Facing
The Real Taboo:
Love & Sex
by
Christopher S. Hyatt, Ph.D.
The practice
of Western Tantra, outlined in my book "Secrets
of Western Tantra", is a powerful method of bringing
love and sex back together without the obligation of
commitment as instilled by our culture. The only commitment is
to the Third principle in Tantra -- the God-Form -- the
Essence. It is transpersonal. By this I do not mean that a
couple should not have a commitment to each other, but that
the WORK doesn't require ordinary forms of commitment. What it
requires is the desire that sex and love be one as an
experience. This is accomplished when there is orgastic
response and not a mere sexual response.
Western Tantra
heals the mind/body split by allowing the true nature and
power of instinct to live. When we do this, Instinct itself is
transformed and the true gifts of human life become
accessible. The fear of being overwhelmed or taken over by the
power of the instincts no longer terrifies the individual who
is then free to consciously participate in his or her own
evolution. Repression and denial are replaced with
differentiation. This creative function also allows us to see
the true nature of instincts. Instead of perceiving them as
being opposed to consciousness and civilization as we have
been taught from the Christian-Judeo world-view, we see them
as the loving root from which rationality itself springs.
We begin to
see our development and yearn for the opportunity to embrace
our multiplicity in a more holistic fashion, and the world of
either/or becomes the greatest fiction.
Love, Death,
& Sex: Another Taboo
True orgastic
bliss is very similar to death. The only reason death should
be feared is that most people have never lived. Joy in death,
letting go completely, is akin to the results obtained by
practicing Western Tantra. However, orgastic bliss can only be
experienced if love and sex become one. Much like love and sex
have been split in the Western world, life and death have been
split. Complete orgasm embraces and heals the splits between
life/death and sex/love. Once the healing has occurred the
need for and dependence on ordinary religion also vanishes.
Thus the priests and the politicians have fought hard against
the orgastic response. This is even true of many forms of
Eastern Tantra, as well as the ancient Kabbalists who realized
the power and implications of the sex act. (However, both
groups demand the giving up of pleasure, and/or the sanction
of the priest.)
Western Tantra
as described in this book demands neither. It combines aspects
of the Kabbalah with the discipline of Eastern Tantra. More
importantly it provides the methods necessary for freeing the
body/mind from the pains and chains of early training. Thus it
functions first as an Opening, then a Meditation and then
Death. The Death I speak of is the Death of Union, where all
division merges back into itself.
Western Tantra
is a means of returning to the awareness of the Primal Urge,
the Alpha -- Ain Soph, the creator of form.
Form becomes a
deadly illusion when it "acts" as if it is the
Essence. Form is simply the playground of the silent
beginnings. The Essence can not be known. It is not part of
the TimeSpace continuum.
When form
"thinks" itself the essence, then it is time for it
to dissolve. Complete orgasm takes one back to the
"beginnings" -- the primal urge of unity desiring to
know itself through its possibilities. When form, be it a
person or a social institution is willing to let go -- to die
-- then death is not painful. Pain is a result of a struggle,
the belief that the form is the essence.
Dr. Regardie
used to say that when a student studies the Kabbalah he begins
to believe in the validity of its categories. If he studies
enough and studies well, all the categories collapse. In this
sense, and in this sense only, does he experience a Satori.
From this point of view Kabbalah is like Zen. However, the
danger is that most students do not get past the first few
steps.
Death in the
sense that Westerners view it is an illusion. This illusion
results from believing the form to be the essence. This is a
necessary device by which Spirit enjoys itself. However, the
forming process and the disintegration process are only
process.
They are not
things. Death as we understand it can only happen to things,
not to processes. Ultimate orgasm removes the Thingness from
life and throws you back to the Primal Process -- The
No-Thing.
All form is
necessary as part of the process of experience. The danger
lies only in losing awareness that form is simply form -- the
way in which the Essence knows and experiences its Infinite
Possibilities. In Spiritual as well as Mundane matters, humans
have the awful tendency of really believing that the
form is the essence. One doesn't have to look far to find
this. Churches, governments, families, jobs, words, all are
forms which have been mistaken for the Essence. Unless this
process is slowed down or more deeply understood, man himself
will become more of a thing to
be processed and engineered in service of the Form. This is
the true Fall, believing words are knowledge and that
knowledge is Essence. An interesting way of understanding that
the form is not the essence is the following model.
The shell of
an egg contains the living primal force. The shell is also
an aspect of that primal force. If the shell is too hard the
new being can not break out. If the shell is too soft the
new being cannot be protected.
The image of a
new being emerging from the shell is the image I would like
you to keep in mind. Get a feeling of this image. Now imagine
that you are breaking out. Use the shell as food, as energy to
help you reach the next step. As YOU reach the next step do
not allow the new shell that you have created along the way to
hold you back. Break out of it. Let go of it. Emerge again,
again and again. Once you believe that the shell you have made
along the journey is the primal force then you are no longer
alive.
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was excerpted from the book Secrets
of Western Tantra: The Sexuality of the Middle Path,
by Christopher S. Hyatt, Ph.D. Reprinted with permission of
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publisher, New Falcon Publications, Tempe, Arizona, USA. http://www.newfalcon.com.
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