Higher consciousness and sexual sublimation (diverting sexual energy to the brain) are inextricably linked in most of the world’s meditation methods. So where does seminal retention fit in? Seminal retention techniques can be used by male practitioners who want to continue sexual relations without the harmful effects linked to ejaculating. While best meditation practices dictate renouncing ejaculation and sexual relations, seminal retention techniques do provide a compromise for males not able or not willing to give up sex. In the East, people have always known about the connection between higher consciousness and what goes on below the waist. Seminal Retention and Higher Consciousness: The Sexology of Kundalini explores this connection and its sexological implications. First, there’s a limited amount of semen in the male body. Neither you, nor I, can change this; it’s a biological fact. Second, although you can’t replenish what’s been lost, you can conserve what’s left. Today, it’s understandable that young, vital individuals working on kundalini activation techniques want to maintain a normal sex life.
Formerly,
the only way to avoid the harmful physiological effects linked to
ejaculation was to avoid sex altogether after activating kundalini. That
is not acceptable to this generation: The sex drive is too powerful to
be put on the back burner in favor of abstinence or abstention. Today’s
seekers want instant gratification, a free license to ejaculate at will,
at the same time, they pursue higher consciousness. Fortunately, there
is a way to reconcile the two, a series of seminal retention techniques I
discovered after activating kundalini. But before revealing these
secret techniques, let’s examine some of the effects various authorities
on Kundalini had to deal with.
First, Gopi Krishna wrote in
1977: “At present, we can say, that perhaps twice a week to once in two
weeks would be a safe measure for indulgence in the sexual act. This is
of absolute importance for those who would like to awaken the Serpent
Power.“On one occasion, after months of abstention, I prematurely had
contact with my wife. The next moment, because the energy did not come
up to feed the brain, I seemed to sink into a pit of horror and terror,
so much so that I thought that if nothing happened to save me from this
terrible situation, I would die.
”Second, before I mastered
retention techniques, I discovered firsthand how much the brain needs
the elixir and I wrote about it in Deciphering the Golden Flower One Secret at a Time:
“My head is imploding and the elixir is being summoned to my brain for
life support. I curl up in a fetal position. My nerves are like an
electrical fire searing the very conduits that enclose them and there
isn’t enough elixir to cool them. Certainly, if I try to lead a normal
sex life, I’ll exhaust my resources. I can feel the elixir waning and,
as Gopi Krishna put it, ‘a tongue of golden flame searching my stomach
for food.’” I learned the hard way, but you don’t have to. Not if you
take the time to master the techniques discussed in this book. Yes, I
suffered bouts of physical pain, like the ones described above, that led
me to seek and ultimately find techniques that not only allowed me to
continue sexual relations but also allowed me and my partners to
experiment with new pleasures. In ancient times, sex relations and
higher consciousness were a no-no. Today, seekers want both. And they
can have them…within reason. The biology hasn’t changed; Kundalini still
needs the distilled alchemical energy. But, if you can control the
energy as it surges up the spine into the brain and not allow it to flow
out, you can navigate the tricky waters between sublimation and
ejaculation.