TANTRIC SEX
Tantra: An Overview 
By Dr. Corynna Clarke

Tantra Yoga is the oldest known religious science, it comes from the primitive lore of the Indian spiritual tradition, a foundation deeply connected to universal philosophies. The Tantric philosophy itself includes in it's theory all the levels of the universe and gives a paramount importance to meditation, music, astronomy, biology, parapsychology, anatomy and sexuality. In fact, the sexual experience, considered to be a unification of everlasting male and everlasting female principles, has a very important place in Tantric technique and procedures.

Tantra is a beautiful, complex discipline, 
an accurate method, and a profound analysis based on rational foundations; it is a meta science dealing with the different aspects of the supreme consciousness and ways to experience it. Here, sexuality forms only the basal prima facie of its techniques. It is subjected to rigorous discipline, because it is known that the secret of life lies in controlling the sexual energy.

Understanding the Tantric attitude towards sexuality requires a totally open mind and a reversal of perspective. We are accustomed by a puritanical mentality to seeing sexuality as a "sin " to be avoided, ashamed of or, to keep it secret because of its impurity. We have all the chances to consider Tantric love as being a defiant assault on conventional morality and thus to miss completely the tremendous spiritual value of such a perspective. In order to understand it, we must first come to view the human form as vibrating in identity with the sacred, divine aspects of creation. From this sacred perspective, sexuality is seen as re-producing, at a smaller scale, the continuous and beautiful interaction of a cosmic process which is manifesting the entire universe from the absolute reality. 

In this new vision sexual "sin" disappears 
(it never existed anyway), being replaced by pure beauty and total love. Sexual union is thus a form of meditative discipline with profound psycho-mental and spiritual effects. Therefore there is no obscenity or pornography but only sublime symbolism and refined beauty.

The figure of a man and woman coupled in sexual union is not thought impure or sinful. On the contrary, it is considered to be a veritable sacrificial rite. The male worshiper has an attitude towards the woman, which is different from that of an ordinary person performing the sexual act. The woman is transfigured into a living symbol an earthly manifestation of the divine mother of the universe (para Shakti). Likewise for the woman, man represents a vital embodiment of the Everlasting male principal (Shiva). The sexual beauty raised at the transcendental level of an extraordinary psychic experience with a spiritual character reflects, then, the ineffable happiness of a subtle cosmic nature, known in yoga as Ananda (i.e. Cosmic beatitude) and in Tantra as Samarasa (i.e. the savor of equality).

It is important to emphasize that Tantra Yoga substantiates its techniques of Spiritual development on the perfect yet effortless control of the sexual energy (semen retention). Traditional texts say semen contain consciousness as the ova contains primordial creative energy. Here the point is to return to the practitioner the enormous amount of raw sexual energy contained in semen and in the correspondent female orgasmic emanations in such a way that this subtle energy may be sublimated and its efficiency used for higher purposes : i.e. psycho-mental and spiritual. The Science of the ancient Sage (Siddahs) teaches that the sexual power (the life force) can be transmuted into superior forms of energy called ojas and tejas.

In Tantra Yoga , one uses sexuality for completely transcending it. Even at the level of ordinary sexual experience, the couple sometimes has the strange and powerful feeling that sexual intercourse releases a tremendous energy inside the human psyche. Frequently superior and nostalgic truths can be inferred in this state.

Pedro McGregor in his book Psychosexual Synthesis confirms the Tantric teachings concerning sexuality. It is logical to consider that a Conscious change in our sexual behavior and in our most intimate attitudes could Act as a magical spring, releasing truly super-human energies in the same way that a controlled mutation in the intimate structure of the atom can release a tremendous amount of nuclear energy. In the act of lovemaking the couple embodies the wholeness of the supreme. Tantric sexual union resonates with the very foundational energies of the universe. It captures, magnifies and re-directs the essential cosmic power of life.

It is therefore not by chance that sexual intercourse brings the most intense emotional experience that the human being can have while in the flesh. Therefore Tantra uses this energy predominantly to create that overwhelming unifying energy. The erotic impulse stirs up the Kundalini energy so that it can rise, through the subtle duct of power along the spine, to the highest center of power above the head.

Dr. Corynna Clarke is a certified Doctor of Spiritual Counseling, Tantric Sex Educator, Holistic Health Practitioner and Licensed Massage Therapist. She has been facilitating sexual healing, overcoming sexual dysfunction, and increasing intimacy and ecstasy for couples as a Certified Tantric Educator for the past five years. Dr. Clarke has traveled to the temples of Indonesia, Japan, China and Thailand. She has studied sacred rituals in Indian Temples with Gurus. And continues to research ancient sex practices of Africa and indigenous peoples of the world. It is her calling to bring these teachings into the present day, where our sexuality can again be lovingly and reverently embraced. 
Dr. Corynna Clark