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

of the unmistakable kundalini energy from one sexual consort to another has
already been described.
A common maithuna posture is the lata sadahna position, so called because
the shakti embraces the entirely immobile man just as the lata, or creeper
plant, wraps itself around a tree. In bhagasana, the couple's bodies remain
outwardly immobile throughout the rite, whilst the well-trained female
initiatrix works the muscles of her vulva on her consort's erect penis,
fastening it ever more tightly in place within her.
Savasana recreates the yogic posture seen in images of Kali
mounting dead Shiva. Sava means "corpse", which has given rise to the
Tantric pun that "Shiva without Shakti is Sava"; male consciousness lacking
female power is a corpse. In savasana, the male lays prostrate beneath the
female in a state of death-like trance and muscular relaxation, while she rides
his erection, incarnating the dominant, active force of shakti. This corpse
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posture is linked to the age-old recognition that orgasm is often experienced
as a kind of death, a verity communicated in the well-known French
description of the ecstasy of sexual climax as le petite mort, "the dear little
death".
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A multiplicity of sexual positions, or asanas, are taught to the
celebrants of the sinister current. Almost all of them are focused on the
female active/male inactive principle that has traditionally been thought to
be the most efficient way to create the altered state of consciousness and
flow of male-female energies into each other. Quite commonly, the sexual
position taken during sinister current coition allows both partners to assume
a seated face-to-face asana, with spines erect to more easily allow the flow
of kundalini from sexual center to brain.
The Mukha-Maithuna asana of mutual genital adoration (the "69"
position), can also be a powerful bioenergy exchange of masculine and
feminine essence. This creates a kind of sexual closed circuit, permitting the
celebrant's energies to course through each other in a continuous and
unbroken flow, an exchange of erotomagical power that can be compared to
the uroboros, the alchemical serpent that swallows its own tail. The physical
distillation of the united Shakti/Shiva forces are contained in the substance
of the sexual elixirs. Theoretically, the orally operative adept consumes the
contrasexual essence emanated through his or her partner's genitals, a rite of
mutual sexual vampirism enacted through oral-genital feeding.
It should go without saying that if you have no knowledge of your
consort's sexual history or health, ingestion of sexual fluids during a
working should not be considered. Any magician who ignores these
precautions cannot truly be said to exercise the conscious approach to all
physical manifestations that the sinister current adept seeks to maintain. The
sleeping human surrenders to sexuality and its possible long-range
consequences of pregnancy and disease as if in a dream, accepting whatever
comes of it with passive inertia; the erotic initiate must be fully awake to all
of the potential aftereffects of any sexual union.
The erotic interaction of the immobile male sex partner, incarnating
the Shiva force on earth, and the active female, embodying the terrestrial
Shakti power, often seems off-putting, or at least unfamiliar, to Western men
and women. In the West, copulation very often takes the form of the female
prone on her back in the so-called missionary position, while the male
thrusts into her, using her vagina as a kind of masturbatory tool. The very
different physical arrangement called for by the left-hand path rite
necessitates that the female initiatrix uses her yoni in a much more active
manner than is common among Western women.
The Yoni Of Shakti
In Tantric tradition, women who are trained to take on the role of shakti, or