This is a practice that should only be done following mastery of all other basic techniques. By mastery, I do mean that there should be no need for focus in using them during sexual ritual. They should have been reduced to an autonomic level, with almost all the focus of the mind on the act of love making and the spiritual experiences that accompany Tantric practice.
If this mastery is present, then its time for adding in this next level of experience.
I want to refer you to the basic visualization of the breath cycles between the heart and genitals of the partnership. This has a specific effect on the couple. It creates a profound emotional bond between them. This is a beautiful experience for them, and it is a gentle way to begin a spiritual awakening and the right place to begin spiritual union between them.
The heart is considered, in most mystical belief systems to be the axis between spirit and matter and between body and mind or soul. Obviously, awaking this axis point paves the way for deeper experiences.
At this level of practice, which I loosely call the heart cycle, the body learns to accept greater levels of pleasure and to carry larger and larger levels of energy and the mind learns to accept the changes in consciousness that accompany this work. The partners learn to feel comfortable with an ever expanding emotional bond and the intimacy that naturally accompanies it and they learn to negotiate the resistance that is most certainly catalyzed by these deepening bonds and to overcome them. Those skills of intimacy are required for deeper work. The couple learns to negotiate spiritual experience as well as immerse themselves in their daily lives with greater awareness and insight.
Once these spiritual skills are pretty comfortable, there is room to expand to the second cycle, which I call the intuitive cycle. To begin this cycle, the couple does everything they normally do in the heart cycle, and when each feels ready for expanding their awareness, the couple use the third eye as the point of contact, not the heart. All else in the cycle of visualization and breath is the same, only the point of connection is changed.
This too has a very specific effect on the couple and the individuals. More than anything else, it causes the energy that is experienced to shift to a higher frequency. This generally opens spiritual insight, stimulates dreams, likely causes visions or more of them, expands awareness of each other on a spiritual level. The couple may experience episodes of empathy or telepathy when apart. The body will go through yet another process of learning to carry profound and powerful energies, likely going through yet another period of purification as before. The sensitivity to pleasure will likely expand again, and if the individuals haven’t already, they may find that just thoughts cause orgasm now. The couple may find that just being in the same room brings an awareness of each other that makes them feel orgasmic and spiritual. The bond of love will both increase and expand outside of their own bond to something more global that makes them more capable of compassion and unconditional love for others. Insight will expand. They will simply intuitively know things and will learn to trust that intuition to great depths.
This cycle should also be pursued beyond the point of completion of the purification that will natural arise of this change in energy work. There will be spiritual and intellectual challenges with this shift. It is not easy to have the spiritual information come to you and to learn to integrate this information with what the intellect tells you about physical reality and social norms. It takes time to negotiate that change in the psyche and how you meet daily life. We should be discussing months and even years when I speak of taking time to master this level of change.
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