Tantra for the West: A Direct Path to Love, Fulfillment, Freedom, and Enlightenment

by Marc Allen

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"Tantra is usually thought of as sex with some kind of mysticism thrown in. But it actually refers to a multi-faceted wisdom tradition. Marc Allen, who has been practicing for 30+ years, illuminates this ancient tradition and highlights its relevance for modern Westerners. Allen shows how the tantric awareness that embraces everything, rejects nothing, and emphasizes the present moment offers a path to inner peace and fulfillment. The whole of life is addressed - work, money, creativity, food and drink, solitude, meditation, healing and aging, freedom, enlightenment, and, yes, sex and relationships. Allen makes the teachings practical with concrete tools for implementing them and wonderfully vivid with stories from his own life fully lived in the San Francisco Bay Area of the 1960s and 1970s and into the present"--
  • ISBN10 1608683427
  • ISBN13 9781608683420
  • Publish Date 9 June 2015 (first published 15 May 2015)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Out of Print 2 August 2016
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint New World Library
  • Edition Revised ed.
  • Format Paperback
  • Pages 256
  • Language English