Re: Magical term used in Julian May's "Intervention"

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> One of the novel's bad guys, an Irish-American gangster/lawyer, utilizes

> a particular Indo-European (possibly Keltic and/or Greek, although I'm 
> not sure) mystical tradition, wherein he achieves long-term psychic 
> domination over a person by having *** with him (or her).
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> What's that called? It's been several years since I read that novel, and

> I can't remember the word, although I will almost certainly be able to 
> recognize it once I see it.

I believe the word you want is Tantric.  Which I always 
associate with India, for some reason.

Rebecca