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Sacred Sex
    After all this research into Eastern philosophies, I was still left with the question of ‘How do the techniques of Sacred Sex actually work?’ I had studied the Taoist and Tantric texts at length and verified through solo and dual practice that the techniques function when practised diligently and as described. So it was clear that Eastern adepts had identified and accurately documented ways of managing Sexual Qi. But what is actually going on in our body when we use these techniques? I then found some research that sheds a great deal of light on the subject; John C. Lilly M.D. (1915–2001), one of the world’s foremost brain researchers, carried out some groundbreaking research involving the pre-optic nucleus portion in the brain that contains the sexual system. In males, this controls erection, orgasm, and ejaculation – each in a separate place – while farther back, in the mesencephalon, the three are integrated and fired off in sequence.
    He demonstrated that the orgasm and ejaculation could be triggered separately by stimulating these different brain areas.
    So it appears that the Taoists and Tantrikas discovered, through a process of experimentation over hundreds of years, that it is possible to guide our internal electrical energy to different sections of our brain, just as Lilly proved with electrodes. There will be a lot of practical information later in the book about how to do this (without electrodes!). What about the female brain? There is a lot of evidence that points to clear differences in the structure of male and female brains. Most of this seems to indicate that women do not have the same ‘com-partmentalization’ in their brains as men. The female brain is less concentrated and utilizes significant portions of both hemispheres when it is engaged in a task.
    This would explain why ‘relationship’ is so important to women! Later in the book I’ll show how to use this understanding in a practical way when learning how to generate Sexual Qi.
    So how does this flow of Sexual Qi work? Well, thoughts are basically electrical signals. This means that each thought generates a very small amount of current. This current has an effect on the tissue of your brain. I saw an amazing picture recently of brain scans done on meditating Tibetan monks. These images show very clearly that meditating has a powerful, measurable effect on the brain.
    It’s not a great leap to imagine that if, instead of meditating, you direct your awareness elsewhere, such as visualizing a circuit through your body, you actually create a circuit. It may be quite a weak circuit to start with but what happens is that over time, and with practice, it gets stronger and stronger. If this circuit then stimulates areas of the brain that are connected to sexual and ‘spiritual’

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    pleasure, then you will experience exactly what the Taoists and Tantrikas describe.
    It appears, therefore, that there is not only a large body of Eastern knowledge but also Western scientific research to confirm that the conscious direction of internal electrical energy can, and does, have a beneficial effect on our bio-elec-trical systems. My personal conclusion from my research is that I’d rather practice Sacred Sex than have an electrode inserted into my pre-optic nucleus! I did find it reassuring, however, to find that there is Western research to indicate that there is a scientific basis to Sacred Sex.
    Putting It All Together
    At the end of the day, I found that the Tantric tradition is very interesting for what it teaches about using Sexual Qi for ecstatic sexual experiences and spiritual development, but it doesn’t have a whole lot to say about health or grounding sexual energy on a day-to-day basis. The Taoist tradition, on the other hand, has a great deal to say about health and energy-grounding and therefore ended up as the cornerstone