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

there" somewhere. Examine your own psyche and behavior and carefully note
whether or not you are also drawn into the sexual seduction so skillfully plied
by advertising and the mass media. What subtle or blatant sexual cues have
persuaded you to purchase a given product? How have your own sexual
preferences and tastes been molded by media imagery of supposedly desirable
sex symbols? Once you have become more conscious of the hypnotic effect
that this omnipresent sea of sexual imagery exercises on you, you will be
better equipped to resist its external allure. Now you can pay closer attention
to your inner sexual world., which is most likely constructed along very
different lines than the pre-packaged ready-to-eat mass media presentation of
erotic icons. You may well be challenged by the disturbing realization that the
sexual fantasies and fetishes you imagined were your own have been
programmed to a surprising degree by years of exposure to mass culture's
ubiquitous reservoir of ceaseless audio-visual data.
Such a realization can be the turning point that inspires you to turn off
the source of the programming and take control of your own sexual
conditioning, a necessity for any left-hand path sex magician. Very often, the
first important act of sex magic in the modern world consists of grasping the
persuasive power of mass culture on the libido and taking charge of one's own
erotic desires. No one whose erotic being has developed under the
bombardment of the mass media can completely be free of the implanting
picked up via the incessant sexual signals and symbols generated from the
cultural atmosphere. The magician, however, can willfully transform this
process from an unconscious reception of external programming to a wakeful
awareness of how sexual desire is shaped by blueprints originating in the
mass media. It isn't enough to merely take our word for the following
observations – examine with brutal honesty the roots of your particular sexual
conditioning, the previously ignored Pavlovian training that shaped the
architecture of your desires. And when you have identified these possibly
hidden erotic motivators, decide which ones are truly yours and which have
been unthinkingly learned from the constant barrage of media signals to
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which every man and woman in the West is subject.
Assessing The Human Factor
From reading the previous chapters, the novice left-hand path sex magician
might presume that the ideal sexual partner who can serve as the deified male
or female consort of the sinister sexual union can be found in the body of any
sexually functioning human being. Indeed, one Tantra suggests that liberation
can be found by properly trained initiatory congress with "all yonis."
Arguably, those initiates who have attained an advanced ability to understand
the deceptive swirl of maya may indeed be able to discover the transhuman
alter ego in all sacralized sexual partners, and not only in his or her anima or
animus. However, there are most definitely partners who will be far less
suitable for this task than others. The left-hand path magician must be as alert
to the criteria that rule out a potential sexual companion as he or she should
be engaged in the quest for a suitable sex-magical accomplice.
Despite the potential for joy inherent in the expression of sexuality,
any careful observer of human behavior will quickly recognize that the
majority of human beings are actually trapped in sexual relationships that
provide them with little pleasure or erotic fulfillment. The medical and
psychiatric professions are inundated with sexually frustrated patients seeking
to attain the boundless erotic delights the media has suggested are so
universal, but which the average person so often finds elusive. While
sexuality is theoretically touted as the greatest joy that human beings can
experience, it has frequently proven to be a source of their deepest misery and
anxiety.
When one considers the general state of relations between the genders
from a detached point of view, there can be little wonder that sex is very often