In Defiance of Damnation

In Defiance of Damnation


Been going through seven lean years 

But have yet to taste platter of plenty...

There's no oasis to give one refuge nor any respite in sight.

A stoic eagle knight, caught up amid 'Las Noches' (endless night).

Faceless might as well be voiceless; unseen and unheard.

Ghosted by all nations for taking sides with L'absurde.

May you hark now witchy women—about to break dry spell

Got a flame that flares skyward from the deepest bowel of hell!

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Hidden in plain sight comes this Magick operation.

Already retread paths from first to final station.

Pregnant pause ~ prolonged gestation.

Chrysalis cracks / during the Monarch's maturation.

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Tighten up the Island of The Tonal.

Titans sup on souls subzonal.

"Omne vas quod fictum est contra ego non dirigetur"

ॐ त्र्यं॑बकं यजामहे सु॒गन्धिं॑ पुष्टि॒वर्ध॑नम् ।

उ॒र्वा॒रु॒कमि॑व॒ बन्ध॑नान् मृ॒त्योर् मुक्षीय॒ माऽमृता॑त्

Image: Butterfly Triptych, from pupa to imago (colorized).

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Dirty Talk Cock Tale

"Sex is as important as eating or drinking and we ought to allow the one appetite to be satisfied with as little restraint or false modesty as the other.

In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice." 

~ Le Marquis de Sade

Dirty Talk Cock Tale


Aw yes ... * lewd noises in the nude *


Take it all the way deep inside

You beautiful bitch;

Sweet little slut!


Cum and get it girl,

Open wide nasty baby,

Work that wondrous butt!


Grind the monkey's organ

~ Teasing and titillating ~

Camera eye catches smut!


Gulp down gobs of goo  —

It's naught but good clean fun

On which we libertines do glut!

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Ass Appeal

Ass Appeal

 
Lust and libido lock down logic
Perversions preeminently pedagogic

"Dat ass" runs crowd control
Doubly dynamic and droll

Booty bounce vexes both sexes
Making some more ambidextrous

Naughty Illuminati hottie
Exploits blind minds with tight body

Rear end rhapsody
Defying gravity through depravity

At either end of the spectrum
Society has its head up a rectum


Addendum:

Scarlet woman; whore of Babylon?
(Too much ado about butts)
Religious prudes ramble on
The rest say: "Hooray For Sluts!"

Image: Major Arcana "Lust" (a.k.a. Strength) from The Thoth Tarot.

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What Tantra Actually Means

"The word Tantra is derived from the root tan (meaning, to spread or propagate) ...

The etymological interpretations point to the fact that Tantra was a general term for any system serving as the guiding principle of any work and that the use of the word in a strictly religious sense was a later growth. In the religious sense Tantra first came to mean 'the scripture by which knowledge is spread'. In the next stage it was defined as a class of texts 'which promulgates profound matters concerning Tattva (theory, which later came to mean 'pure knowledge') and Mantra (practical means, which later came to denote 'mystic sound')' and was therefore looked upon as a technical branch of spiritual knowledge. Thus Tantra came to mean the essentials of any religious system and, subsequently, special doctrines and rituals found only in certain forms of various religious systems."

~ N.N. Bhattacharyya; History of The Tantric Religion

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What Tantra Actually Means

Nowadays the term Tantra has become synonymous with SEX.

Its original meanings have been perverted and obscured by Western commercialism

Because as everyone is acutely aware, sex sells

And the popularity of books like the Kama Sutra

Only makes matters worse
By misrepresenting ancient arts;

Reducing a once-sacred practice

Down to a series of dirty pictures.

Tantra is not so much a Religion in itself

As it is the basic substratum of many Religions.

These include: Sufism, Jainism, Hinduism and Buddhism.

Really though, it amounts to a way of approaching things.

Especially those things which are normally forbidden to us by mainstream religion.

Tantra defuses destructive energies 
Via the vehicle of one's creative drive.

A true Tantrika doesn't resist desire

But instead transmutes it skillfully as an expedient force!

There are five types of practice in traditional Tantra.
Briefly, these are:

• Madya (partaking of ritual intoxicants)
• Mudra (dancing and related gestures)
• Maithuna (consecrated sexuality)
• Mamsa (controlled consumption of meat)
• Matsya (controlled consumption of fish) 

Image: Shri Yantra, the highest expression of Tantra.

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Desire Is KEY

Desire Is KEY

The only constant be change
But Desire is the key.
While surroundings rearrange
Inner landscapes remain free.

