In The Garden
by Van Morrison.

The fields are always wet with rain
After a summer shower
When I saw you standin'
Standin' in the garden
In the garden

Wet with rain

You wiped the teardrops from your eye in sorrow
And we watched the petals fall down to the ground
And then as I sat beside you I felt the
Great sadness that day
In the garden

And then one day you came back home
You were a creature all in rapture
You had the key to your soul
And you did open
That day you came back
To the garden

The olden summer breeze was blowin' gainst your face
Alright
The light of God was shinin' on your countenance divine
And you were a violet colour as you
Sat beside your father and your mother
In the garden

The summer breeze was blowin' on your face
Within your violet you treasure your summery words
And as the shiver from my neck down to my spine
Ignited me in daylight and nature
In the garden

And you went into a trance
Your childlike vision became so fine
And we heard the bells within the church
We loved so much
And felt the presence of the youth of eternal summers
In the garden

Alright

And as it touched your cheeks so lightly
Born again you were and blushed
And we touched each other lightly
And we felt the presence of the
Christ within our hearts
In the garden

And I turned to you and I said
No guru, no method, no teacher
Just you and I and nature
And the Father
In the garden

Listen

No guru, no method, no teacher
Just you and I and nature
And the Father and the Son and the Holy Ghost
In the garden
Wet with rain

No Guru, no method, no teacher
Just you and I and nature and the
Father AND THE SON and the Holy Ghost
In that garden, in the garden
Wet with rain

Yeah.
Alright.

No Guru, no method, no teacher
Just you and I and nature
and the father
In the garden

The Kundalini Awakening

What is a Kundalini awakening? The term Kundalini, as used by yogis, refers to the Sacred Fire located near the base of the spine. The Kundalini has seven layers. It is not a matter of whether the Kundalini , awakened or not, rather it is a matter of how awakened the Kundalini is, or to what degree it is awakened. Intentional awakenings bring us into the spiritual nature of a conscience Awakening. Often awakenings are unintentional or unexpected through life experience or events.

In India, the degree of awakening of the Kundalini energy is symbolized by the number of cobras hovering on the top of the head of the yogi. The number of cobras symbolize the number of layers the Kundalini has been awakened. Sometimes you may see a statue of a yogi meditating, with one, three or five cobras hovering over his head. But seldom would you see a sculpture showing seven cobras on top of the yogi's head. Seven cobras symbolize a very advanced soul, a great spiritual teacher. In China, a sage who has fully awakened the Kundalini energy and has mastered it, is represented by a person standing and riding on a dragon, symbolic of controlling and riding the sexual energy sourse. This is why some paintings depict Bodhisattva Kuan Yin in this manner also. In Egypt, the awakening of the Kundalini energy, which has risen up to the head center, is symbolized by a snake on the headgear of the pharaoh. The serpent nature of our spirit, at our sexual base located at the base of the spine and it's emergence from third eye, is symbol that transcends time and culture.

What is the use of the Kundalini energy in spiritual practice? The Kundalini energy enables the brain cells to register spiritual or "higher" experiences and stimuli. The quality of the physical body, especially the brain and the nervous system, is improved or upgraded. After a certain period of time, a person whose Kundalini is highly awakened may develop supreme awareness and skills that may be used to raise collective conscience.

When the Kundalini is awakened, the positive and negative qualities of the person will be magnified to a very high degree. Kundalini energy is like fertilizer. Whatever seeds are in the ground will be stimulated to grow. So whatever ancient seeds a person possesses, whether good or bad, will be magnified. This is why a person going into the spiritual path experiences intense inner battles. Therefore, it is important to practice inner purification.

One of the side effects of improper, premature awakening of the Kundalini is having an excessive or unregulated sex drive, and or mood modulation. Without a teacher and underling compassion, a person may become a sex maniac. Sometimes a person may develop extreme pride, or even become a megalomaniac in his Divine power.

There are many methods of awakening the Kundalini energy, but the process must be done properly. There must be proper preparation.

First, the physical body and the energy body must be cleansed or purified, so that the Kundalini energy, once awakened to a higher degree, can flow easily without any blockage and without causing damage to the physical body. Second, it is important that one must practice inner purification regularly through character building. This is done by developing virtues and removing vices or inner weaknesses. Third, the higher chakras, especially the heart chakra and the crown chakra, must be activated first before awakening the Kundalini energy. These two chakras are extremely important.

