Kundalini Awakening With Artist, Alex Grey

Alex Grey
Visionary/Sacred, Transpersonal Artist.

Grey has also made his own contribution to the philosophy of art in his book The Mission of Art (1998). Therein, he promotes the possibility of the mystical potential of art: he argues that the process of artistic creation can (and should) play a role in the enlightenment of the artist. For him, the process of artistic creation holds the potential of transcending the limitations of the mind and more fully expressing the divine spirit. He also believes that art can induce within the viewer an elevated state wherein spiritual states of being are attained.
Alex Grey.com

Sound: Hindu Gayatri Mantra. The Gayatri Devi Mantra is the vibration of and consort or feminine manifestation, of god Brahma. Second only to the Om Mantra in power and popularity. Gayatri is said to be the blend of Lakshmi, Parvati and Sarasvati. Reciting the Gayatri mantra is enough, according to some teachers, to bring enlightenment. Listening to Gayatri and even the thought of Gayatri Mantra is said to grant grace and calm
Aum Bhur Bhuvah Swah, Tat Savitur Varenyam
Bhargo Devasya Dhimahi, Dhiyo Yo Nah Prachodayat..and one of my favorites

3HO White Tantra/Kundalini Yoga, BBC and the American Sikh Yogi

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Guru Bhajan, father of 3Ho Kundalini Yoga
Gurmukh Kaur Khasla and Golden Bridge Yoga Center in Hollywood Ca.,
7min

PTC News Interview with Gurmukh Kaur Khalsa about Kundalini Yoga and it's benefits to health, stress and general ailments.

Kundalini/ Sex Yoga With Alan Watts

Alan Watts, bad boy philosopher from the 1960's, gives a brief but beautiful description of Red Tantra*/ kundalini yoga

"...at the base of the spine is the sleeping serpent kundalini coiled around a phallus, this represents 'involution' to be absolutely involved. The sex symbol is used because sex stands for, symbolically, complete involvement. When you have gotten in, the trick is to get out.
The process of yoga is represented by waking up the serpent, who is under the sleep of maya, captivated by illusion, thinking the world really exists, you have lost sight of the eternal now........" -Alan Watts

thanks redliterocket4/youtube 5min.

*Red Tantra: with sex
White Tantra: without sex
Pink Tantra: energy of sex without the sex

Deconstructing Jealousy, Alexander Berzin

1/4
Buddhist view on disturbing emotions, defined as states of heart or mind that cause us to lose our piece of mind. we lose self control and all sorts of really crazy urges come up in our mind........our connection with the concept of 'me' and our preoccupation with 'me'.........


Alexander Berzin (b. 1944) is a Buddhist Scholar, translator and teacher focusing on the Tibetan tradition.
From 1969 to 1998, he resided primarily in Dharamsala, India, initially as a Fulbright Scholar, studying and practicing with masters from all four Tibetan Buddhist traditions. His main teacher was Tsenzhab Serkong Rinpoche , the late Master Debate Partner and Assistant Tutor of His Holiness the Dalai Lama.

berzin archives.com

Margot Anand, La Vision Du Tantra video

An exceptional interview with an exceptional artist, teacher, author. This is a fabulous introduction to a tantric life.



French /English.
Extrait du DVD de Margot ANAND, L'Art de l'Extase Sexuelle. - Formation personnelle annuelle à l'amour et à l'extase avec Margot Anand : http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margot_ANAND Voir

Margot Anand on the science of love, the tantric vision and her special Sky Dancing Tantra. A native of France, Margot received her degree from Sorbonne University in Paris and has spent decades studying with many of the world’s prominent masters of Hindu and Buddhist Tantra
Margot is an adjunct faculty member at Dr. Deepak Chopra’s institute and has taught at Dr Dean Ornish’s annual retreats for heart patients.
Sky Dancing Institutes: Switzerland, Belgium, France, Switzerland, Germany, Austria, Northern California

