Work well at what, "raising your consciousness"? Look, if people want to believe that then all the power to them.. if they're interested in it, that's great. They're doing something. I'm not interested in it, because it's bullshit in terms of getting answers and only wastes precious time. Things may happen I don't doubt that, but the label and concept (raising consciousness etc) attributed to it is absolute nonsense.
I hear that your opinion is that it's bullshit. There's no point in really trying to refute an opinion, because all it is, is one point of view. But I don't buy that you're so laissez-faire about it, because you keep attacking me and arguing against every post I make about tantra. If it's all so "to each their own", then ease off, will you?
And don't twist what I said. I did not say one is subjected to harmful entity contact if they have sex. I said the sexual process is entity motivated; that's all I said, not that it was negative. I'm not against sex nor is my position coming from that viewpoint, but conversely I'm not going to say sex is divine or sacred, or dress it up in some way that makes it more than it is.
I don't really see a distinction between saying that entity contact happens during sex, or that sex is entity motivated. Both are attributing sex to some kind of extracorporeal control or contact, as a default, which is simply not true. Your understanding of entities is new age, and comes from a new ager. Maybe if you weren't so dismissive of everything pre-modern you would have more insight into entities and spirit contact than you already have, but you seem to think you've reinvented the wheel by listening to a new ager talk about sex and entities. I frankly don't care what your beliefs are but I take issue with the misinformation you spread on the subject as you attack other systems (like tantra) while admitting you know next to nothing about it. You shouldn't be telling people that their sex lives are influenced by entities because it's fear mongering. If you had entity contact because of sexual practices then maybe you should take responsibility for your situation and not assume that everyone on planet earth has this issue? Cleanse, purify, protect yourself and your space. Fact is, if you have entities around you they're not going to stop just because you practice celibacy. That kind of head-in-the-sand approach is new age -- you can't just imagine your way out of it by telling yourself you're in control. They're intelligent and don't really give a fuck what you think, or what your sexual practices are.
If you don't view sex as being divine or sacred, then that's your business. To go and dismiss a wealth of historical practices which combined sex with the sacred, is just hubris of the highest order. You're wrong in claiming there is no truth to thousands of years of human experience on this subject, which is well recorded, documented, and reproducible for anyone who bothers. Or, to put it another way, you can't speak to the experiences of literally millions of practitioners throughout time and say that they are all just fooling themselves and have nothing to contribute to the greater diaspora of human knowledge. That you haven't experienced tantra or adequately researched it is not a valid argument against it. Likewise, that you see any sexual practice but celibacy as useless lust or animal impulse is also not an adequate argument against it. No, I'm not saying that we should buy into something just because it's "ancient", but that it's typical of modernism to dismiss all that came before because one believes what's happening now is superior. Take ownership of what works for you and stop projecting fear and hate.
I thought this thread was about discussing sexual practices, not the gospel according to SS. I respect the choice to be celibate, I'm interjecting with my experience of celibacy plus the experience that celibacy is not necessary for spiritual cultivation. Just deal with it.
Anyway don't worry about it, I'm not coming back to this thread. I've said my piece.
