Keith Sherwood - Sex and Transcendence: Enhance Your Relationships Through Meditations, Chakra & Energy Work

Keith Sherwood is an internationally known teacher and healer. He founded the American Psychic Association and served as its director and editor of its magazine, Psychic. He has appeared on many radio and television programs throughout the United States and Europe, and currently teaches chakra therapy, a synthesis of Western therapeutic techniques, Taoist Yoga, and Tantra. He resides in Portland, Oregon.

KEITH SHERWOOD

Meditations, Ckcikwci & Energy \&ork

Llewellyn Publications

Woodbury, Minnesota

The Art of Spiritual Healing Chakra Healing and Karmic Awareness Chakra Therapy: For Personal Growth dr Healing

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The Universe Is in Bliss-So, eyou

Get VVhatyou Want JV%ost fromyour Sexual Relationship

The Importance of Self-Love

SayVes toT Sex

Fantasy and Karmic Baggage

Get Real-Expressing LVhatVou Really Feel

Sex Is an Inter-Dimensional Sport

your Energy Field Is a Love )Machine

The Problem of Past-Life Lovers

Gender Is in Everything

Spiritual Foreplay

Celebrating the Goddess

yourthree learts

Full-Body, JVlultiple, and Endless Orgasms

Sayyes to transcendent Relationships

Make the Commitment toT Now

yearning for transcendent sex is a compelling motivator in our relationships. Who among us doesn't desire a relationship that goes beyond ordinary limits? Who wouldn't want to bond more fully, and more fulfillingly, with one's partner? This book will show you how to do just that.

It all begins with the tantric masters, who recognized more than a thousand years ago that human sexuality and the energy at its foundation are powerful forces that can lead us to ecstasy. These forces can also work as extremely effective tools to achieve transcendent states of consciousness and new levels of intimacy with a partner-in other words, a transcendent relationship.

So what exactly is a transcendent relationship? Is it simply a partnership defined by great sex, or is there more to it? First of all, let me assure you that you will indeed experience phenomenal sex that allows you to feel complete oneness with your partner and with Universal Consciousness. But beyond that, you will learn to share pleasure, love, intimacy, and joy freely with a partner, without blockages, karma, or anything else getting in the way. You may wonder at this point if you need the "perfect" partner to achieve such things. The answer to that is a resounding no. If you love your partner and you share sexual chemistry, then the two of you have everything you need to create a transcendent relationship.

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Sex and Transcendence focuses on how the human energy field affects sex and relationships. It will help you identify and remove the blockages in your energy field that restrict your potential to experience transcendent sex, and also offers energetic solutions to the sexual and relationship problems caused by those blockages.

Each chapter contains practical exercises that you can use, on your own or with your partner, to overcome the limitations imposed on your sexuality by karma, our culture, and any individual personality issues. You will learn how karmic baggage, the foundation of blockages and personality issues, is created, how it disrupts intimate relationships, and how it can be safely and permanently released. You will also learn how polarity (the interaction of Yin and Yang) affects sexual energy, and how fears and fantasies can be used to enhance sexual ecstasy. And finally, you will discover how to tap into the universal qualities of god or goddess energy (personified here as Shiva and Shakti).

Sex and Transcendence is a practical book for both individuals and couples who desire to bring enlightenment to their everyday life. This book includes a wealth of information on how to use your body, mind, and energy field to enhance sexual intimacy. In the last six chapters, special attention has been given to spiritual foreplay and techniques to help you achieve and enhance your enjoyment of a full-body, multiple, and endless orgasm.

Throughout my years of work in this field, I've learned to experience energy fields directly, by seeing and feeling them, and have studied energetic interactions between people engaged in all forms of intimate activity. This has allowed me to develop techniques that can release energy blockages and restore the human energy field to the healthiest condition possible. It is my privilege to share these techniques with you here.

- Taoists tell us that, at the moment the universe was created, the energy that is the foundation of human sexuality split into two halves, which became known by the Chinese as Yin and Yang. Yin represents femininity, body, soul, earth, moon, water, night, cold, darkness, and contraction. Yang, on the other hand, represents masculinity, mind, spirit, heaven, sun, day, fire, heat, sunlight, and expansion. Everything in the universe can be defined by its particular balance of Yin and Yang; however, nothing is completely one or the other. Everything that exists has elements of both, because Yin and Yang are never staticthey are always interacting with one another. An excess of Yin becomes Yang, and an excess of Yang becomes Yin. In a perfect example of this, water, which is Yin, when frozen becomes ice, which is Yang.

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Human sexuality cannot be understood outside the concept of Yin and Yang. In the tantric view, a human being and his or her relationships are a mirror of the universe-or even better, the whole universe in microcosm. The universe itself is seen as a union of the male and female principles, as represented by the divine couple Shiva and Shakti.

In tantra, the male Shiva and the female Shakti are revered as both the divine couple and as the archetypes for consciousness (Shiva) and energy (Shakti). The ancient Vedic texts, which are sacred to yoga and tantra, describe through metaphor and myth a person's relationship to his or her energy field and the energy field's relationship to other people and the cosmos. The most well-known Vedic texts, the Upanishads and the Bhagavad Gita, tell us that after the universe was created, Shiva and Shakti emerged from the singularity called Universal Consciousness via the tattvas, which are steps in the evolution of the physical and nonphysical universe.