You have likely heard the words 'Elements' or 'Tattwas' thrown around in esoteric circles. However, what are they exactly?The Foundations of the Four ElementsWith careful contemplation, one comes to the insight that every 'happening', occurs within space — the actual 'material' space, but more importantly the space of consciousness in which the material space is also contained, in our experience. These happenings include the 'objective' phenomena outside, in the material world and 'subjective' phenomena like thoughts, feelings and emotions. Experience, and existence itself is consciousness and it's contents. In the Tantric lore, this is referred to as Shiva (consciousness) and Shakti (energy