Recently, on a conscious sexuality whatsapp group where I have become notorious for my sometimes abrasive and cutting commentary, I received a challenging and critical remark from a fellow tantrika when I dismissed a poorly-researched and fanciful youtube video on kundalini – circulated by someone who has espoused noxious antisemitism and holocaust denialism. The remark […]
The title of this post, quoted from her book “Sexual Personae” fairly accurately sums up the impression I gain from reading her verbose rants: Paglia is full of shit. Each paragraph of her writings is laced with classist, racist and sexist slurs, circular reasoning, straw men, and downright lies designed only to confabulate, obfuscate, insult, […]
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Neotantrikas tout Karpman’s drama triangle as a profound tool to defuse relationship strife. I feel that it is a dangerous framework when it is weaponised by abusers and predators to deflect blame and dodge accountability. I first encountered the drama triangle in a conscious dance event, in which Ya’acov Darling-Khan encouraged us to embody these […]
This axiom of Eros is an oft-repeated mantra in the neotantrik circles I have orbited for the past decade and a half. Attributed to the philosopher Plato, it lends the pursuit of eroticism a flattering veneer of philosophical respectability and sophistication. Follow your desires, act out your erotic impulses, and transcendental knowledge will surely be […]
Various lineages of neotantra orient themselves by the spiritual patriarch Daniel Odier, promoting a form of dance he called “tandava”. My research* and personal experience suggests that “Odier“ is peddling a colonised distortion of sacred teachings that is causing spiritual and relational harm in ways that are subtle but real and growing as his teachings […]
