HPV (human papillomavirus) is a very popular sexually transmitted virus, but not exactly the kind of popular that makes you want to be in the "in" crowd. It's believed that 75 percent of the population will become infected with HPV during their adulthood, and studies show that
certain types of HPV infections cause about 70 percent of all cervical cancer., while 370,000 cases of cervical cancer are identified in the United States every year and the CDC estimates that 6.2 million Americans are infected every year. In June, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the first preventive HPV vaccine, marketed by Merck & Co. under the trade name Gardasil. Yay! But wait: Conservative Christian groups have come out in opposition against the HPV vaccine, claiming that a vaccine will only encourage promiscuity and that abstinence is the best way to avoid getting HPV -- and thus injecting a life-saving breakthrough with a virus of its own: life-threatening sexual hysteria. It's too bad: Something called "The Promiscuity Vaccine" sounds like a shot I'd like to get from a naughty nurse, rather than a dose of misinformation from the Family Research Council.
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Showing posts with label Sex Story. Show all posts
Sunday, May 24, 2009
The Craigslist Experiment Sex Scandal
In September, Seattle resident Jason Fortuny (and a friend) carried a Craigslist thought experiment over into shocking reality. He took a hard-core Women Seeking Men ad from another city and reposted it to see how many replies he could get in 24 hours. Then he published every
single response -- photos, e-mails, IM info, phone numbers, names, everything -- to a public wiki. Then he went public on Jason's LiveJournal page, calling it "The Craigslist Experiment." He got 178 responses, with 145 photos of men -- one respondent used a Microsoft employee e-mail address, another used a usar.army.mil (military) e-mail address -- all sparking huge debates on Internet privacy. Since then, Portland copycat Michael Crook performed the same experiment but took it further, baiting respondents into giving more sexual and personal information. Crook became a troll par excellence by trying to milk his 15 minutes of attention by barraging local Web sites like 10 Zen Monkeys and Web hosting providers like Laughing Squid with bogus DMCA takedown notices related to his image (when they wrote about him), turning sex-baiting into DMCA-baiting -- and now the local Electronic Frontier Foundation is suing Crook for bogus DMCA claims.
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'Girls Gone Wild''s Joe Francis
We all knew that those annoying "Girls Gone Wild" ads we had to sit through while waiting for Stephen Colbert to come back on just had to come from the father of all douche bags, but then this year we found out we were right. Joe Francis, the founder and director of the video
series, is officially looking like the king craziest douche bag of all times. He was robbed at gunpoint and forced to perform in a bend-over-boyfriend extortion video and was arrested on charges of racketeering and drugs. The Los Angeles Times profile in which he publicly sexually humiliated the female journalist on the story significantly raised his douche bag quotient (DQ). And this month, his guilty plea for using underage girls (gone wild with lawyers, natch) got him a tidy little sentence.
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series, is officially looking like the king craziest douche bag of all times. He was robbed at gunpoint and forced to perform in a bend-over-boyfriend extortion video and was arrested on charges of racketeering and drugs. The Los Angeles Times profile in which he publicly sexually humiliated the female journalist on the story significantly raised his douche bag quotient (DQ). And this month, his guilty plea for using underage girls (gone wild with lawyers, natch) got him a tidy little sentence.
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Sex in Space
In space, no one can hear you masturbate. At least that was the theory tossed (ahem) about the Internet and in print this year, especially when Laura S. Woodmansee came out with the well-researched
(and highly amusing) book "Sex in Space." Aside from jokes about getting fluids out of your hair, the choreography of connection and not leaving condoms on the console, MSNBC's science writer Alan Boyle remarked that "new devices and data would be required to hit the zero-g g-spot," and zero-gravity veteran Xeni Jardin got a sex-positive microgravity post going on Boing Boing that garnered comments from pro-abstinence pseudo-Christians as well as hanky-flagging space sluts.
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Sex Toy Bans
Sex toys had a rough year, coming and going. Not only did people freak out about what was in their toys, but legislators had fits so profound about their very existence that it kinda made us all a bit
uncomfortable to associate senators and butt plugs all in one sentence. ... But because they tried -- in some cases, successfully -- to make sex toys illegal in certain states, we have all been forced (with a vibrator to our collective heads) to consider anal beads and politicians in bed together, as it were. But seriously -- healthy, average adult Americans were forbidden their fundamental right to buzzing bunny vibrators and bend-over-boyfriend behind closed doors when a federal appeals court in Mississippi upheld the dismissal of a case challenging the state's sex toy ban. Mississippi joined the ranks of sex-toy hatin' states Alabama, Georgia, Indiana, Texas, Louisiana and Virginia.
