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EPISODE · Jun 27, 2026 · 2H 54M

Why Are People So Mad on The Internet About Tantra?

from For the Love of Yoga with Nish the Fish · host Nishanth Selvalingam

My work on the internet has been polarizing for various reasons but one feature that regularly comes up is individuals questioning whether we have a right to share what we tend to share publicly and freely, given that a lot of this material is usually kept quite secret in institutional hierarchies that carefully curate distribution and access. (not to mention of course that I'm young and cute and spiritual teachers are apparently supposed to be old and grumpy and serious and virtuous or something...) Now, when some of my friends started posting their own content on the internet, along the lines of what I had been sharing with them, the backlash they got was twice as fierce! I suspect this is because as an Indian man, it's bad enough that I'm talking so freely and recklessly about guarded topics, what to say about the rancor when someone who is not Indian tries to do something like this? Anyway, I was proud of my friends who kept posting about what they loved despite the hate, harassment and death threats and inspired by them, I did this little bit on why I think people have such a problem and what I think we ought to do about it, if anything. (This talk was given right when we got home to LA after the Punk Rock Tantra/ Kentucky Fried Tantra retreat so it reviews some of the material from those talks too.) Support the showLectures happen live every Monday at 7pm PST and again at Friday 11am PST Use this link and I will see you there:https://www.zoom.us/j/7028380815For more videos, guided meditations and instruction and for access to our lecture library, visit me at:https://www.patreon.com/yogawithnishTo get in on the discussion and access various spiritual materials, join our Discord here: https://discord.gg/U8zKP8yMrM

My work on the internet has been polarizing for various reasons but one feature that regularly comes up is individuals questioning whether we have a right to share what we tend to share publicly and freely, given that a lot of this material is usually kept quite secret in institutional hierarchies that carefully curate distribution and access. (not to mention of course that I'm young and cute and spiritual teachers are apparently supposed to be old and grumpy and serious and virtuous or som...

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