What does tantra have to do with your relationships, work, money, creativity, sex, food and drink, being alone, meditation and yoga, aging and healing, politics, freedom and enlightenment? Everything! Tantra is usually thought of as sex with some kind of mysticism thrown in. Marc Allen goes back to the original meaning of tantra and shows how it can be applied to every moment of your life, excluding nothing. Tantra for the West is filled with ancient and modern principles and practices that help you use all your experiences as part of your mental, emotional and spiritual growth. Within you way of life-whatever it may be- within your everyday thoughts and feelings within your fantasies and dreams are the keys to love, freedom, and fulfillment. As soon as you can see this, you'll find yourself on a direct path to realizing the life of your dreams! Marc Allen is an internationally renowned author and speaker who studied Tantric Buddism with a Tibetan teacher at the Nyingma Institute in Berkeley, California. He is the author of several important books and co-founder and publisher of the New World Library, one of the most successful independent publishers in the United States.