Sexual Kung Fu: Transcendent Orgasm

by Jamal Ashley Abbas


To come or not to come (?), that is the question that concerns practitioners of Taoist sexual kung fu. In Taoism, the life force energy is hugely concentrated in the male semen. The conservation of this energy is thus imperative. For monks, celibacy is the traditional way but there is a more practical way – the path of the Seminal and Ovarian Kung Fu.

Western Practice

Although the Judaeo-Christian tradition relegates women to the background in terms of sexual

prowess, Western practice through the ages shows otherwise.

In Greco-Roman mythology, Zeus/Jupiter punished a mortal seer for daring to say that women were the better lovers. The seer reasoned that women could enjoy sex better and longer because they could come or have orgasms many times more than men could.

And the best proof for that is Singaporean-American Annabel Chong’s record-setting feat of having sexual intercourse with 251 men in 10 hours. The feat was done in January 1995 in Los Angeles. It was documented by video and was recognized by the Guinness Book of World

Annabel Chong

Records.

While Western (and Western-influenced) men blame Eve for the Fall of Humankind from Eden, they would not acknowledge women superiority in terms of sexual endurance and stamina. The amorous exploits of Don Juan, Cassanova and their like are kept alive in literature, films and other mass media products.

Eastern Concepts

The Tao Te Ching is the bible of Taoism, which was compiled around 400 BC, two centuries after the death of its foremost proponent, Lao Tzu. By following the Tao (the Path or the Way), one can achieve harmony in the Universe. The Way is the balance of opposites – the Yang, the Male or Active Principle and the Yin, the Female or Passive Principle. Man is mostly Yang and Woman is mostly Yin. To achieve harmony, Man needs the female force while Woman needs the male force. The exchange of these Life Forces occurs during sexual union and peaks during orgasms. 

The Book of the Tao predates other famous sexual treatises like the Kama Sutra of ancient India, the Ananga Ranga of Mughal (15th/16th century) India and the Perfumed Garden of Muslim Arabia.

What sets out the Tao from the other tomes is its concept of the seminal and ovarian fluids as storage of the vital force or qi (pronounced chi). Both males and females ejaculate during orgasm. But while the males spew out their semen-essence, the females retain their bodily fluids within and even get the males’ fluids. Thus, while the males lose their vital energy, the females get even stronger from their own orgasmic secretions and the males’ powerful seminal fluids.

Sex Hormones

Sex hormones are what transform girls into full-bodied women and boys into muscled and bearded or mustachioed men.

Most of the sex hormones are produced by the testes and the ovaries. The principal hormones produced are the testosterone for males and estrogen for females. But the adrenal glands, which sit atop the kidneys, also produce sex hormones. The adrenals affect the body’s metabolism, the chemicals in the blood and certain body characteristics as well as the individual’s coping mechanism against physical and emotional stress.

Modern research has shown that men with high levels of testosterone, high sperm count and viscous semen are more immune to diseases than men with lower testosterone levels, low sperm count and watery semen.

On the other hand, Western medical science has established that women enjoy higher immunity and resistance to diseases (example, there are much more men with AIDS than women), recover more quickly from sickness and generally live longer than men.

Sex hormones are steroids and can be considered as great medicine against diseases and aging. Sex hormone production is best stimulated through sexual intercourse. Thus, the Tao prescribes ways to enhance the process of love-making.

For women, hormone production also happens during pregnancy. But for males, sexual intercourse is the only way to produce hormones in good amount.

However, ejaculation in males throws away all those precious hormones away. If, for example, the enhanced production of sex hormones by the adrenals is not ejaculated, they would enter the bloodstream, and would do their stuff like preventing hair loss, skin wrinkling, poor muscle tone, arthritis, rheumatism, impotence and other disasters associated with aging. (Sex stimulates secretion of cortisone in the adrenal cortex and thus prevents rheumatic pains.)

Taoist Dilemma

The Taoists knew the importance of sex not only for procreation but also for health and well-being. The ancient Taoists therefore elevated the sexual act into an art form like a dance or a ballet. Even the terminology is very creative. The male organ is called the Jade or Coral Stem or the Male Stalk or the Turtle Head or the Heavenly Dragon Pillar.

The female organ is variously called the Jade or Coral Gate, the Vermillion Gate, the Jade Pavilion, the Golden Lotus, the Receptive Vase, etc. The Clitoris is called the Pearl on the Jade Step or the Jewel Terrace.

Sexual Intercourse is termed The Mist and the Rain or The Cloud and the Rain or the Delight of the Couch. Orgasm is referred to as the Great Typhoon or the Bursting of the Cloud.

But the males lose a big amount of qi or life force after every orgasm. Expending too much qi brings about aging. And for the aged, expelling so much qi/life force can be fatal.

Thus, the Taoists were faced with a dilemma: How can men have sex and thus produce as much qi but conserve it instead of expelling it? It must be noted that in a single ejaculation, a man loses more than 200 million sperm cells while a woman does not lose a single egg cell.