Orgasm: Screaming and Full Body Orgasm

Full Body Orgasm
Taoist and some tantric systems teach the full body orgasm,
an electrifying sensation that permeates the whole body.
This is achieved through breath, inner locks, attention, mantra, and touch.
These techniques engage the sexual/kundalini energy and teach you how to direct
and circulate this energy throughout your body. Avoiding ejaculation and even for women to avoid orgasm, allows kundalini to expand. As the energy expands and is directed up through the body it has the potential to heal, energize and illuminate.
The energy need not to be released, if/when released it is starry and explosive and when combined with g-spot
stimulation creates a transcendent space of physical bliss and emotional rapture.
With practice, men can begin to separate ejaculation from orgasm*,
the first step towards multiple orgasms.

This practice can be done solo or with your partner.

*ejaculation and orgasm are separate events that happen to occur simultaneously.

White Lotus East in New York provides an exceptional article on the male multiple orgasm and the sexual arousal cycle

Screaming Orgasm
the screaming orgasm is not part of tantra or any of the eastern systems
...it is part of the old school of sexuality, a toddy to drop your inhibitions enough
that someone, surely, would have a screaming orgasm
1 Shot Grey Goose Vodka
1 Shot Disaronno Amaretto
1 Shot Amarula
1 Shot Kahlua
2 Shot Half & Half
1 Shot Iced Espresso

Blend with crushed ice

Orgasm: Expanded

Wikipedia:
Expanded orgasm is any sexual experience more intense and extensive than what can be described as, or included in the definition of, a regular orgasm.[1] It includes a range of sensations that include orgasms that are full-bodied, and orgasms that last from a few minutes to many hours.[2] The term was coined in 1995 by Dr. Patricia Taylor. It was used in her Ph.D. research of intense sensual experiences of 44 couples from various backgrounds and referenced in a video she produced in 1998.
Distinguishing features of expanded orgasm are energetic sensations and contractions all over the body, especially in the abdomen, inner thighs, hands and feet, and of course the genitals. Dr. Taylor describes reports of practitioners going into various altered states of consciousness, bringing about deep emotional release and rejuvenation, profound spiritual experiences, having awarenesses not normally perceived in regular orgasm, and perceiving energy expanding beyond the limits of their bodies.[3] Similar experiences were reported in studies by Dr. Jenny Wade,[4] and by David Deida.[5]
Dr. Taylor reports that men are as likely as women to go into these states and have all the experiences enumerated above.[3] In addition, both Brauer[10] and Bodansky[11] discuss male extended orgasm.
Theories for the biological processes required for achieving these states include the progressive and balanced stimulation and elevation of the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous system; this is evidenced by the tantric practice of using breathing techniques[12] (to engage the parasympathetic nervous system) during sexual activities.
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Orgasmic Fake Outs, Men?

As part of 'orgasm' week, we have two faked orgasms....one from each gender....and both moderately funny



the classic 'when harry met sally'
Faking is not necessary*. Taoist and some tantric paths can teach us to awaken the sexual energy and just 'be' with it, calmly and creatively....without the goal of orgasm.
As the partner of a pretender, allow your partner to take responsibility for his/her, own orgasm/or non-orgasm...and you for yours.
Our sexual health, like our physical or spiritual health is our own gift and responsibility.

As a couple with a faker, drop expectations of orgasm, eliminate distractions, clear your mind and eyes wide open, focus on connection. allow the unthought experience of erotic spontaneous bliss to naturally arise. This erotic energy is more powerful than anything in your mind or a mail order catalog, and is the gateway to full body, heart and expanded orgasms
Real orgasmic ecstasy is seldom planned, rarely filmed, and even more rarely is it captured...it can only be experienced

Journal of Sexual Medicine, Female Ejaculation and the G-Spot

The Journal of Sexual Medicine
Giovanni Luca Gravina MD, PhD, Fulvia Brandetti MD, Paolo Martini MD, PhD, Eleonora Carosa MD, PhD, Savino M. Di Stasi MD, Susanna Morano MD, Andrea Lenzi MD, Emmanuele A. Jannini MD (2008)
Measurement of the Thickness of the Urethrovaginal Space in Women with or without Vaginal Orgasm
doi:10.1111/j.1743-6109.2007.00739.x

