A Method For Tantric Bliss: The Ipsalu Formula

A Method for Tantric Bliss presents a practical approach to spiritual awakening leading to a joyful experience of who you really are and your oneness with all things, your bliss. Created on a solid foundation of ancient principles and practices with deep psychological insights, The Ipsalu formula works for everyone who practices it.

A Method for Tantric Bliss began as the follow-up materials for the weekend course "Living in Bliss". Materials introduced in that intensive are included and greatly expanded here. The book can in no way replace the course. The awakening that happens there, the quantum leap of awareness, simply cannot be captured on paper. The group energy makes that magic happen. Being familiar with the conceptual basis in advance of the course allows one to go more deeply into that experience. Tantric Bliss draws from seventeen years of experience, guiding thousands of people through that sometimes hazardous process. New methods have been added and refined. We have learned how to manage the process safely and efficiently.

The current approach is more feminine than the earlier work, recognizing the cosmic importance of feeling states and matters of the heart. Any technique, with a few modifications, can be used to draw either predominately masculine/Shiva energy into the body (the yogic preference), or feminine/Shakti energy (a more tantric approach.) This book brings together materials from esoteric traditions (primarily Kriya Yoga), from state-of-the-art transpersonal psychotherapy, from current scientific research in the physiology of mystical experiences and the mechanics of consciousness. The intention is to demonstrate in simple terms how this all fits together.

Dividing the material into topics has been somewhat arbitrary. It doesn't really fit into boxes and doesn't want to lay out in a linear way. It is more like working with a hologram where all of the understanding is included in every small piece. The better you understand each piece, the better you understand the whole. Therefore, I have cross-referenced extensively. This book is highly condensed. There are many topics presented here, any one of which could have been developed into an entire book. You will read in now and pick up certain information. When you reread it, you'll probably find something you didn't see before.

This book has come together magically. I have made it a point never to read a tantra book or attend a class. Bits of information and insights just show up, pieces of this cosmic jigsaw puzzle. During the several months of serious writing I would wake up in the middle of the night to write down ideas that were dancing in my mind. I would then take the morning to expand the ideas and fit them into the growing book. My astrologer says this book at this time is my destiny book, the integration and culmination of a lifetime of exploring. The observations and interpretations offered here are presented as if they were the counsel and teachings of my Higher Self, speaking to my small self, the guidance and principles of which I need continual reminders. There seem to be a large number of people who also resonate to those reminders, and so I am happy to share them. Hereafter, when I'm referring to my personal history, the text will appear in italics. Regular type will be used for the Higher Self discourse.