SEX MAGIC SEXMAG03.TXT *********************************************************************** The following article is condensed from the book Sexual Occultism by Jonn Mumford published by Compendium Pty Ltd. We were not able to locate the author or publisher and it appears the book is unfortunately no longer in print. If anyone has any further information, please let us know. *********************************************************************** Western magical tradition has a definite teaching concerning sex magic. This doctine, although similar to Tantra, sometimes differs in the goal sought. Power, not spiritual conscousness, if often the object of the magician who practices libidinous ritual. This is so frequently the case that Dion Fortune enequivocally states that sexual acts used as an adjunct to ceremonial magic are tantamount to black magic and the practitioner automatically defines himself as a follower of the left-hand path. Few modern occultists would agree with her simplistic viewpoint, for it is the end sought, not the means used, which determines the shade of magic. Sex magic rests upon the fact that the most important psycho-physiological event in the life of a human being is an orgasm. Sex magic is the art and science of utilising sexual experience for the concrete materialisation of desire and the expansion of the inner life. Successful sex magic involves an interplay of four factors: 1. All aspects of extrasensory perception are heightened during sexual excitation. The non-verbal communication and responsiveness of partners attuned to each other's needs during love-making is one example. 2. Immediately before, during and after climax, the mind is in a state of hypersensitivity, soaking up all suggestions like a sponge. Many sexual problems, frigidity and impotence in particular, have their origin in a careless comment uttered by a partner prior to or just after climax. A person engaged in intercourse is highly vulnerable to positive or negative influences. 3. Consistency of peak sexual sensations facilitates access to the unconscious realms, or the 'astral worlds' of the occultist and the kundalini arousal of the Tantrist. Prevalence of post-coital dreams, visions and kaleidoscopic effects provides ample evidence that this is so. 4. During orgasm many people have experienced, at least once, a true samadhi involving timelessness and a total dissolution of the ego, accompanied by subjective sensations of being absorbed by their partner. Western Tantra, similar to some Eastern aspects, is greatly concerned with the use of body substances for occult and alchemical purposes. One branch of this frankly venereal magic composes potent aphrodisiacs, perfumes and draughts, utilising sympathetic magic and the laws of correspondence as revealed by the Tree of Life. The key secret of the Western tradition lies in the demonstation that the sexual function has deeper implications that procreation. Twentieth-century life builds up psychic tension, and the correct, occult use of sex may act as a safety valve for such accumulated nervous energy. Individuals who become fully aware of each other's needs in this regard may develop an extremely practical outlook upon the whole concept of sexual relationships. The sexual dynamic represents the most significant physical experience the occultist has at his disposal, and it lies within his power to turn this function into a spiritually regenerative act and a psychologically integrative practice. To experience Tantric ecstasy, the psyche must first be freed of negative attitudes toward sex and have achieved a basic sexual awareness. Several flat statements are required in discussing the psychic aspects of sexuality. The sexual experience is dependent upon integration of the nervous system. If one considers the achievement of orgasm as analogous to launching a rocket to hit the moon (i.e. a climax), then it is an unequivocal fact that so far as the neural pathways in the nervous system are concerned, the method by which the sexual skyrocket is launched is of absolutely no consequence. The only concern of the nervous system is that contact explosion in inner space. The firing modality, be it masturbation, homosexuality, or heterosexuality, is irrelevant. Theoretically, only the end result (orgasm) is important and any form of sexual behaviour is but a means to an end - the cessation of fluctuations of the mind, producing timeless transcendence. When it comes to practice, of course, we find our ability to achieve orgasm limited by attitude, the intervening variable between genital and brain. Only attitude, a product of social conditioning, prevents many from exploring their inherent bisexual nature or fully reaping the psychic benefits of auto-eroticism and heterosexual copulation. In the latter half of the twentieth century we know intellectually that most sexual predjudices are irrational - but we may continue to react emotionally to some possibilities of sexual variation. Psychologists are rewriting textbooks in view of the fact that a concept of sexual deviation or abnormality is no longer tenable. (In ancient China and India the concept that some forms of sexual behaviour were abnormal was virtually non-existent). The idea of 'sexual crime' is limited strictly to those cases that interfere with the free will of another person, e.g. rape. Many people, because of tension and negative conditioning, will only permit themselves a sexual experience when absolutely everything else is correct in both the external and internal environments. In other words, everything has to be right; no headaches, no stomach'aches, no cramps, no emotional turnoil, and then maybe they will go and relax in a special room and have something they call 'sex'. The problem is that very seldom on any given day is everthing 'just right' or 'perfect'. The occult approach to sexuality is that one doesn't wait for the right circumstances to have some sort of internal erotic experience - rather one does ahead and has a sexual experience to readjust the psychic equilibrium of the nervous system and thus make things go right. Some occultists misuse sexuality for the purposes of 'black magic'. In fact sexuality is a specific antidote to black magic. The deliberate trying to injure another person, mentally or physically, through psychic channels is only resorted to by those who are psychologically ill and feel themselves to be impotent in negotiating life. Paranoid personalities riddled with feelings of envy, hostility, suspiciousness and oversensitivity characterise those prone to practice black magic, and these very traits trip them up because they are susceptible to the idea that their own spells will rebound upon them. Black magic is a type of mental judo in which an attempt is made to surface the victim's innate, and normally unconscious, negativity and fear, turning it against him while simultaneously convincing him that the force is external to himself. Psychological maturity confers immunity to black magic. Sexual sorcery is an excellent expedient for strengthening a shattered psyche or pulling together a sick ego. Esoteric psychology teaches that the powerful force fields created by mutual orgasm repair lesions in the auric shields of the male and female by virtue of the intensity of 're-pairing'. Tantric sexuality is the dimension of sex employed for consciousness expansion. One possible translation of the Sanskrit prefix tan is 'expand', while tra means 'liberate'; so Trantra becomes that which first 'expands' and then 'liberates' the mind. A collogquial translation of Tantra would be 'mind-blowing'. In terms of profound sexual experience this consciousness expansion is produced by the far-reaching effects that tactile or touch receptors exert upon brain states and personality. The path to psycho-sexual power begins not only with recognising and overcoming restrictive sexual prejudices, but also with cultivating intense gonadal awareness through conscious tightening of the pelvic floor. This is accomplised through deliberate, selective contraction and relation of the anal and urethral (urinary) sphincters. These exercises have been traditional for thousands of years in Tantra Yoga and throughout the Middle East. The techniques have recently been rediscovered by Western gynaecologists and sex therapists such as Dr Kegel and Drs Masters and Johnson. We should remember that the word discover etymologically means to uncover, so in actuality there is nothing new under the sun. The encounter movement in psychology still has much to rediscover or uncover from Tantra in regard to touch therapy.