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    It was believed that by retaining their semen, men would reach higher states of ecstasy and live longer. Men and women trained themselves to move their sexual energy through seven energy centers, called chakras, to bring themselves to higher states of intellectual, creative, and spiritual expression. As part of those beliefs, women were goddesses meant to be worshiped by men on the path to mutual cosmic bliss, just like the mythical god Shiva worshiped the goddess Shakti. It was in their love story that Tantra was rooted.
    Shiva was a great god living in the jungles of India as a yogi. He had transcended all worldly passions and existed in a constant state of meditation. His hair was uncombed. He went naked except for a piece of animal skin covering his loins. His skin had a bluish gray tint from the sacrificial ashes he had used during his sacred meditation. He became Lord of the Universe because his advanced yogic practices made him a symbol of transcendence.
    The Mother of Creation, the goddess Devi, looked at Shiva and decided it was time to bring him down to earth. Time to get him to hurtlike the rest of us. But first he had to love. She sent Sati, a beautiful woman with long shiny black hair and large brown eyes. Shiva saw Sati. He fell in love. They married, living in bliss on the sacred Mount Kailash.
    One day, Sati died. Shiva was grief-stricken, wandering aimlessly. This was what Devi wanted. She wanted Shiva to feel human sorrow and absorb Sati in the deepest caverns of his soul. Shiva believed love had to be wed with meditation and contemplation to create a blissful union. The other gods took pity on Shiva and reincarnated Sati as Shakti, an even more enticing woman. When they met, Shiva and Shakti united in bliss and marriage. Shakti’s name came from shak, the Sanskrit word meaning “power,” for she was a great yogi herself. The great source of her power came from her yoni, her “secret garden.” Shakti epitomized the female energy of creation. The story went that both Shiva and Shakti knew they were nothing without each other. They needed each other’s energy to awaken themselves.
    Shakti accepted Shiva as her guru. The marriage of their energies liberated both of them. They became spiritual partners and soul mates. Shakti taught Shiva to temporarily let go of asceticism, to weave the art of love and sexual union into his spiritual meditation. They began the path of yoga that became known as Tantra, the yoga of divine love.
    Shiva and Shakti learned new ways to channel their orgasmic powers through the pathways of their energy centers, their chakras. They incorporated music, astrology, massage, painting, dance, poetry, visualization, ecstatic ritual, and meditation. The teachings spread through scriptures called Tantras, taught through a conversation between Shiva and Shakti. The message of the Tantras was that by loving and worshiping each other as Shivas and Shaktis, all men and women could live in blissful union.
    â€œLook upon a woman as a goddess whose special energy she is, and honor her in that state,” wrote the early Tantra texts.
    I didn’t feel quite ready to be a goddess. I still thought my butt was too big.
    Three couples sat before me on the edges of their chairs, next to three single men, one of them handsome. “We’re going to learn how to move your sexual energy through your body,” Al said.
    â€œIt’s the passion pump,” Pala guided us. “Close your eyes. Squeeze your butt. Squeeze, squeeze, squeeze. Inhale through your nose. Breathein deep into your belly. Keep the rest of your body real relaxed. Move the energy up your spine to your head. Clench your teeth. Press the flat of your tongue against the middle of your palate and the tip of your tongue where your lower front teeth and gums meet. Push your chin slightly backward. Look up and roll your eyes to the top of your head. Now, breathe out.”
    She lost me