In using our will to channel sexual energy through these rituals, we then lose ourselves in a maze of mystifying symbols, imaginary projections whose structures gradually stifle our needs for spontaneous fulfillment and for independence. When I project the whole Tantric symbolism of the divine Shiva onto you, I experience you as an object, a phallus imbued with mystical ecstasies, on condition that it cooperate in allowing itself to be initiated . . . and you feel yourself as a prisoner, ignored and manipulated. It then becomes obvious that I have taken a wrong turn in my understanding of
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Sexual spontaneity