The activation of the heart chakra ensures that the enhanced intellectual faculty and increase in willpower will be used properly and harmlessly. The activation of the crown chakra enables the spiritual energy to come down or descend in order to (1) awaken the Kundalini energy safely, (2) awaken it to a higher degree, and (3) regulate the Kundalini energy. The Kundalini energy is brought up to the higher chakras and to the crown chakra by the spiritual energy.

For spiritual practitioners who are interested in a safe and effective method of awakening their Kundalini energy, it is advisable to use the Meditation on Twin Hearts. In this meditation, the heart chakra and the crown chakra are highly activated first. Next, the spiritual energy comes down in great quantities and goes to the area near the base of the spine, partially awakening the Kundalini energy to a higher degree, and then regulating and bringing it up to the higher chakras and to the crown chakra.

In practicing the Meditation on Twin Hearts, you may feel your head being pushed down. This sensation is the descent of the spiritual energy. You may feel the energy going up your spine. This is the Kundalini rising up. When the Kundalini energy goes to the crown chakra, some may feel as if the head is or will be exploding or may see the head like a fountain of light. Others may feel an energy pulling them up. Some may clairvoyantly see the stars and galaxies, or feel their consciousness expanding all over the cosmos.

Another method of awakening Kundalini energy is by using special practices in Hatha Yoga. If done properly, and guided by a competent teacher, this method is relatively safe, but slow. It is not as powerful or as fast as when one uses advanced spiritual techniques.

Yet another method of awakening the Kundalini is by using visualization and mantras and by awakening the Kundalini from the bottom going up. This is an old method. There is a tendency of excessively activating the lower nature, unless inner purification is done thoroughly. This method is not suitable for the present living conditions.

We are constantly bombarded with excessive sexual stimuli and other stimuli that tend to create excessive and obsessive desire for material things. Movies show characters repeatedly using foul language and violence, and too much individualistic selfishness. All of these conditions were not present in ancient times. This method is not suitable for spiritual practitioners living in this kind of social environment.

By safely awakening the Kundalini with the Meditation on Twin Hearts, and other higher spiritual practices, you can experience blissful union with your divine nature as you take this practical journey towards spiritual transformation.

By GrandMaster Choa Kok Sui

Tantra is a mystical subject that is nearly impossible to define. Tantra is a spiritual, sexual science that is not static in its definition. When we embrace Tantra, we become more "complete". By identifying and stimulating our innate sensual spirituality, we discover parts of ourselves that have been repressed.

Above all, we can learn to use Tantric energy for sexual pleasure and awareness. Familiarity with Tantra can help a person enjoy their sex life to its fullest potential. It can help do away with guilt or fear, and Tantra can break down self-imposed or limiting cultural boundaries Tantra is the total surrender of all mental, emotional and cultural conditioning, so that universal life energy can flow through you freely.

Tantra not only expands consciousness, it liberates it. Tantra treats sexual energy as an ally, rather than something to be suppressed or discussed behind closed doors. It does not deny sex, in fact Tantra does the opposite by embracing sex. Tantra is the only spiritual practice that states that sex is sacred and not a sin, even outside of marriage.

Tantra tradition found in both Hinduism and Buddhism and which has also influenced other Asian belief systems. For both the Hindu and Buddhist forms, tantrism may best be defined in the words of Teun Goudriaan, who describe tantra as "systematic quest for salvation or spiritual excellence by realizing and fostering the divine within one's own body, one that is simultaneous union of the masculine-feminine and spirit-matter, and has the ultimate goal of realizing the "primal blissful state of non-duality."

Tantra has been one of the most neglected branches of Indian spiritual studies despite the considerable number of texts devoted to this practice, which dates back to the 5th-9th century CE. Yet, any people still consider tantra to be full of obscenities and unfit for people of good taste. It is also often accused of being a kind of black magic. However, in reality, tantra is one of the most important Indian traditions, although widely misunderstood and "taught" in the west.

The religious attitude of the tantrics is fundamentally the same as that of the Vedic tradition. The more vigorous aspects of Vedic religion were continued and developed by the tantras. Generally, Hindu tantrics worship either the Goddess Shakti or Lord Shiva within their partners, and as entities, and the Divine Feminine and Masculine within each.

The word tantra is derived two words, tattva and mantra.Tattva means the science of cosmic principles, while mantra refers to the science of mystic sound and vibrations. Tantra therefore is the application of cosmic sciences with a view to attain spiritual ascendancy. In another sense, tantra also means the scripture by which the light of knowledge is spread.

