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
a belief that the sensual experiences of the body were an effective and legitimate path to enlightenment.
Barbara Carrellas • Urban Tantra, Second Edition: Sacred Sex for the Twenty-First Century
What is Here is Elsewhere. What is not Here is Nowhere.
Barbara Carrellas • Urban Tantra, Second Edition: Sacred Sex for the Twenty-First Century
Stay in the present moment. Don’t try so hard. Stay in the present moment. Drop your expectations and your judgments. Stay in the present moment. Surrender.
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
what is spiritual is physical, and what is physical is spiritual.
Barbara Carrellas • Urban Tantra, Second Edition: Sacred Sex for the Twenty-First Century
Here’s a little nugget of Taoist wisdom: sensory deprivation amplifies chi by conserving it. When you blindfold someone, chi cannot leak out their eyes.
Barbara Carrellas • Urban Tantra, Second Edition: Sacred Sex for the Twenty-First Century
Tantric sex and BDSM have much more in common than may seem apparent at first glance. Both are erotic arts of consciousness. Both arts add intensity to life and sex.
Barbara Carrellas • Urban Tantra, Second Edition: Sacred Sex for the Twenty-First Century
For lack of quality, we crave quantity.