Sometimes I’m surprised by my reaction to the contents of a novel and how pertinent to tantra some of these descriptions are. I recently picked up ‘The Master Butchers Singing Club’ by Louise Erdrich, a book I had already read a couple of times and came across the above paragraph. I was flummoxed by the sheer intensity of the scene, and how it describes in just a few words the notion of not just energies rising within both Delphine and Cyprian, but how they exchange that energy through an intimate connection made by eye contact. It seems to me that the author is describing a deep connection that consists of two elements:
First of all there is the eye contact. Conscious sensuality keeps pushing the eye gazing exercises and experience and this is one of the best examples I have found to show the power of that connection and how it connects the two partners on what can only be described as a mental, even spiritual level. What’s going on is completely non-corporeal, focused on an energetic connection between the two, bringing a long-standing yearning to a climax that keeps going. The physical, sexual connection the two have is both a source and a result of those moving energies within each of their bodies. On the one hand, they have this bottled up sexual urge and restrictions (I recommend you read the book to hear more about this) that now come to the fore and ignite the energetic connection. On the other hand, the continued eye locking keeps the energy going, makes it go round and round, and intensify with each cycle. Now THAT’s what I call Tantric sex! It’s not just the fact that it keeps going, but it’s all about the connection between the two partners, they are conscious about their sexuality, about the connection they have, and they are as one. And yes: this is a heterosexual couple but the same connection is innately possible between any two partners, of course. This is one of the best images I can conjure up to explain how all the breathing, touching, moving and communicating comes together to form something that is clearly larger than the sum of its parts. Consider this: have you had a connection that relates to the one described above? Try and find out what made it so special and take the lesson with you next time you have sex…
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