There is only God, ever. Thinking mind assigns right and wrong, clamping down on freedom, which is your nature. Pushing the limits of your aversions is one way to expand. Some Tantrics run with this. But you don’t have to take ridiculous drugs or eat corpse.

Entry level practice: Relax your preferences, don’t judge what you’re dealt, and enjoy.

To include everything, reject nothing!

If you want to practice Tantra, you ought to have a Guru. Partly because you will be getting involved with forces that can potentially drive you crazy. So it’s useful to have a support, a rock on which to cling when the rivers starts raging. In the Tantric tradition such support is mostly gotten through a mantra received from that one.



How to get a real good Guru? Understand that the Guru is a principle which manifests—when necessary—as a human being. You will remain confused if you are caught up in the individual personality or if you continue shopping around based on that. The individual personality is an outer covering of a greater principle with which you have the good karma to interact—for the purpose of recognizing yourself in that apparent ‘other’ person. Even what he/she ‘does’ for you is up to you.

An authentic Guru who is functioning in this capacity will not be bothered about convincing you of what they are or are not, nor is there a specific way to test if he/she is the business. One must check their essence and if it is good, imbibe. If not, move on.

If you want one, pray. If you think you’ve hit a wall in your own spiritual development, ask for Divine intervention. The response comes in proportion to your genuine desire for the Ultimate.

You can learn a great deal about your Self if you begin to observe your dreams. Not the content of the dreams, most of which is totally insignificant. What’s most useful is to become conscious of the dreamer. The dreamer is Consciousness itself. And that’s You.

Dreams do not feel ‘real’ because most of the time folks lapse into unconsciousness upon falling asleep.

This waking state feels ‘real’ because it’s the highest degree of consciousness to which you subscribe. The dream state is less conscious and feels less ‘real’. Deep, dreamless sleep is near total unconsciousness and therefore not known by most human beings who only retain the vague memory of having rested deeply. 

Retaining or awakening into conscious awareness in the dream state is an invaluable technique for spiritual awakening. Some folks call this lucid dreaming.

Why bother?

Become conscious while awake and feel that quality which is ‘real’ to your experience. Become conscious while dreaming and feel that same quality which is ‘real’ to your experience. You will know the difference between unconscious dreaming, an inkling of dream control, and full on lucidity. It’s such a shock that you’ll probably wake right up. Don’t. This can take awhile, but with effort you will wake up in a dream. See how that dream world is made of the same stuff as the waking world: mind. That’s Step 1.

Step 2: Now in the dream, look at your body—is it the same one? Do some yoga in the dream, really check it out. You’ll see: Awake—I have a body and I am. Asleep—I have another body, or no body and I am. Very advanced yogis will take it into deep, dreamless sleep to confirm: there is no body and I am.

This is a means for taking that worn out statement: “I am not the body” out of the realm of philosophy and into experiential reality. Only you can do the experiment. 

Two techniques for lucid dreaming:

a) Dream Journal: write everything you experience in your dreams. Every detail you can remember upon awakening, no matter how insignificant. No analyzing, only recording. Begin writing immediately upon awakening.

b) Make an affirmation before going to bed, something like: “I will remain conscious in the dream state. You will remain conscious in the dream state. [Insert Your Name Here] will remain conscious in the dream state”. Affirm this out loud to yourself in 1st, 2nd, and 3rd person.



Here is a meditation to clean your chakras. Sit for a few minutes and relax. When you are ready to chant, begin from bottom up. Concentrate on the chakra in your body and chant the corresponding bija or seed mantra.

For 1st, 2nd, and 3rd chakras: inhale deeply, exhale and repeat the mantra, example: “Lam, Lam, Lam, Lam, Lam.”

For 4th, 5th and 6th chakras: inhale deeply, exhale the mantra drawn out, example: “Yyyyyaaaaaammm”.

For 7th chakra, Sahasra, be silent and listen for it. 

Do about 3 cycles for each chakra. After going through all 7 sit for a few minutes. Then chant “Om Shanti Shanti Shanti” and you’re finished.

Vaak Siddhi = What you say, goes.



Your power of speech is the greatest thing. It is a special privilige of human birth. Having acquired a human birth, I suggest looking into it.

The Vedic sages called this power Vaak. Siddhi means perfection.

Start by protecting your speech. Refrain from small, useless talk. Speak negatively of no one. Do not complain or voice your worries audibly. There is enough trouble coming about because of the subtle words and ideas floating around the head space. Articulating them does not help so much.

To develop a strong Vaak, chant Sanskrit mantras all the time. Chant Sanskrit stotrams (hymns). Think mantras over thoughts. Sanskrit alphabets correspond to specific points on your chakras. Chanting them activates the powers contained therein.

Chant all the time and Goddess will bless you, upgrade that Vaak and show you a few things about power.