Good Times With a Bad Trip

"Shiva's involvement with Tantra and Kali's dark nature have led to her becoming an important Tantric figure. To the Tantric initiates, it was essential to face Kali's Curse, the terror of death, as willingly as they accepted Blessings from her beautiful, nurturing, maternal aspect. For them, wisdom meant learning that no coin has only one side: as death cannot exist without life, so life cannot exist without death."