Review
The essence of Hindu Advaita, Shaivam (Shaivism) and Shaiva Advaita is the 'Science of Awareness'. This science is as old as humanity itself but has taken many forms and many names. In the 10th century it took the form of the holistic 'threefold' science of awareness (Trika Shaivism) through the grace of Acharya Abhinavagupta. This tradition lived relatively secluded in the valley of Kashmir for many centuries and its teachings were very much considered secret. It was not until modern times (in the 1970s) that this teaching was given to the world through the grace of Swami Lakshmanjoo. I have been studying 'Trika' Shaivism for some years now and have benefited from it greatly. What I find attractive in it is its extraordinary ordinariness and its freedom and respect for the individual (that I suspect comes natural when you see and respect every particle in the universe as a manifestation of the Divine Awareness). Yet many of the Trika teachers I have managed to find seems to be more in the field of 'Pay Me-Bless You'-business. Through the teachings of Swami Lakshmanjoo my heart has been filled with more peace, more freedom and more bliss. Yet Swami Lakshmanjoo is gone, and there is no one that walks the talk . Yet then I discovered Peter Wilberg's books and website, and upon reading more and more of his teachings my heart is filled with inspiration, joy and hope. Acharya Peter Wilberg has really updated this age-old tradition of Tantrism in a way that makes it totally applicable for a modern mind and a modern humanity. Peter Wilberg speaks from a place where he not only express understanding if the Trika but also seems have such in-depth knowledge of it that he have made it his own and is able to express it in a creative way. I find it interesting that Swami Lakshmanjoo was considered by many of his devotees as the incarnation of Acharya Abhinavagupta's teacher. How appropriate then, that the guiding light of the revived Trika Shaivism and Tantrism of Acharya Peter Wilberg embodies so strongly the spirit of Acharya Abhinavagupta himself. --Visarganath (Associate of the Universal Shaiva Fellowship)
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What would it be like to know that you are indeed immortal - that your physical body is but an outward form taken by your own eternal inner form or 'soul body'? What would it be like to experience this soul body as an awareness that is not bounded by your skin but pervades the entire universe - and that can merge with the awareness or 'soul' of others? In this way you can come to experience the bliss of true 'tantra' and 'tantric sex'. This is no mere sensual or spiritual intensification of biological sex but something much deeper - a deeply sensual and sexual intercourse of soul of a sort that requires no skin contact whatsoever - for its sole medium is our divine soul body. 'Tantra Reborn' introduces this wholly new understanding - and experience - of the tantric tradition and its sexual symbolism, as well as its basis 'The New Yoga'. For this is not a yoga of the physical body or of some 'energy body' but of the soul body itself - our body of sensual feeling awareness or 'soul'.