Dark Traditions Of The Left Path
The Adivasi
They were once the first and original inhabitants of the Indian subcontinent. The majority of the Adivasi were feral tribes of Mundas and Mon-Khmers. During the era of the Vedas – many thousands of years ago – the Adivasi were slaughtered by invaders from the North for their vile customs and rites – or so the invaders deemed such to be. Many of these matriarchal Adivasi tribes fled eastward into Southeast Asia, taking their so called filthy traditions and rites with them. Some of the Adivasi remained in the far western regions of India and in what is today Bangladesh.
The Munda and Mon-Khmer are genetically related to each other by blood, and the languages these two groups speak are as well distant genetic cousins of each other. The language of the Munda is the older. Unrecognized by the Hindus and their Hindi-centric scholars is the fact that ancient Sanskrit borrowed heavily from the language of the indigenous Mundas.
This Munda people are an archaic tribe of people so ancient, that they have lost their own history. But current genetic science is beginning to uncover some of their lost history. Scattered between India and Arabia can be found pockets of Munda tribes who are genetically – mtDNA – related to the Mundas in India; but are themselves much older. Stranger still is that the kings and queens of pre-dynastic ancient Egypt found in the Valley of Kings are genetically Munda.
This isn’t the first instance were a connection between ancient Egypt and ancient India is implicated. Osiris was said to have rode on the back of a White Bull – a well known symbol of Shiva – to India, and upon his return he [Osiris] became the first King of Egypt.
Shiva is Lord of the Asuras [Titans of the Vedas] while Asur is what “Osiris” was called in ancient Egyptian. MRU is the plural for the ancient Egyptian “pyramid” [MR], recalling to mind the three great pyramids. While Shiva’s sacred Mount Meru [aka Mt. Kailash from the Sanskrit "Kailasa" meaning "Crystal"] is said to taper into three pyramidal peaks. The three peaks of Shiva’s sacred Mount Meru is represented in the Angkor Wat complex as the three main pyramidal towers, and are displayed on the golden crowns the Apsaras wear. Meru – also called Sumeru meaning “Good” Meru [Right] was mythically placed at the North Pole. While at the South Pole was Meru’s Twin: Kumeru, meaning “Bad Meru” [Left], which is mythically the abode of Demons. As Shiva is Lord of Mt. Sumeru; Shakti is Lady of Mt. Kumeru.
My grand father says that in ancient times only the Mon-Khmer inhabited Southeast Asia, and back then they all called themselves “Mon” or “Moun” which actually means “First,” since they were the first to inhabit the region. In ancient times there were two large empires that took up most of the Indochinese peninsula: the Mon Empire, and later the Khmer Empire. But The Thais came into the area, and carved themselves a large portion of the region and the Mons that lived in these Thai kingdoms was assimilated into their culture.
My grand father says that in those days the Khmer didn’t call themselves “khmer.” They called themselves Mon also. There were certain tribes of Mon that migrated eastward from the Mon Empire. These Mon tribes called themselves by various named such as the Mu, the Khmu, the Kham, and the Khamera. These names are all dialectical corruptions of the word Khmau or Khami which actually means “Dark,” or “Black.” This Mon word from “Black” resonates with the ancient Egyptian word for Black: Kemi.
The Mon tribe that went the most easterly were the Khamera who would eventually – over time – found the Khmer Empire; the word “Khmer” being a corruption of the old khamera. My grand father says that this group named themselves such because the olden word “Ra” [at the end of khameRA] meant East or the Place where the Sun Rises. In modern Khmer the word “Ra;” now pronounced “Riah;” is a verb and adjective which described the Sun Rising in the East or when the Sun shines, as in “Pri-Adit [god-Sun] Ra [rising/shining].” And we know Ra is the ancient Egyptian Sun God.
There are other unrecognized similarities between ancient Egypt and the Mon-Khmer. The ancient Egyptian Goddess “Maat” is often depicted with Vulture wings, or sometimes with the head of a Vulture. The Khmer word “Tmat” means a Vulture. The word for a home or house in ancient Egyptian is “Bit,” and “Piti” [pronounced: ptih] is the word for home or house in Khmer. The word “Apsara” in Khmer really has no inherent meaning. The word “Ab” in ancient Egyptian means “to Dance” and “Sara/Sera/Sra” means a “Girl.” And essentially an Apsara is a dancing girl.
The ancient god-kings of the Khmer empire were called “Sdach” which is still a word that means a “King,” but it can also still mean the leader of a monastic order of monks/priests. The priests of ancient Egypt were once called Zedek, which is a familiar word in Hebrew: “Tzedek” meaning “righteous.” The only other word I know that is shared between ancient Egypt and Khmer is the word for “Horse” – “Sesa” in ancient Egyptian; and “Ses” in Khmer [pronounced “Seh” in my dialect].
