Tantra and Neo Tantra
In books and in the web many different definitions of and opinions about the meaning of the concept trantra can be found. You can read about a "web", about "holy sex", about a "life philosophy", about the "connecting of sexuali- ty and spirituality, about "becoming one with the universe" etc. Sometimes are gets the impression that the concept simply has to ally with the writer´s whishes and hopes. Or to put it another way: in tantra everyone can find what they are looking for. Most of the interpretations have something to do with love or sexuality, once in a while Neo Tantra or Tantra Massage is mentioned. One thing is certain: for the old tantrists there was no Tantra Massage and sex was as everyday as tooth brushing is for us. In the old texts you can´t find much about sex, for them sex was rather holy not unholy, but natural - are could say that when everything is holy, sex is holy too. Many different brandes and schools developed, but it was primaly the followers of the Vamacara Tantra (left-handed path of the Hinduistic Tantra) as well as the tantric form of Tibetian Buddhismus who used sexual energy as a catapult toward a higher conciousness. Neo Tantra occupied itself also with sexuality because in our culture sex is viewed as anything but natural. It cannot be denied that religions have led a battlefield of suffering and women are it´s most serious victims. Neo Tantra fits itself to our times, like an update, it is enmeshed in our modern psychology and helps us deal with problems that didn´t exist centuries ago. Copyright by Amano |