Beyond Tantra: Healing Through Taoist Sacred Sex

Beyond Tantra: Healing Through Taoist Sacred Sex, by Mieke Wik and Stephan Wik. Beyond Tantra is a down-to-earth guidebook for bringing the ecstatic powers of Taoist Sacred Sex into your love life. Based on the authors’ true story of their successful journey into discovery and healing, it provides Westerners with a step-by-step, tastefully illustrated, practical introduction to the ancient Chinese Art of Sexual Dual Cultivation. The authors draw on original Taoist sources together with years of personal experience and practice. They share both their successes and challenges to create a personal, encouraging and inspiring story of hope and success.

"This is an open-hearted true story of a couple who transformed their relationship while learning to charge their vitality and health with enriched sexual energy. Mieke and Stephan share the knowledge and experience gained as a result of their mutual courage and commitment as a couple to engage in respectful, unfettered interpersonal communication while creatively applying the principles of Taoist lovemaking. They provide a beautiful example of how to personalize the information and methods carried forward from past Taoist teachings with meaningful clarification from today’s knowledge." --Taoist Master Mantak Chia, co-author of The Multi-Orgasmic Couple

Stephan Wik (acupuncture student and musician) and Mieke Wik (precision reflexologist and massage therapist) have lived, loved, and worked together for more than twenty-five years. They have four grown children and a grandson.

Lip Gravy Magazine

Why Lazarus Laughed: The Essential Doctrine, Zen--Advaita--Tantra

Why Lazarus Laughed: The Essential Doctrine, Zen--Advaita--Tantra, by Wei Wu Wei. This is the second book written by Wei Wu Wei in a collection of what are now considered spiritual classics in the area of Zen Buddhism, Advaita, and Taoism. Why Lazarus Laughed is a powerfully written book of aphorisms, meditations, and startling ruminations on the nature of time, consciousness, freedom, enlightenment, duality, and free will. Wei Wu Wei described his books as reflections of the moon in a puddle because he does not set himself apart from any other, does not profess to be a teacher, and does not claim to have the last word on spiritual truth. His modest assessment of how well he succeeds at his task would most certainly be disputed by his many enthusiastic readers: Essential understanding might have found its way into occasional pages. Indeeed, profound insight seems to leap from every sentence.

Play your part in the comedy, but don't identify yourself with your role! says Wei Wu Wei, and he follows his own advice. He writes his works anonymously and uses his iconoclastic humor to drive home his points. Those who discover his books feel they have found a secret teaching that brilliantly delivers the purest truth. He has become a sort of underground spiritual favorite whose fans anxiously await each reissued book.

As the subtitle states, Why Lazarus Laughed explicates the essential doctrine shared by the traditions of Zen Buddhism, Advaita, and Tantra. The author is not interested in these traditions as religions, but only in so much as they reflect the moon for us. To read this jewel of a book from the immortal Wei Wu Wei is to enter into the heart and mind of one who possessed a very clear insight into the essence of understanding.

The identity of Wei Wu Wei was not revealed at the time of the publication of his first book. But we now know a few background details that help put the writings into context. He was born in 1895 into a well-established Irish family, was raised on an estate outside Cambridge, England, and went to Oxford. Early in life, he pursued an interest in Egyptology. This was followed by a period of involvement in the arts in Britain in the 1920s and 1930s. Having exhausted his interest in this field, he turned to philosophy and metaphysics, traveling throughout Asia and spending time at the ashram of Sri Ramana Maharshi. In 1958, at the age of 63, he saw the first of the Wei Wu Wei titles published. Over the next 16 years, seven more were published, including his final work under the new pseudonym O.O.O. During most of this later period, he maintained a residence with his wife in Monaco. He is believed to have known, among others, Lama Anagarika Govinda, Dr. Hubert Benoit, John Blofeld, Douglas Harding, Arthur Osborne, and Dr. D. T. Suzuki. He died in 1986 at the age of 90.

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Taoists, Tantrists, and Sex: How Tao and Tantra Can Improve Your Sex Life

Taoists, Tantrists, and Sex: How Tao and Tantra Can Improve Your Sex Life, by Kristina Benson. Have you ever wanted to take your sexual relationship with your partner to the next level and found yourself lost as to how to proceed? This book discusses sexuality within the context of Taoism and tantra to help you understand how to connect with your lover on the physical, spiritual, meditative, and sexual plane. An in-depth knowledge of Taoism, the chakric wheels, and energy systems are not assumed but are discussed in detail, and sensate focus exercises are suggested so as to heighten awareness of your lover's physical sensations, and energy. Heteronormativity is not assumed, and lovers in any arrangement are encouraged to use the techniques contained within to bond and generate energy between them. Highlights include anxplanation of the chakras and their application to sexual activity, how to create, expand, and connect psychic energy, and suggestions for increasing the level of awareness of your lover's energy, mood, physical sensations, and sexuality