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Conspirituality

15: Tantra: Sex, Death, & Chaos (w/Alex Auder)

140 min • 3 september 2020

For decades, Neo-Tantra has focused on sex workshops and orgasmic bliss, overlooking the fact that the Kama Sutra is effectively a patriarchal instruction manual as well as Tantra’s grassroots origins in the lower castes in Indian society, which were responding to lofty metaphysical ideas with practical rituals everyone could partake in. From that perspective, a modern industry marketed with Shiva-Shakti figurines is yet another example of capitalist yoga in a privileged society.


Derek opens this week discussing a redpilled-lite video by Danielle LaPorte, while Julian discusses an intensely personal story related to Tantra; he also explores the role of the Aghoris. We break from Tantra talk during Matthew’s interview with Alex Auder, a veteran yoga instructor who uses comedy as a relief mechanism from the QAnon craziness in the yoga world. Matthew ends this week’s episode with a reflection on his history with Tibetan Buddhist Tantra, and how he sees echoes of its archaic elements showing up, in undigested form, in the QAnon imaginarium.


Show Notes


Danielle LaPorte’s video


How tantric sex trains people to have more intense orgasms, and why it’s so controversial


The Mysterious Death of a Tantric Sex Guru


Sex Messiah: A Tantric Odyssey


Not for the Faint of Heart: The Aghori and Their Unorthodox Path to Enlightenment


Reza Aslan (almost) loses his head


Yoga: An Evolving Story Of Cross-Cultural Innovation


Julian Feeld at the Hollywood Blvd QAnon rally


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