Sacred sexuality and tantric secrets. Tantra is a 5,000-year-old study of the

art of sexuality. You could say it's where the spiritual and sexual come

together. In our modern culture, sex and spirituality are very polarized, sex is

over here, and God or spirit is somewhere way over there. But in these ancient

practices, they were one in the same. In fact, they saw sex as a springboard to

enlightenment. By consciously tuning into our sexual energy, we could use it to

help reach higher states of consciousness. No drugs needed. You can tap the

source from within. When I first read about tantra in my early 20s, these ideas

all reflected my own personal experience where orgasms were

cataclysmic and transcendent. I felt like the door between worlds opened up and

I was able to self-realize through sex, meaning all of my little self parts

fell away and I came out feeling that I had come to, come out, come home, and

come together. So here are some of the main qualities of sacred sexuality and

tantra. The first is deep connection and having that throughout your encounter.

So most people are distracted and only partially there during sex. They are

thinking about their grocery list or their work projects and the flap on the

belly that they don't like or how long they're going to last before they come.

Instead of being deeply immersed in the present moment and their partner,

that is where the magic happens. 24-hour sex. In tantric sex, we are constantly

building the erotic energy between each other. In a typical sexual encounter,

we have a build, we have a peak, a climax, pelvic contractions, and then a

decline in energy. In tantra, we build, we plateau, we build, we plateau, and we

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