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uncomfortable to associate senators and butt plugs all in one sentence. ... But because they tried -- in some cases, successfully -- to make sex toys illegal in certain states, we have all been forced (with a vibrator to our collective heads) to consider anal beads and politicians in bed together, as it were. But seriously -- healthy, average adult Americans were forbidden their fundamental right to buzzing bunny vibrators and bend-over-boyfriend behind closed doors when a federal appeals court in Mississippi upheld the dismissal of a case challenging the state's sex toy ban. Mississippi joined the ranks of sex-toy hatin' states Alabama, Georgia, Indiana, Texas, Louisiana and Virginia.
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Toxic Sex Toys
Sex educators had been making increasing noise all year about the use of phthalates (toxic chemicals) in cheaply made sex toys, but the lube really hit the fan when Greenpeace issued a toxic sex
toy warning based on their investigative report that put those Crystal Jelly Dongs right off the menu. Calling on the European Union to address what they called an "EU sex scandal," Greenpeace requested a ban on the toys similar to one put on children's toys made with the same chemicals -- just like we've proposed here in San Francisco. Blogs responded in kind, with more information on the chemicals and a guide to unsafe sex toys (or two).
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toy warning based on their investigative report that put those Crystal Jelly Dongs right off the menu. Calling on the European Union to address what they called an "EU sex scandal," Greenpeace requested a ban on the toys similar to one put on children's toys made with the same chemicals -- just like we've proposed here in San Francisco. Blogs responded in kind, with more information on the chemicals and a guide to unsafe sex toys (or two).
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Einstein, Sex Fiend
Yeah, he could talk the talk, but could he walk the walk? As it happens, Albert Einstein talked all kinds of smack about his fellow scientists -- and if he ever boasted about how chicks dig physics
geeks or his theory of (his own) relativity to a trophy-drawer of personally collected science-wife panties, he wasn't just pulling another fast equation on y'all. In July, a bevy of Einstein's private letters were unlocked after a 20-year hold, revealing that the king of all high-math nerds had a number of mistresses and numerous sexual liaisons with women who showered him with "affection and gifts."
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geeks or his theory of (his own) relativity to a trophy-drawer of personally collected science-wife panties, he wasn't just pulling another fast equation on y'all. In July, a bevy of Einstein's private letters were unlocked after a 20-year hold, revealing that the king of all high-math nerds had a number of mistresses and numerous sexual liaisons with women who showered him with "affection and gifts."
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2257 Raids
The Justice Department added a whole bunch of new age-monitoring regulations in 2005 to their 2257 requirements for pornographers. They added so many, you'd expect them to be done for a while. And because 2257
news died down last year, it's really easy to get lulled into thinking the harassment and shakedowns of pornographers are over. But 2006 has been the year of the surprise 2257 raid for porn film companies. Even though porn is not illegal in the United States and 2257 is For the Children, the laundry list of legitimate businesses on the receiving end of raids this year grew by one more entry this month. In addition to Pure Play Media, Evasive Angles, Darkside Entertainment, Legend, Sunshine Films, Robert Hill Releasing, Sebastian Sloane Productions and Diabolic -- a team of FBI agents conducting 2257 records inspections visited the offices of K-Beech Inc.
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news died down last year, it's really easy to get lulled into thinking the harassment and shakedowns of pornographers are over. But 2006 has been the year of the surprise 2257 raid for porn film companies. Even though porn is not illegal in the United States and 2257 is For the Children, the laundry list of legitimate businesses on the receiving end of raids this year grew by one more entry this month. In addition to Pure Play Media, Evasive Angles, Darkside Entertainment, Legend, Sunshine Films, Robert Hill Releasing, Sebastian Sloane Productions and Diabolic -- a team of FBI agents conducting 2257 records inspections visited the offices of K-Beech Inc.
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Friday, May 22, 2009
YANTRAS & THE BRAIN CIRCUITS
When a sadhaka starts or even aspires to the kundalini he has to undergo a process of mental cleansing. For a modern sadhaka one
wonders what the first niyamas would be. The first is to unlearn normal ways of everyday thought. This would mean immediately plucking out judgmental and analytical thought processes. This would immediately lead on to the fourth brain circuit of sexual thinking. This would also mean meditating at the plateau level for at least 38 minutes everyday. This should be able to generate news ideas.
The sadhaka has to unlearn traditional ways of thinking. The aspirant is given full freedom to let sensations and dreams float through his mind. Gentle spiritual music helps. The physical world is not negated but used to bring energy to all circuits. So physical energy is never negated in preference to mental energy. Tantra realizes that the brain functions mostly with one circuit along with two parallel circuits that are only playing supporting roles. The Freudian thesis of Id, ego and superego also functions in this fashion. So the kundalini yoga or tantra actually support this classification. The fourth brain circuit denies rationality.
If semen is allowed to be expelled, the kundalini is not activated because the loop is then controlled entirely by one sexual circuit. As sexual energy builds, the third brain circuit increases its energy level to maintain control. The third brain circuit opens a pathway to the fifth brain circuit. The semen also opens a pathway to the fifth brain circuit and the two brain circuits working together increase the activity of the fifth brain circuit. The kundalini teacher therefore preserves all these three circuits by rigorous cleaning of the mind through discipline.
