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deeply, our sweat soaked bodies flung wide, gathering ourselves for
another round of life’s most joyous dance. I stretched my leg so that my
toes rested on Al’s instep. As my skin touched his, electric pulses raced
through me, from my toes through my legs and groin, all the way up to
my head and back down. On the outside, I was barely moving. My body
was a lacy ribbon waving lazily on a light summer breeze. Inside, it was as
if the entire lava load of an erupting volcano were surging through my
veins at incredible velocity. Every fiber of my being was shot through with
light, like a time-lapse photo of car headlamps beaming down a dark
roadway. I closed my eyes and let the blaze run. The familiar blackness
behind my eyelids became a deep blue, vast, open, and welcoming. Huge
purple orbs floated by, amethyst geodes trailing light. I lay in ecstatic
wonder marveling at the beauty and the glory.

When I moved my foot away from Al’s, breaking the spell of our
connection, the flowing stopped. When I touched him again, it recommenced.
Experimenting, I touched our bodies together at different
spots—finger to nipple, hip to thigh, forehead to forehead. Each join\
ing
made a bridge for the transporting energy stream. My heart opened.
Love poured in with the fire. The laughter of bliss rose up from its flames.
Unable to speak, I could only keen trilling “ohs” into the night. Like a
kiss from God, the merging came, a melting into Al, the room, the city.
I was All, and All was rapture. When daylight found us, I was still flying
high on love’s ardent wings.

“What was that? Where did it come from? Do you think we can do
it again?”

“Probably. I think what we experienced was something I have heard
about called Tantra,” replied Al, my new lover, my seeker of enlightenment,
and explorer of all things spiritual.

We set off for the nearest bookstore to find out more about this
mysterious Tantra. It was the beginning of a journey that has wrought
extraordinary change in our lives, brought us ecstatic pleasure and intimate
connection, and freed our hearts and awakened our spirits. It is a
journey that continues.

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Introduction
“Make love a creation, and life becomes art.”
—Al Link

We are lovers still. Day by day and minute by minute, we recreate
our love. It is quite simple, but it is not always easy. We have learned
what to do and how to do it with the help of teachers and books, but
mostly through our own experiments. We are self-taught lovers.
For most of our lives, sex has been a driving force for both of us, as
has the desire for connection with God. In our culture, these two forces\

do not usually go together. When we met each other and fell into an
intensely passionate relationship, it satisfied our sexual desire, but n\
ot
our spiritual longing. Over time, however, we discovered that our relationship
itself, our conscious loving union, could become our pathway
to divine connection. Modern Tantra, which combines sexuality and
spirituality in a practical, down-to-earth way, provided the perfect vehicle.
Now, Tantric sacred loving is what we do full time, both in living
and in earning a living.

In this book we describe how we teach others and what we actually
do to keep our own relationship emotionally rich, sexually passionate,
and spiritually evolving. Our purpose in writing this book is to motivate
couples to act together to achieve something rare in the world:
passionate relationships in which to grow spiritually together into old \
age, creating love year after year. We want to help you realize your
dreams through discovering the four freedoms of Body, Mind, Heart,
and Soul.

The 4 Freedoms
The First Freedom: BODY
“Longing, desire and need
melt from our psyches
drip sparkling life—renewal
in these suits we call our bodies.”
—Al Link

Awaken your senses. See, hear, smell, taste, and feel love. Know
your body as a divine temple of love, carrier of the soul, manifestation
of God and Goddess. Become truly at home in your body—at ease, at
peace, comfortable in your skin. Allow yourself to experience physical
pleasure. Feed yourself and all around you with sublime, intimate human
touch. You are your body. Your body is freedom.

The Second Freedom: MIND
“Our words meet and mingle
like hummingbirds

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competing for space at the
scarlet feeder.”
—Al Link

There are no limits. All limits