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

apturous sensation" of Kundalini's ascent "is nature's incentive to the effort
directed at self-transcendence, as the orgasm is the incentive to the
reproductive act."
Despite these profound physiological transformations, materialist
detractors of kundalini argue that it is, at best, nothing but a subjective
psychic experience, with no tangible physical component. Dr. Lee Sannella,
one of the very few Western physicians to make a serious study of the clinical
nature of kundalini, concluded that the process is inextricably linked with the
body's sexual functioning, observing that it did not manifest in humans who
had not reached full sexual maturity. This theory accords with our own
opinion that the initiatory effect of the left-hand path's erotic operations can
only be activated in a body that has undergone complete sexual development.
This concise outline of some of the principles of Kundalini primarily
illustrates how the Tantric concept of sexual polarities is brought to bear not
only in sexual interaction with others but as an internal process of selftransformation.
Kundalini is the hieros gamos, or divine marriage, played
out within the body's microcosm, just as other left-hand path actions
consecrate the numinous wedding of Shiva and Shakti as a carnal union of
sexual opposites between two physical bodies.
Attempts to make sense of kundalini's contradictions through a
traditionally scientific approach are ultimately fruitless, as such an analysis
fails to accept the innate mysterium involved in this initiatory ordeal. The
ancient language of rousing the sleeping serpent, or awakening the inner
goddess, more precisely addresses the mythic, transhuman strata of
consciousness where this initiation actually takes place. The creation of the
spiritual androgyne that is kundalini's goal intentionally transcends logic, as
do all of the deliberate opposite-doings of the left-hand path, magical actions
designed to short-circuit conditioned cause-and-effect thinking and reprogram
a new reality.
One variant of Kundalini that has increasingly gained sway with Western sex
magicians is the Chinese Taoist energy manipulation known as the microcosmic
orbit. Rather than directing the body's dormant energy stream up the spine and to
the head region, as in Indian Kundalini, the Chinese microcosmic orbit aims to
create a full circuit throughout the body, ultimately bringing energy into the
solar plexus area. As the authors have had less experience with this form, it
will suffice to state that the microcosmic orbit appears to be an equally useful
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technique of sexual energy circulation, although it is not specifically a lefthand
path practice.
The Breaking Of Taboo
Closely related to left-hand path Viparit Karani is the more general violation of
taboo – derived from a Polynesian word, tapu, meaning prohibited or marked –
within a sacred ritual setting, one of the central techniques informing all lefthand
path initiation. Paradoxically, although the left-hand path is a tradition in
its own right, it is a tradition based on the systematic breaking of tradition. By
disrupting habitual, mechanical modes of thinking through transgression of
the forbidden, the left-hand path sadhaka seeks liberation and illumination,
allowing transformation of consciousness into a divine state. The sexual
sorcerer will discover that the breaking of taboo allows access to blocked
energies powerfully unleashed.
The thing about taboos that must be said, of course, is that your
taboos are not necessarily ours, and vice-versa. What is forbidden in one culture
or time, or among persons from one class or level of education, would hardly
raise an eyebrow in another. In fact, a dominant taboo in culture A might be
considered entirely conventional or even mandatory in culture B.
One need only think of the homosexual rites of passage for prepubescent
boys that are still compulsory religious ceremonies in some Pacific