" Your Gypsy girl friend?" I asked; " and what does she know about Tantric Yoga?"

"A LOT," he said. "I thought you knew. "Karezza has been into Tantric Yoga for years, and she pitches it from  her Fortune Teller's Shop across the street. I have been talking with her about my New Religion"

"Okay, " I said. " I have heard that Gypsies have an ancient tie to India, and presumably have some Ancestral Memories of that life. So tell me what got you off on Yoga."

"Not just Yoga," Dzogvi said. " Tantric Yoga. It's called Sexual Yoga, and you wouldn't believe what it involves."

" Try me," I said.

"Well, Karezza explained to me that it involves a sort of partnership between a man and a woman who enter into a relationship which she calls "contemplative love" expressed in a physical embrace in which they just look at one another to see the divine which is incarnate in their bodies. They . . . . "

"Is this partnership one involving matrimony?" I asked suspiciously. "Or is...."

"Hear me out," Dzogvi said. " She says that in a Tantric relationship, the partners are normally husband and wife, but in special circumstances the woman may be a sort of wife-in-religion who is chosen because of spiritual compatibility with the man. Because this is a sort of special circumstance, She volunteered to be my Tantric Guru-ess."

"Okay, Dzogvi, " I said. "Tell me about the Spiritual aspect first."

"It's all tied up together," he said.  "She says that in the Tantric tradition, the energy of the Kundalini gets aroused but is mostly wasted in ordinary sex but that Soul Force can be shared in a prolonged embrace in which the male orgasm is reserved and the sexual energy is diverted into contemplation of the divine as incarnate in the woman. "

"After we took off our clothes, She had me sit in the Zazen position with my legs crossed; and she sat between my thighs with her thighs around my waist and her arms around my neck; and I put my arms around her. This is like the position of Meditation;  and She told me that it was for the purpose of Meditation. There was no room for movement in that position, I can tell you. She told me that the idea is that we should both remain still and so stretch out the proceeding so that the energy exchange between us would be passive and receptive rather than active. She said the idea was not to get all hot and bothered, but to simply be still and let it happen and to just savor the moment.

"No fantasy, no thought of anything else," she said. "No chanting, no talking, "You just look my eyes and I will look in yours, and we will see the Divine Presence which is Incarnate in one another."

" So," I asked, " Did anything happen?"

"You mean orgasm-wise?," He laughed

"Well, yeah," I said, a little sheepishly. "Did it?"

" It was the most amazing experience of my life," Dzogvi said. "I don't know how long we sat there that way, just holding one another. It may have been an hour, or longer. I don't know. The really profound part was that after a while I had a totally overwhelming feeling that I could see something divine in her eyes, sort of a vision of eternity. But whatever happened must have been what we have been calling "Soul Transcendence", because it was the most complete, unexcelled in-body-out-of-body experience I have ever imagined. "

"Oh, Wow!" I exclaimed. " are you really going to do a Disquisition on this?"

"Of course," he said. " Karezza says that in her Tantric tradition, this practice exemplifies a metaphysical doctrine and a sacrament which is every bit as sacred as Christian matrimony. It symbolizes the eternal union of spirit and nature; and it shows the consummation of contemplative love between persons who  are devoted to The Tantric Way of Yoga. She is going to instruct me further tonight.  I may need a full course of lessons."

"Don't forget to take notes," I said.