Follow crumbs of bliss
Into subconscious forest.
There the Pied Piper is
A respected concert flautist.

Urges within do dominate
Hedonistic hypocrites.
Yet intimacy was quite innate
Before any glam or glitz.

One sole instant is all it takes
To climax mid copulation.
As pleasure comes from carnal quakes
Bask in afterglow elation!

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Vedic vs. Tantric Hinduism (Mythic May Vol. 8)

Vedic vs. Tantric Hinduism

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Author's Note: This article is in reference to The Soma Tantra

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Differences and disagreements among religious factions don't necessarily indicate that spiritual truths aren't real, but that we as humans can't communicate them very well.

If you study any religion enough (whether Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism) you soon discover that even within its own canonical corpus, few theologians can see eye to eye.

'Hinduism' as such is a blanket term for several strains of Indian philosophy that focus on particular deities and what they represent, without much in the way of uniformity.

Some Hindu sects reflect the Vedic caste system brought by Aryan invaders while others represent the Tantric traditions of Indus Valley Dravidians.

Historically, a process known as religious syncretism (merging) occurred between these Vedic and Dravidian denominations; giving rise to the rich panoply of Hindu polytheism.

Since 'Hinduism' bears the influence of disparate schools of thought, some sociological friction between its Vedic and Tantric strains still exists.

Class struggles borne out by the Varna caste system (as well as between various ethnic groups) definitely appear to be hidden within the subtext of Hindu mythology.

For example, Brahma and Vishnu usually exemplify Aryan-Vedic ideals and morals whereas Shiva and Kali are Tantric-Dravidian forces of unrestrained freedom.

Devotees of Vishnu are thus referred to as Vaishnavas, while Shiva's followers are called Shaivas, Shaivites, or Siva Sadhus. Shakti (the divine feminine) actually outweighs Brahma (a patriarchal creator god) in this Eastern schema.

Analogously, this competition between Vedic and Tantric ways of thinking / acting was also mirrored by the ancient Greeks with their Apollo-Dionysus dichotomy. Indeed, Nietzche extrapolated it to full effect in his seminal debut: The Birth of Tragedy. Even renown Indologist Alain Danielou documented it extensively in a very fine piece of comparative religion: Gods of Love and Ecstacy.

The Soma Tantra is a contemporary work of Mythic fiction that portrays said friction between Vedic and Tantric branches of Hinduism as a war upon the moon between the Devatas and Ashuras (gods and demons, respectively).

Only those capable of delving beneath the surface of such a fantastic tale will see through to the deepest layer of its abstracted narrative...

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Further Reading: Past Issues of Mythic May

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Meditating On The Fields of Naraka (Mythic May Vol. 7)

Meditating On The Fields of Naraka

Skandha, son of Shiva Mahadeva, sits firmly lodged in samadhi

Awoken to the harsh reality of suffering amid ephemeral qualia

A world set ablaze by impure desires and all our best intentions

Charnels filled with piled-up corpses felled in war, famine or plague

Endless transmigration of finite souls learning lessons for ascension

During darkest times concentrate on those awful fields of Naraka

Pain is a purifier, an agent of both Karma and Dharma

Everything experienced is reciprocal; always balancing out

No one is altogether righteous or evil, innocent or to blame

This plenum of open-ended possibilities refines sentient beings

Cosmic Christ within is perpetually nailed onto crosses

Transcending death despite misleading appearances

Skandha bearing heat from flames, transmutes it to bliss

Defying, nay, reifying unassailable natural laws

Cracked universal egg making way for the phoenix...

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Further Reading: Past Issues of Mythic May

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Bodhisattva Curse

Author's Note: Some hard-liners may take this Anti-Poem's message / title a little too seriously, but it's rather tongue-in-cheek, since Bodhisattvas are higher beings who give everyone else inexhaustible compassion and are therefore incapable of pronouncing such curses. However, true Tantrikas can balance on either edge of truth's sword.

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Bodhisattva Curse

Itinerant little automatons,
rolled fresh off an assembly line
with a billion more behind:

You will wander all six Bardos until this universe collapses
and be amongst the last sentients to cross the ocean of conditioned existence
unto supreme Parinirvana.

Dream lives of untold shame and sorrow
Final memory at birth, first one following tomorrow...

• Déjà vu
• Eternal Recurrence
• False Awakenings
• Moebius
• Ouroboros
• Tabula Rasa

Death and Rebirth everlasting.

