Blog posts in category What is tantra ?

What do the statues in the Khajuraho temples show?

The Khajuraho temples in India are world-famous for their unique, detailed stone carvings and elaborate sculptures. Built between the 10th and 12th centuries by the Chandela dynasty, this temple complex in Madhya Pradesh depicts a wide range of subjects that reflect the cultural and spiritual life of the time. What do the sculptures show?

Posted Dec 5 2024
by Thomas

Neo-Tantra: a brief overview

Neo-Tantra: a brief overview Neo-Tantra, also known as the ‘neo-Tantric movement’, is a modern Western interpretation and further development of traditional Tantric teachings and practices. While Tantra originally emerged in India and was strongly integrated into spiritual and religious contexts, Neo-Tantra has developed in the Western world into a movement that combines sexuality and spiritual practices.

Posted Dec 4 2024
by Thomas

When Love became profane, part III: Eros

So that leaves us only with Eros. The erotic, sexual love. Now it gets really really exciting, because at this point a little arithmetic exercise follows. Calculate the number of your sexual partners, divided by the number of years you were sexually active, again divided by 12 months of a year. How many sexual partners have you had on average per month? I could probably stop at this point, because it probably dawns on everyone what I am getting at.

Posted May 28 2024
by Thomas

When Love became profane (1)

We all grew up with the classic fairy tales and if not the Brothers Grimm shaped our childhood, then at least Disney did. The stories are well-known and always follow the same pattern. For the protagonists, the search for the great love is always based on an almost mathematical principle.

Posted May 28 2024
by Thomas

When love became profane, part II: Caritas

Next up is Caritas, lending us a helping hand. Caritas is the ‘Christian’ charity. About God and his attitude towards homosexuals we have already spoken shortly above. But if you delete the word Christian, charity remains. In the 1960s, various psychological experiments manage to convince us that man is fundamentally evil, that we are still in our deepest innermost being in the natural state of Hobbes.

Posted May 28 2024
by Thomas