Unfortunately, I don’t know any more ancient Egyptian, so this is as far as I can go. What’s it mean? I don’t know and I can’t say or assume much. All I have are questions. All I know is that we – humanity – are like in a state of amnesia where we have forgotten a great part of our own ancestral history.
What happened in the ancient past so that tribes of people separated by thousands of miles and thousands of years of time would end up calling themselves tribal names that are similar? The Kemi and the Mari of ancient Egypt; The Khmu, Khom, Khum, Khamri, Kambu, and Khmera of Southeast Asia; the Kambu of Babylon, Afghanistan and Tibet, the Kumri as what the ancient Israelites [not to be confused with today's Khazar Jews] were once known as; and the Cumbri/Kymry of the British Isle. Even the ancient king of Babylon Cambyses was a “Kambu.” Cambyses being the Greek version of “Kambujiya.” A founding king of ancient Tibet was named Gambo of the same Kambuja tribe [“Ja” meaning descendant of].
Dark Gods of the Adivasi
All this talk about ancient Egypt might mislead people into thinking that the Adivasi are some spiritually evolved tribe of people. Remember the invading Northerners slaughtered the indigenous Adivasi and described their indigenous way of life as being vile, despicable, and filthy. Shaktism was the original Way of Life of the indigenous Mon-Khmer. The ancient Hindus describes the Shakta Way of the Mon-Khmer as evil, based on black magic, animal and human sacrifice, and filthy sexual rites. What the despicable Hindus were describing was the Left Path practiced by the Adivasi since ancient prehistoric times.
These intolerant cow worshiping Heinous Hindus – the whole lot of them – would work over many centuries to eradicate the Adivasi out of their Hindu kingdoms and destroy their Left Path Ways of Life. While at the same time plagiarizing and plundering Left Hand Shaktism of its indigenous concept of “Tantras,” “Yantras,” & “Mantras.” Now, after thousands of years of pirating Left Hand Ways of Life they destroyed, their despicable descendants and every New Ager can safely enjoy bastardized and watered down versions of tantras and mantras, and even safe versions of vama marga, who are totally ignorant of the fact that those things are not even native to original “Hinduism.”
The spiritual cosmology of the Adivasi was a very simple one. The entire cosmos was a physical manifestation of Life Force: “Shakti” which just means “Energy,” or “Force.” The cosmos is thus alive or imbued with Life Force. The Living Cosmos in turn manifests its Life Force as Nature – everything alive on Earth as One Whole. Nature is itself a single Living Entity to which mankind is an inseparable part of.
There is nothing pretty or heavenly about Nature. Back in those ancient times you are at the total mercy of Nature. Monsoons could come and kill thousands of humans. Random earthquakes can cause your mud houses to fall crushing to death entire villages. Floods and mudslides and volcanoes can kill off your entire town and all your relatives. Walk to far from home and you could get eaten alive by large wild animals such as tigers. Nature in its Primal Essence was Dark, fearsome, and something to respect.
This Dark Primal Nature is divided into two Archetypes of Primal Nature. The two archetypes were symbolized and personified as male and female since it required a male and female united in sexual union for this Nature to continue. All things in Nature reproduces and generates more of its own kind, from trees, to fish, to bugs, to animals, to people. The old dies and decays back into the elements, and the new generations of living things becomes Nature’s physical means to further continue itself. Thus sex – or the union/yoking – yoga – of a male and female symbolizes the eternal continuation and progression of Nature. Sex is the literal aperture or “nexus” through which Eternal Nature continuously exists. Therefore, Sex in this Primal cosmology is sacred and divine, as it sustains Nature, gives Nature immortality, and gives physical form and substance for mortal beings to live in [bodies] and live off of [food].
Different tribes refer to the Male and Female archetypes by different names, but they all share a basic concept. The female archetype of Primal Nature is always the Left Side of the whole, while the Male archetype is the Right Side of the whole. This notion that a whole primal nature is divided into a female left and a male right is based on symbolism and natural observation. In those tribal days where the population was small and you knew everybody in your tribe and neighboring tribes, if somebody was born deformed or mutated it would be known by everyone.
Intersexed children or children born with both male and female genitalia was thus an intimate observable occurrence. In all cases of true hermaphroditism for some strange natural reason the Left side of the intersexed person is always the female side with the breast, and pseudo-ovary; while the right side is always the male side. Because intersexed people were non-ordinary, they were perceived as extra-ordinary, and thus divine. Even today, millions of imbecile Hindus worship deformed and mutated eight legged babies as incarnations of their gods.
