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Title: Tantra : Path of Ecstasy by Ph.D. Georg Feuerstein ISBN: 1-57062-304-X Publisher: Shambhala Pub. Date: 28 July, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (6 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Recommended Reading
Comment: "The many facets of Tantric psychology and practice are relevant to all who seek to cultivate self-understanding and are sincerely engaged in the whole task of spiritual transformation," writes Georg Feuerstein, director of the Yoga Research Center and author of 30 books. This erudite and illuminating overview of the Hindu Tantric heritage is meant to be a correction to the widespread idea that Tantra yoga is nothing more than "a mere discipline of ritualized or sacred sex."
This spiritual tradition, Feuerstein explains, requires initiation at the hand of a qualified teacher and many years of intensive personal practice. The author describes some of the major lineaments of Tantra with chapters on samsara (cyclic existence), the bondage of time, the secret of embodiment, the divine play of Shiva and Shakti, the disciple-guru relationship, the subtle body, awakening the serpent power, and rituals of Tantra. Feuerstein calls this ancient esoteric tradition "the great spiritual synthesis" thanks to its insights into enlightenment and the body as a temple of the divine. The author concludes: "Tantra is a powerful tool, calling for maturity, self-knowledge, and good-heartedness in its handling."
Rating: 5
Summary: As good as anything by Karen Armstrong and maybe better
Comment: It's often hard to understand metaphysical books about tantra because there are few scholars who can write in a clear way that's accessible even for practitioners, let alone people who have never had a guru or traveled to India to experience tantric teachings firsthand.
In America, yoga has so often devolved into a physical practice with spiritual pretensions, instead of a deeply spiritual practice.
I returned from India from a six-month trip in 1998, during which time I stumbled into meeting a guru and then spent five weeks studying with him in Benares. When I came home, it was very hard to begin to articulate what had taken place. This book was a godsend, a link to connect my experience with a tradition that extends millennia back in time. And secondly it helped to link my friends and family to the experiences I just had by reading a clear description of the path and experiences involved in Tantra.
I hesitate even to use the word Tantra, given that it's so very, very misused in the West.
This book sets the record straight (Tantra does NOT equal sex) and presents the practice and history of Tantra in all its profundity. We are indebted to the author for his great gift to all of us.
For the other reviews that criticize the author's lack of experience in Tantra, you should be aware that the author has a Tantric Buddhist teacher which led him to bring his considerable talents to present the first guide and most helpful explanation of these profoundly important teachings.
I've given numerous copies to family and friends, all of whom have enjoyed it immensely.
Until Karen Armstrong decides to tackle this subject (highly unlikely, given her orientation), this is the best book available. Highest recommendation!
Rating: 3
Summary: Misses the mark about tantra origins
Comment: The book does not seem to realise that tantra evolved initially as indigenous to India, especially Bengal, as separate from Vedic influence and was picked up by so-called Hinduism and by Buddhism. However, tantra is still a spiritual science distinct from these religious traditions and distinct from Vedic culture. The Vedic culture took aspects of Tantra because of Vedic deficiencies.
The books is also largely academic giving no insight into personal experience which in a spiritual disciple role is so important to tantra. Tantra is a spiritual science and yet this books still formulates matters by way of considering Vedic, Hindu and Buddhist concepts.
George Feurstein unfortunately may have succumbed to be a popular author but as to actual understanding of tantric meditation techniques, spiritual practices and spiritual science, does not appear up to the mark.
Is his latest book "Yoga for Dummies" any reflection of a new found status?
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Title: The Yoga Tradition: History, Religion, Philosophy and Practice by Georg Feuerstein, Ken Wilber ISBN: 1890772186 Publisher: Hohm Pr Pub. Date: 31 October, 2001 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: Anatomy of Movement by Blandine C. Germain, Blandine Calais-Germain ISBN: 0939616173 Publisher: Eastland Press Pub. Date: 15 October, 1993 List Price(USD): $28.50 |
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Title: The Heart of Yoga: Developing a Personal Practice by T. K. V. Desikachar ISBN: 089281764X Publisher: Inner Traditions Intl Ltd Pub. Date: 01 March, 1999 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Light on the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali by B. K. S. Iyengar ISBN: 0007145160 Publisher: Thorsons Pub Pub. Date: January, 2003 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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Title: Dynamic Yoga: The Ultimate Workout That Chills Your Mind As It Charges Your Body by Godfrey Devereux, Sarah Robbie ISBN: 0722536577 Publisher: Thorsons Pub Pub. Date: March, 1999 List Price(USD): $19.00 |
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