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

unknowable nature of the human mind. The magician learns that he or she
can never fully fathom his or her own psyche, which is constantly being
recreated, let alone the psyche of another. A general magical rule is that one
will is always easier to focus and control concerning a given objective than
two. Couples that share a long-standing magical and sexual rapport are
sometimes an exception to this rule but even this cannot always he reliably
counted on.
If such hidden ambiguities of the dominant/submissive link must be
taken into account in fairly straightforward acts of sexual sorcery, they are
even more consequential when performing initiatory acts of magic.
The Submissive As Oracular, Theurgic Or Necromantic Tool
A more directly initiatory purpose of dominant/submissive magical
interaction, and one requiring a far more subtle measure of control is the
working in which the submissive actually symbolizes an internal aspect of
the dominant's being. In this case, the dominant is effectively forcing a
disobedient facet of his or her own psyche into submission. Such operations
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can range from the mastery of a certain personality trait to the deeper
understanding of some unknown element of the dominant's being. By
externalizing this aspect of one's self in the body of a submissive, the
dominant temporarily allows the intangible inner quality to become a
malleable, three-dimensional, living being that can be manipulated at will.
The methods applicable to this end are boundless but a few practical
examples may spur your own experimentation.
To utilize the first method, which might best be termed "the
interrogation," it is recommended that your submissive be accustomed to
altering his or her consciousness into deep trance through the vigorous
employment of erotic pain. It is also best if the submissive is not informed as
to the purpose of the working in advance, a condition which allows for more
intrusion of possibly useful random and unpredictable information into the
submissive's psyche.
The dominant firmly establishes in his or her own willed imagination
that the submissive is the physical incarnation of the inner quality in
question. Through whatever combination of bondage, discipline, and
controlled application of pain is deemed best suited to the work, the
submissive is brought to a trance state. For such workings, the prolonged
physical agony that can be brought about through clamping of the flesh or
extreme forms of bondage is most effective; the sharper, more periodic bursts
of pain achievable through flagellation is less likely to accomplish the desired
results.
When the submissive is in the summit of a pain-engendered trance
sufficiently disruptive to normal personality reactions, the dominant asks the
submissive important questions he or she needs to know about this hidden
manifestation of his or her own psyche, an interrogation of the externalized
self through the medium of the submissive.
While it is more than possible that the submissive's responses may
not all be relevant to the dominant's needs, such interrogations performed
during the erotic trauma of a high level of erogenous pain can provide a
surprisingly high ratio of useful information. In effect, the submissive
becomes an oracle, opened up to divinatory utterance through the endurance
of pain/pleasure.
Jungians will conclude that the crossing of the submissive's erotic
pain threshold has permitted access to the "collective unconscious", the same
symbolic region attainable in dreams. Whatever the language one resorts to
when describing this mysterious phenomenon, the uncanny experience of
seeming to speak to a hidden part of your own self during a sex-magical
working dramatically demonstrates the perplexing fluidity of maya, the misty
border between the microcosm and the macrocosm, the inner self and the