I think neo-Tantra is an example of how the west has often misunderstood India and its traditions: we see an act that holds a certain place in our culture and infer the same must be true of its place in Indian culture. We take aspects of it to improve that act in our culture and in doing so lose many of the intentions of the act. Yoga, meditation, astrology, ayurvedic medicine and Tantra have all been imported to Britain, but often in pared-down forms, where you have the act and the body of the ritual but none of the meaning.
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Everywhere I went I was nervous and excited; everything was new to me and every corner showed me something new, fascinating and beyond my experience up to that point. And, interestingly, being half Indian gave me no particular insight into much of what I saw: much of it was as foreign and new to me as it was to the other backpackers I met.
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