TANTRIC WISDOM FOR TODAY’S WORLD TANTRIC WISDOM for Today’s World The New Yoga of Awareness Acharya Peter Wilberg Peter Wilberg © Copyright 2007 All rights reserved No parts of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise without the prior permission of the copyright owner. ISBN 978-1448650-10-1 Published in the United States of America by New Yoga Publications, Create Space 2009 SPECIAL ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Special acknowledgements as sources of inspiration, scholarship and citations to: Paul Eduardo Muller-Ortega Mark S.G. Dyczkowski Georg Feuerstein David Peter Lawrence Seth/Jane Roberts Michael Kosok Jaideva Singh Special acknowledgements as sources of encouragement, editorial support and help in proofing and manuscript preparation to: Andrew Gara Karin Heinitz Michael Horgan CONTENTS Note to the Reader ........................................................................................................11 Note by the Author .......................................................................................................12 INITIAL VERSES The Wisdom of Tantra..................................................................................................15 Who You are ..................................................................................................................16 Awareness as Ultimate Truth and Reality ..................................................................17 PART I – BACKGROUND CHAPTER 1 – INTRODUCTION The New Yoga and the Meaning of Life....................................................................23 The multidimensional World of Awareness ..............................................................27 Making new Sense of Tantric Teachings....................................................................28 The Voices of the Gods................................................................................................29 CHAPTER 2 – SOURCES OF THE NEW YOGA The religious Tradition of The New Yoga.................................................................33 Proto-Shaivism...............................................................................................................34 Tantra, Shiva and ‘The Christ of India’ ......................................................................35 The Christ of India and Christ in Kashmir................................................................36 Kashmir Shaivism..........................................................................................................37 Shaivism as the Religion of SHIVA-SHAKTI ..........................................................38 ‘ANUTTARA’ – The Godhead of Shaivism.............................................................39 The Spiritual Mission of The New Yoga....................................................................40 Tantra as Religion ..........................................................................................................42 CHAPTER 3 – THE AWARENESS PRINCIPLE The New Yoga in a Nutshell........................................................................................51 Attaining Freedom Through Awareness....................................................................52 Example of Awareness in Everyday Life ...................................................................54 The Awareness Principle ..............................................................................................56 What is ‘Awareness’? What is ‘Meditation’?...............................................................57 ‘Transcendental’ Meditation.........................................................................................58 Experiencing Fully Through Awareness ....................................................................60 The Tantric Doctrine of Recognition.........................................................................61 CHAPTER 4 – THE EVOLUTION OF AWARENESS The Prehistory of Human Awareness.........................................................................65 The Evolution of Ego Awareness...............................................................................66 The Development of Ego Awareness ........................................................................67 The Divinisation of the Ego ........................................................................................68 From the Ego to the Awareness Self..........................................................................69 ‘Prime Identity’ and the Awareness Self.....................................................................70 God, Gods and Prime Identities .................................................................................71 CHAPTER 5 – THE THEOLOGY OF THE NEW YOGA The Co-Creation of God and Man .............................................................................75 The Ocean of Divine Awareness ................................................................................79 ‘SHIVA’, ‘Shaivism’ and ‘Nootheology’.....................................................................80 Pearls of Classical Tantric Wisdom.............................................................................81 CHAPTER 6 – REVOLUTIONARY YOGA ‘Yoga’ today....................................................................................................................87 A Global Revolution in Awareness.............................................................................88 The Subversive Nature of Awareness ........................................................................89 Awareness and Time Quality .......................................................................................90 The Social Dimension of Tantra .................................................................................91 The New Yoga as a New Hinduism ...........................................................................92 Humanity on the Threshold of Awareness................................................................93 CHAPTER 7 – SERPENTS, SEX AND KUNDALINI On the Trans-Human Sources of ‘Tantra’.................................................................97 ‘NAGAS’ – the naked Truth of Tantra......................................................................98 Tantra and Global Serpent Symbolism ......................................................................99 Nagas and the Essence of ‘Kundalini’......................................................................100 The Supreme Synthesis...............................................................................................101 The Inner Meaning of ‘Tantric Sex’..........................................................................102 Genesis and the Gendering of the Gods .................................................................103 Abhinavagupta on the Divine Couple......................................................................104 Divine Bisexuality and Trans-Sexuality ....................................................................105 God as ‘SHIVA-SHAKTI’.........................................................................................106 Tantric Sex and ‘Kundalini Yoga’ .............................................................................107 The winged Serpent – Spacesuit of the Soul ...........................................................108 CHAPTER 8 – SOUL RELATIONS Identity, Self and ‘Soul’ ...............................................................................................111 ‘KULA’ – the Soul as a Family of Selves .................................................................112 Seth on the Ego and the Supra-Self..........................................................................113 ‘KULA’, ‘AKULA’ and ‘KAULA’ Tantra ...............................................................114 The New Yoga View of ‘Reincarnation’ ..................................................................115 Reincarnation and ‘Karmic’ Relationships...............................................................116 CHAPTER 9 – AWARENESS AND ‘ENERGY’ Being and Awareness ..................................................................................................119 The big ‘Energy Block’ to Understanding ...............................................................120 ‘Energy’ as Action........................................................................................................121 The Divine Logic of ‘SHIVA-SHAKTI’..................................................................122 CHAPTER 10 – THE AWARENESS BODY The Awareness Body as Field Body..........................................................................125 Visualising the Awareness Body................................................................................126 The Fourth Field and Fourth State – ‘TURYA’......................................................127 SHIVA’S ‘Third Eye’ – Unified Field Awareness...................................................128 CHAPTER 11 – AWARENESS AND GURU Awareness as ‘GURU’.................................................................................................131 The Place of ‘GURU’ in The New Yoga .................................................................133 Anhinavagupta’s 15 Verses of Wisdom....................................................................134 15 Verses of Tantric Wisdom ....................................................................................136