Thoughts

Just a few thoughts that have been going through my head these days:

• Is being introverted necessarily a contradiction to being extraverted, or can one switch from one to the other? If so, how?
• Does the "hook-up culture" actually exists, as certain conservative folks, for example one Robert Barron, seem to propose? Why do I never get to witness a "hook-up" in real life?
• If the hook-up culture is so terribly bad for you and makes teenagers end up in psychiatry after a few years, then how come the '68s were suspiciously unaffected?
• I've read quite a few times now that there is a huge conservative backlash and sexual faithfulness is actually "in" these days. So what is true now?
• If Jesus had chosen not to opt for monogamy (very much a possibility, since the concept was under heavy debate at the time) - would christians now argue in favour of polygamy? What might their arguments be? (Excellent topic for a speculative fiction story.)
• Being able to deal with ambiguities as an indicator of maturity.
• How is it that the BDSM folk know that you should know your tools and that misapplications can be dangerous - while many practitioners of yoga, meditation, NLP, christianity etc. seem to be utterly oblivious to the possibility of unwanted side-effects?
• Metaphysical systems can always be translated into each other's language, and if you do so, the result is a third and possibly new system. (Christian NLP, NLP zen, Freudian NLP, Freudian tantra, zen scientology?)

My Project

In short, my "lifetime project" (as far as I'm willing to reveal that on a blog) is to find and salvage the good stuff from religions and "spiritual" teachings, while at the same time staying in touch with reality and keeping a sane, skeptical mind.

I'm A Guy

Just to avoid any future confusion: The writer of this blog is a guy, a bloke, a man, a son, male, not female.

I do state this on my profile, but it seems to happen that people don't look at the profile and assume I'm female because of that picture up in the title bar of this blog.

That picture is not me. Nor did I take it. I bought it on fiverr.

Other blogs / links related to tantra

This is really just a starting point for a list... I'm hoping to amend this and be able to comment on it later on...


English language:

• http://www.sacred-texts.com/bud/tib/tantra.htm - intense reading; very insightful, from a "believer's" perspective
• http://www.nerve.com/love-sex/i-did-it-for-science/i-did-it-for-science - fun article about a first encounter with tantra
• http://www.ecstaticliving.com/blog/ - blog
• http://quantumtantra.blogspot.com/ - blog
• http://www.umaatantra.com/tantra_tips.html - blog
• http://www.thetantricpath.com/videos/ - one of the many therapeutic approaches to tantra.
• Because about.com is always a good place to start... the approach they describe is slightly different than the one I'm promoting here. But it's all about experimentation, and ultimately about feeling good!
• http://medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Tantric+Sex
• http://www.sexualshaman.com/
• http://www.tantracafe.com/

German language:

• http://www.no-guru.net/blog/ - blog
• http://www.tantra-blog.de/ - blog
• http://www.liesenfeld.de/blog/ - blog
• http://www.advaita-tantra.de/wordpress/ - blog
• http://lakshmi-tantra.blogspot.com/ - blog
• http://www.tantra-wien.at/massage/ - blog of a tantric massage studio
• http://www.tantrawien.com/forum/ - used to be a (not very lively) forum; now dead

Hey, another "skeptic":

• http://occultskpetic.wordpress.com/2011/09/23/the-five-resolutions-of-tantrika/

List of possible topics

These are a few of the topics that Skeptic Tantrika plans to cover, explore and define in the clearest terms possible, at some point:

* Energy healing - fact or fraud?
* What on earth might sexual healing be, and does it even exist?
* So, what exactly is an energy orgasm?
* If Qi or Chi does not exist - what, then, goes on in an energy orgasm?
* Are Male Multiple Orgasms at all possible?
* The relationship of experience and interpretation, and what they have to do with science, religion, and spirituality
* How can western science claim to say anything about tantra, qi, energy healing, etc.?
* What do you know about female tantra?
* How can a scientifically minded skeptic not be convinced by tantra and other eastern schools of thought, once they have experienced energy orgasms and tantric sexual healing?

Please, do feel free to add suggestions or critizisms. This blog is a living entity, a complex, strange feedback loop!