Urban Tantra, Second Edition: Sacred Sex for the Twenty-First Century
what is spiritual is physical, and what is physical is spiritual.
Barbara Carrellas • Urban Tantra, Second Edition: Sacred Sex for the Twenty-First Century
Known as Svadhistana, the second chakra is located at the lower abdomen, just below the navel.
Barbara Carrellas • Urban Tantra, Second Edition: Sacred Sex for the Twenty-First Century
Thus, at the heart of Tantra is the elimination of duality.
Barbara Carrellas • Urban Tantra, Second Edition: Sacred Sex for the Twenty-First Century
Tantra views both the human body and earthly life as concrete manifestations of divine energy.
Barbara Carrellas • Urban Tantra, Second Edition: Sacred Sex for the Twenty-First Century
Ecstatic bliss is the joy experienced by the soul when it reconnects to Sacred Unity, to God/dess, to All That Is. Ecstatic bliss, in its purest Tantric definition, is not a feeling or a sensation.
Barbara Carrellas • Urban Tantra, Second Edition: Sacred Sex for the Twenty-First Century
Sex is as much or more of an energetic event as it is a physical experience.
Barbara Carrellas • Urban Tantra, Second Edition: Sacred Sex for the Twenty-First Century
The difference between my ordinary urban life and my wooded Tantric retreats was consciousness. If I could be completely conscious and present in each moment, it wouldn’t matter whether I practiced Tantra in Bali or on the Bowery.
Barbara Carrellas • Urban Tantra, Second Edition: Sacred Sex for the Twenty-First Century
for the first time, in sex you are natural.
Barbara Carrellas • Urban Tantra, Second Edition: Sacred Sex for the Twenty-First Century
The Tantric belief that to experience sexual excitement is a taste of divine energy is a profound and revolutionary thought, as relevant today as it was in the past.