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

ecause they are considered valid in the Eastern heritage of the sinister
current. All too many left-hand path neophytes earnestly follow such Tantric
prescriptions without critically considering why these actions are considered
beneficial within the original cultural conditions from which the left-hand
path emerged.
From a practical magical point of view, the reversal of semen flow
has two things recommending it. Any inversion of natural processes is
psychologically useful to the magician attempting to alter the substance of
the universe through will. Also, the willed hindrance of the male ejaculation
can allow for a very different quality of intense orgasmic pleasure that can
be directed to magical objectives. Most importantly, the longer the sexual
act is prolonged, the higher the level of sexual energy available to the
celebrants for magical use. Now, many traditional left-hand path gurus
would be appalled at our lack of strict observation of ejaculatory protocol,
since the reabsorbtion of semen into the subtle body is often considered the
main point of the rite. We leave it to the discretion of our reader to decide
how much of a purist he or she wishes to be in these matters. As for the
drinking of female sexual fluids, any substance produced during a magical
working might be perceived as carrying the distilled energy of that
operation. In our view, this is a subjective psychological interpretation, not
an objective fact, as some left-hand Tantricists would rigidly maintain.
Vama Marga Without Dogma
It should not be thought that we are advising Western sex magicians to
faithfully recreate every last detail of the traditional five M's rite, as some
modem Western Tantricists have done. On the contrary, the particular taboobreaking
aspects of this rite, and much of its symbolism, can only have
meaning within Hindu Indian culture. There would obviously be absolutely
no taboo-breaking power released by Western magicians eating fish and
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meat, or drinking wine as an overture to their ritual sex acts, everyday
practices in the Western world. You can only adapt the underlying principles
described in this chapter, not necessarily the specifics, to your own
workings.
The Western left-hand path magician can no longer rely on
traditional taboo violation as taught in India, he or she must discover
personal taboos to be shattered and then made sacred within a ritual context.
In India, where "the sacred cow" is an ancient concept upheld by millions of
Hindu vegetarians, and other animals are considered to be "polluting", the
left-hand path adept eats certain kinds of meat as a dissident rupture with
mass doctrine. Obviously, such an action is not meaningful in the
omnivorous McDonald's culture most of our readers probably live in; other
restrictions appropriate to your personal existence must be transcended.
Traditional left-hand path practices, such as uttering the correct
mantras, consuming the specified taboo/sacred foods, cultivating kundalini
energy to rise through the chakras, envisioning the god-forms of Shiva and
Shakti, can only be useful to you if you accept and integrate the complex
symbol system from which these practices were developed. But these subcontinental
methods are by no means mandatory to attain the erotic
illumination of the sinister current. For some Westerners, the traditional
tools of the Indian left-hand path are effective, and have provided them with
a sound structure in which to initiate themselves. For others, these handed
down traditions are simply too removed from their own conditioning and
every day experience to be anything but a distraction. In that case, learning
the ancient mantras, asanas, and mudras – save as a starting point for
adapting your own system from them – would be counterproductive.
Identifying the core principles beneath the regional practice of lefthand
path erotic initiation, and remanifesting these essentials in terms that
have deeply personal significance according to your own programming, is a