Jason Tantra. Beware of the Snake Oil Salesmen Faking Tantra!

Jason Tantra is Part of the Problem, Not a Remedy.

The Gay and Bisexual Man has to be aware of and beware of the snake-oil salesmen who are selling sex services in the guise of an ancient and complete lifestyle. They are using their own neuroses and selling them as self-help; the only ones they are actually helping — and that’s questionable — are themselves.

The Snake-Oil Couple. Duh!Jonathan a.k.a. Davey Wavey and Jason "Tantra".

It’s not Tantra and it’s definitely not Homoerotic Tantra: Mascul-IN-Touch. Please don’t confuse the snake-oil salesmen like Johnathan X a.k.a. “Davey Wavey” and Jason Y a.k.a. Jason Tantra with the gay and bisexual men on the positive path to awakening and transformation I teach as Homoerotic Tantra:Mascul-IN-Touch, which is not sex-for-sale, but a turnkey program for awakening the divine masculine spirit and transcendence, a lifestyle transformation.

Maybe Jason Tantra is in for some BLISS of a different kind.

If he does not have a license to practice, he may be breaking the law...

In fact, what Jason Tantra is doing, despite his assertion that "Tantra is an unregulated industry/practice" may be a mistaken assumption. In fact, if we rely on Jason Tantra's own statements, he may be providing psychological counseling/therapy, sex therapy, marriage/relationship therapy, therapeutic bodywork/massage, all activities that require specific training and licensure by either a state department of health or department of education in most states and locales. If Jason Tantra's activities meet any of the definitions of such activities then he must be licensed to practice those activities in a particular state and, if he does not have a license to practice, he may be breaking the law. Even if he is licensed to practice in the UK or anywhere, if he is practicing in NYS he must apply for reciprocity. I wonder if he has even made the necessary inquires to avoid a legal hassle. I've made inquiries with the New York State Department of Health and the New York State Department of Education, the state's licensing authority. I'll keep you posted on their responses.

Jason Tantra's advice may be interpreted to be running counter to public health policy

I've reviewed a number of Jason Tantra's YouTube videos and find that some of the content,that is, Jason Tantra's advice may be interpreted to be running counter to public health policy or may just be plainly bad advice. I mention his diatribe on how porn can be beneficial and also include his statements in his YouTube video "Unashamed Sex," in which he advises viewers to "do anything" and "do everything."

Bad advice for a price.

Will Jason's massaging hands find themselves in cuffs?

 Once again I have received a notification that simply makes my skin crawl and my blood boil. Another charlatan posing as a Tantrika, a practitioner of true Tantra, offering the ultimate Tantric experience, that is, a sex program, for gay and bisexual men. Jason “Tantra” offers tantric massage workshops — actually orgies — for a mere “special price” of $295 for a two-day (?!?!) so-called workshop in Manhattan. He also offers a free interview podcast with porn-person Davey Wavey (an aging queen who has foisted himself upon the LGBT YouTube community), an interview which is available on Wavey’s YouTube presence for anyone to have. Go figure.

My first impression was: This is serious slap-stick comedy! I need to see what this character is all about!

So I visited “Jason Tantra’s” Internet site and was even more amused. The guy’s not only a fake he’s illiterate, judging by the poor quality of the writing on the site. Now, Tantra, admittedly is not about how well you write, although some of the ancient and more modern sages have done some pretty awesome writing, it’s obvious that Jason “Tantra” hasn’t absorbed much of the real Tantra.

Jason describes himself as”

“Hello, I’m Jason Tantra and this part of my website is all about my one to one Tantra offerings. I have over 25 years experience of Tantra and together with attending the gym 6 days a week, whichever option you choose with me, you are in for a unforgettable Erotic, Blissful and Ecstatic journey. Let me take you to heaven through your sexual energy." [Grammar or lack thereof is Jason’s]

For starters, this intro is a bit misleading, since in most of his promo he touts himself to be an expert with more than 10 years experience in tantric massage (not tantric” but “sex” massage) – in one of his video promos he can’t make up his mind whether he’s got 10 or 12 years of “experience.” And he 'attends the gym 6 days a week'. Does that mean he's a gym attendant? He's a bit fleshy so it must not mean he works out 6 days a week. and "over 25 years experience of Tantra" (Experience "of" or "in"? Big difference.) Yeah, and pigs have wings! Whatever! Makes no difference because it’s all a load of crapola!

