Urban Tantra: Sacred Sex for the Twenty-First Century
by Barbara Carrellas
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Author: Barbara CarrellasForeword: Annie Sprinkle
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2007-04-01
ISBN: 1587612909
Number of pages: 304
Publisher: Celestial Arts
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Book Reviews of Urban Tantra: Sacred Sex for the Twenty-First Century
Book Review: I went to her URBAN TANTRA SACRED SEX CLASS
Summary: 1 Stars
And I have the book. This review is on Carrellas and her whole philosopy - the book and the class. As for the book - you can find anything in this book for free on the internet. It is nothing new at all. She spends some pages complaining about white-bread folks and making sure everyone knows she is a radical lesbian. Same old boring song and dance, "look at me, see how different I am!" She talks about learning advanced meditation techniques from masters. But if you have the smallest, most basic knowledge of Tibetan Buddhist tantra - when you read this book, or see her and hear her rant in person, it pretty obvious that it is all made up hogwash...
I love meditation and I have had a psychic opening from practicing it. I have bliss-ed out during meditation; so I do know what it feels like. I have read all Lama Yeshe's books and I love him dearly. But I do not want to join the Buddhist religion or philosophy, so I keep searching. When I first got into Meditation, I skipped by these sex tantra books believing it to be an abuse of spiritual practices. Ive read extensively how some while practicing meditation & tantra will develop psychic abilities and siddhis and get so caught up in that ... that they never progress down the path any further. At the very least, I saw this type of thing as an annoying distraction that could turn counter productive and destructive.
So I went to this class - Urban Tantra - to see if I could get some first hand instructions on breathing techniques. The classes are advertised that way... as "breath work", so I was very excited to think I would learn something better or new.
Basically what the whole class amounted to was imagining or simulating sex by breathing heavy & fast *THROUGH THE MOUTH* and visualizing sex with some chakra stuff and kegel exercises thrown in. So if you want to try it, lay on the floor, breathe heavy and very very fast, and moan for a few hours and save your money. (This stimulates the lowest chakra only.)
I spent years training myself to properly nose breathe, it was extremely difficult to meditate and mouth breathe. But this really wasn't meditation anyway. Many people complained about tingling hands and feet - Carrellas claimed this was from over-oxygenation and that breathing this way was good. If you search *mouth breathing* you will discover you lose 2/3 of your oxygen by mouth breathing and that it causes premature death and a host of diseases. This tingling wasn't from over-oxygenation - it was from lack of oxygen.
And for part of the class, the single folks had to pair up with complete strangers and kinda dry hump and touch each other erotically - the class was *not advertised* this way at all - complete and utter dishonesty about the content of the class as it never mentioned that people would partner up with complete strangers and touch each other and sit on each others laps, etc... Over half the people would not have attended this class had the content of the class been available for perusal beforehand. Everyone talked about it at lunch break, and I hope some ask for their money back. This class could have easily been broken up into 2 slots, one for couples and one for singles, but I guess Carrellas wont make enough quick bucks that way, eh?
She called this dry humping the yab yum. I wonder if she thinks the Kalachakra is a standing sexual position? She lacks basic information about yin/yang, yab/yum, shiva/shatki and other such inner forces and she spent some time criticizing, in complete ignorance, what she thinks is a man/woman thing.
Anyway, the people that were least attractive, were publicly humiliated because no one wanted to partner up with them. And she even added some sarcastic comments to further humiliate them, as they headed off - publicly humiliated and rejected by the whole class - to their *alone* spot by the mirror. This broke my heart and showed me what raw ignorance really is. Anyone even a teeny tiny bit advanced would not have done this! I don't understand how anyone could miss the absolute horror of what that felt like for that poor women; I surely couldn't. I could not concentrate after that! The fact that most of the class didn't notice or plain didn't care... that they could wipe it right from their mind and continue on with this unfeeling, unthinking teacher that just publicly humiliated, and then brutalized an innocent women with vicious comments...and she even added in that *this* is the universal force that connects us all; NO IT IS NOT - if WHAT you were teaching actually was the universal life force that connects us all - you would NOT have been so heartless, brutal, and sarcastic to that women! NO, it isn't the universal force that connects us all - if you knew this force in the slightest way, you could not have injured anyone in this way! On a side note, *good* teachers that I have seen will partner up with such single folks - but most caring people would not put another human being in this predicament in the first place.
Hey what more can I say? If this is what mind or breath sex is.. I don't want it, folks. At least, not this author's brand of it. Be careful with this brand... knowledge is not wisdom.
She spent quite some time criticizing and polarizing anyone who wasn't gay or into extreme sexual practices - a serious hangup with *normal* people was excessively apparent. Think of a lesbian version of Rosanne Barr teaching a class on faking sex... that sums it up pretty well.
"It gives liberation to Yogis and bondage to fools" - The Hathayoga Pradipika. This quote is not kindly advice, but a dire warning. Kundalini is not something to toy with. It can cause excruciating physical pain and all kinds of mental problems on someone not completely and utterly spiritually ready for it. Search on "spiritual emergence" and read the personal stories.
This is not "Tantra". There are real teachers and good books out there - this is not one of them.
Summary of Urban Tantra: Sacred Sex for the Twenty-First Century
If you think sexual and spiritual bliss can't be found in today's fast-paced world, you haven't experienced Urban Tantra. With a juicy mix of erotic how-to and pleasure-centered spiritual wisdom, acclaimed sex educator Barbara Carrellas radically updates the ancient practice of Tantra for modern sexual explorers desiring to push past their edge in search of the great cosmic orgasm.With more than one hundred easy-to-follow techniques for expanded orgasmic states and solo and partner play (as well as more adventurous practices), this in-depth guide reveals the delicious worlds of ecstasy available to all, including:The Erotic Awakening Massage ? Breath and Energy Orgasms ? Twenty-Minute Tantra Evolutionary Selfloving ? Sex and Healing ? Tantric BDSMNo matter what your gender, sexual preference, or erotic tastes, URBAN TANTRA will expand your notions about pleasure and open you up to new heights of intimacy and sexual fulfillment.Self-Help Books
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