I. VAMA MARGA Foundations Of The Left-Hand Path - staticfly.net

sexual tension, (3.) orgasm, and (4.) resolution, the entire complex of body
and mind is engaged in a process that allows a distinct transformation to
occur. The sex magician does not merely passively experience these somatic
changes, he or she takes control of these intense biological events and
controls them for magical purposes.
Although the sex magician can eventually learn to make magical use
of his or her entire sexuality in an increasingly subtle fashion, eventually
transcending the sexual climax altogether, the first magical weapon of use to
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the sex magician is the orgasm. Furthermore, it is important for male
magicians to understand that the orgasm is not necessarily the same thing as
the ejaculation. As we have already described, some of the most intense
orgasms are experienced as whole-body events that produce no emission of
semen. But before that realm can be entered, the first key to successful sex
magic is developing the acquired skill of remaining fully alert and focused
through the intensifying stages of sexual arousal and especially during the
moment of your sexual climax.
This training, which essentially fights the tendency to relax that the
orgasm usually triggers, is best experimented with at first through
masturbation, since nobody is as sensitive to your own idiosyncratic pattern
of sexual response as you. Another advantage of beginning sex magical
training with autoerotic practice is that even the most sympathetic sex partner
can provide distraction from the work of coming to learn one's sex-magical
capabilities. Gradually, the increased control over the altered state of orgasm
can be extended into magically directed sex with a partner or partners.
Magically speaking, the orgasm is best understood as a profound
release of energy occurring during a transformed state of psychic awareness.
The magician taps into this energy to effect transformations of his or her inner
(subjective) world or outer (objective) world – remaining fully conscious of
the hidden connections between these two seemingly divergent manifestations
of maya. For the left-hand path magician, it is especially significant that this
orgasmic energy is generated from within the very body of the magician,
rather than from an external source. It is also very useful that the orgasm in
both males and females produces a physical manifestation in the form of
sexual fluids, since these fluids can be utilized by the magician as an organic
symbol of the magical desire at hand, as we have already described in the
historical tradition of the left-hand path.
The moment of orgasm is of importance magically as a clear
demarcation point, a liminal experience denoting the end of a deliberate
build-up of energy. By concentrating one's focus on the realization of the
magical goal at this zenith of sexual arousal, the magician has a clear and
dramatic physical target upon which to fix his or her attention. Almost all of
the established spiritual traditions of the world teach their adherents some
form of psychic focus, although they almost universally condemn the states of
altered consciousness attainable through sex as immoral, animalistic, or
negative in some sense or the other. The orgasm can provide this sharp
moment of heightened consciousness with a reliability and strength that few
other techniques can match. It is no coincidence that mystics and visionaries
have so frequently described their religious ecstasies in terms that resemble
the physical bliss of the orgasm.
Like any altered state of consciousness, the orgasm can also provide
the magician with profound visionary experiences that extend far beyond the
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utilitarian goals of sorcery alone. In the beginning phase of mastering sexual
magic, the orgasm is usually the summit of the sex-magical operation – the
juncture at which the amassed sex-magical energy of a working is unleashed
to create your desires in the worlds. However, the preceding period of arousal
is equally important. Generally speaking, the longer the magician remains in a