The sexual brain however needs to be given full sway for its play within this field of energy. The aspirant therefore visualizes a golden light all around him like a shield. In case of distractions and too much traditional thinking, the aspirant is asked to visualize a mirror-like shield reflecting energy back to the source. This is the correlation between the yantra and the brain circuits. The mantra and the yantra both help in meditation on free energies of the universe with the goal of affecting top emotional and sexual control.
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wonders what the first niyamas would be. The first is to unlearn normal ways of everyday thought. This would mean immediately plucking out judgmental and analytical thought processes. This would immediately lead on to the fourth brain circuit of sexual thinking. This would also mean meditating at the plateau level for at least 38 minutes everyday. This should be able to generate news ideas.
The sadhaka has to unlearn traditional ways of thinking. The aspirant is given full freedom to let sensations and dreams float through his mind. Gentle spiritual music helps. The physical world is not negated but used to bring energy to all circuits. So physical energy is never negated in preference to mental energy. Tantra realizes that the brain functions mostly with one circuit along with two parallel circuits that are only playing supporting roles. The Freudian thesis of Id, ego and superego also functions in this fashion. So the kundalini yoga or tantra actually support this classification. The fourth brain circuit denies rationality.
If semen is allowed to be expelled, the kundalini is not activated because the loop is then controlled entirely by one sexual circuit. As sexual energy builds, the third brain circuit increases its energy level to maintain control. The third brain circuit opens a pathway to the fifth brain circuit. The semen also opens a pathway to the fifth brain circuit and the two brain circuits working together increase the activity of the fifth brain circuit. The kundalini teacher therefore preserves all these three circuits by rigorous cleaning of the mind through discipline.
The sexual brain however needs to be given full sway for its play within this field of energy. The aspirant therefore visualizes a golden light all around him like a shield. In case of distractions and too much traditional thinking, the aspirant is asked to visualize a mirror-like shield reflecting energy back to the source. This is the correlation between the yantra and the brain circuits. The mantra and the yantra both help in meditation on free energies of the universe with the goal of affecting top emotional and sexual control.
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LOOKING WITHIN
Kundalini yoga is a systematic arrival at one's spiritual goal through observances prescribed in a ritual manner. The first two
limbs of Yoga, yama and niyama form the ground upon which all subsequent teaching is based. This first stage in the practice of the aspirant really focuses his mind on the commencement of personal effort, where the person endeavours to act from all that he understands - and has understood through his past experience - before he is introduced to new teaching, or new knowledge.
The stage called yama and niyama states the first truth about the original Yoga teaching, which is that it is about change of being, and not simply about the acquisition of knowledge. It is about learning to act from the knowledge gained from experience - about each person learning to act from his own individual storehouse of knowledge, through which he makes it truly his own. This is knowledge abstracted from empirical experience about man and his spiritual evolution. In this yoga, the enlightenment or wisdom has to be generated from daily practice and observances whose wellsprings are from within the body and within the mind. External authority or sacred papal commandments cannot command the kundalini. But they have to come from inner discernment, inner understanding, and inner truth.
Yama or niyama are activities of mind, in which a person seeks to discern what is the right goal and what is the wrong expression of it for himself. He peels away before uncovering the kundalini fire, all the dross that has been laid upon the true spiritual nature of man.
In the earliest form of Sanskrit the word yama meant an activity of discernment, and the ability, not only to distinguish right expression from wrong expression, but to have control over all forms of expression that derive from external commands or authority. The abstentions are only part of distancing oneself from the dross external. The five yamas include seeking the motives for a man's actions and the direction of his energy. Through this he realizes the persistence and courage to embark on the self-threatening process of discovery.
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limbs of Yoga, yama and niyama form the ground upon which all subsequent teaching is based. This first stage in the practice of the aspirant really focuses his mind on the commencement of personal effort, where the person endeavours to act from all that he understands - and has understood through his past experience - before he is introduced to new teaching, or new knowledge.
The stage called yama and niyama states the first truth about the original Yoga teaching, which is that it is about change of being, and not simply about the acquisition of knowledge. It is about learning to act from the knowledge gained from experience - about each person learning to act from his own individual storehouse of knowledge, through which he makes it truly his own. This is knowledge abstracted from empirical experience about man and his spiritual evolution. In this yoga, the enlightenment or wisdom has to be generated from daily practice and observances whose wellsprings are from within the body and within the mind. External authority or sacred papal commandments cannot command the kundalini. But they have to come from inner discernment, inner understanding, and inner truth.
Yama or niyama are activities of mind, in which a person seeks to discern what is the right goal and what is the wrong expression of it for himself. He peels away before uncovering the kundalini fire, all the dross that has been laid upon the true spiritual nature of man.
In the earliest form of Sanskrit the word yama meant an activity of discernment, and the ability, not only to distinguish right expression from wrong expression, but to have control over all forms of expression that derive from external commands or authority. The abstentions are only part of distancing oneself from the dross external. The five yamas include seeking the motives for a man's actions and the direction of his energy. Through this he realizes the persistence and courage to embark on the self-threatening process of discovery.
