Raúl del Pino, author of the book ‘MDMA, Sex and Tantra’, will participate in Fuertedélica as a member of the round table ‘MDMA, from party to couch’, along with Fernando Caudevilla and José Carlos Bouso.
Below, and to warm up, an extract from the first chapter of the mentioned book:
“Under the effects of ecstasy, sensuality becomes natural and free of taboos. Within this experiential framework, we feel liberated, in a state of ‘pure existence’, our sensory centers expand in such a way that everything is charged with intrinsic beauty. The physical experience loses its marked biological character to become a spiritual trance, while bodies intertwine in a spiral around the soul in a mystical embrace with tantric connotations, provoking the alchemy of lovers. However, one of the least exposed aspects regarding MDMA is the sexual potential that this substance offers.
Puritanism and sinful practices
Perhaps for a Westernized mind like ours, issues related to sexuality and Eastern philosophies are difficult to assimilate, symbolic terminologies that contextualize the world of the invisible and unfathomable, that connect us with Divinity. All this is caused by our mechanistic and Newtonian-Cartesian tendency in the conception of our personal experience and our cosmology. This results in a scarcity of referential frameworks to guide us through different planes of consciousness, and even more so when dealing with a taboo subject like the one at hand: sex among Westerners, submerged by centuries of puritanism and persecution of sinful practices.
However, the observation of the experience of reality and the implementation of certain techniques can lead us to rethink our conception of ourselves and the Universe. Therefore, the aim of this article is none other than to lay foundations that allow us to carry out certain practices that help us transcend the physical plane through the expansion of consciousness using tantric yoga sexual techniques seasoned with Methylenedioxymethamphetamine or MDMA, better known as ecstasy.
Tantric yoga and MDMA
For this, we will explain how MDMA acts both physically and mentally, detailing its effects and possible complications. On the other hand, we will focus on the sexual aspects that consumers of this substance experience while we review the philosophy of Tantra and the similarities between tantric yoga and sex under the effects of MDMA. In the end, we will present different techniques that will allow us to put this theory into practice, hoping that this will allow us all to develop new techniques over time based on experiential exchange. What must be clear is that what is described here must be contextualized in a ritualized framework and under conditions that should approximate those exposed to develop the appropriate mental state that leads us to an experience of fusion of opposites, to a tantric experience of unequaled alchemical beauty.
Therapeutic properties of MDMA
Perhaps we can ask ourselves if it isn’t better to reach these types of peak experiences without the help of any drug or medication, if it isn’t better to practice Tantra since it also results in a healthier life. Indeed this could be so, perhaps it would be ideal, but in societies like ours, the practice of disciplines of this type leads us to renounce certain things or attachments that in many cases we are not willing to assume due to the destructuring it may cause. Thus, we are only left with the alternative of surrendering to Divinity for a few moments to then return to our routine, to our ordinary world. But we must also consider that MDMA has therapeutic properties that can produce benefits that are reflected in daily life if we know how to observe its effects on our psyche.
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