Introduction. The physiology and anatomy of female sexual function are poorly understood. The differences in sexual function among women may be partly attributed to anatomical factors.
Results. The urethrovaginal space and distal, middle, and proximal urethrovaginal segments were thinner in women without vaginal orgasm. A direct correlation between the presence of vaginal orgasm and the thickness of urethrovaginal space was found. Women with a thicker urethrovaginal space were more likely to experience vaginal orgasm

Volume 4 Issue 5 Page 1388-1393, September 2007
Florian Wimpissinger MD, FEBU, Karl Stifter PhD, Wolfgang Grin MD, Walter Stackl MD (2007) The Female Prostate Revisited: Perineal Ultrasound and Biochemical Studies of Female Ejaculate
The Journal of Sexual Medicine 4 (5) , 1388–1393 doi:10.1111/j.1743-6109.2007.00542.x

The Female Prostate Revisited: Perineal Ultrasound and Biochemical Studies of Female Ejaculate
Florian Wimpissinger, MD, FEBU,* Karl Stifter, PhD,† Wolfgang Grin, MD,‡ and Walter Stackl, MD *
*Department of Urology, Rudolfstiftung Hospital—Urology, Vienna, Austria; †Institute for Perineometry and Sextherapy, Vienna, Austria; ‡Rudolfstiftung Hospital—Obstetrics and Gynecology, Vienna, Austria
Florian Wimpissinger; Rudolfstiftung Hospital—Urology, Juchgasse 25 Vienna A1030, Austria. Tel: +431711654808; Fax: +431711654809; E-mail: florian.wimpissinger@gmx.at

Many speculations have been made on the possible existence of a "female prostate gland" and "female ejaculation." Despite several reports on the subject, controversy still exists around the "female prostate" and whether such a gland might be the source of fluid emitted during orgasm (ejaculation).
Aim. To investigate the ultrasonographic, biochemical, and endoscopic features in two women who reported actual ejaculations during orgasm.
Main Outcome Measures. Perineal ultrasound studies, as well as biochemical characteristics of ejaculate and urethroscopy, have been performed in two women.
Methods. Two premenopausal women—44 and 45 years of age—who actually reported fluid expulsion (ejaculation) during orgasm have been investigated. Ultrasound imaging, biochemical studies of the ejaculated fluid, and endoscopy of the urethra have been used to identify a prostate in the female. Ejaculated fluid parameters have been compared to voided urine samples.
Results. On high-definition perineal ultrasound images, a structure was identified consistent with the gland tissue surrounding the entire length of the female urethra. On urethroscopy, one midline opening (duct) was seen just inside the external meatus in the six-o’clock position. Biochemically, the fluid emitted during orgasm showed all the parameters found in prostate plasma in contrast to the values measured in voided urine.

Conclusions. Data of the two women presented further underline the concept of the female prostate both as an organ itself and as the source of female ejaculation. Wimpissinger F, Stifter K, Grin W, and Stackl W. The female prostate revisited: Perineal ultrasound and biochemical studies of female ejaculate. J Sex Med 2007;4:1388–1393.
.....http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1743-6109.2007.00739.x

G-Spots and Ejaculating Women

Was that a 'squirting' orgasm, or did she just pee on you

....coming thursday, is the grafenberg spot real? is the g-spot (grafenberg) a female prostate gland,
where is it and do all women have it?

Technorati Profile

Joseph Campbell on Seeking

People say what we're all seeking is a meaning for life. I don't think that's what we're really seeking. I think what we're seeking is an experience of being alive ... so that we actually feel the rapture of being alive. That's what it's all finally about.

Artists are magical helpers. Evoking symbols and motifs that connect us to our deeper selves, they can help us along the heroic journey of our own lives.

The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.

