‘In this wonderfully imaginative and ludic study, Prem Saran prescribes Tantra as a synesthetic tonic for a disenchanted world. Read it, and you will wake up re-enchanted.’
David Gordon White, author of Sinister Yogis and Kiss of the Yogini: "Tantric Sex" in its South Asian Contexts
‘While there are many poor and misleading books written about Tantra, Prem Saran’s is by far one of the best and most reliable. Saran combines the personal, first-hand experience of a practising insider with the scholarship and erudition of a trained academic. His book is not only a masterful study of Tantric symbolism and ritual, but it makes a powerful argument about the key role that Tantra has played in South Asian history and culture.’
Hugh B. Urban, author of Tantra: Sex, Secrecy, Politics and Power in the Study of Religion and The Power of Tantra
‘Saran presents here a unique and precious offering: a work on Tantra that is at once personal and erudite, private and scholarly; and encompassing Tantra's Indic past, present and future as a counter-cultural ethos and practice. Indeed, his book adds a balancing perspective on Tantra that avoids both the sensational hedonism of pop-culture appropriations and the puritanism of religious and academic orthodoxies.’
Patricia Dold, Associate Professor of Religious Studies, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada
‘Prem Saran’s beautiful book is at once a historical and theological description, a theoretical analysis, and a spiritual transmission of a particular global vision of Tantra. Tantra here becomes a gift to the world capable of re-enchanting a digitally exhausted modernity, a ritual performance of divine erotic play aimed at aesthetic nondual bliss, and an erotic counterculture and esoteric anatomy that, in different but related forms, has flourished throughout Asia (and now Europe and the Americas) for at least fifteen centuries. There are no borders and boundaries here. There are only bodies, all alike, all different, all portals of mystical energies and states of cosmic consciousness we have only begun to fathom and understand.’
Jeffrey J. Kripal, author of Secret Body: Erotic and Esoteric Currents in the History of Religions