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UDDIYANA BANDHA
Kundalini yoga offers a great way to train the body for better compliance of muscles including those that are used in the act of sex. The path of
kundalini yoga gets tough along the way as more and more is demanded of your body after the pranayamas and the asanas of the hathayoga. You are required to do the bhandas or the locks. These locks are nothing but special asanas that literally lock the body into certain postures. Of course they are specific for certain pathways and they ensure that your ability to perform sexually is strengthened.
The uddiyana bhanda is a diaphragm lock. Here the yogic practitioner, while sitting in the padmasana position, needs to lift the diaphragm high into the thorax and simultaneously get the abdominal muscles to almost touch the spine. The muscles have to be pulled tight towards the back with the breath pulled out. You should be able to see a cavity forming. This bhanda is said to be particularly beneficial for the heart muscles. What it achieves in terms if the kundalini shakti is that it gently nudges the pranic energy towards the neck.
Now it has been found that this bhanda has more effects than what is visible. It manages to stimulate the tri-axis of the hypothalamic, the adrenal glands as well as the pituitary regions in the brain. This is said to wash you with a benign sense of calm while giving you more control over your body. Of course tantric experts claim that this also gives one a great deal of energy, vitality and a sense of youthfulness - all ingredients of better sex. In the rhythmic laya Yoga, this bhanda is used during chanting and it is said to produce the best results for tapa. That is why you see pictorial representations of the rishis of yore with a caved in abdominal cavity.
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kundalini yoga gets tough along the way as more and more is demanded of your body after the pranayamas and the asanas of the hathayoga. You are required to do the bhandas or the locks. These locks are nothing but special asanas that literally lock the body into certain postures. Of course they are specific for certain pathways and they ensure that your ability to perform sexually is strengthened.
The uddiyana bhanda is a diaphragm lock. Here the yogic practitioner, while sitting in the padmasana position, needs to lift the diaphragm high into the thorax and simultaneously get the abdominal muscles to almost touch the spine. The muscles have to be pulled tight towards the back with the breath pulled out. You should be able to see a cavity forming. This bhanda is said to be particularly beneficial for the heart muscles. What it achieves in terms if the kundalini shakti is that it gently nudges the pranic energy towards the neck.
Now it has been found that this bhanda has more effects than what is visible. It manages to stimulate the tri-axis of the hypothalamic, the adrenal glands as well as the pituitary regions in the brain. This is said to wash you with a benign sense of calm while giving you more control over your body. Of course tantric experts claim that this also gives one a great deal of energy, vitality and a sense of youthfulness - all ingredients of better sex. In the rhythmic laya Yoga, this bhanda is used during chanting and it is said to produce the best results for tapa. That is why you see pictorial representations of the rishis of yore with a caved in abdominal cavity.
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SECRETS OF THE SAPPHIRE
The Kaula tantra called Brihad Nila Tantra, or the exposition of the Sapphire Blue Saraswati and the Tararahasya or the Secrets of Tara, talk of this Saraswati, the spouse of the creator of the universe or the Brahma-Shakti, or
creative aspect. She is the wife of Brahma and in the Natha Kuala tradition of tantrism a part of Dattatreya who is an amalgam of Vishnu, Brahma and Mahesh. Dattratreya is the patron guru of the Natha tradition. In the Hindu Tantrarajatantra, where Her mantra is given as Om Tare Tuttare Ture Svaha, identical to the Tibetan version, she is called Kurukulla.
Tantric ritual around her abounds because she is considered secret, powerful and immediate in giving boons. She is invoked by tantriks as Nilasarasvati, Aniruddha Sarasvati, Ugra Tara, and Tarini. She is important for the tantric as in the form of Nilasarasvati she immediately bestows the fruit worshipping her on the upasaka as she is the shakti of the alphabet, the Matrika Shakti.
She is important in Tantrik cosmology because mantra, words and music are considered to be the very source of the cosmos. As Matrika Shakti she deludes the entire human race with Her Maya of letters, and words. This has been expressed in a Tantrik form, but, practically speaking, it is sufficient to say that much hypnosis (Maya) comes about through a web of words. People can be killed by the use of the mantra. Thus Her power and place in the Tantrik pantheon is quite justified, and Her mantra is described as a Siddha-Vidya, the cause of Maya and enchantment.
According to the Todala Tantra the sadhaka has to start the Tara ritual by meditating on Tarini, who is visualized as being as bright as the rising sun in the apogee of a sphere of light, a place surrounded by beautiful maidens with fans and bells. He has to meditate on being one with her absolutely absorbed in her surrounded as she is by a gentle zephyr laden with scent and perfume and incense. This he has to do under the wish fulfilling tree that is placed in the center of the island of glittering gems.
