The New Yoga TANTRA REBORN On the Sensuality & Sexuality of our immortal Soul Body Peter Wilberg 2007 to my great mother SPECIAL ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Special acknowledgements as sources of inspiration, scholarship and citations to: Paul Eduardo Muller-Ortega Mark S.G. Dyczkowski David Peter Lawrence Seth /Jane Roberts Georg Feuerstein Michael Kosok Jaideva Singh Special acknowledgements as sources of spiritual encouragement - and for taking on all the demands of proofing and manuscript preparation - to my loving soulmates - my life partner Karin Heinitz and lifelong fellow traveller Andrew Gara. CONTENTS About Peter Wilberg and The New Yoga .........................................................I Note to the Reader.............................................................................................. V Note by the Author............................................................................................VI CHAPTER 1...................................................................................... 12 Invitation to The New Yoga ............................................................................12 Your Immortal Body .........................................................................................14 What are ‘Yoga’ and ‘Meditation’?...................................................................16 Medotation as Embodied Relating ..................................................................17 What's new about ‘The New Yoga’? ...............................................................19 CHAPTER 2 ..................................................................................... 21 What is ‘Tantra’?.................................................................................................21 Dyczkowski on the Divine Awareness Body.................................................24 The Nature of the Soul Body 1........................................................................26 The Soul Body ....................................................................................................28 The Field Anatomy of the Soul Body .............................................................32 The Nature of the Soul Body 2........................................................................37 The Sensuality of the Soul Body......................................................................38 The many Senses of the Soul Body .................................................................41 The Sexuality of the Soul Body........................................................................43 Tantra Reborn.....................................................................................................45 Tantra and the Truth of Sexuality....................................................................47 Love, Soul and Sex.............................................................................................49 The Soul Science of The New Yoga ...............................................................51 Sexual Flow Currents.........................................................................................54 Soul Body Breathinh..........................................................................................57 Soul Body Intercourse.......................................................................................61 Divine Souls Body Intracourse ........................................................................66 Power and Gender in 'Shaivist' Tantra............................................................67 Sexual Tantra and Tantric Sex..........................................................................73 CHAPTER 3 ..................................................................................... 79 Guide to Tantric Pair Meditation.....................................................................79 The Key to Pair Meditation..............................................................................81 Experiences of Pair Meditation........................................................................82 Tantric Initiation in The New Yoga ...............................................................84 Powers of the Soul Body – ‘Siddhis’ ...............................................................86 Experience of Tantric Initiation.......................................................................91 CHAPTER 4 ..................................................................................... 96 The New Yoga of the Eyes...............................................................................96 The New Yoga of Sound ..................................................................................99 Dancing with the Universe .............................................................................104 The Divine Alphabet of the Soul...................................................................106 Who is Kali?......................................................................................................111 The New Yoga of the Breath .........................................................................112 The Tradition of ‘Kaula’ Tantra.....................................................................118 The Gift of Sweetness .....................................................................................123 CHAPTER 5 ................................................................................... 124 The Yantra of The soul body .........................................................................124 New Light on Tantra .......................................................................................126 New Age Psudo-Tantricism ...........................................................................129 The True Nature of 'Kundalini' .....................................................................133 ‘Nagas’ - the Naked Truth of Tantra.............................................................136 Tantric Serpent Symbolism.............................................................................137 ‘Nagas’ and ‘Kundalini’....................................................................................138 The Supreme Synthesis ...................................................................................139 Behold the Serpent...........................................................................................141 CHAPTER 6 ................................................................................... 142 ‘Reincarnation' in The New Yoga..................................................................142 Karmic Relationships.......................................................................................149 The Nature of the Soul....................................................................................152 POSTSCRIPT ................................................................................. 159 Love, Intimacy and Tantra..............................................................................159 Bibliography 1...................................................................................................161 Bibliography 2...................................................................................................162 Index of sanskrit words...................................................................................164 ABOUT PETER WILBERG AND THE NEW YOGA There are many who follow ‘yogic’ and ‘tantric’ practices derived from Indian religious traditions, just as there are teachers all over the world who seek to transmit the deeper wisdom of those traditions, and those who study and research these traditions as devoted scholars. Yet it is rare to find writings such as those of Peter Wilberg – which offer a new bridge between in-depth scholarly and philosophical study of such traditions on the one hand, and their exposition and experiential practice in different contemporary schools of yoga on the other. Fewer still are teachers and authors who do not merely write ‘on’ or ‘about’ these traditions, but instead are able to offer a wholly original contribution to them, intuitively re-conceiving both their philosophy and practices – and doing so from direct meditational experiences of a new sort as well as deep study and broad learning. Peter Wilberg is one of these rare few. That is why, amidst the mountains of literature and thousands of courses and websites on ‘Yoga’ and ‘Tantra’, the teachings of Peter Wilberg do indeed have something fundamentally new to say, not least about the very meaning of such basic terms as ‘Yoga’ and ‘Tantra’, ‘Vedanta’ and ‘Advaita’, ‘Meditation’ and ‘Mindfulness’, ‘Prana’, ‘Kundalini’ etc. That is because his aim has always been not just to share his own embodied spiritual awareness or ‘inner knowing’ but to crystallise it into a comprehensive new body of spiritual knowledge - one relevant not just to the life of the individual, but to our whole understanding of society, the sciences, religion and the future of human civilisation. ‘The New Yoga of Awareness’ is a body of refined ‘yogic’ knowledge offering a wealth of new spiritual insights to all types of readers - whether those familiar with traditional yogic and tantric practices or not, whether practitioners or teachers, scholars or philosophers, Hindus or Buddhists, Christians, Jews or Muslims. That is because Peter Wilberg, who understands himself as a “Tantric Hindu Christian Socialist Jew”, has reinterpreted the inner meaning of Eastern religious terminology, thought and practices in the broadest possible global