The main deities worshiped are Shiva and Shakti (within partner), but if differs from all other deity worship. Tantra is different from other traditions because it takes the whole person with all his/her worldly desires into account. Other spiritual traditions ordinarily teach that desire for material pleasures and spiritual aspirations are mutually exclusive, setting the stage for an endless internal struggle. Although most people are drawn into spiritual beliefs and practices, they have a natural urge to fulfill their desires. With no way to reconcile these two impulses, they fall prey to guilt and self-condemnation or become hypocritical.

This path is systematic and comprehensive. The profound and ancient science and practices pertaining to meditation, hatha yoga, pranayama, mudras, rituals, kundalini yoga, nada yoga, mantras, mandala, visualization of deities, alchemy, ayurveda, astrology, and other anceint traditions, are scientifically proven esoteric practices for generating worldly and spiritual prosperity and blend perfectly in the tantric disciplines.

The tantric approach to life avoids the pitfall of hypocrisy. Tantra itself means "to weave, to expand, and to spread," and according to tantric masters, the fabric of life can provide true and everlasting fulfillment only when all the threads are woven according to the pattern designated by nature. When we are born, life naturally forms itself around that pattern. But as we grow, our ignorance, desire, attachment, fear and false images of others and ourselves tangle and tear the threads, disfiguring the fabric. Tantra sadhana, or practice, reweaves the fabric and restores the original pattern.



by Tantric Master Shri Aghorinath Ji
and Lisa Schrader

The Union of Shiva & Shakti: Awakening Consciousness and Energy


Tantra is an ancient system, born in India around 5000 B.C. Tantric art has captured the images of the Hindu god Shiva and his consort, the goddess Shakti, in ecstatic union. Shiva is recognized as the embodiment of pure consciousness, and Shakti as the embodiment of pure energy. The Hindus believed that through uniting with Shiva, Shakti gave form to his spirit and created the universe.

In this view, the universe in all its manifestations, as an act of love. This is the meaning of the yab-yum images found in Buddhist iconography where male and female Buddhas are in union. These pictures, or thankas, are not literal. They represent inner realization and the union of the male and female energies, of skillful means and wisdom, bliss and space. It is our awakened state expressed in its most dynamic, ecstatic form.

The relationship between Shakti and Shiva is the dance of consciousness and energy experienced within each of us, regardless of gender.

Your inner Shakti is your lifeforce energy. The essence of feminine and yin energy. From this essence comes forth wisdom, beauty, playful energy, spaciousness, ability, creativity, and power. Shatki is the Great Mother and matrix of creation and all manifestation. She is the power that weaves the universe and manifests in all forms. The perfection of wisdom. The tangible manifestation of energy through the body and the senses.

Your inner Shiva is your unique embodiment of awareness and consciousness. Known as "lord of the dance," Shiva is the essence of masculine and yang energy, the manifestation of presence, purpose, and skillful means. Shiva is the Great Father, with ultimate compassion for all beings. He represents transcendence, detachment, bliss, and the way to ultimate liberation. Shiva is silent, eternal, the consciousness that dwells beyond time and beyond death, in the eternal now. Your inner Shiva is that ever-present neutral awareness that compassionately witnesses all experience, and embraces all of life as expressions of the Divine.

Together in union, Shiva and Shakti merge and create the universe in all its manifestations. Experienced in each of us, this is a union of male and female energies, the direct experience of skillful means and wisdom. You can open to this joyful dance between Shiva and Shakti, experienced as two aspects of your self, and reflected in all living beings as pleasure, beauty, happiness, and aliveness.

Balanced and integrated, our inner Shiva and Shakti experience life as a dynamic whole. We move forward with clear vision, yet we are willing to trust and flow with whatever life brings us. As we become more whole, our need to look outside of ourselves for love falls away. We can experience the sweetness of this union of our inner masculine and inner feminine. From this place we can create more harmonious relationships and more joy in our lives.

By Marilynne Chophel

The Union of Shiva and Shakti



We are manifest through the vehicle of the mother. The entire Universe is manifest or given birth through the vehicle of Mother. The Mother is the instrument for converting spirit into matter. To understand that all form is spirit made matter is to see that at the source within the world of matter lies the Mother.

Behind the Mother, or beyond the Mother, lies the Father. The Father is formless, unmanifest in which the spirit exists with no matter. To understand the relationship between the Mother and Father is to deal with the most profound mystical enigma, for the Father is the Father of the Mother and the Mother is the Mother of the Father. Each gives rise to the other, neither exists independent of the other and each is contained within the other. For the Mother in all of her manifestations is only the formless, taking form. It is not a continuum between spirit and matter, between formless and form, it is an identity.

