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- From: ttk@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (the troglodyte killer)
- Newsgroups: rec.martial-arts
- Subject: Re: query on kundalini, kung fu, etc.
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- Date: 19 Nov 92 19:41:53 GMT
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- >Yeah, occultism is full of the axiom that the phenomena are
- >merely distractions and that spirit is the reason for doing it.
-
- In occultism it's an axiom, but in mysticism it's learned
- through experience. Telling someone who hasn't yet experienced it
- is also a kind of distraction.. (But hey, that's what the
- internet's for, isn't it? Distracting ourselves? ;-)
-
- >But what is the problem with Left-Handed Tantra? I have
- >been ethically influenced by some yogis who call themselves Left-
- >Handed, and if they are misusing spirituality, a sizable portion
- >of my ethics might need revision. Please elaborate on this
- >Left-handed Problem.
-
- Frankly, you probably only need to worry about the
- left-handed tantrics you meet in India. American left-handed
- tantrics are by and large ritual practitioners who make use of the
- left-handed practices to further their own philosophies (which may
- or may not be as morally bankrupt as those of the Brotherhood of
- the Left Hand).
- An example of BLH practices that would .. erm .. "clash with
- my personal morals" is their extracting small amounts of spinal
- fluid from a (unwilling) human female and injecting it into their
- own spine.. I know that a decade ago the woman was unlikely to
- survive the operation. I dunno if they're more humane about it
- today.
-
- >Does it relate to the Sin of Separateness
- >that Crowley ascribed to the Brothers of the Left Hand Path in
- >what I thought was a different context?
-
- Probably not, if the context was way different. In any case,
- I'd rather not drag Crowley into this. I'm not one of his fans.
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