Some, I know that's where the chakra system came from. Or really the 8 fold path before Tantra came along. The Upanishads, they get deep. I wrote about Patanjali briefly one of my Chakras episodes. Somebody called me a Veda when I was talking about it, sent me down a deep rabbit hole 🤣
Mhmmm.. ya it’s a lot. It can become somewhat dogmatic but is still useful. I started learning about this specific school of thought back in 2012 during my time in a yoga cult/ashram. I became a brahmacharya for a year (basically you wear all white, vow of celibacy, sobriety, total withdrawal from the senses, etc). I haven’t heard of the vagus nerve in years. Like tantra is less about weird sex poses but literally being fully present, allowing the thoughts to come and go with non-attachment, applying vedic principles to be rooted in the “eternity of now”. Beyond mind, fully in tune with various levels at once.
💯💯💯 Energy Centers of Transformation by Harish Johari and Wheels of Life by Anodea Judith are very good. Johari talks about Tantra in great detail about that.
It's the damn west that is all about sex. Yeah, what's great about the Vedic texts and those schools of thought is that they are still intact. Back far enough, they are us, African Presence in Early Asia by Runoko Rashidi, but much of what is known as black is somewhat scattered.
Lol yes it would seem so. But also it makes sense. Across these various cultures whether Asian, Indian, etc we see the same themes of oneness beyond duality, fragments, “rivers” into “oceans”. Which then we can deduce their roots, especially considering what we know about African migration across the world. Also sex is so weird, the frantic, condemnation of sexuality which is literally second nature. We are only here as a result of sex so the fear, shame and disgust around it is counterintuitive. But also as you mentioned porn makes sex something that it isn’t, like a consumable spectacle of nothingness. Reductive and empty. I hate the west so much. But thanks for the link.
Have you ever read the Yoga Sutras of Patañjali?
Some, I know that's where the chakra system came from. Or really the 8 fold path before Tantra came along. The Upanishads, they get deep. I wrote about Patanjali briefly one of my Chakras episodes. Somebody called me a Veda when I was talking about it, sent me down a deep rabbit hole 🤣
Mhmmm.. ya it’s a lot. It can become somewhat dogmatic but is still useful. I started learning about this specific school of thought back in 2012 during my time in a yoga cult/ashram. I became a brahmacharya for a year (basically you wear all white, vow of celibacy, sobriety, total withdrawal from the senses, etc). I haven’t heard of the vagus nerve in years. Like tantra is less about weird sex poses but literally being fully present, allowing the thoughts to come and go with non-attachment, applying vedic principles to be rooted in the “eternity of now”. Beyond mind, fully in tune with various levels at once.
💯💯💯 Energy Centers of Transformation by Harish Johari and Wheels of Life by Anodea Judith are very good. Johari talks about Tantra in great detail about that.
It's the damn west that is all about sex. Yeah, what's great about the Vedic texts and those schools of thought is that they are still intact. Back far enough, they are us, African Presence in Early Asia by Runoko Rashidi, but much of what is known as black is somewhat scattered.
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https://youtu.be/GtCkQUrxheI?si=h7Rv149N75oX0neG
Lol yes it would seem so. But also it makes sense. Across these various cultures whether Asian, Indian, etc we see the same themes of oneness beyond duality, fragments, “rivers” into “oceans”. Which then we can deduce their roots, especially considering what we know about African migration across the world. Also sex is so weird, the frantic, condemnation of sexuality which is literally second nature. We are only here as a result of sex so the fear, shame and disgust around it is counterintuitive. But also as you mentioned porn makes sex something that it isn’t, like a consumable spectacle of nothingness. Reductive and empty. I hate the west so much. But thanks for the link.