Editorial Reviews  
The author, bear@cybergypsies.com , April 25, 1999 
In answer to D. Kostas's questions about the book  
Kostas, you read my comments here, so I don't need to repeat them. In answer to your questions 1) I have not read "Magie des Sexus". The answers to your questions 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 are given in the book and it would take another book to repeat them here... Very briefly, tantra draws on many different traditions, but is fundamentally rooted in prehistoric mother goddess worship, especially as practised in India. Tantra, as such, was not started by Dionysos. There is a very strong connection between ancient Indian and ancient Greek gods, as there is between old Sanskrit and ancient Greek. In India there are hundreds of sacred texts, called tantras. For example Mahanirvanatantra, Kalitantra, Guhyasamajatantra. The difference between Tantra and Yoga is that the latter is a system of body and mind control, whereas the former is a melange of beliefs and practises with no very clear definition. I hope this helps. PS: I ought to point out that you are infected with the Happy99 email worm. This tells me that you are foolish enough to be using a PC and running Windows :). Check your \windows\system directory for a file named wsock32.ska. A good place to for help is http://www.datafellows.com. Whether you are deliberately passing on Happy99 or merely innocently relaying it, you might be interested in the strange encounters with virus authoring folk described in my book The Cybergypsies, details available on amazon.com and amazon.co.uk. Cybergypsies also contains some stuff about the Kama Sutra which I had originally intended to include in Tantra. With best wishes, Indra 

The author, Indra Sinha, Sussex, 1998. bear@cybergypsies.com , October 7, 1998 
==================== Caveat emptor! ===================  
Warning! As the author (not editor) of this book, I can tell you that the title of the US edition is misleading. It is emphatically not an anthology of translated tantra texts, although it contains many translated passages. 
The book is an exploration of the melange of beliefs and practices that have collectively become known in the West as 'tantra'. Its original title was 'Tantra: the Search for Ecstasy'. The publisher clearly thought (well just look at the pictures) that tantra means one thing...