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Sounding Orgasmic Release

An Introduction to The Sound Tantras Workbook
By Steven Hastings Paige


Tantrics use their sexuality as a method of exposing themselves to higher consciousness. Sound Tantrics further study the effect of sexuality ,sound, and body movement to draw themselves towards metaphysical unity. Where cultures are infused with music and dance, sex has a relationship to both.
Music and dance cultures have a different relationship to sexuality that is not easily understood from the vantage point of Western values. We as Westerners have viewed primitive musical erotic ceremonies as an abandonment of ethical and moral structure. Yet within the cultural context of the dance society these experiences are the essence of communal unity and support. Very little research has been done about the effect of repetitive kinesthetics, music, and feminine sexual experience. In our exploration of Sound Tantric culture and sexuality we propose some very innovative views about what sexuality is and how we experience it.
This on line book is for the lay reader without cost. It's not written in argumentative style or scholarly form. It is presented in small segments of inspirational thought and suggested activities so the reader can validate what is presented here quickly through personal experience. We tried to write simply enough for most readers to absorb the material within their own limited time frames.
We experience love through a torrent of impressions, emotions, and physical sensations. Our ally and guide through these experiences is our psyche or subconscious. The Sound Tantras is a crystallization of impressions and facts to strengthen and empower the feminine psyche, to create balance between the masculine and feminine experience of love, and to impress upon the reader the richness of Sound Tantric culture .
The relation of rhythm and timing as an instigator of ecstatic states is very poorly understood in the West. Very little literature supports female sexuality as being deeply time dependent. Even the vast literature available about primitive sexual rituals passes over the elements of time and rhythm with little attention. Much of our Western culture is concerned about sex . We are obsessed about sex. Like a store bought apple waxed and grown for looks with little taste, Western sexuality is often devoid of the subtlety and compassion for the psychic experience of sex while extolling the virtues of physical sex without emotional content.
When sexual movement is pre-conditioned physically through the kinesthetic memory of dance and induced into the primal psychic timing of the individual it becomes a passageway into deep undifferentiated connectedness between individuals and the world. The complex process of body-mind interaction is positively regulated by cyclical experiences of pleasure. Safely harmonizing us with the rhythms of nature around us and our own body rhythms.
Pleasure, rhythm, and movement are used to direct consciousness toward unity in Sound Tantric culture. Subconscious goals become community goals through psychic integration of the dancer or musician to the world around them. body-mind interactions are orchestrated toward community goals and harmony with natural cycles. Life becomes pleasure positive and rhythmically oriented.
Sound Tantric culture establishes rhythmical interconnections as the seed of all experience. Music and rhythm are molded into all life experiences validating them deeply. Sexuality experienced through rhythm and kinesthetic conditioning of Sound Tantric culture validates personal release in the body and mind simultaneously. We drop our intellectual governing mechanisms to live for a moment in the' real time' experience of our sensations. In a cohesive social setting this is not moral abandonment. It is personal intuitive abundance and physical ecstasy graced by communal support.
Western society has lived in fear of the cohesive power of Sound Tantric culture. The spiritual values of Sound Tantric culture are integrative, relational and adaptive. Western spiritual values are intellectually territorial, fixed and institutionalized. They are two different mediums of spiritual expression. Both are valid for particular individuals.
To understand the spiritual medium of Sound Tantric cultures we need to know some basics about how they operate. What molds their experiences and values? To give you some immediate background in dance culture we have arranged the following questions and answers to give you some understanding and definition of dance culture life-styles mentioned in this book. The answers will help you better comprehend the ideas we present:

What is Sound Tantric culture?
When dance, theatrics, and live music are learned and expressed by everyone in a close knit community for spiritual and emotional solidarity, then you have by our definition a Sound Tantric culture.

Where do you find Sound Tantric culture?
Sound Tantric culture is a human universal. It's found on the Hopi Mesas of New Mexico to the jungles of Indonesia. It's where cultures develop meditative music, trance kinesthetic, and sexuality to activate consciousness towards community goals and harmony with the natural world.

What are the ritualistic universals of Sound Tantric culture?
Everyone is a participant. Music and dance are used to unify ceremonial consciousness. Rhythmic entrainment is used to dramatically express tribal solidarity. Repetitive dance movements physiologically condition participants. Metaphorical allies are dramatically called upon to teach and direct the ceremonies.

What is the difference between tribal ceremonies and Western contemporary dance forms?
Most contemporary music and dance is recorded or written. Sight read music and choreographed dance are the norm in Western culture. Sound Tantric culture ceremonies are neither written down or recorded. They are passed down from generation to generation . Live music and live dance is the norm. There is a subtle balance between trained form and improvisation. Master dancers and musicians are mimicked during the actual ceremonies.

Where can we find Sound Tantric culture in the West?
The largest Sound Tantric culture movement in our society has been the "Grateful Dead " Movement. Club movements like Hip Hop, Trip Hop, Acid Jazz, World Beat Music, Reggae, And Ska all incorporate elements of Tribal Dance Music yet fall short of communal integrated involvement. Dance is often too heavily choreographed in the west to be used for kinesthetic release. Live music is divided between players and audience unlike Sound Tantric culture.

How does Sound Tantric culture use Rhythm and Movement?
Rhythm and repetitive movement are used as group meditative tools. Dance is used to re-train and condition the mind-body, alter physical states, and trigger personal inner dialogue. Master dancers and musicians encourage and support these ceremonial conditions through theatrics and meditative awareness. Musicians observe and catch the dancers gestures in musical support. Live music is necessary for these experiences.

What is the importance of poly-rhythms and cross-rhythms in ceremony?
Cross rhythms from several set meditative players draws the listener into actively participating in mental mediation of the musical center. Counterpoint, and improvisations breathe in and out with rhythmical solidarity. The wave like departures transport the active listener or dancer into personal subconscious communion with the group experience. The cross rhythms are said to be the crossroads between the spirit world and the human world.

What triggers hypnotic kinesthetic states in the dancers?
There are several common triggers: emotional support, long cycles of motor conditioning repetitive dance movements, musical theatrics, rhythmical support of long dance cycles through chanting or playing rhythm on percussion instruments, and the calling upon of metaphorical allies to assist the human participants.

What role do these states play in community relations?
These states set the emotional tone of the community and subconsciously bond the participant to the communal experience creating a community standard of intrinsic cooperation. Where there is deep, meditative, musical cooperation it follows that there is social cooperation. These ceremonies are seldom used for narcissistic self gratification or gain of personal power. Instead they encourage personal goals to be in harmony with communal goals, ancestral history and cosmic forces.

What role does sexuality play in dance culture?
Sound Tantric culture is intrinsically feministic because it relies on the medium of timing. Timing and natural rhythms are basic to the feminine experience. Sexual energy invigorates cyclical consciousness and feminine body-time. It is well known that sexual energy regulates the feminine cycle through pheromone triggering. The natural world dialogues with feminine sexual timing. In Sound Tantric culture that dialogue is venerated.

This is possibly a beginning introduction to Sound Tantric culture for you. You can follow our innovative ideas and compare them to your own experiences. This is how we would like you to determine the validity of what we propose here. We hope that we can inspire you, like we are, to be sympathetic to our view of the feminine experience and its inter-relatedness to our individual and cultural well-being.
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