Jason is described in an announcement by Easton Mountain, a gay retreat venue, in the following terms:

"SINGLES WEEKEND PRESENTER - Jason commenced his training as a Tantra Teacher when he was just 18. Besides his extensive training and lifelong vocation in Neo-Tantra, his background includes Psychotherapy, Spiritualism, several modalities of Energy Work, and Eastern forms of Ecstatic Satsang and Darshan. After a very successful corporate career in business, he received his degree in Integrative Counselling from Bristol University (UK), and has worked professionally with male survivors of rape and abuse as well as a Family Therapist. He continues to explore and learn Tantra and other spiritual modalities with several masters around the world."

Truth be told, the Easton Mountain community seems to be legit and a very well-organized credit to the gay community, and I would encourage readers and followers to visit their site. I found it interesting and well organized. They have some good programs and a credible mission. That's why I find it so very bizarre that such an apparently responsible community would open their doors to a snake-oil diploma or certificate scam like Jason Tantra's.  My question when I see "diploma" or "certificate" is where's the accreditation coming from? Which national or international oversight agency is ensuring the quality and credibility of the credentials being conferred with the "diploma" or "certificate"? My inquiries have not shown Jason Tantra to have any such credentials or authority to issue a "diploma" or "certificate" of any kind. A further question would be: What do you do with such a certificate and for what does it qualify you? Sounds like a real scam to me.

I visited and searched the University of Bristol undergraduate and graduate course and degree offerings but could find nothing close to "integrative counseling." Something's not right. But if you think that’s a vague description, join the rest of us. Too many contradictions and too few facts. By the way: What’s this guy’s real name? Good luck trying to find out about him. If you google him, you’d better like going around in circles. "A very successful corporate career in business?" Where? Doing what? Why did he leave it? What is his "extensive training?" "Worked professionally?" Does that mean he's a licensed therapist or counselor? "Several masters around the world?" Who, for example?

Another guy doing basically the same thing but from Israel, is Ray Moar. To Moar’s credit, though I must admit, he clearly differentiates between sex tantra and tantra as a way of life. Thank you Ray. Moar has a more intelligent and authentic approach to what he is marketing. Moar goes on to say that “tantric sex is not focusing on the end…it’s focusing on the partner.” I agree with Moar’s presentation of the topic because he’s right up front with the fact that he’s not talking about Tantra as a lifestyle, as we are in homoerotic Tantra:Mascul-IN-Touch but about solo or partner sex as a quasi-ritual moment. There’s a sort of genuineness in his humility as opposed to the ‘I know all about this and I’m gonna show you how…” Jason’s snake-oil style.

Nevertheless, what these guys are showing is their own neuroses and what they’re selling is a sex product to a vulnerable group in the packaging of so-called Tantra but what is in fact a Western perversion of the ancient and highly developed yogic Tantric tradition called Neotantra or Navatantra. It’s not tantra the spiritual discipline nor tantra the lifestyle as taught by Homoerotic Tantra:Mascul-IN-Touch. They’re doing to the Tantric tradition what American yoga industry has done to the ancient yogic tradition: commercialized and perverted it.

Both Jonathan "Davey Wavey" (actually his first name is Jonathan and he refuses to give his last name) and Jason “Tantra” actually offer nothing to those seeking Tantric ecstasy. Both Wavey and “Tantra” are porn vendors taking advantage of an ignorant and vulnerable group of misdirected souls. In fact, neither Wavey nor “Tantra” represent anything about Tantra or personal development, both have become their brand and both have failed to develop a true Self. Both are aging stuffed shirts.

Please don’t misunderstand what I mean by “aging.” I would be the last to be charged with agism; I’m consistently promoting younger older, erastes/erosmenos, relationships because I am convinced that both the younger man and the older man benefit from such relationships. I am also not a time-bound being and live in the Eternal Now. What I mean by “aging stuffed shirts,” is that both Jonathan and Jason appear to be fighting against time rather than living comfortably in it. Now I don’t hold that against Jonathan a.k.a. Davey Wavey, since he’s a product of his lost generation (he’s at least 33 years old and from a small town in Rhode Island) but I do hold it against the fake guru, Jason Tantra, who offers nothing but a butt plug and a hand job calling it the path to bliss.