Controlling ejaculation

The solution to the dilemma was to control the frequency of ejaculation without reducing the amount of intercourse. The ancients concluded that on the average, men must not come more than twice a month or 24 times in a year.

The Book of the Tao illustrates the many ways of enhancing the union of the Yin and the Yang without depleting the Yang qi of the male. Sexual intercourse became a battle of the sexes where points are gained not by beating the opponent but by giving more pleasure to the other.

A Different Kind of Orgasm

An emperor in ancient China must have protested that long hours of intercourse would be boring without a climax – an orgasm. And so the Taoist monks discovered a way to achieve orgasms without ejaculation. They call it Drawing the Nectar Up to the Golden Flower.

For the man, the nectar is the semen about to be ejaculated and the golden flower is the Crown charka, the energy center located just below the scalp. For the woman, the nectar is her own fluids plus the essence of the male semen.

According to the Tao, the very potent semen does not have to go to waste. Both men and women can transform it into its essence – the ching qi or sexual energy – and draw it up towards the crown chakra to achieve a spiritual orgasm.

Mantak Chia, the Thai-born Taoist master who popularized Taoist sexual kung fu in the US and elsewhere through his numerous books and seminars, claims that he has made love thousands of times but ejaculated only once – to impregnate his wife, a medical technician and his co-author in the book Healing Love Through The Tao: Cultivating Female Sexual Energy (Huntington, NY: Healing Tao Books). The couple even gave a seminar in Manila about a decade ago.

The Microcosmic Orbit

For the Taoists, the individual is a microcosm of the Universe. Everything is within. To achieve mind/body/spirit harmony, energy must flow along the microcosmic orbit (see illustration) and thus empower the various chakras.

MICROCOSMIC ORBIT

To achieve transcendent orgasm, before reaching the point of ejaculation, the male must direct the essence of the ching qi or sexual force upwards through the energy points situated along the spinal column until it reaches the crown chakra. Afterwards, the energy should be directed downwards through the major charkas until it reaches its point of origin – the perineum which is located between the anus and the genital. This completes the microcosmic orbit. And then the next round of lovemaking begins.

For the female, at the edge of orgasm (hers or his), she tightens her sex organs and squeezes the male essence out of the Male Stalk and combining with her own juices, she should direct the same upwards along the microcosmic orbit.

Each time the ching qi arrives at the crown charka, orgasmic sensations would occur. According to Mantak Chia, by the tenth “draw up the golden flower”, the couple or individual would achieve an orgasm that would be “spiritual or psychic and would be beyond time and space”.

A Taoist proverb says, “A Sage will practice the Tao. A fool will only admire it.” Which one will you be?

SARAH MILES & KRIS KRISTOFFERSON

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Published in Mr.& Ms. Magazine (with different pictures) February 2006

Secrets of Sex Magick

The term Sex Magick brings to mind images of naked witches and warlocks in orgy, or scenes from Stanley Kubrick’s forgettable film Eyes Wide Shut that showed hooded men fornicating with nude women, or the paintings and sculptures of the Kama Sutra.

Nicole Kidman and Tom Cruise in Eyes Wide Shut (above)

Tom Cruise and others in Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut

In the Kubrick film, the men were simply enjoying an orgy with elaborate costume and roduction set design. The Kama Sutra is more the enjoyment of the magic of sex than sex magick. Sex Magick may be practiced in witch’s covens although the sex act is usually limited to the High Priest and High Priestess.

Can ordinary men and women, who are neither witches nor warlocks, practice Sex Magick? And what good would it bring them?

Aleister Crowley, the most famous or notorious magus of the 20th century, defined Magick as “the Science and Art of Causing Change to occur in conformity with Will.” This is the very essence of Magick. Crowley popularized the new spelling – with a K – so as to distinguish ceremonial magic from showbiz or carnival magic or even from the connotations of the word Magic. For many people, magic implies supernatural causes.

For practitioners of Magick, something is magical if it was caused by the magus’s will according to the forces of Nature. Thus, magic is causal and natural.

One very powerful force that a magus can harness is Sexual Energy. The science and art of harnessing sexual energy for manifesting one’s Will or desire is known as Sex Magick.

(Western) Sex Magick vs. (Eastern) Magic of Sex

Sex Magick is a Western concept. Some people might be surprised with that statement because the East has practiced the Sexual Arts – Hindu, Buddhist, Tibetan, and Japanese varieties – for centuries, if not millennia. The Eastern esoteric sexual practices are concerned about the total enjoyment of the sexual act – physically, mentally and spiritually. Sex is the end-all and be-all of the Eastern tradition. But performing the 99 or so positions of the Kama Sutra is not Sex Magick although it can introduce the couple to the magic of Sex. Any change brought about by the exercise is limited to personal transcendental transformation. In one Taoist tradition, as popularized today by Mantak Chia, various maladies like headaches and stomach aches can be cured by sex using specific sexual positions.