With this he enters a realm of magic and high ecstasy before he prepares for the vamachara or the left handed worship of Tarini for supernatural boons including power over people's mind. Therefore this is also called a miracle tantra.
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creative aspect. She is the wife of Brahma and in the Natha Kuala tradition of tantrism a part of Dattatreya who is an amalgam of Vishnu, Brahma and Mahesh. Dattratreya is the patron guru of the Natha tradition. In the Hindu Tantrarajatantra, where Her mantra is given as Om Tare Tuttare Ture Svaha, identical to the Tibetan version, she is called Kurukulla.
Tantric ritual around her abounds because she is considered secret, powerful and immediate in giving boons. She is invoked by tantriks as Nilasarasvati, Aniruddha Sarasvati, Ugra Tara, and Tarini. She is important for the tantric as in the form of Nilasarasvati she immediately bestows the fruit worshipping her on the upasaka as she is the shakti of the alphabet, the Matrika Shakti.
She is important in Tantrik cosmology because mantra, words and music are considered to be the very source of the cosmos. As Matrika Shakti she deludes the entire human race with Her Maya of letters, and words. This has been expressed in a Tantrik form, but, practically speaking, it is sufficient to say that much hypnosis (Maya) comes about through a web of words. People can be killed by the use of the mantra. Thus Her power and place in the Tantrik pantheon is quite justified, and Her mantra is described as a Siddha-Vidya, the cause of Maya and enchantment.
According to the Todala Tantra the sadhaka has to start the Tara ritual by meditating on Tarini, who is visualized as being as bright as the rising sun in the apogee of a sphere of light, a place surrounded by beautiful maidens with fans and bells. He has to meditate on being one with her absolutely absorbed in her surrounded as she is by a gentle zephyr laden with scent and perfume and incense. This he has to do under the wish fulfilling tree that is placed in the center of the island of glittering gems.
With this he enters a realm of magic and high ecstasy before he prepares for the vamachara or the left handed worship of Tarini for supernatural boons including power over people's mind. Therefore this is also called a miracle tantra.
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Thursday, May 21, 2009
Nila tantra
Called the king of all tantras and the core of the quintessence, the Nila Tantra involves an invocation of the king of mantras, the secrets of
magical restraint. Then comes the Kumari puja, rites of sacrifice (homa), the secret sadhana and mantra, alchemy, preparation of miraculous ashes (bhasma) and everything related to the six magical acts (satkarma).
The rite is to be performed facing north in a cremation ground, meditated on as being like a lotus fibre extending from the base of the spine to the 1,000 petal lotus, like ten million fires, suns and moons. A sadhaka bathes in the morning facing north, and visualizes the guru in the 1,000-petal lotus. He invokes the morning sun. Then the twilight mantra of Tarini, a goddess in one of the avatars of Kali, is recited. The tantric now prepares the secret mantra, purashcharana, and a rosary of human bone.
The scared spot for the rite is the Kamarupa, where the yoni of the goddess fell after being sliced into fifty parts. Next is the kumari pooja where a maiden is worshipped. Before this an offering to jackals is made. Eight Kula trees are worshipped. Wine is consecrated for worship. The six magical acts are now performed. The Maha China karma is performed. Svecchachara, or the path of one's own will is followed. The conjunction of yoni and lingam is the essence of the rite. During intercourse, the partners should mentally recite the Tara mantra. It should be performed in the cremation ground.
The copper yantra for this has the Tara and mahakaal in sexual congress and is smeared with kundagola and svayambhu flowers (menstrual blood) and scents including camphor. The practitioner meditates in the heart on Tarini and then draws her, by using his vital breath, using a flower, into the center of the yantra. She is then considered present in the yantra and different upacharas or offerings are made to her.
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magical restraint. Then comes the Kumari puja, rites of sacrifice (homa), the secret sadhana and mantra, alchemy, preparation of miraculous ashes (bhasma) and everything related to the six magical acts (satkarma).
The rite is to be performed facing north in a cremation ground, meditated on as being like a lotus fibre extending from the base of the spine to the 1,000 petal lotus, like ten million fires, suns and moons. A sadhaka bathes in the morning facing north, and visualizes the guru in the 1,000-petal lotus. He invokes the morning sun. Then the twilight mantra of Tarini, a goddess in one of the avatars of Kali, is recited. The tantric now prepares the secret mantra, purashcharana, and a rosary of human bone.
The scared spot for the rite is the Kamarupa, where the yoni of the goddess fell after being sliced into fifty parts. Next is the kumari pooja where a maiden is worshipped. Before this an offering to jackals is made. Eight Kula trees are worshipped. Wine is consecrated for worship. The six magical acts are now performed. The Maha China karma is performed. Svecchachara, or the path of one's own will is followed. The conjunction of yoni and lingam is the essence of the rite. During intercourse, the partners should mentally recite the Tara mantra. It should be performed in the cremation ground.
