organizing from elsewhere. You’re really welcome to to read more about that on our website.

We have a physical body and we have an energetic body. And we have ways that energy, sexual energy, life, energy circulates around the body. Its physical manifestation might be understood or conceptualized as how? Nervous system. Yeah, but energy also circulates in particular ways around the body. And there are various maps that are of how that happens and how that works, linked to various traditions.

I wonder if this clip is going to get past the censors or our big right wing tech billionaires. Again, I think it’s important to define because these terms are used often, and for a lot of people off.

The more clearly a ritual is marked with a beginning and an end and ritual space and ordinary space delineated. The more powerful the ritual. Now, that may sound quite woowoo to a lot of you, but we’ve been using ritual, I think, for as long as human beings have been around, because it works and we use them every day.

It’s a it’s a pathway, within which life energy, sexual energy can travel up. And we have another sort of front channel that runs also down. And it’s a little bit hard to conceptualize. But the reason I think it’s worth mentioning is that people can talk about Kundalini as if it is an energy. It’s not an energy.

So just, a small question for me. There. I’m not going to try and answer what the divine is, but I think it is helpful to talk a little bit about what I understand the word divine to point towards. And the for me. Whether you are a rationalist, a scientist, spiritual or religious, I think we all have these moments in life.

Polarity is one energy expressed in two polarities masculine and feminine energy. And masculine energy is decisiveness and leadership and direction, and all the qualities that give men the right to rule the world. And, you know, feminine energy is Shakti. It’s chaotic. It’s this. It’s that and all the reasons that women shouldn’t be in charge. And it’s a load of ballocks.

With this understanding of sexual energy, we start to understand that this shift from the immaterial. If you want to use a scientific language, the wave, the interconnectedness. Into a particular form. This word, this computer, this human being, this baby, this emotion takes a lot of energy.

What is an energetic orgasm? It’s interesting. I notice almost. A reluctance to use the word orgasm, because when I

In the Tantric tradition, the body is understood to be both physical and energetic, with seven layers of energy surrounding it. I

Tantra understands that health is when our life energy, our sexual energy can circulate around the body. And Tantra understands how important it is to be able to circulate this energy, to dissolve this sense of I and start to have this experience of interconnectedness, of being part of and separate of this vast web of life, and to start to move and be guided by that intelligence.

The key line for me in the tantra is what is elsewhere is here. And what is not here is nowhere. What that’s understood to mean is that unlike in other traditions, where the body is seen as a block to enlightenment, Tantra believes that in this incarnation, in this dualistic existence, the path is through the body, that everything exists in the body.