Contents: Acknowledgment. Foreword. Preface. 1. Introduction. 2. Awakening of the serpent energy. 3. My desire for a new myth. 4. Bringing the myth to life. Bibliography. Appendices.

"In a unique cross-cultural event 'Awakening of the Serpent Energy' danseuse Beena Sharma opened a dialogue between her Kathak and Australian Aboriginal dance forms as a living art. Beena traced and compared similar metaphysical concepts in the two cultures and retraced the primordial energy as the life force. She examined Kundalini or Kulini in meditation to Chakras as Dots Movements in Australian Pitjantjatjara Rainbow Serpent Painting. She conceptualised concentric tantra symbol Bindu as 'Prana', representing Ardhanarisvara, and Bindi as 'Wang', the creative and destructive serpent. Transcending her body, the Yantra, through the narrative verse as the mantra and the performing act as the Tantra, her Istha Devta Sri Krishna revealed himself. Her caption 'In Samadhi Attain Karma Yoga' across cast, creed and colour in oneness represented the Gita. Tracing Para Shakti during Sahaja Samadhi in the 'open' Kriya dance and 'closed' spiritual jnana, both knowledge's transmitted kinetically to the audience at their own level of perception. Heightened awareness enabled Beena to recognise her original birthright. As Bindu or Dot it belonged to non-sentient, sentient beings and as a never-ending cycle remained the eternal truth. On reflection, the diffusion and fusion of male-female energies symbolised Shiva-Shakti and the Rainbow Serpent as 'two sides of the same coin' and in Shiv Shakti became one and the same featured in Tantra. Finally, backed by her orientation in Savikalpa Samadhi, she documented Shiv Shakti as unity in Diversity that surpassed past, present and future." (jacket)