The copper yantra for this has the Tara and mahakaal in sexual congress and is smeared with kundagola and svayambhu flowers (menstrual blood) and scents including camphor. The practitioner meditates in the heart on Tarini and then draws her, by using his vital breath, using a flower, into the center of the yantra. She is then considered present in the yantra and different upacharas or offerings are made to her.
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ELEMENTS OF TANTRASHASTRA
Tantrashastra talks of five tattvas or great elements: wine, meat, parched food, fruits & roots and shakti. The three kinds of wine used in
Tantra texts are molasses liquor, rice liquor and the liquor from the Madhuka flower. There are also various other kinds made from the juice of the palmyra and date tree, and known by various names according to their substance and place of production. They are all declared to be equally appropriate in the worship of the god to be propitiated.
"According to Tantra, the use of wine is declared appropiate in the worship of god."
Meat, again, is of three kinds, that of animals of the waters, of the earth, and of the sky. Whatever meat the disciple likes is often the offering. Only male animals should be decapitated in sacrifice. There are three kinds of Fish - Shala, Pathina and Rohita. Those which are without bones are of middle quality, whilst those which are full of bones are considered inferior but are often fried and offered to the Devi.
There are also three kinds of parched food, superior, middle, and inferior. The best offering is Shali rice, white as a moonbeam, or from barley or wheat, and which has been fried in clarified butter. The middling variety is made of fried paddy. Other kinds of fried grain are considered inferior. Meat, fish, and parched food, fruits and roots, or anything else offered to the Devata along with wine are called Shuddhi.
The offering of wine without Shuddhi, or purification or santification, as also puja and tarpana (without Shuddhi), becomes fruitless, and the Devata is not propitiated. The drinking of wine without Shuddhi is like the swallowing of poison. The disciple is ever ailing, and lives for a short time and dies.
Svayambhu and other kinds of flower as well as red sandal paste are also considered important elements. However neither the Tattvas nor flowers, leaves, and fruits are to be offered to the Mahadevi unless purified. The man who offers them without purification goes to hell, according to the texts.
One's own Shakti or wife can be considered the fifth Tattva.
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Tantra texts are molasses liquor, rice liquor and the liquor from the Madhuka flower. There are also various other kinds made from the juice of the palmyra and date tree, and known by various names according to their substance and place of production. They are all declared to be equally appropriate in the worship of the god to be propitiated.
"According to Tantra, the use of wine is declared appropiate in the worship of god."
Meat, again, is of three kinds, that of animals of the waters, of the earth, and of the sky. Whatever meat the disciple likes is often the offering. Only male animals should be decapitated in sacrifice. There are three kinds of Fish - Shala, Pathina and Rohita. Those which are without bones are of middle quality, whilst those which are full of bones are considered inferior but are often fried and offered to the Devi.
There are also three kinds of parched food, superior, middle, and inferior. The best offering is Shali rice, white as a moonbeam, or from barley or wheat, and which has been fried in clarified butter. The middling variety is made of fried paddy. Other kinds of fried grain are considered inferior. Meat, fish, and parched food, fruits and roots, or anything else offered to the Devata along with wine are called Shuddhi.
The offering of wine without Shuddhi, or purification or santification, as also puja and tarpana (without Shuddhi), becomes fruitless, and the Devata is not propitiated. The drinking of wine without Shuddhi is like the swallowing of poison. The disciple is ever ailing, and lives for a short time and dies.
Svayambhu and other kinds of flower as well as red sandal paste are also considered important elements. However neither the Tattvas nor flowers, leaves, and fruits are to be offered to the Mahadevi unless purified. The man who offers them without purification goes to hell, according to the texts.
One's own Shakti or wife can be considered the fifth Tattva.
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Isaac Asimov's Lost Story Of Sex And Telepathic Energy Beings
In 1955, Isaac Asimov wrote "The Portable Star", a story he considered so bad, so sexy, that he forbade it ever being collected or reprinted. For
fifty-four years, it has been forgotten. Until now.
"The Portable Star" is one of only two stories that Asimov refused to anthologize ("A Woman's Heart" being the other), and it is by far the more interesting of the two. For one thing, it's actually pretty good, albeit in a minor sort of way. The story follows the married couples Holden and Grace Brooks and Philip and Celestine Van Horne. Their interstellar vacation is interrupted when their hyperspace drive breaks down, forcing them to land on an uninhabitable, Venus-like planet to make repairs.
They soon find themselves trapped by telepathic energy beings that can control their emotions and prevent them from leaving. Most of the story is a quintessentially Asimov scientific mystery, as Philip has to figure out what would be so beyond the comprehension of these aliens that they would be scared away, giving him and his friends a chance to escape.
That's what's the story is about. But here's how it starts:
If space voyages are "romantic," Holden Brooks was certainly carrying on the tradition when he stepped into the cabin of his best friend's wife, with one straightforward objective in mind.
He did not signal. He merely opened the door and walked in. She was waiting for him as, somehow, he had known she would be, wearing a loose night garment. She held out her arms to him and they trembled slightly. Her dark hair fell below her shoulder, accenting the pale roundness of her face.