Reverberate toward Stillness — or you simply won't stand a chance!

Image: Yamantaka Yidam (signifying the victory of wisdom over death, evil and suffering).

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The Dharma Heruka

The Dharma Heruka

According to Buddha-Dharma there are six realms of incarnation within Dukkha-Samsara:

1. Naraka-Gati: Infernal suffering ad infinitum.
2. Preta-Gati: Eternal famine of the hungry ghosts.
3. Tiryagyoni-Gati: Animalistic existence; both domestic and wild.
4. Manusya-Gati: Human condition; Nirvana nearby yet elusive.
5. Ashura-Gati: Jealous demigods locked in perpetual combat.
6. Deva-Gati: Heavenly beings lost within blissful self-absorption.

Ideally, Humans should be able to break this whole vicious cycle of reincarnation. But since these realms are literal as well as allegorical, it would appear that our world borrows most heavily from Ashura-Gati (although all six realms are definitely found here on Earth).

In Tibetan Buddhism the Tantric Guru Padmasambhava is reputed to have pacified many such demons and enlisted their aid as fearsome defenders of the Dharma.

Consequently, current circumstances call for a rare breed of spiritual warriors whom can transcend the Devas themselves while lifting humanity upon their selfless shoulders.

Seek ye out and meditate on The Dharma Heruka...

Image:  Samvara Yidam

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Caliginous Penumbra

Caliginous Penumbra

Terra, Sol and Luna in winter solstice syzygy

From darkest day to brightest night

Dealing delayed epiphany

Seventh gamma ray drop

From on high down astral drain

Thunder crackles loudly in each human's brain

Ever softly strumming strings the spheres do gently weep

Fugacious florid script, etched with angles oh so steep

Here below we mortals sleep 'til death do us reap

Far above our world a portentous portal closes fast

On finely tuned perception will infinite memory repast

Live unadulterated—vaulting welkin boldy—although vast

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The Bright Side of Kali

Note: Kali is Shiva’s female counterpart and is considered the ultimate destroyer because her power represents the inescapable march of time.  Although her name means ‘black one’, Sri Ramakrishna once said: “She appears black because She is viewed from a distance; but when intimately known – She is no longer so.”

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The Bright Side of Kali

There are times when she appears in dreams 
Either donning the masks of bygone lovers 
Or revealing a luminous visage 
Her very presence gives fulfillment 
Her silent voice calls through the void 
When thou art pressed against that bosom  
Manifestation be destroyed
Atman cremated on her altar 
Baptized in light, so overjoyed!

She is embodied by every woman 
But too few women ever wake her
For who can hope to mirror Kalis' 
All-encompassing allure?

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Re-Union (side B) by Special Guest Earthen Hawk

Editor's Note: This current piece is a direct poetic response to: Re-Union. Kudos to Earthen Hawk for maintaining the literary form of poésie sans poète (Poetry devoid of I, ME, MY and MINE).

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Re-Union (side B)

Aural narcotics and literary highs

Scraps of nature in Crackton will have to suffice

Asanas at intervals

Anti-logos kinetic

Here it rains synchronicity

The mental climate is synesthetic

When judgments are suspended

Biorhythms show their wisdom

Overanalysis got traded for skin

and LCD Soundsystem

Image: Ardhanariswara — the fused form of Shiva-Shakti (masculine-feminine).

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Re-Union

Re-Union

Reciting lines from Naked Lunch down by riverbank

An afternoon lit for Dharma Lion Beats

Language laden with superficial rank

Except when sung in the streets

Momentous Yogic absorption

Second Syntax cuts through

Phallogocentric subversion

Incantations read by you.

The song be well-known
Our ears hear its refrain:
"Naturally, entangled bones
Shall come together yet again!"
Chemical Brothers took us Further
Than we could have expected to ride
Wavelets of sound do commit ego murder
When worlds such as these two collide.

Enjoyed this piece? Read its SEQUEL: Re-Union (side B).

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Epicurean Accomplishments

Epicurean Accomplishments

Gallivanting downtown on a Saturday night
Anyone could have sworn: this throng is an outpour of Maenads!
 
We were drinking like fish
We'd been smoking like chimneys
Then cut up lots o' rug
While tripping on ecstasy
 
House beats were hitting hard against our SURFACE
When everyone flowed as Shiva Nataraja showed us
Because time isn't money—time's verve in motion
Oh and by the way, rain indoors, qualifies as miraculous
 
So just relax, keep it simple
Be aloof but stay humble
Lose self within action
To recall what's eternal
 
For those who breathe every moment
Shall surely traverse the immense breadth of infinity
Before anyone else can even
Complete the *blink* of an eye!