If you don't know what a certificate or diploma is or you don't know the difference, please watch this video:

Jason Tantra has no authority or credentials to issue certificates or diplomas. They're simply rubbish and a way for him to get into your pockets!
We will be inquiring with the New York State Department of Education about Jason Tantra's claims of authority to issue diploma in anything!

Jason’s arrogance and mediocrity have gone so far that he now offers a “certificate in tantra/” Now that’s something you really want to hang on your office wall: "Hey, guys! I just earned a certificate in handjob."

It seems the only "masters around the world" he's trained with are worldwide online masturbators! 

True tantra is a triad of interrelated aspects of total being: the physical, mental/emotional, and spiritual. True Tantra is all about liberation, no becoming addicted to sex or physical pleasure. What Jason Tantra is is a carnival act, a snake oil vendor posing as a healer. The fact that he has hijacked Tantra to be his surname is absolutely ludicrous and shameless. In fact, in one of his YouTube videos, he actually dedicates the entire video to comparing porn with tantra!!! He's saying that porn is good. It seems the only "masters around the world" he's trained with are worldwide online masturbators! Porn has no place in healthy sex much less in a spiritual tradition like Tantra!

Jason does note in a personal communication that his single identified teacher is one calling himself "Sat Shree" who operates an organization called New Dharma in Nevada. Sat Shree's qualification is having suffered occupational exhaustion as an architect, he retreated to India for six years, where he found a "teacher." Nice for Mr Sat Shree but... (https://satshree.org) So that's one American entrepreneur who is Jason's teacher. What about the other "masters around the world," Jas'. Who are they?

The fact that he has hijacked Tantra to be his surname is absolutely ludicrous and shameless.

I personally question his alleged “credentials” vague and ambiguous as they are, and his claim to having a degree of any kind from any reputable institution of higher learning simply because his English is so bad. If English is his language of habitual use and he’s such a “teacher” and successful business man and so-called “counselor” why can’t he write a convincing paragraph?

Moreover, in his YouTube interviews and marketing material, he comes across as someone too into his fem side and consequently unbalanced. But then, I never believed for a minute that he has any concept of the interaction and engagement of the masculine and feminine principles in individuation and the awakening of the true Self. Far from it. Both Jonathan and Jason appear to be stagnated in a hermaphroditic limbo, and have created false selfs in order to protect their actual vulnerable selfs rather than progress to awakening and awareness of the true Self. Perhaps that explains why they have become sex-bound, bound to the physical, and have not advanced beyond the senses.

In one of Jonathan’s tasteless stereotypically “queeny” YouTube posts, he’s “interviewing” Jason and there’s one clip that is makes a very serious statement about them both: Jonathan exclaims with waving arms, “I hate myself!” We know, Jonathan, we know. They are acting out the false self in order to defend their inner, secret child, a child that needs to act out an exaggerated in-your-face outrageousness Jonathan’s case and a false-self-affirming pseudo-mentor trying to convince himself as in the case of Jason.

No matter what you call a fraud, it’s still fake; it’s still a fraud. It's still selling sex. If you're selling sex, it doesn't make you a counselor or a guru, it makes you a prostitute.

I make no bones about the fact that I despise the snake-oil vendors posing as healers because I take divine masculinity and yogic Tantra very seriously. I teach a yogic homoerotic Tantra from the physical, mental/emotional, and spiritual approaches, and caution anyone to avoid the one-sided, commercial and fraudulent offerings of sex tantra or as the snake-oil vendors like Jason "Tantra" call it, Neotantra. No matter what you call a fraud, it’s still fake; it’s still a fraud. It's still selling sex.

Here's an interesting article: The Dark Side of the Tantric World You will find many like it by true Tantrikas, who have remained faithful to the ancient tradition.

Another article of interest is Tantra Failed for Two Reasons (Osho), an interesting commentary despite the somewhat misleading title.

Beware of the fakes and charlatans!