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

sexual initiatrix, learn a method of vaginal control known as sahajoli. In
India, this technique is secretly taught by already initiated older female
adepts (sometimes the student's mother or grandmother) to girls at the age of
puberty. Essentially, sahajoli involves the ability to exercise total control
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over the vaginal muscles during sexual intercourse, so that her partner's
penis can be actively gripped and manipulated during the rite. Traditional
training for sahajoli involves intensive exercise of the vaginal muscles for
many years, often using dildos or other phallic substitutes to facilitate
mastery of the technique. (This vaginal training is similar to the commonlytaught
Kegel exercises known in the West.) The left-hand path sexual
initiatrix utilizes the complex mechanism of her vagina with an agility and
finesse that is all but unknown to the eroticism of the West, where even the
most sophisticated basically consider the vulva as an inert hole to be filled.
This kind of vaginal control was also an important part of the training
for the sacred Temple courtesans of India, the devadasis (literally, the "slaves
of the god"), just as it appears to have been part of the refined sexual artistry
of the Ancient Greek Hetairae. Descriptions of the eldest known form of
sacred prostitution, that of the Quadishtu, or Temple harlots of the Sumerian
sacred whore-goddess Innana/Ishtar, also make mention of what must have
been a similar method. The yoni, revered in the left-hand path as the matrix
of all manifestation, is a fully activated, mobile participant in the rite of
ecstasy, as befits the energy of the wildly kinetic Goddess it symbolizes.
There is a surprisingly common Western male anxiety regarding the
vaginal mysteries, perhaps most dramatically represented by the commonly
reported phobia concerning the castrating vagina dentata, or vagina with
teeth. Such neuroses are completely absent from left-hand path sexuality,
which accords a reverence to both gender's genitals as living, creative
incarnations of the divine. It is surprising how many Western men and
women find the unfamiliar concept of an active vagina impossible to
integrate, and this is one of the unspoken reasons that left-handed initiation
has yet to be fully maximized in the Western world. No valid tradition of
initiation into the physical feminine mysteries currently exists in the West.
Consequently, the female student of the left-hand path sometimes finds it
difficult to free herself of the culturally pervasive impression that her cunt is
merely a passive orifice, rather than the energetic vortex of divine creative
chaos posited in left-hand path veneration of the yoni.
Meticulous stimulation of all of the female partner's erogenous zones
during the maithuna is considered essential to raising the necessary degree of
sexual energy for the rite. This process culminates in careful attention to the
clitoris, a technique which had been developed to a fine art in the left-handed
Tantra of medieval times, when knowledge of female sexuality in the West
had all but atrophied due to Christian loathing of the body – and especially
the female body.
The Sacrifice
The true secret of secrets guarded by the Vama Marga rite was not simply the
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liberating, obstacle-overcoming and initiatory effect of taboo violation, which
can only be the first phase of any deep-seated process of self-programming.
Once the taboos have been broken and made sacred, the initiates continue to
repeat the rite for the initiatory value of erotic exchange itself, especially the
physiological impact of the prolonged sexual rite on the initiated mind. The
next step is the teaching that self-realization and coming into being as a
divine consciousness aware of ultimate reality can occur during the intense
flash of orgasm. For the left-hand path initiate, the orgasm itself is
understood as an altered state of consciousness, and for this reason, the
orgasm is prolonged, manipulated, internalized and integrated into the
initiatory experience.