January 31, 2005

The Art of Sexual Magic

The Art of Sexual Magic by Margot Anand is a useful tool for those interested in Tantra. It takes some reading,discipline and a willingness to trust your intuition.

Anand says that human sexuality has what we might call magical powers. I prefer to use the less subjective term "transmutational". The exchange of energy during sexual intercourse isnot only so powerful that it can create another human being it can also be consciously used to create other things we want in life.

Anand teaches couples to focus on their personal vision during sex, and create changes in their daily relationships and circumstances through the energy they produce. Her book discusses ways in which sexuality can  satisfy both  physical  and  spiritual needs.

Anand presents a nine-week series of unique exercises,  based on  Tantric teachings. She believes that everone can experience transformative power if these exercises are diligently followed.

This book is beautifully illustrated. Right now this book is out of print but it is well worth your searching for it
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The Dream Tribe

Western researchers and psychologists refer to the Senoi of Malayasia as the "Dream People".The daily life of this community is based on the dreams of their people.

Every morning the head of each family asks  each person in the household to relate his or her dream from the night before. Everyone is expected to have had a dream and to remember it because from childhood they are trained to  remember and interact with dreams

Each person interprets his or her dream.Then the family chooses one dream that the head of the family will bring to the tribal council. At the council, every family representative  presents the family's dream.The tribal leader  chooses one dream to be the community's project.

There are very specific rules regarding dreams in the Senoi tribe. If  in a dream someone hurts a person, he must ask forgiveness from that person during his waking state. If he dreams that an accident will happen to  a person, he must warn that person when he wakes up. Dreams are taken very seriously by this unusual community..

The Senoi believe that each dream character is a symbol of one's self or an aspect of himself.So if in a dream a person finds himself or herself in an intimate sexual relationship the person should seek to achieve orgasm. This principle of accepting pleasure in a dream even if it is forbidden in the real world is said to be very liberating.

If in a dream a person finds himself in conflict or in a fight with somebody  he should  conquer his opponent but make sure that he asks for a gift before he does so.This gift need not be real. It could be symbolic, like a flower or a poem.. This is said to balance the fight psychologically.

According to reports, there is no crime of any kind among the Senoi. There is  no sex crime, no theft or murder, no rape, sexual molestation, harassment or immorality of any kind. Some psychologists say this lack of crime relates to their use of dreams.

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Senoi Dream Work Principles

The Senoi are (were) a Malaysian hunting and gathering tribe brought to the attention of the West by Kilton Stewart. His descriptions of this happy tribe, free of disease and mental illness due to their morning dream sharing and techniques of dream control, were first described in the early 1950's though the research itself took place before the Second World War.

The dreamwork principles are summarized by Domhoff: (via Stewart and Garfield,1985, pg 9) and still valuable and worth repeating:

1. Always confront and conquer danger in dreams. If an animal looms out of the jungle, go toward it. If someone attacks you, fight back.

2. Always move toward pleasurable experiences in dreams. If you are attracted to someone in a dream, feel free to turn the attraction into a full sexual experience. If you are enjoying the pleasurable sensations of flying or swimming, relax and experience them fully.

3.Always make your dreams have a positive outcome and extract a creative product form them. Best of all in this regard, try to obtain a gift from the dream images, such as a poem, a song, a dance, a design, or a painting.

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“Rose/Vision”

Permit me the concept of the rose

the perfumed labyrinth

that leads one petal at a time

into oblivion’s heart

 

There are visions within the silence of the rose

…and I not only see but am all possibilities

of time and space and change

--Lenore Kandel
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“Hard Core Love”

the divine is not separate from the beast; it is the total creature that

transcends itself

the messiah that has been invoked is already here
--Lenore Kandel
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