Tantra

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 use the word orgasm, I think that for most people, we have a a clear idea of this friction on the clitoris or on the penis. This buildup of energy in the sex and the very, you know, strong, sometimes very pleasurable experience. An energetic orgasm is what happens when that energy is no longer trapped in the sex. So when we’ve used tantric techniques to remove the traumatic blocks and the repressed emotions and the physical tensions that stop sexual energy moving up the body, we experience an energetic orgasm. It’s full body. And it can be very intense. And there are a number of types of energetic orgasm. So an energetic orgasm, when you are circulating the energy either by yourself or with a partner. Is this intensifying state of pleasure and psychedelic experience of expanding out it? The first time that I was really able to do that with a partner, it changed my understanding of what sex could be. You know, time was falling. It was like taking mushrooms. It was very, very powerful. And it’s not peak. It goes on and it goes on and it’s extraordinary. And there are other forms of energetic orgasm where you’re building up sexual energy, and then you’re using sort of tension. Certain techniques to push the energy up. And that’s again very, very intense. You know, it’s literally like you go like, a small mushroom trip. And that is technically or experientially what an energetic orgasm is when you’re moving that angle. But the reason it’s important is it’s a path. When we circulate energy like this and we expand out. We are able to connect with vast wisdoms, vast intelligences. You can understand that in the spiritual sense, or if you like, you can understand that there is just a lot of information, knowing that you are able to receive into the body and to know. But it’s also a buildup of sexual energy. And sexual energy is the energy that that creates things. So from this space, it’s possible to heal, to direct the sexual energy to points in the body or to others, to to create quite powerful healings of physical and psychological and emotional and spiritual wounds. And although I’m nervous to say this, and I will talk more about this later, because it’s a creative energy, it can be directed through energetic orgasm to manifestation. And by that I do not mean, you know, making the world exactly as I want it. Getting my Lamborghini and my million dollars. I simply mean I’m manifesting these words. I’m creating these words. We are creating this video, this movement between the immaterial and the material requires energy and has ways of moving. But I’ll speak to that more, I think, in, in a separate video. So just to wrap that up, an energetic orgasm is what’s happening when we learn how to work with our sexual energy, when we learn how to build it up and then move it and circulate it around our body or around our body and our partners body, it’s very pleasurable. It’s very powerful. Yeah.

In the Tantric tradition, the body is understood to be both physical and energetic, with seven layers of energy surrounding it. I don’t know if that’s true, but I do know there are at least two—because I can feel them. I can feel one layer close to my body, and if I push through, another a little further out. As I do, waves of sensation move through me—subtle yet unmistakable. The energy body is made up of these energetic layers that surround the physical body. What they are, exactly, might be beyond me—but that they exist? That’s something I know from experience. Just like I can feel the breeze, I can feel this magnetic push, this gentle resistance. And with practice, we can do more than just sense them with our hands—we can actually expand out into them. Each layer has a slightly different quality of awareness. A little like how I feel different when I’m watching a movie compared to when I’m talking to you right now, or when I’m meditating. As I expand my attention outward into the different layers of my energy body, I’m still aware of my separation, but my sense of self starts to dissolve—just a little. When you reach the fifth or sixth energy body, that’s where things start to feel like astral projection or travel. For me, when I facilitate this kind of work, I’m often in my second or third body. It feels like I’m stepping aside and being moved, rather than doing the moving. And in these states, I perceive things that I simply can’t when I’m just anchored in my physical body. That’s really the best answer I can give—not as a theory, but as something real, something that can be felt.

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.