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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.