the Threads of Tantra: Foundations: An Honest Introduction to Tantra — Its History, Philosophy, Symbols, and Divine Feminine

Everyone has heard the word "Tantra." Almost no one has been told what it actually means.Stripped of the marketing and the mystique, Tantra is one of the great currents of Indian religious thought - a vast tradition of philosophy, ritual, and inner discipline that shaped Hinduism, Buddhism, and the yoga the world now practices. Foundations is where that story begins, told plainly and without sensationalism.In clear, unhurried prose, this first volume of The Threads of Tantra lays the groundwork: - what the word Tantra actually means - and the myths worth dropping first- the Shaiva and Shakta traditions, and the world that produced them- mantra, yantra, the subtle body, and the logic beneath the ritual- the Divine Feminine at the heart of it - and where hatha yoga really came fromWritten for the serious general reader: no Sanskrit required, nothing dumbed down. A grounding you can build on, from the first book of a three-part introduction to one of the world's most misunderstood spiritual traditions.