Between
World-Negating Asceticism and Commercial Exploitation
If you are seeking a world-negating,
transcendent-only spiritual path, this is not the path for you. Ours is
a path of devotion and trust. We embrace the manifest world as the Divine
Dance of the Great Goddess. Ours is a path that honors the full power of
Woman and Feminine knowledge.
In its core, our view of Tantra is
the bigger picture, beyond constructs, dogma, definitions, pseudo-spiritual
systems and political agenda. This is why The Tantric Dance of Feminine
Power is the Womb Sourced Yoga of Feminine Wisdom, because the womb encompasses
the bigger picture. There is no black or white or Christian or Aboriginal
or Buddhist or Native American or Celtic or even Taliban or Sufi womb.
The list can be extended endlessly.
The womb is the only nation and
the only religion, literally and figuratively. “Nation” is where we are
born, and re-ligio is the re-connecting to our source. What else can there
be?
Some people may feel uncomfortable
within the vastness of that Divine Dance of the Great Mother and they may
feel the urge to construct little enclaves within that vastness to feel
the sense of safety or certainty they think they want. Of course, they
are free to do so. But they cannot define the vastness of the bigger picture
out of their reality or demand of others to accept that enclave as the
real bigger picture. We should not even have to address that matter in
this way because it is self-evident. But we address it because so many
have tried to do just this.
As a practice of “the bigger picture”,
how then can The Tantric Dance of Feminine Power be circumscribed or confined
into anything as small as judgment, political definition, racial or religious
or national divides? As a practice of “the bigger picture”, it requires
absolute anarchy – in the true sense of the word: an absence of structural
oppression – and a void of constructs and agenda. It is round and forever
flows. It defies the mechanisms of control that patriarchy and it’s many
forms of oppression of woman and of life have devised, and it is therefore
dangerous to people or entities with an investment in any part of these
control mechanisms.
As we understand Tantra - and practice
The Tantric Dance of Feminine Power – it is inseparable from woman, womb
and life as such. There are two indications for this. Nothing in the world
is as attacked and as much target for control as woman and life and its
resources. It must therefore clearly be the most encompassing power. The
Tantric Dance of Feminine Power also has incessantly been object of attempts
to diminish or re-define it. To let it stand as the encompassing practice
that cannot be packaged, bottled, marketed, commodified, franchised or
otherwise hacked to small, plastic wrapped bits and pieces requires true
courage . . and wisdom
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