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

closely rooted in reality. Far less elaborate rites than the above example may
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be just as powerful. For the submissive with an overwhelming phobia of
spiders, merely securing the magician in bondage in a darkened room in
which a dimly illuminated glass container is filled with arachnids can be
sufficient to awaken a useful magical atmosphere.
Very often such an experience – if handled with care by the dominant
– can free the submissive of his or her phobia altogether whilst also allowing
for the kind of breakthrough of psychological tension that is suitable for the
casting of sorcery. Facing fears while in such a vulnerable position provides
the submissive with a clear picture of the limits they have accepted in
themselves, and opens up a hidden door to changing and redefining those
limits. If a fear can he altered into a pleasure, or mastered altogether, what
other inner qualities in the magician can be transformed? If a life-long phobia
can be challenged and subdued, what other external hindrances in the world
can be beaten? However, it must be reiterated that this type of working should
be carried out between two people who have established a sufficient measure
of trust and know each other's limits well.
Such rites of deprogramming have very often allowed submissive
magicians to leave the working with a renewed sense of power over their
psyche, which can in turn inspire them to radically transform hindrances in
their everyday lives that they have accepted out of habit. We cannot stress
often enough that the victories won in the symbolic, controlled environment
of the working are fairly meaningless if they are not extended into the
magician's daily existence. It may seem ironic that the magician who
deliberately agrees to be subjected to his or her worst horrors while being
sexually enslaved often exits the ritual space with more strength than he or
she had. when the rite began.
And yet the left-hand sex magician must understand that the goal here
should not simply be a therapeutic one impacting the submissive's external
personality – that aspect of the work only clears the ground for much deeper
levels of deprogramming, eventually reaching into the divine levels of being.
Magicians of the left-hand path are always in search of experiences
that will cause them to Awaken. The numinous quality of fear should not he
neglected by the sex magician who wishes to maximize the full spectrum of
human experience for sorcerous and initiatory objectives. A state of
wakefulness attainable through the expert construction of fear in an erotic
setting is one of the most ancient and reliable means of disrupting ordinary
consciousness available to the magician.
Experiments With Sleep Disruption
Wakefulness need not be simply a figurative metaphor in algolagniac rites; a
sharp disruption of actual sleep can also be applied to the submissive's
consciousness in a manner conducive to self-transformation. A very effective
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initiatory technique is to literally awaken a submissive magician from a sound
sleep of many hours, deliberately interrupting the REM cycle that regulates
the sleeping brain. The submissive can be awakened with any sharp pain (the
pouring of very hot candle wax on the erogenous zones, the rapid switching
of a riding crop on the unsuspecting flesh, etc.) and forcibly dragged into a
room equipped for bondage and discipline, where he or she is soundly
chastised by the dominant(s).
Such workings can be even sharper in intensity if the submissive
subject is forced to endure a twenty-four hour period of reduced stimulation
before the rite. A sensation of unreality and twilight consciousness can easily
be attained by confining the submissive magician to a completely dark
chamber. Alteration of diet during this imprisonment can create a preliminary
altered state of consciousness before the working commences. An enforced
fast will make the submissive weaker and more sensitive to