what is tantra?

i got this question today via email:

hey psalm, what is tantra anyways... It can't just be a bunch of sex positions - there's gotta be something more to it than that right?!

tantra is life

and sex

and death

tantra is existential philosophy

tantra is worship and devotion to the mystery

tantra is punk rock to main stream spirituality

a bloody steak to a vegan

a carrot to a carnivore

tantra is the sweet love of the dark mother

sex is part of life

it's how we got here, so tantra looks at sex too

how can we try to figure out where we are going if we can't even look where we are coming from? how are you going to contemplate eternity when you are blind to everything below your belly button?

make an ally of desire

the disciples asked jesus,

"what will happen in the end?"

and jesus said,

"do you already know the beginning that you seek to know the end? seek to know the beginning and you will know all things."

sex is the beginning

god/goddess is abwoom the sacred father/mother god

the fertilizes seed at the center of creation

that is the architecture of sacred geometry, inside every manifestation, our human bodies

the fertilized egg, the central point of you and me

our whole bodies are a mandala of whirling arms and legs unfurling around that central seed

father/mother god, sacred abwoom

jesus also said, "there was a day when one became two. on the day two become one what will you do?"

sex is the joining of two bodies, but so much more than that

the physical body is only one layer covering the soul

what is the purpose of the body? it is a covering of the soul

we have 5 bodies

multiply by 2 people= 10 bodies, 10 mergings of the coverings of the soul

divide by 10 and you have zero= we are all one, coming from one source

the 0 is the sacred geometry for the yoni, the womb

big bellied, dark eyed one

the whole universe is her costume

on the day when 2 become one again, what will you do?