The 7 Facets of the Tantrik Path Overview Webinar Series: An introduction to the seven main facets of the Tantrik Path as presented on this learning platform. Includes introductions to the View, Awareness Cultivation, Energy Body, Living in the World, Deity Yoga, Mantra Science and Yogic Lifestyle. Christopher Wallis, also known as Hareesh, is a Sanskritist and scholar-practitioner of Classical Tantra with thirty years of experience. He was initiated by a traditional Indian guru at the age of sixteen, and received education at yoga āshrams, both in India and the West. That pure unlimited Consciousness - transcending all principles of reality that are limited by nature, from Earth to Śiva - alone is the supreme reality. That is the ground for the establishment of all things. That is the vital essence of the universe. By That the universe lives and breathes, and That alone am I. Thus I embody the universe and yet transcend the universe."

Excellent, possibly best spiritual book I've ever read. I have many takeaways, most prominent are that all desire is ultimately a desire for the divine, which explains why attempting to satisfy it with material things is ultimately unsatisfactory. If you seek"the good" for yourself and for others, the only sustainable way of actualizing that goal is through a palpable, living connection to a level of being on which contributing to the well-being of others is the easiest and most natural thing you could possibly do. This is why, from a spiritual perspective, the most effective political, social, and environmental activism is awakening to your true nature and helping others awaken." A spiritual movement originating in Northern India that reached its peek in 9th to 12 centuries primarily characterized by: Pure mantra wisdom. Shuda vidya. Not intellectual knowledge but various phases of shiva shakti self awareness expressed in the form of the 70million mantras. Mantras are conscious beings, analogous to angels in western traditions.

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Serious scholarship by a serious practitioner and scholar. This is not some bullshit sexual book. This is not some New Age feel yourself good philosophy. It is a serious research into the Saiva religion that is based on the Tantrik texts of the 5th-8th centuries. Furthermore, since the author is a practitioner, it also includes detailed explanation in modern language of most esoteric and strange concepts, practices and terms. The Lord. Ishwara. Krishna, alla,jehova, etc. Most monotheistic religions presume to be the highest level of reality. Well, I finished the Tantra Book. I guess I don't have much to say about it. It was great to learn the theologic philosophy on Tantra. Although I think Chris Wallis's grasp on philosophy in general is weak. I am sure he is a great sanskritist though. He did bring up a lot of various concepts in Tantra that were fascinating. I enjoyed the idea that everything is all God or Brahma. Then the philosophy that spawns from that first principle gets really interesting. It was really interesting to think about mantras as living beings and not just sound waves. I like playing around with these kinds of ideas and their implications, even if I disagree with them.

Despite this being a highly informative book - rich with information about Śaiva Tantra, Śaiva Siddhanta, Abhinavagupta and Advaita Philosophy in general - the fact that he has written in a slightly preachy tone and recommended a sexual predator guru from Melbourne at "The Ashram" is highly disturbing. And I can't take any of his authority as a "spiritual teacher" seriously. As a scholar, however, his work is useful. I would just take his advice with a grain of salt. And I would also highly recommend anyone who read the section where Christopher Wallis recommends Swami Shankarananda to read these news articles on the so-called "Swami" first. Wallis speaks to this in his book, but public perception of tantra is deeply misinformed. This book, while still fairly surface level, provides a wealth of experiential and academic information to help provide a more accurate introduction to Nondual Śaiva Tantra than is currently available anywhere else to my knowledge. Also good to know was that originally the only sex related to tantra had to do with a small aspect about overcoming aversion so could more easily have forgiveness and compassion for all beings.

Join our weekly Live Calls: While some calls may go a bit deep, this is a great opportunity for you to get to know the Kula and to ask questions. You are not separate from the Godess, you are the very means by which she knows herself. The basic principle of reality, that foundation of all that is, that to all things are reducible and not itsel reducible to anything else is conscious awareness. We cannot demonstrate the existence of any reality which is not the content of some beings experience and all experience take place in awareness, thus anything and everything we can point to as having any existence whatsoever, like external world or dreams and visions all exists within the field of awareness. All scentient beings seen and unseen are simply different forms of one divine coinsciousness, which looks out at the universe that is its own body trough uncountable pairs of eyes.

The benevolent one. Shiva. Not the name of a god, rather the peaceful quiescent ground of all reality. The infinite silence of transcendent divinity. While shakti is extroversive,manifest, omniform and dynamic, shiva is introversive, transcendent, unmanifest, formless and still.The process of expansion continues until you experience yourself in all things, and all things in yourself... then, you no longer perceive yourself as a mother or an American or a doctor or a yogi but rather as the pattern of the whole universe currently playing a given role and no more identified with it than the actor on stage believes he is really Hamlet, even as he plays his part passionately." The divine has 2 aspects: .Trancendant=Shiva; personified as male divinity; pure consciousness, non personal utterly transcendent of all limitations or qualities, beyond the reach of senses, speech, and mind- the singular light of awareness. The quiescent and peaceful ground of all that is. Heart mind-Chita?: thoughts and feelings. “I am smart, I am stupid, happy or sad”. When we identify only with our mind excluding the other dimensions, we suffer, for the kind changes even more rapidly than the body. Realize the mind is one of many sources of input, taken note of it as a part of its whole being.