Image: Shiva Nataraja "The Cosmic Dancer".

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Hooray For Sluts!

Hooray For Sluts!

Cynics should define Pornography thus:
Unsubtle orchestration of on-screen violation.

Divine nymphs given over to beastly men's pleasures...
Lurid scenes arousing one's attention
While capitalizing on intention.
For Sappho's sake, rewrite the measures!

In dominance dynamics between master and slave
Will to power seduces will to life.
Extramarital relations with someone's husband or wife?
Polyamory crumbles monogamy's cave!

Our fertility goddess is generous

Beyond any reasonable belief

Providing each his relief

From a sensual hunger so onerous.

Aphrodite's daughters are all votaries of Eros
Joined in orgiastic sport with goatish Pan.
Hermaphroditus is half woman and half man
Whilst loving younger lads was once known as Eromenos.

So let's hear it for those titillating temptresses willing to take it for we teeming masses —
Turning on us lusty voyeurs by baring their luscious breasts and bawdy asses!

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Back In The Arms of Eve

Back In The Arms of Eve

Waking up on a bed of beachside rocks
Under the dissolving clouds of an effervescent sun
He can feel it happening again, though it seems a new beginning
As he senses her aura behind him within this Holocene
Whence she offers him the fruit forbidden by their Creator —
Now snap out of it Adam!

Go ahead, taste and be rewarded
Open your eyes then seize the dove
Wrapped in the electrifying arms of woman
When you both feel it, there will be no both of you to talk about
And you’ll notice that nothing and no one else exists there either
Because during those brief instants our duality is breached
One can engulf the whole of creation
With a bio-nuclear reaction
Known as LOVE.

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Twilit Language (Mythic May Vol. 4)

Author's Note: In the parlance of Tantra, "Twilight Language" refers to a symbolic system of speech often employed by adepts when composing songs or poetry meant to induce heightened awareness for the uninitiated.

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Twilit Language

Somewhere along an illimitable span of Being / the cosmic serpent became acutely aware of its own resplendent plumage / wrapped up in fractal-rainbow wings / preoccupied by Self / placed eyes on every scale / admiring each contour from myriad angles / vigilant in vanity!

{ During that night obscurity hid the moon from plain sight. Its absence called little  attention to the studded firmament above, yet echoed within the fibers of many a sentient soul. It offset narrow views as tremors pulsated through both inner and outer space.  Thus, Great Serpens arose, making a sound which was UN-STRUCK. Flourishing in a thousandfold ascent! }

Ask: who is it that passes nigh? / sowing furtive expectations / down corridors of remorse / hope tunnels toward redemption / Eros no more a slave to Psyche / foam on wavelengths of vibration / time may be a desert and we might be but stones—nonetheless—let it be known / that these sands absorb the sun / just like the sea swallows its shoals / awareness self-illumined / at such depths...

 

Image: Cipactli by Jack L. Morris

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Midnight Kensho & Makyo TV (Mythic May Vol. 2)

Kensho: A Zen term indicating insight into the nature of one's own being———sometimes contrasted with permanent absorption into Satori (enlightenment).

Makyo: Hallucinations that arise naturally during the course of meditative practice.

Mudra: Ritual hand-gestures employed in Buddhist Tantra and Yoga. They also relate directly to dancing.

Madya: Ceremonial intoxicants such as Bhang (cannabis) or Soma wine consumed as adjuncts to Tantric practice.

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Midnight Kensho & Makyo TV

Some Mudra  to go with your Madya?

From here we bend past dead ends———

The Sphinx hast run out of riddles

Whilst we follow hollow trends

Sublunar prophets of carnal salvation

May this mammal surpass Mythos

A reptilian agenda is fulfilled when

An Ouroboros stretches throughout our Nous.

Seek thee out that Tithy Tove

Misspelled by Jabberwocky rules.

Iconic Cheshire grin bespoke:

Trust tricksters, not wry fools!

There is no subtle substitute

For physical movement at present

So tune into inaudible music

And flip on your light fluorescent

The dead of night comes to enliven

A lurid lapse amid introspection

As patterns dissolve blissfully

Alike silver screen projection

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Afterthought: A Sigil is syllogistic on purpose in pretension; prying third-eye open via syllabic implication...

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