Joseph Campbell, on Tantra, Kali and Trans-Personal States

Joseph Campbell was an American mythology professor, writer, and orator best known for his work in the fields of comparative mythology and comparative religion and the pbs
Campbell was influenced by Jung, Heinrich Zimmer and was a longtime friend of J. Krishnamurti. Campbell believed the religions of the world to be the various, culturally influenced “masks” of the same fundamental, transcendent truths.

Stan Grof on Breath and Non Ordinary States of Consciousness

Western science is approaching a paradigm shift of unprecedented proportions, one that will change our concepts of reality and of human nature, bridge the gap between ancient wisdom and modern science, and reconcile the differences between Eastern spirituality and Western pragmatism.
- Stan Grof from Beyond the Brain
Holotropic Breath techniques to access transpersonal realms.
Stanislav Grof, professor of psychology at the California Institute of Integral Studies and Pacifica Graduate Institute in Santa Barbara, California, is one of the fathers of transpersonal psychology. 50yrs as a pioneering researcher into the use of altered states of consciousness as a method of healing, growth, and insight. Grof's unique approach was influenced by Sandoz Pharmaceutical Laboratories in Switzerland, when in 1954 they sent a sample of a newly-developed lysergic acid diethylamide to the lab Groff worked in, to be studied and reported on.

Late Night LOL with Osho/ Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh

Osho was a nice strict Jain boy who rebelled, like all nice boys do, and ultimately fueled the fire of the Free Love and the Human Potential Movements in the US
Online Videos by Veoh.comThe very controversial Osho, aka Bhagwam Shree Ragneesh, mystic-philosopher and father of California Tantra, comments on Gandhi, Hitler, the Pope and Mother Teresa – and goes on from there to talk about his reputation for being controversial, contradictory, and, in the words of the interviewer, “one of the funniest people I’ve ever met.”.......credited with liberating the minds of future generations from the shackles of religiosity and conformism, he spent his life challenging minds, concepts and institutions that he considered obsolete......

Hugh Milne, an ex-follower, writes of his first meeting with Osho, "Whatever this marvellous being is doing, it is far more than the words that are passing between us. There is no invasion of privacy, no alarm, but it is as if his soul is slowly slipping inside mine, and in a split second transferring vital information.

Many of todays modern California tantra teachers are from the Osho school

Bill Clinton on Higher Levels of Consciousness

Goddess Worship, From Sex, Death and Desire

The christian conception of feminine sexuality turns on the opposition between virgin (good) and whore (bad).
This is very different from pre-Christian goddess worship.
The Goddess, in her many guises and manifestations, was the most holy figure on earth for thousands of years and yet she has been so successfully eradicated that the majority of western women have simply no idea that she even existed, let alone had the religous awe and captivating power that she emanated.
The return to goddess worship could be a reaction to the objectification of women on the internet and pornography in general.
Taken from the show Sex, Death and Desire, written and directed by John Simmons of Ouch! Media and founding member of Critchley and Simmons

Tantric Lingam Massage, Sex and the City

Tukus-Lingus, Sex & the City's View

licking and does one reciprocate, and do actions speak louder than words

Yoni and Lingam Massage,

Coming Monday:
What is a yoni, what is a lingam and what is the spiritual aspect of stimulation

Sting on Tantra

Sting is a famous proponent of tantric sex. I ask him to give the frustrated Guardian readers a few tips. He looks indignant and says it's about "a journey", not "fucking for eight hours". OK, I say. "I try to be lighthearted about it," he says, "but at the same time, there is some serious information about couples and how they can relate and sex is only a tiny proportion of it. It's about ritualising a period of the day with your partner; it can be looking at each other, touching each other, running a bath, a massage, deeper levels of connection. Sex is only the surface. Once you really connect, telling the truth, talking, all of that. Tantra is much too complex for me to discuss. But it's about reconnecting with the world of the spirit through everyday things. My church happens to be the person I live with. She is my connection to the sacred. I don't know how that's going to look in print."

What exactly is the spirit?

"I don't know what it is. But it's something I need to connect with on a regular basis and the roots for me are music and my relationships. I don't know what it is. I only have a limited brain. I'm just a human being."

