Tantric Quest : An Encounter with Absolute Love
Tantric Quest : An Encounter with Absolute Love
Editorial Reviews
Review
Natural Living
: "An eye-opening intro to a powerful, much misunderstood tradition."
Holly Hammond, Yoga Journal
:
"Daniel Odier's story is the stuff of dreams for the spiritual seeker.  Until this book, we have had few (if any) modern first-person accounts of a Westerner's initiation into tantrism. Tantric Quest fulfills our longing to understand this mysterious method and does so admirably, describing a path where sensual delight is married with full attention to re-create our birthright of life in the garden of the Goddess."
Book Description
The author reveals his passionate experiences with a female Tantric master who taught him the suppressed practices of her ancient order. In 1968 Daniel Odier left Europe for the Himalayas, searching for a master who could help him go where texts and intellectual searching could no longer take him. He wanted everything: the wisdom and spirituality gained from the life of an ascetic and the beauty, love, and sensuality of a life of passion. He found both in Shivaic Tantrism, the secret spiritual path that seeks to transcend ego and rediscover the divine by embracing the passions. In an isolated Himalayan forest Odier met Devi, a great yogini who would take him on a mystical journey like none he had ever imagined. At times taking him beyond the limits of sexual experience, at times threatening him with destruction, she taught him what it is to truly be alive and to know the divine nature of absolute love.
This is the personal memoir of one of France's most honored writers.
Tantrism is the only ancient philosophy to survive all historical upheavals, invasions, and influences to reach us intact by uninterrupted transmission from master to disciple, and the only one to retain the image of the Great Goddess as the ultimate source of power.
Tantric Quest : An Encounter with Absolute Love
Tantric Quest: An Encounter with Absolute Love,Daniel Odier,Inner Traditions,0892816201,Eastern - General,Hinduism,Religion,Religion - World Religions,Spiritual life,Tantrism,Biography: general,Mind, body, spirit: disciplines & techniques,Self-Help / Sexual Instruction
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