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GODDESS TANTRA- Kundalini                                      

Goddess Tantra is, I believe, the winning formula for the next step in our spiritual evolution. The time of the Goddess is upon us, the signs of Her return are overwhelming, and Tantra has the tool kit we can use to integrate Her energy into all we are, everything we think, feel and do.Tantra provides software for the psyche to re-program our human bio-computers and bring us into divine resonance. It shows us how to sense, feel and envision the subtle, immortal body of light within the physical body. It guides us in creating vibrational fields within our own beings that encourage divine energies to enter in. It helps us free ourselves from the blocks and inhibitions which limit the vastness of our potential. It helps us develop fearlessness and clear intention, as we realize ourselves as vessels of ecstatic multi-dimensional frequencies. It prepares us to receive this high voltage, and, as such, is justly called ‘the short but dangerous path’. Where most religions repress or sublimate the sexual energy in order to spiritually advance, Tantra sees it as the sport of Goddess and God. Tantra means ‘to weave, to expand’, these are some of the things it weaves together and expands into. It pays no regard to race, sex, age or social standing as it deals with the pure energy that lies within and beyond all of this.

The Goddess loves this approach, and asks us only to imbue all these practices with the sovereign frequency of Love. Unconditional, compassionate love which loves all equally as its ground of reference, holding closest those who are most closely attuned to one’s own unique path.  Your lovers may be one or many, but if you treat each in the moment as none other than your sacred self, the Goddess will bless you with gifts of love.

Tantra is a path of power, Goddess Tantra is the power path of the heart. In my understanding, love is the only power that can withstand the ultimate test. It is the glue of creation and the link to every dimension. Like a timeless multi-verse, Love is.

The Goddess wants us to love ourselves, to reclaim harmony with our bodily temples and Her presence within. Goddess Tantra says, use all your senses, heighten them, delight in them as they serve as portals to Her pleasure gardens. Your feelings too, your passions, don’t deny them, experience them without guilt or shame. You are born in the Garden of Original Innocence, the Tree of Life thrives within you, bearing such delicious fruits, and the snake is coiled about the tree, three and a half times. Her name is Kundalini. She is your serpent, your inner wealth of liquid fire which can connect you to all you need to know…and there is no shame in this. It is your birthright. Your nakedness is your sacred raiment, your human form given by divine dispensation, so that you may experience the pleasures of the senses, the joys of the flesh, and through them know divine bliss while incarnated in a bodily form.  So Gods and Goddesses, along with humankind, keep stirring the pot of ecstatic ambrosia, and keep all things in balance, all vibrating in the web of love. So it is meant to be. Don’t let anyone tell you otherwise.

Let me introduce you further to Kundalini, in case you are not familiar with Her. She is your inner goddess. Whether you are male or female, this ‘shakti’(goddess energy) lies within. She is usually envisioned as serpent-like. One of her Tantras is to see all your energies as one, for she is the connecting force between body, mind and spirit. It is said she resides at the base of the spine, coiled three and a half times, in the subtle, invisible body of the individual. When she is aroused, she enters into the central channel of the subtle body and moves upwards, often causing thrills and tremors as she goes.  She is ‘seen’ illuminating the charkas, energy centers, of the subtle body as she ascends. This is where the knots and blocks of old holdings need to be released so that she may move freely.

She doesn’t like being blocked, none of us do. But the grace of the Goddess has given us the melting we experience in states of ecstasy, the melting which can dissolve all blockages. Kundalini most often gets stimulated by sexual arousal, and keeps moving with the flow of erotic energy. A main practice of Tantra is to ride the waves of ecstasy, while evoking the Goddess Kundalini, in yourself and in your partner, to arise and play in the ‘free zone’ of your bodily temples. Free from inhibition, guilt and shame, sealed with love for your protection.

In the practice of Goddess Tantra, just the recognition of a living goddess that resides within us all, regardless of gender, is a major step in one’s psycho-sexual spiritual evolution. It is a revelation of the female energy that lies within us, regardless of the outer manifestation of male or female sexual identity. In the play of Tantra, much emphasis lies on uniting the male and female within. The journey of the liberated Kundalini takes her through all the centers of the subtle body until she joins with pure consciousness - the Shiva, male, principle in the crown. From this union, divine nectar pours, bathing the whole body in spiritual ecstasy.

The craving we see for pornography today perhaps reflects a deeper need. A longing for initiation into the secrets of the subtle body and Kundalini's activation and ascent- ways to take the activated energy into all aspects of our being and integrate our ecstasy.

The first thing the Goddess shows us is to approach everything from the heart. If your heart is open and filled only with love, it is a good magnet to draw the energy to it and so flood the body with sublime sensation. Without that, the sexual stimulous and release is but a reaction, a spasm of muscles, a ‘getting off’, but not really ‘getting on’. On the beam, in the zone, to feel and be part of the great ecstasy of creation. I believe that grand connection is what the longing is really about, and we are accepting ‘first level’ substitutes because there isn’t anything better. But there could be, Goddess Tantra is here to make it happen.

It is a wholistic approach that provides ways and means for an individual to live their whole life as a dynamic process of spirituality in action. It embraces everything and puts no limitation on human potential. That makes it very exciting.  It does, however, put a strong emphasis on the accessing and channeling of libidinous energy, for that is our root, core energy of creation, the same energy that can become enlightened revelation. Tantra deals with powerful energies, you need rocket fuel if you want to reach the stars. ‘Kundalini’ comes from the root word ‘kunda’, meaning ‘pool’. It is the primal pool of liquid fire within each one of us. To access our own inner resource of ‘free energy’, Goddess Tantra courts and seduces the goddess within. Awakened Kundalini will not only impact your sex life in a dynamic way, she will infuse everything in your life with vibrancy, more joy, more bliss. You will feel more awake, more alive in general. There is an element of surrender necessary for any tantric practitioner, surrender of the self and all its holdings to the illuminated goddess within. The ego and all its limitations need to step aside and let Kundalini take control. And if you understand that the energy is not separate from you, but lies within you, then what is to fear in losing control?

Some of the basic principles of Goddess Tantra as it pertains to the yoga of joining with Kundalini:

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by Rev. Penny Slinger Hills