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This course is to be patterned on the fourteen week specific discipline described in Omar Garrison's English translation of the Tantric learnings. Prerequisites for participation: adequate mastery of the Hatha Yoga physical positions and diaphragmatic breathing, purchase of the text, and an insouciant attitude toward group nudity...
...clergy, formal meetings and even liturgy. These groups borrow unabashedly from all three main strands of the psychedelic faith. The Neo-American Church, whose pastors are known as "boo-hoos" (the absurd title is meant to keep "an element of humor in our institutional affairs"), uses prayers from Buddhism, Tantric Yoga and Mohawk moccasins in its pseudo-marriage ceremonies. One popular center of hippie worship in Los Angeles is the Oracle-Cosmic Joy Fellowship, whose prelates are known as "coordinators." At its regular services, worshipers sit cross-legged in an incense-clouded room festooned with Indian print cloths, statues...
...Love's Body, Brown cites a long catalogue of thinkers, from Roheim (Aphrodite: or The Woman with a Penis) to Zimmer (On the Significance of the Indian Tantric Yoga), to make his point that mankind is largely unaware of its own desires, is hostile to life, and is bent on self-destruction. Brown's cultists usually interpret his mystical ruminations as an attack on the accepted Christian concepts of history and behavior, but Brown really seems to advocate the complete abolition of 20th century civilization. If all trappings of civilization were put aside, he believes, all repressions would...
Nepal became a stronghold of late Buddhism and its imagery when it retreated from Islam, which swept through India during the 12th century. Sequestered in the Himalayas, the religion existed in one of its headiest forms short of Zen-Tantric Buddhism. Its credo begins with the Adi-Buddha, a primordial god of ultimate beauty...
...results for the devout Tantric Buddhist are frenzies of mystical ecstasy. By absorbing the image entirely so that the mind can re-create and understand its every detail, the worshiper has transcended all life, even the image, and is well on his way to nirvana-leaving his art behind...