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The author reveals his passionate experiences with a female Tantric master who taught him the suppressed practices of her ancient order. In 1968 Daniel Odier left Europe for the Himalayas, searching for a master who could help him go where
...(more) texts and intellectual searching could no longer take him. He wanted everything: the wisdom and spirituality gained from the life of an ascetic and the beauty, love, and sensuality of a life of passion. He found both in Shivaic Tantrism, the secret spiritual path that seeks to transcend ego and rediscover the divine by embracing the passions. In an isolated Himalayan forest Odier met Devi, a great yogini who would take him on a mystical journey like none he had ever imagined. At times taking him beyond the limits of sexual experience, at times threatening him with destruction, she taught him what it is to truly be alive and to know the divine nature of absolute love. This is the personal memoir of one of France's most honored writers.(less)
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This book has had a profound impact on me. It reveals an amazingly beautiful way of embracing our humanity, all of it, beyond self-correction, a way of invitation rather than of remedy or obligation, a way of coming home to that nature which we are, all of it! Having read, studied, meditated, practiced, and sought for over 30 years, this book is a refreshing celebration of being human, of being a yogi, of being a leper, of being a lover, of being a frightener, of being profoundly clear, and of being profoundly disruptive. It is an ode to the adventure of Being and remedies many of the false promises of the so-called “Path.”
Highly recommended