New PDF release: Tantric Jesus: The Erotic Heart of Early Christianity

A advisor to the historical past and glossy perform of transformative Christianity

• finds the unique tantric knowledge of Jesus and the early Church and its resonance with the tantric yogas of India and Tibet

• Explains how tantric Christianity perspectives the human physique because the fundamental “temple” of the Holy and erotic power because the signature of indwelling Divine Presence

• offers step by step directions for a chain of Christian tantric practices, together with a partnered sexual perform, mantra and effort paintings, eye observing, and paintings with icons

Unbeknownst to many, the unique Christian spirituality as practiced within the early church and by means of Jesus himself was once a tantric spirituality. within the West, Tantra usually conjures up photos of arcane rituals or acrobatic sexual positions, whereas actually Tantra is a holistic transformative course of lifestyles, love, and being--grounded in perform.

Offering a brand new realizing of Jesus as guru and grasp of left-handed Tantra, James Reho, an Episcopal priest and tantric start up, reframes the Christian tale and restores to fashionable Christianity the tantric knowledge practices that have been edited out of church culture and forgotten over the centuries. He explains how tantric Christianity perspectives the human physique because the fundamental “temple” of the Holy, with erotic power because the signature of Divine Presence inside of. Rev. Reho unearths the similarities of the earliest Christian practices to the tantric yogas of India and Tibet and explores the function of Kundalini and the chakras. He information the way to paintings with mantras, icons, and pranayama respiring workouts, in addition to with observing as a non secular perform. educated through the insights of historic texts and early masters of Christian spirituality, the writer presents step by step directions on tips to perform Christian tantric intercourse with a life-partner of the other or related intercourse.

Rev. Reho finds how those heart-opening practices are rooted in eros, the lifetime of deep wish, expressive of God’s grace inside of us, and are nonetheless alive in monastic practices within the Christian East. Integrating his own non secular reports, years of analysis of old Christian mysticism, and an services in yoga and tantra, the writer indicates how we will be able to re-engage the unique truths of the early church to verify the physique as a holy automobile and to make use of the strength of the erotic to accomplish ecstatic union with the Divine.