In the Western tradition, sex magick is simply one approach or method of Wicca or witchcraft or the pagan religions of pre-Christian Europe. Books and movies like the Harry Potter series or the TV program Charmed portray the romanticized versions of this tradition.

But there is another western tradition which also uses sex magick. This is the more esoteric version called Ceremonial or High Magick. This tradition came from the Middle East or West Asia. Egyptian Magic, the Qaballah and Alchemy were introduced to Europe in the Middle Ages by the Jews and Muslims. Later, in the 18th and 19th centuries, many Western magi traveled to East Asia. There, they learned the Kama Sutra, Tantra and other esoteric sexual traditions.

These magi like PB Randolph incorporated the sexual techniques of Tantric, Taoist and other traditions into Western (or West Asian) ceremonial magic. This merging of East Asian sexual techniques and West Asian ceremonial magick has become known as Sex Magick. Randolph created the first Rosicrucian temple in the US, established magical orders and societies and greatly influenced succeeding magi like Franz Bardon and Aleister Crowley

Energy

Magic, whether Western or Eastern, is basically the manipulation of energy. Energy goes by different names – Chi or Qi, Prana, Manna, Frequency, Orgone, Inner Fire, Sacred Flame, etc. It is the adept’s lifelong purpose to study, analyze, scrutinize, and manipulate energy in its various operations and transformations. In the Hindu /Buddhist/ Taoist traditions, the monks or practitioners are more concerned with the balance of the polarities of energy (the yin and the yang) in the body or in the environment (feng shui).

In Western High Magick traditions (Rosicrucian, Masonry, Hermetic, etc.), the magi study the various operations of energy not only in the human body but in all objects, including celestial bodies and the chemical elements. In doing a High Magick ritual, all energies are considered – the position of the planets, the sun, the moon, the fragrances in the incense, the materials of the magickal instruments, etc.

Sexual Energy

In the East Asian tradition, emphasis is on the conservation of sexual energy, its manipulation and circulation within the body. The end result is the body’s (individual’s or couple’s) well-being or the achievement of a state of ecstasy. In the West Asian / Western tradition, focus is on the production and use of the sexual energy to bring about change in things or events.

In other words, in the East Asian traditions, the sexual energy is manipulated to bring about ecstatic orgasms and the general well-being of the practitioners. In the West Asian / European traditions, sexual energy is used by the magi to get what they desire -- such as wealth, fame, knowledge or power. For the latter, sexual enjoyment is not even an issue.

The Secret of Sex Magick

For the ordinary man/woman of the 21st century with no desire to learn esoteric rites and rituals nor join mystical orders or covens, the best way is to do Sex Magick the New Age way, i.e., learn the principles and do it yourself. For New Age practitioners, sex magick is willing what you desire to happen and at the same time enjoying the process.

If you and your partner desire, for example, to buy or build your dream house but lack the resources to do so, you might want to try Sex Magick. First and foremost, you must build up enough sexual energy. This means that it won’t be a 3-minute affair. There must be prolonged foreplay. Therefore, the proper ambience and materials must be set – aromatic candles, incense, massage oils, mood music, kama sutra instructional videos or even adult movies on DVD’s.

Bathe yourselves as a symbol of purification. The intention (Will) must then be declared by both parties - in this case, buying or building your dream house. Proceed gradually – kissing, stroking, necking, etc. Prolong the act as much as possible by experimenting with various positions. At the onset of orgasm, silently declare what you want and during the process of orgasm, will what you desire with all your being. Afterwards, thank God or the Universe for giving you (in the present tense) what you desire. Then close your eyes and visualize that you already got what you want; i.e., see yourselves already living happily in your dream house.

In 1872, PB Randolph wrote Magia Sexualis (in French) and tried to popularize Sex Magick in America. Here are excerpts from the book to guide you further:

Sexual union is like a prayer…For when the sexual act is perfect, the union of man and woman succeeds in all spheres of their respective beings, and their force increases tenfold in the higher worlds. The prayer, this prayer, is always exhausting. But, it is necessary that the demand, the vow, the object of the prayer be formulated and imagined clearly… Before, during and after the act of love, hold a clear image of that which you wish… Love is the root of life…Through your love, you unite with God!...The instant that the semen of the man passes into the body of the woman who accepts it, is the instant of greatest fecundity, the greatest power, the greatest emotion of the life of man.


When PB Randolph tried to bring Sex Magick to the consciousness of ordinary Americans, he got the ire of both the legal authorities and magic practitioners like HP Blavatsky, founder of the Theosophical Society. But with the New Age movement, ordinary mortals like us can study and practice Sex Magick in the privacy of our homes without fear of censure from anyone. (end)

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Published in Mr. & Ms. Magazine the Supermonthly of the Body, Mind and Spirit December 2005