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To: alt.magick.tyagi,alt.fan.kali.astarte.inanna,alt.pagan.magick,alt.magick,alt.magick.tantra,alt.magick.sex,alt.religion.sexuality,alt.sex.wizards From: nagasiva@luckymojo.com (nigris (333)) Subject: Masturbation and Magical Practice Date: 23 Jul 1999 23:14:27 -0700 49990604 IIIom a correspondent wrote: # How does masturbation influence your Magickal image and it is unclear to me what you mean here by 'Magickal image' and thus I almost bypassed this query. # how does it alter your relationship with others and # especially yourself? I will respond with respect to Thelema, magick and my ritual life, in which I have often featured masturbation as an element. It has been one of my dearest wishes that the human race be free from sexual hangups, accepting of public sexual behavior which is not coercive or injurious to its participants. to this end I have occasionally sought to inspire group masturbatory rites amongst my cohorts. this has come together once, maybe twice in my life, and I was glad for its actuality. however, I don't think we spoke of it as a group very often, and it seems to me that part of the value of such experiences would have been reflection on these rites and divulgence about our feelings (elation, fear, repulsion, judgement, etc.) during them. mostly my reflection included an intimate or who who was involved, and while this is beneficial it didn't continue the group energy into a resolution more powerful than a congregation of individual climaxes. in my personal rituals I have integrated masturbation as a very important but not absolutely necessary aspect of the raising of energy and conversation with my goddess. it seems to me that this has made it more easy for me to consider and discuss sexuality as an element or the entirety of spiritual disciplines, has separated me in many ways from the conservative who are loathe to accept such revealing and personal behaviors in rites of a 'spiritual' nature, and has kept me in touch with a feral and lascivious part of myself that I benefit from nurturing, especially as I tend toward the intellectual and reserved in my daily life. in general I would class masturbation as a psychospiritual activity on par with sitting meditation as regards the depth of its integrative and beneficial effects. good sex with a dedicated partner is possibly more transformative (since my mind has a physical companion in the witness of the mystery of lust and no doubt of their reality typically enters as may with my goddess), and masturbation as a part of this partnered sex is an important emphasis which integrates relaxation in the rise and fall of ecstatic energy (a clearer reflection in the mirror of panting witness). 333 nagasiva@luckymojo.com -- emailed replies may be posted; cc replies if response desired
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