Her name was Celeste Van Horne and her husband sat in one corner of the room, idly pinching his ear-lobe.
Holden paid no attention to the husband's presence. He stepped directly to Celestine and placed his hands on her shoulders. She swayed toward him and they kissed violently, longingly, over and over again.
It goes on like that for a while, and then Holden tries to kill Philip in animalistic rage for trying to get in the way, just to complete the whole cuckolding-in-space theme. So like I said, it's your standard, perfectly decent 1950's Asimov short story, except with a sexy sex scene that reads like something out of a third-rate romance novel bolted onto the front of it. And I say that with the deepest respect and love for the Good Doctor – the man is easily my favorite science fiction author of all time. So how did this happen?
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fifty-four years, it has been forgotten. Until now.
"The Portable Star" is one of only two stories that Asimov refused to anthologize ("A Woman's Heart" being the other), and it is by far the more interesting of the two. For one thing, it's actually pretty good, albeit in a minor sort of way. The story follows the married couples Holden and Grace Brooks and Philip and Celestine Van Horne. Their interstellar vacation is interrupted when their hyperspace drive breaks down, forcing them to land on an uninhabitable, Venus-like planet to make repairs.
They soon find themselves trapped by telepathic energy beings that can control their emotions and prevent them from leaving. Most of the story is a quintessentially Asimov scientific mystery, as Philip has to figure out what would be so beyond the comprehension of these aliens that they would be scared away, giving him and his friends a chance to escape.
That's what's the story is about. But here's how it starts:
If space voyages are "romantic," Holden Brooks was certainly carrying on the tradition when he stepped into the cabin of his best friend's wife, with one straightforward objective in mind.
He did not signal. He merely opened the door and walked in. She was waiting for him as, somehow, he had known she would be, wearing a loose night garment. She held out her arms to him and they trembled slightly. Her dark hair fell below her shoulder, accenting the pale roundness of her face.
Her name was Celeste Van Horne and her husband sat in one corner of the room, idly pinching his ear-lobe.
Holden paid no attention to the husband's presence. He stepped directly to Celestine and placed his hands on her shoulders. She swayed toward him and they kissed violently, longingly, over and over again.
It goes on like that for a while, and then Holden tries to kill Philip in animalistic rage for trying to get in the way, just to complete the whole cuckolding-in-space theme. So like I said, it's your standard, perfectly decent 1950's Asimov short story, except with a sexy sex scene that reads like something out of a third-rate romance novel bolted onto the front of it. And I say that with the deepest respect and love for the Good Doctor – the man is easily my favorite science fiction author of all time. So how did this happen?
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Rotting from the inside: sex abuse and the Catholic Church
Catholic sex abuse has a long and ongoing history intertwined with that of religious institutions.
From Ireland to Malta the pandemic
has swept across the world, but its caliber remains veiled from the public eye.
It is almost too soon to give an unemotional response to the revelations of routine sex abuse by appointees, officers, members and employees of the Catholic Church in Ireland.
The Irish Times covers the story honourably, while the Independent seems to minimise the story.
Let's remember that the problem is not Ireland's. It is the church and its many institutions, besides.
Pedophilia runs to the highest levels of society. Five hundred years after the Spanish occupation of the Netherlands, it was the descendent of the Spanish governor, the Duke of Alba, who was fiddling with children in what his family must have considered their hunting grounds.
In Britain, the Chairman of the Board of Deputies of British Jews, an MP now Lord Greville Janner, was named by a boy at a children's home in Leicestershire as a frequent, abusing visitor. The press reported Janner's name, accidentally.
I remembered his name because one of my schoolboy contemporaries, on a trip to the House of Commons in 1977, disappeared for five hours in the company of Mr Janner, who entertained the child in the Commons' tea room. I thought at the time this to be a strange, homosexual oddity. The brief naming of Janner, later expunged from the press, confirmed my suspicions.
The Irish investigation into nationwide, endemic, high-level, child abuse took 10 years to result in a published report. The cost of the investigation has reached €70 million. The establishment, having refused to investigate the case for so long, decided to profit from it. Corruption piled upon abuse.
As one comment to the London Times put it, "Sex Abuse in the catholic church is a misnomer. What is and has been for centuries is the "Systemic Homosexual Grooming" at the root of Catholic theology via Plato, Aristotle, and mainly Greek {Spartan} philosophy.
The church is rotting from the inside out. That is why the cover up term pedophilia is used, when in fact it is pederasty and ephobilia.
Other commentators point out that Malta is another outpost of Catholic sex abuse. I know the Christian Brothers were violent and active in the United States.
That country has other scandals. Unmarked graves at a reform school and no prosecutions?
Child abuse is a merely a decadent pleasure that runs to the top of our societies. It is time for discussion, which is why I devote a small corner of my insignificant site to the topic.
God bless the victims.
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From Ireland to Malta the pandemic
has swept across the world, but its caliber remains veiled from the public eye.