The levels on which manifestations exist, or on which the Mother manifests, range from the finest stuff, the mist that is finer than thought and faster than light, to the grossest, densest forms, found in the depths of the earth. To know the Mother means to recognize the entire range of manifestations. To see her manifesting in the densest, slowest forms of rock and mineral, and to see within these dense forms the fine mist of the spirit in its finest manifestation. It?s like looking at clouds without forgetting that it is made up of drops of moisture.

Recognizing that these drops of moisture are relationships among hydrogen and oxygen atoms and that these atoms are composed of neutrons and electrons and protons. That these units in turn are still finer stuff and that it is also what the cloud is. And that this stuff that composes the cloud is no different than the stuff that composes that which is around the cloud.

For the quanta of energy which make up all forms of the Universe are the same. They are all manifestations of the Mother; they are all pure energy, or from another way of looking at it, pure love. Or from yet another way of looking at it, pure consciousness.

As energy, the Universe is referred to as Shakti; and the Father, that which is an identity in the formless, is referred to as Shiva. The path of enlightenment is the path of bringing together the two parts of this identity until form is no different than formless. A being who has merged into that identity, clinging nowhere to form, neither here nor there to neither this nor that, is said to be realized. which is the ultimate union of the Mother and Father. The process of bringing about that union involves working with shakti, the Mother, directing and using the energy in form, in order to transcend that form and merge with the formless.

Each individual has a connection to the shakti which is the Universe of form. This connection is often referred to as kundalini, or the serpent that lies coiled at the base of the spine. For this coiled energy is starting out as the energy uniquely existing within that form, which we define as ourself, climbs the spine, the sushumna, and passes through the chakras, resonates, tunes to, identifies with, and incorporates, larger and larger components of the shakti of the Universe until finally when the serpent has risen to the ajna, the sixth of the seven chakras, it is so identified with patterns of energy throughout the Universe, that the individual knows everything, for it is one with all patterns in the universe. So that the individual is the blade of grass, and is the thought of another, is the past and is the future. Nothing is veiled from such a being, for such a being?s identity is no longer limited by the body or the psychological separateness but is now one with the shakti of the Universe. That is the stage prior to the merging which occurs in the sahasrara, the seventh chakra, at which time Shakti of the Universe merges into Shiva, that which is formless.

Most people have a very limited amount of shakti which they work with. They receive shakti through their eyes, nose, mouth, skin, thoughts, senses, what they eat, through their love relationships. This shakti is limited by the power of the molds in their mind. As these molds give way, as the attachments to one?s separation diminishes, one identifies with more and more of the shakti of the Universe, until they are one with the Mother, one with the energy, with the force.

By Ram Das

It felt like some kind of initiation. I stepped back out and looked away out of nervousness, still dancing. When I looked back at her, her eyes were on my hips where they stayed for a while, she glanced up at me, smiled and raised an eyebrow, and looked back down as if wanting to follow her lead. I glanced down at myself, and noticed that full hard cock was totally visible in my tight faded jeans and no underwear. My prominent head like a plum in my pocket.

At 15 I was skinny and 4 inches shorter but my cock was mostly grown, making me look like a freak naked. I was horrified, totally remembering how my completely viable my cock was for her to see. I looked back up and she met my eyes with a very adult feel. "It's OK", she purred in my ear "I am flattered.? I stared at her drawing eyes in astonishment as I kept dancing as she added. ?Let me offer you a secret from an experienced woman. You dance like your mother and are hung like your dad. Don?t ever be ashamed to strut your stuff?.

Your howl awakens my sleep. Crawling through the low bush, I see you and your lover in the moonlight. You are devouring each others flesh as your bodies merge into a single energy. I watch, confused yet provoked. As I study your movements, I began to understand, this is both more dance than attack, more pleasure than pain. Dominance and giving swayed wildly back and forth, wildly, as the mounted became the mounter. I was confused, shocked...intrigued, and I could not stop watch, no matter how much I tried. My loins buzzed strangely, pulsing to some silent tribal beat you danced to. Hands stoked my swollen instinct without my will, and my maleness glowed in the filtered light, swelling to enormous proportion as I watched the magic forest consume all of me. I stumbled back in amazement of it all, cracking a branch with my step. The two of you suddenly stop, my naked body and thick alpha breeding clearly visible in the moon's watch. Your lovers mouth dripped with your sweet want as we all stared at each other, and no one moved.