Ashleigh Freckleton
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But then if you have an issue with it, they have all these writings about nudity and the human body and celebrating the human body.
And if you have an issue with it, that's your problem and that's your spiritual test to overcome.
And that's the first thing I thought of when I heard about Tantra.
But when I signed up, I actually only signed up to the yoga classes.
I wasn't really interested in the Tantra.
And it was only after I was already in that kind of fold.
When I went to Romania, I was only doing the yoga.
I wasn't doing the Tantra classes.
And it became very clear to me that most of the people in the school were there for the tantra.
And it's marketed to you as not being about sex.
And they say, everyone thinks tantra is about sex.
It's not about sex.
It's about love and living from the heart.
And that was what made me feel comfortable enough to open myself up to it a little bit more because it seemed less taboo.
And it's about, they say, sublimating your lower energies or the sexual energies and bringing them higher, bringing them up into the heart and operating from this, I guess, higher field of consciousness and greater level of awareness and all of the spiritual wonderful benefits that come with it.
You're taught to, in this situation, in a very dangerous situation, to question yourself rather than questioning the situation.
And so any kind of boundary that you put up is your own limitation.
And any reservations or doubts that you have are your own demons and your own spiritual tests to overcome.
And so what you're learning to do, yeah, is just keep squashing.
Then they say, and they don't tell you they're going to say this, they say, if you had the opportunity to meet him, what would you say?