psychoceramics: Tantric II: Electric Boogaloo

[John Tynes <rev @ tccorp.com>]

>From the alt.horror.cthulhu newsgroup, a gentleman looking for backing 
for his feature film--dealing with that hot new mainstream fad, tantric 
sex magick. Watersports, move over!


>From: Frank Ashby <a--@w--.com>
>Newsgroups: alt.horror.cthulhu
>Subject: "Forbidden Doors" to usher in new millennium!
>Date: 7 Jul 1997 22:16:54 GMT
>
>7/7/97
>
>To Whom It May Concern:
>
>        I am looking for an investor on a feature length film and with your
>permission, I would like to send you my most efficacious work to date
>entitled " Forbidden Doors ". As the title implies, there are some things
>we
>are not meant to know about the supernatural where conventional standards
>apply. My emphasis on the dark side of the occult is strictly in a Tantric
>magical sense as I do not wish to elicit negative tendencies, which could
>precipitate a psychosis. It is my intent to enlighten, not to frighten.
>        The Vamacara Adepts of the Left Hand Path practice Tantric sex
>magick in an attempt to free themselves from the limitations of mundane
>existence and so attain to greater spiritual power. In the West, and to a 
>lesser extent in India, such practices have gained a certain amount of 
>notoriety and even Aleister Crowley, who incorporated certain Tantric 
>techniques into his occult system, was accused of being a libertine and a 
>debauchee. In many ways, this ancient system has a direct correlation to 
>the Bacchic Mysteries with their orgiastic fertility rites. In essence,
>it is 
>the ultimate aim of the Adept to attain liberation as a type of '
>extended 
>orgasm ' and if by chance this electro-magnetic energy field is exhausted
>in 
>the afterlife, the Shadow becomes a phantom or ghost feeding on the
>living by
>entering the subconscious of various relatives, etc. Forever resonating
>with 
>our dark yin nature, the Shadow is synonymous with the animal soul, which
>seeks 
>instinctual cathexis in the dream image.
>        It is the confrontation with the Shadow as one's astral twin and
>the sole link to the underworld, which is the problematic of " Forbidden
>Doors ". A snake-handling Christian fundamentalist preacher literally
>goes off 
>the deep end after studying Gnostic theology. Subsequently, he leaves his 
>church in West Virginia to embark upon a ' special mission ' to San
>Francisco.
>Temporarily lodged in a hotel room, he briefly gives sanctuary to a
>homeless
>man, claiming to be the ' Messenger of God '. He informs the preacher
>about
>his prophecy with the ominous portent being the night of a total lunar
>eclipse, which proves to be the turning point of the entire story. At an
>artist's colony, he ends up being ridiculed for his messianic complex and
>on
>the verge of totally losing his sanity, he pays a visit to a dominatrix.
>Mistress Fatima has more on her mind than a simple spanking and instead
>subjects him to her form of ' Edge Play ', which challenges all of his
>phobias. After his rather unorthodox initiation, he becomes a true voyager
>and their astral journeys together prove to be the stuff of myth and
>legend.
>        According to Kenneth Grant, " Evolution also progresses spirally,
>hence the periodic resurgence of atavisms during the course of its
>unfolding, each resurgence recurring on a higher arc and tapping 
>proportionately deeper strata of the subconsciousness. " In other words, 
>until certain Adepts follow Austin O. Spare's formula of Atavistic 
>Resurgence, which entails re-activating primal phases of elemental 
>consciousness lost in the evolutionary transition from the animal kingdom
>to
>the human, we will continue to experience the present social malaise.
>Once 
>these true Adepts accomplish the Great Work then all the cults of the
>Shadow 
>will achieve their final apotheosis.
>        I look forward to hearing from you.
>Respectfully,
>Frank Ashby
>a--@w--.com
>
>
>P.S. If you are interested in my screenplay, please include your mailing
>address...

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