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

Just as importantly, by forcing every sexual encounter into the
context of a magical working, the purely pleasurable, aesthetically pleasing
and physically gratifying nature of profane erotic interaction as an experience
worth enjoying fur its own intrinsic value is minimized. The sex magician
should ideally approach sex and the erotic arts as possessing a beauty and
power unto themselves, not only as a useful tool for magical work. To limit
one's sexuality to sex magic alone would be akin to an artist that only used
her eyes when engaged in creating artwork. Although a robust sexual desire is
evidently a basic requirement for the effective orchestration of erotic sorcery,
it cannot be stressed enough that sex magic should not be the only outlet for
the satisfaction of your lust. The well-balanced sex magician should
experience a rich and fulfilling erotic existence that is deliberately unrelated
to one's strictly sex-magical workings.
There is one very practical reason for this: unless you have a preexisting
active sex life that more than adequately fulfills your psychic and
physical erotic needs, chances are you probably won't achieve anything more
magically profound than the physical release of orgasm while performing
sexual magic. It should be noted that there are specific instances when the sex
magician might find that a period of sexual abstinence is useful before
commencing a working of sex magic, but this doesn't mitigate the importance
of integrating sex magic into the larger context of a well-rounded erotic life.
Another commonly beheld phenomenon motivates this
recommendation. It is all too easy for sex magicians to delude themselves
into interpreting every one of their sexual fantasies as magical and initiatory
in nature. We have observed ludicrous attempts to justify what is basically
only a wish to satiate a sexual attraction under the mysterious cloak of
magical motivation. As we have made clear, sex magic does require the
activation of strong desire to function, but one must he wise enough to be
able to distinguish the sometimes subtle but nevertheless significant
difference between an act of left-hand path erotic initiation and a good fuck.
To confuse the two is to degrade the value of both expressions of Eros, each
of them worthwhile in their own right.
The Orgasm – Ten Seconds In Eternity
To grasp the essentials of left-hand path operations, we must first cast a cold
eye on the basic human sexual experience in general. Since all magic –
including the magic that is channeled through the flesh – is primarily a
phenomenon of the psyche, we are immediately compelled to ascertain what
exactly goes on in the human psyche during sexual activity. While one must
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be extremely careful about making generalizations in a realm as personal as
erotic experience, a few fundamental phenomena seem to be so widely
prevalent that they provide us with a viable launching pad for our
investigation.
Your garden variety specimen of homo sapiens is likely to
experience a fairly standard psychic response to the sexual act. Whether that
act is consummated through masturbation, or sexual congress with one or
more partners doesn't significantly affect the end result of most human sexual
activity. During the various levels of excitation and physical exertion that
ultimately conclude with the climax, the human being is typically rewarded
by sexual pleasure with a profound moment of forgetting. In this sharp
instance of temporary amnesia, awareness of the individual self is briefly but
intensely obliterated. All mindfulness of the existence of the psyche as an
independent agent and determinant of consciousness is temporarily wiped out
by the waves of pleasure that culminate in the orgasm.
Since the keen awareness of the psyche's solitude is something that
most human beings find rather uncomfortable to bear, the attainment of the
transitory brain chemistry alteration which orgasm allows is effectively used
as a tranquilizing drug, a means to numb individual consciousness. For