[Mantak_Chia,_Michael_Winn]_Taoist_Secrets_of_Love(BookFi.org)

CHAPTER 10
THE SEVEN SPIRITUAL STAGES OF
CULTIVATING SEXUAL ENERGY
In the practice of exchanging sexual power with one's partner or
absorbing one's own seminal power there are many ways of proceeding.
Each individual must develop himself using his current
stage of evolution as the starting point. There are higher, more
purely spiritual levels of transforming human consciousness than
the beginning techniques of sexual cultivation taught in this book.
But it is impossible to fully comprehend them and attain lasting
benfit from them until a man is able to exert positive control over
his sexual drive.
Many yogis, gurus and masters from the East have arrived in
America thinking themselves fully enlightened, but soon discovered
they had not achieved control over their sexuality. They
had merely repressed their sexual desires while developing their
higher spiritual centers. Some may have been genuinely accomplished
but were trapped by their religious or cultural taboos
against sex. This imbalance is made possible by the strong local
taboos against free sex in the orient.
The Eastern culture is still tightly controlled by religious or
family pressures that greatly reduce the temptation to have extramarital
sex. The penalty for being discovered is too great and
would ruin the "career" of an aspiring yogi or other spiritual
teacher who is assumed to have transcended the sexual urge. In the
climate of unbridled sexual freedom that exists in America, their