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

smell the alluring fragrance of its pheromones signaling its own sexual
excitement. As your exercise proceeds to progress from these sense
impressions, you will create the touch of its skin, and feel its touch on your
skin, eventually being able to sense the very subtle physical aura of its
presence in the material world. Only when you have been able to sustain
these other sense impressions consistently will you proceed to consummate
your sexual union with the creature you have called forth, during which you
will taste its kiss and the flavor of its skin.
It is interesting that many magicians performing this exercise have
felt that the elemental conjured was their own elusive anima or animus, an
experience which can sometimes lead to an unexpected initiatory
breakthrough in sexual self-understanding. Other magicians experimenting
with the evocation of the elemental have found that the vivid realization of
these internal beings has actually precipitated the arrival of a living person
into their lives bearing great resemblance to the imagined elemental. It is not
uncommon that a few successfully realized exercises of this type will lead to
the spontaneous, unbidden, and not infrequently alarming appearance of the
elemental in dreams or in other states of consciousness. Those who created
elementals based on individuals already known to them have reported
apparent telepathic experiences with the "real" subject. No matter what
objective results this training of the sex-magical faculties leads to, its primary
purpose is to accustom the adept to the art of deliberately controlling the stuff
of maya in his or her mind, which is, after all, the act of creative generation
exercised by the gods. Like Shiva, the initiate's consciousness has begun to
project internal desires into a semblance of credible reality.
On the other hand, it would be all too facile to automatically assume
that all communication with sexual elementals is only a startlingly realistic
mechanism of the imagination. To do so would be to deny the possibility that
your experiment has unsealed the gate between the mortal world and the other
realms, facilitating contact with any number of the transhuman beings that
haunt the left side of what was once referred to as "the land of (faerie."
With good reason, it will be remarked by some that schizophrenics,
paranoiacs and mentally ill individuals in general suffer from an over-
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abundance of this "talent" of all too believably imagining what is apparently
not really there. This is true, and it may well be that the magician's power of
deliberate visualization partakes in some yet unknown manner in certain
elements of the same brain chemistry disturbance that afflicts the mentally ill.
"Magical thinking" is in fact a commonly described symptom of various
forms of mental illness. From the broader perspective of the magical tradition,
we can only admit that while the regular awakening of these little-used
imaginative faculties can be dangerous for the unbalanced individual, they
can also be of immense value to the magician grounded solidly on terra firma.
Rather than simply dismissing magic as madness, as the clinically
inclined are wont to do, the visualization and imaginative powers required by
the magician may have much more in common with the almost hallucinatory
realism experienced by creative artists in the process of projecting their
personal worlds into forms detectable by the senses of others. Artists, like
magicians, have served as mediums, bringing into consciousness those
aspects of reality unperceived by most minds. Of course, the connection
between madness and artistic creativity has not gone unnoticed. Very much to
the point, Salvador Dali once remarked that "the only difference between Dali
and a madman is that Dali is not mad". So it is with the magician, who
routinely enters worlds that other humans spend all of their energies avoiding.
As with all left-hand path practices, the inherent pitfalls of even this first
foray into the mental generation of elementals cannot be overlooked.
One of the most useful and practical approaches to sex with daemonic
entities has been provided from a perhaps unexpected source: the author