It is almost too soon to give an unemotional response to the revelations of routine sex abuse by appointees, officers, members and employees of the Catholic Church in Ireland.
The Irish Times covers the story honourably, while the Independent seems to minimise the story.
Let's remember that the problem is not Ireland's. It is the church and its many institutions, besides.
Pedophilia runs to the highest levels of society. Five hundred years after the Spanish occupation of the Netherlands, it was the descendent of the Spanish governor, the Duke of Alba, who was fiddling with children in what his family must have considered their hunting grounds.
In Britain, the Chairman of the Board of Deputies of British Jews, an MP now Lord Greville Janner, was named by a boy at a children's home in Leicestershire as a frequent, abusing visitor. The press reported Janner's name, accidentally.
I remembered his name because one of my schoolboy contemporaries, on a trip to the House of Commons in 1977, disappeared for five hours in the company of Mr Janner, who entertained the child in the Commons' tea room. I thought at the time this to be a strange, homosexual oddity. The brief naming of Janner, later expunged from the press, confirmed my suspicions.
The Irish investigation into nationwide, endemic, high-level, child abuse took 10 years to result in a published report. The cost of the investigation has reached €70 million. The establishment, having refused to investigate the case for so long, decided to profit from it. Corruption piled upon abuse.
As one comment to the London Times put it, "Sex Abuse in the catholic church is a misnomer. What is and has been for centuries is the "Systemic Homosexual Grooming" at the root of Catholic theology via Plato, Aristotle, and mainly Greek {Spartan} philosophy.
The church is rotting from the inside out. That is why the cover up term pedophilia is used, when in fact it is pederasty and ephobilia.
Other commentators point out that Malta is another outpost of Catholic sex abuse. I know the Christian Brothers were violent and active in the United States.
That country has other scandals. Unmarked graves at a reform school and no prosecutions?
Child abuse is a merely a decadent pleasure that runs to the top of our societies. It is time for discussion, which is why I devote a small corner of my insignificant site to the topic.
God bless the victims.
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Hairdresser turns robber into sex-slave
A hairdresser from the small Russian town of Meshchovsk has subdued a man who tried to rob her shop, and then raped him for three days in the utility room, Life.ru reports.
The incident occurred on Saturday, March 14. The
working day was coming to an end at a small hairdressers, when a man armed with a gun rushed in and demanded the day’s earnings.
The frightened employees and customers agreed to fulfill his demand, but when the shop’s owner, 28-year-old Olga, was handing the money to the robber, she suddenly knocked him down on the floor and then tied him up with a hairdryer cord. The 32-year-old Viktor couldn’t have known that the woman was a yellow belt in karate.
Olga locked the unlucky robber in the utility room and told her colleagues that she was going to call the police – but didn’t do so. When everybody left home, she approached the man and ordered him to ‘take of his underpants’ threatening to hand him over to the police if he refuses to cooperate.
After that Olga raped her hostage for three long days. She chained Viktor to the radiator with pink furry handcuffs and fed him Viagra.
She eventually let the man go on Monday, March 16, saying: “Get out of my sight!”
Viktor went straight to hospital as his genitals were injured, and then to the police.
Olga was resentful when she was taken by the police.
“What a bastard,” the woman said about Viktor. “Yes, we had sex a couple of times. But I’ve bought him new jeans, gave him food and even gave him 1.000 roubles (around $ 30) when he left.”
After that she wrote a notice to the police claiming the man tried to rob her shop.
Both Olga and Viktor may now face prison terms. The woman could be convicted of rape, while the man of robbery.
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The incident occurred on Saturday, March 14. The
working day was coming to an end at a small hairdressers, when a man armed with a gun rushed in and demanded the day’s earnings.
The frightened employees and customers agreed to fulfill his demand, but when the shop’s owner, 28-year-old Olga, was handing the money to the robber, she suddenly knocked him down on the floor and then tied him up with a hairdryer cord. The 32-year-old Viktor couldn’t have known that the woman was a yellow belt in karate.
Olga locked the unlucky robber in the utility room and told her colleagues that she was going to call the police – but didn’t do so. When everybody left home, she approached the man and ordered him to ‘take of his underpants’ threatening to hand him over to the police if he refuses to cooperate.
After that Olga raped her hostage for three long days. She chained Viktor to the radiator with pink furry handcuffs and fed him Viagra.
She eventually let the man go on Monday, March 16, saying: “Get out of my sight!”
Viktor went straight to hospital as his genitals were injured, and then to the police.
Olga was resentful when she was taken by the police.
“What a bastard,” the woman said about Viktor. “Yes, we had sex a couple of times. But I’ve bought him new jeans, gave him food and even gave him 1.000 roubles (around $ 30) when he left.”
After that she wrote a notice to the police claiming the man tried to rob her shop.
Both Olga and Viktor may now face prison terms. The woman could be convicted of rape, while the man of robbery.
. Read More..
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