For complete interview by the Guardian UK with Sting on his memoir,Broken Music
http://books.guardian.co.uk/departments/biography/story/0,,1083127,00.html
image: sting and trudi styler

Albert Camus on Love

We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.

Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.

-Albert Camus

Sitar and Psychedelic Chakra Meditation

Tantra and Desire

It is precisely because our present life is so inseparably linked with desire
that we must make use of desire’s tremendous energy if we wish to transform our life into something transcendental.

Before we can board the lightning vehicle of tantra, we have to understand why it is both necessary and possible to abandon our ordinary, limited view of ourselves and generate in its place the enlightened self- identity of a fully evolved being. We have to realise that our low opinion of ourselves, which keeps us trapped in the cycle of perpetual dissatisfaction, only arises because we are ignorant of our basic, essentially pure nature.

While the great explosion of desirous energy in this century is considered to be a serious obstacle to most spiritual paths, it is actually helpful for the practice of tantra where desire is the fuel propelling us to our highest destination. Perhaps only a path like tantra, with its emphasis on direct experience rather than blind acceptance, can rouse us out of our self-destructive patterns and give us the opportunity to fulfil ourselves completely.

-Lama Thubten Yeshe
Introduction to Tantra

Tantra, Secrets and Psychedelics

...Although the ritualistic mixing of sex and psychedelics is ancient--and openly discussed in the writings of iconoclastic philosophers like Aleister Crowley and Robert Anton Wilson--the psychopharmacological techniques for activating higher states of sexual consciousness remain unknown by most people, and they are often kept secret from early initiates of Tantra. Techniques for enhancing sexual rituals with sacred plants are rarely mentioned in popular books on Tantra or in Tantra workshops.


This important omission is deliberate. It's due to the fact that it requires a good bit of training to handle the enormous amount of energy that a Tantric-psychedelic session can generate. Tantric sex can be quite intense on its own, and that may be more than enough for most people who are interested in exploring Tantra. Not everyone can handle shivering in ecstasy for hours while their partner's face is melting. The omission of psychedelics is also largely due to the fact that most people in the Tantric community are aware that the idea of a sexually-based spirituality is controversial enough for most people. Mixing sex and religion elicits strong taboos in many people. Making it widely known that some of those same people who are mixing sex and religion are also using "Schedule I drugs" may not be the wisest way to gain societal acceptance during a time in history when sacred plants are regarded as forbidden fruit by the Puritanical overlords of society. So their secrecy is understandable...
-David Jay Brown
m a p s • v o l u m e X I I n u m b e r 1 • s p r i n g 2 0 0 2

Dharmanidhi Sarasvati on Tantra

Neo-Tantra ritualises sex. Authentic Tantra sexualises ritual

- Dharmanidhi Sarasvati

More Anal Answers with GQ

"Anal is the new oral," says syndicated sex columnist Dan Savage. "I used to get letters from women about giving head. Those letters are now dwarfed by letters from women asking how to take it up the butt." Okay. But pronouncements and statistics that indicate the rising popularity of rearguard action don't address some nagging questions—the biggest one being how, presuming they haven't had their own rectums messed with, can so many guys justify asking women to let them take the service elevator?

Phillip, an engineer in Chicago, says he and his friends request a ride in the back seat because it's a harder-to-reach goal than old-fashioned intercourse. "Once a guy has anal sex, he's put on a pedestal by his peers," he says. He claims he hasn't had much trouble getting women to agree to it. "I only had to persuade two girls. [I asked] 'Can I put it in your butt?' At first they were like, 'No, it will hurt.' Then time after time of having sex with them they finally said okay. It hurt them the first time, but after that they always said they enjoyed it—if not a little, then a lot."

For other men, the appeal of anal penetration is less the novelty—and the fact that it gives them a good story to tell over beers—and more the psychology. "For most of my friends, it's sort of a domination thing," says John (not his real name), 30, a writer in New York. "[It's] basically getting someone in a position where they're most vulnerable. My friends enjoy that and they tell their friends they did it. But it's not like girls are ready for it—it's something they do when they're really drunk."

