VLVL2 381.23: " 'Oriental love magic!'

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381.23:  " 'Oriental love magic!'

see:

_Kiss of the Yogini: "Tantric Sex" in Its South Asian
Contexts_
by David Gordon White

[...] For those who wonder what relation actual
Tantric practices bear to the "Tantric sex" currently
being marketed so successfully in the West, David
Gordon White has a simple answer: there is none.
Sweeping away centuries of misunderstandings and
misrepresentations, White returns to original texts,
images, and ritual practices to reconstruct the
history of South Asian Tantra from the medieval period
to the present day.


Kiss of the Yogini focuses on what White identifies as
the sole truly distinctive feature of South Asian
Tantra: sexualized ritual practices, especially as
expressed in the medieval Kaula rites. Such practices
centered on the exchange of powerful, transformative
sexual fluids between male practitioners and wild
female bird and animal spirits known as Yoginis, since
it was only by "drinking" the sexual fluids of the
Yoginis that men could enter the family of the supreme
godhead and thereby obtain supernatural powers and
transform themselves into gods.

Kiss of the Yogini will prove to be the definitive
work for persons seeking to understand Tantra and the
crucial role it has played in South Asian history,
society, culture, and religion. [...] 

http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/hfs.cgi/00/15367.ctl


	
		
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