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

the praises of the orgasm as the greatest good in the universe. In the West,
centuries of relentless Christian abomination of the flesh have finally yielded
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to a somewhat more objective understanding of sexuality. However, the
realization that Eros is not a shameful Satanic agent of sin does not mean that
sexuality should be fatuously romanticized either. Eros, like all truly
numinous forces, surpasses both good and evil and is ultimately neutral. The
left-hand sex magician who wishes to marshal this notoriously unpredictable
power to his or her own desires must also examine the abyss of the shadow
side of Eros as well as its more beneficent aspects.
To determine your deepest and most authentic sexual tastes and
desires, as opposed to merely adopting the standard issue images generated
from external societal sources, one must also severely cut away the images of
ideal sexual partners picked up by proxy from your family, friends and wider
human environment. Although this process may seem like a fairly
straightforward – even mundane – process, there is actually a fundamental
spiritual component hidden within this task. For when we forcefully reject
the received and inherited models of objects of desire in favor of our own
archetypes of lust, we come closer to revealing the inner image of the
opposite sex alter ego that truly energizes our sexual essence – the anima and
the animus. There is no formula guaranteeing that the mysterious affiliation
with one's sexual alter ego will actually come about on the physical plane –
the discovery of the inner mate in the outer phenomenal world is actually a
rare feat of magic. But the female left-hand path sex magician's quest for her
"brother soul" will never be accomplished if she has been programmed to
find her mother's conception of a perfect consort, just as the male sex
magician is unlikely to find his "sister soul" if his criteria derives from an
airbrushed, sanitized image in Playboy.
In a culture that at least pays lip service to the virtuous properties of
the erotic, the sinister current sex magician can learn much from analyzing
the flip side of the popular view One quickly ascertains that the same force
that the illuminated libertine applies to self-transformation and liberation is
overwhelmingly utilized as a control mechanism and tool of persuasion in
Western society at large. So overwhelming is the power of the sexual
experience on the human psyche that both the explicit and sublimated
expression of Eros suffuses the entire cultural landscape. Sexuality is
certainly the primary selling point compelling the consumer to sacrifice to the
faceless gods of capitalism. A copious flow of sexual fluid oils the wheels of
Western commerce. Products with not the least apparent connection to
sexuality, including automobiles, Internet service providers and ice cream are
merchandised as indispensable aphrodisiac devices possessed of boundless
seductive allure. The fashion industry and the cosmetics and beauty
businesses aggressively sell women the comforting idea that their wares will
make them utterly irresistible. Every branch of the mass media generates a
breathless orgy of sexual and pseudo-sexual imagery cannily designed to
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captivate its transfixed prey.
The music industry offers endless variations on the theme of carnal
passion, pitched to the specialized tastes of a wide array of erotic
demographics. Mass market films and television offer their spectators
idealized dreamworlds of erotic bliss, allowing fantasists to safely enter into
vicarious libidinal reverie with their favorite celebrities; the ultimate in safe
sex. One of the strangest mass psychosexual developments of the twentieth
century was the rise of the erotic cult of the celebrity, a fetishization of the
popular idol that has often proven how lethal thwarted sexual fantasy can
become.
It is not enough for the left-hand path sex magician to smugly be
aware of these phenomena as something that happens to other people "out