A Method for Tantric Bliss: The Ipsalu Formula

A Method for Tantric Bliss began as the follow-up materials for the weekend course "Living in Bliss".  Materials introduced in that intensive are included and greatly expanded here.  The book can in no way replace the course.  The awakening that happens there, the quantum leap of awareness, simply cannot be captured on paper.  The group energy makes that magic happen.  Being familiar with the conceptual basis in advance of the course allows one to go more deeply into that experience.  Tantric Bliss draws from seventeen years of experience, guiding thousands of people through that sometimes hazardous process.  New methods have been added and refined.  We have learned how to manage the process safely and efficiently.  The current approach is more feminine that the earlier work, recognizing the cosmic importance of feeling states and matters of the heart.  Any technique, with a few modifications, can be used to draw either predominately masculine/Shiva energy into the body (the yogic preference), or feminine/Shakti energy (a more tantric approach).  This book brings together materials from esoteric traditions (primarily Kriya Yoga), from state-of-the-art transpersonal psychotherapy, from current scientific research in the physiology of mystical experiences and the mechanics of consciousness.  The intention is to demonstrate in simple terms how this all fits together.  Dividing the material into topics has been somewhat arbitrary.  It doesn’t really fit into boxes and doesn’t want to lay out in a linear way.  It is more like working with a hologram where all of the understanding is included in every small piece.  The better you understand each piece, the better you understand the whole.