"There's an erotic undercurrent about being in control of a situation," says Edward Ratush, a psychiatrist and sex therapist in New York. "It's a very ego-focused thing for the guy."....

-peter Rubin
GQ Magazine
http://men.style.com/details/blogs/details/2007/07/is-it-ok-to-dem.html

msnbc, More Straight Couples Experimenting with Anal sex/play

According to results of a federal study released two years ago, 40 percent of men and 35 percent of women surveyed in 2002 said they have had anal sex with an opposite-sex partner. An earlier study published in 1994 showed that among heterosexuals, 26 percent of men and 20 percent of women had ever engaged in anal sex. And if anecdotes by experts are to be believed, the numbers have boomed in the last few years.

Why now?
The first and most obvious reason is the influence of porn, which is always trying to come up with new ways to titillate and to be naughtier. “Anal sex did not used to be de rigeur in porn and now it pretty much is even for mainstream porn,” explains Constance Penley, a film studies professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Since mainstream porn is so widely viewed, many more people have become exposed to the practice in a heterosexual, not just homosexual, context.
“There was time when [porn producers] were first going after the couples market in the late 1980s that nobody would think to have an anal sex scene in a movie labeled for couples,” Taormino says. “Now it is quite the opposite.”.......

Brian Alexander
MSNBC contributor

msnbc, Sex Survey Results

...long term relationships provide better more regular sex..Women of all ages say they’re enjoying sex with their partner more now than they used to, according to results of the new ELLE/MSNBC.com Sex and Love Survey. For many men, however, giving up the thrill of the chase means giving up some thrills in the bedroom as well........the reasons men cheat: 46% said they want more sex and women cheat for emotional reasons......

Tsem Tulku Rinpoche, Be Happy

Awesome, in your face, dharma talk on what it means to be happy and what blocks us

Lama Tsem Tulku Rinpoche, What is Spiritual Practice?

Exceptional and fun Dharma Talk by Lama Tsem Tulku Rinpoche on what Spiritual Practice is all about!

The concept of Buddhism Rinpoche transmits is appropriately categorized as “Alternative Buddhism for Alternative People” suitable for today’s modern, sophisticated and busy society. His great depth of understanding of Buddhadharma strips off the superfluous and presents it in a form and manner appropriate to the needs and conditions of the modern world. Rinpoche is loved by the modern or non-traditionlists. He is charismatic, dynamic, compassionate, open-minded and generous and possesses a highly-developed intellect. There is a certain uniqueness and power in the way he conveys his experiential words of wisdom – it has charm, humor, openness, humanity and spontaneity that appeals to all.

Rumi Who?

a documentary on Rumi made by Institute of Interfaith Dialogue.

Rumi, Like This

"Like This", set to Anoushka Shankar's "Prayer In Passing"

Rumi, Those who don't Feel This Love

Those who don't Feel This Love was written by Rumi in the 13th Century and translated and recited in our film by the great poet and author, Coleman Barks. www.4SeasonsProductions.com.

Sexuality & Spirituality with Ken Wilber

America's foremost transpersonal theorist Ken Wilber in an entertaining and enlightening discussion of sexuality, chakras, kundalini, high tantra yoga, open marriage and the action consort.

Integral Naked is a multimedia portal into Integral Consciousness, featuring hundreds of hours of audio and video conversations with today's greatest thinkers, leaders, artists, and visionaries. Often moderated by Ken Wilber, these discussions span a wide range of topics--including spirituality, sexuality, psychology, ecology, art, business, and politics.

David Lynch on Desire and Meditation

30 yr. TM practioner, brilliant movie maker(blue velvet, twin peaks, eraserhead) and painter, David Lynch on desire, attention and meditation.

Kundalini High with Gurmukh, video

Gurmukh Kaur Khalsa is an amazing kundalini yoga teacher in los angeles and founder of Golden Bridge Yoga