The human nervous system is a complex interplay of chemical and electrical signals. Figuratively, it can be likened to an electrical circuit where, as a person develops, necessary functions are activated, and unnecessary ones are switched off.
Writer Timothy Leary divided these functions into seven levels.
1. The bio-survival level emerges in the first days after birth, establishing concepts of ‘safety’ and ‘danger’ in the external world.
2. The emotional-motor level. The child explores the world: movement and emotions.
3. The mental-manipulative level. The child learns to speak and perform fine motor actions with their hands.
4. The sexual-social level. The child grows up, puberty begins, attention turns to mating, reproduction, and offspring upbringing.
5. The pleasure level. Information from various body receptors.
6. The ecstasy level. This is an intense mode of nervous system function influenced by chemical substances.
7. The neuro-genetic level. Activated in life-threatening situations (‘my life flashed before my eyes’).
Much of adult life is spent at the level of the fourth contour.
The fifth contour is the experience registered by external and internal sensory organs.
Internal body sensors send information about the state of respiratory, circulatory, reproductive, and digestive systems. External information includes visual, auditory, tactile, gustatory, and olfactory data.
When this contour is activated, the intensity of sensations increases, focus sharpens, and all body signals are heightened. Sounds, smells, tastes, touches become divine.
Tantric touches become especially divine—slow, smooth, without abrupt movements, unhurried.
This is precisely what happens during yoni massage: for a certain time, the woman exits the state of the fourth contour, and the fifth contour activates—the heightened perception of what we don’t typically notice in ordinary life.
All that’s needed is to cast aside thoughts like ‘what’s happening doesn’t match my expectations of my fourth contour’.
And to hear the phrase: 'Direct all attention to the sensations of the body - what I'm feeling right now.'
Other details of the massage are described in the online course about yoni massage.