Hence the symbolism of Primal Nature as having a female left side, and a male right side. Primal Nature was also symbolized as being a hermaphroditic creature because of the essential symbolism: a male and female in union continues and creates Nature, thus Primal Nature being both male and female symbolized Nature’s ability of Self Creation or that Nature begets itself and needs no creator. Thus intersexed humans in those ancient days – as well as in modern times in certain parts of India – are sacred because of the misunderstanding or idea that such true hermaphrodites can self impregnate themselves to produce living off spring by themselves.
Usually different tribes referred to the two halves of Primal Nature as simply “the Man,” and “the Woman,” or the “Boy,” and the “Girl,” in their various dialects. They were sometimes known as “An and Ani,” “Kumara, and Kumari,” “Ardha-Nari,” “Yab and Yum,” “Yang and Yin,” or the more well known “Shiva and Shakti.” The two halves can also be symbolized and represented by tools or instruments that are generally gender specific to such olden tribes: weapons symbolizing Kumara/Shiva and tools related to crops and harvest for Kumari/Shakti.
Since these olden tribes were matriarchal, the Girl half of Primal Nature was the Boss. Thus in some depictions Shakti can be seen stepping on top of a Shiva. In my own Culture this matriarchal essence is embedded right into the language itself. The word for Girl is “Sri” pronounced Srey. It is the same word as in “Sri” Devi or “Sri” Lanka. The word itself means “Beautiful,” “Radiant,” and it has secondary means of “Sacred,” “Holy,” and “Perfect.” The word for “Female” is “Me” [pronounced May], which also means “Boss,” “Leader,” and is the root of the word for Mother.
The word for “Boy” is “Pros” [pronounced Proh] which is related to the word “Prus” which means a wild deer that lives in the forest. Implying that boys are wild and more animal-like in their nature. The word for “Father” in my dialect is Oau-Pbug which is a corruption of two words: Owy [give] and Pbooj [sperm]; which literally means a generic Sperm Donor. So in our Left Hand Culture Girls are Perfect, Divine, and Leaders, while boys are wild animals, sperm donors, who make good pets sometimes.
Because the two halves both represent an aspect of Primal Nature, and Primal Nature is Dark and fearsome, the two Archetypes are themselves Dark and fearsome. There is nothing pretty about the dark traditions of these ancient Left Hand Ways.
Animals and blood were offered as sacrifices to the female archetype since she was the Boss, to appease her wrathful nature. Many of these feral tribes that scattered across Southeast Asia, and the Malay-Indonesian islands were head hunters and cannibals up until recently. Tribal tattoos are usually given when a man beheads an enemy or eats someone. Other tattoos expressed association with the Dark Goddess. In Khmer culture the dark female archetype is often depicted as a seven headed sea dragon, called “Neag” which is dialectical variant of “Naga.”
In olden times Khmer Theravada Buddhist monks who shave their heads and join the Sangha also would get tattoos of dragon scales around the wrists and ankles to symbolize that they are children bound to the Naga which symbolizes the female archetype of Primal Nature. This Naga can be seen at the Angkor Wat complex as the 7 headed serpent that hoods the Buddha. The Buddha sits on three coils of the Naga.
The Buddha itself represents the Buddha, but syncretically also symbolizes Shiva who is the male archetype of Primal Nature. Thus the Buddha and Naga [image google “buddha naga” for pictures] together esoterically represents Shakti as Kundalini who has three coils, and Shiva as Mahayogi. Before Buddhism came into existence Shiva was depicted seated in the lotus asana on a lotus, wearing a saffron robe, with knotted hair, in a state of meditation. Ancient statutes of Shiva as Mahayogi found in caves are virtually identical to depictions of the Buddha.
Syncretically the monks are initiated into the sangha with a rite which symbolizes their birth as a son of the sea dragon – the female archetype of Primal Nature: i.e.: a causal being; and as a mortal being this son/monk must now begin a personal quest to discover and know his Father [the male archetype] – represented by the Buddha. The esoteric essence to this quest to know the Primal Father [Buddha] is that you cannot Understand or comprehend The Buddha unless you yourself become a Buddha. Or put it in a different way, as a child no matter how hard you try to understand and know what it means to be a father you will not succeed until you yourself become a father. It is in that moment – when you have become a father – that there comes into your mind a knowing – and empathy – of what a father is effortlessly without anyone teaching you.
The dark rites of these traditional Left Path Ways themselves are usually wordless and involves intoxicants – bhang [which is kind of cannabis] and Angel Trumpet are sacred plants associated with “Shiva.” Drums and metallophones are played in specific rhythms, and a frenzy dance is preformed. The drums and metallophones and the intoxicants “calls down” the living force of these dark archetypes into the dancer’s bodies as the music puts them into a trance state. This sacred process in my dialect is called “Jol [go inside] Roob [body/form].”
The gods themselves – having taken human form – cuts the head off of the victim or eats the victim. But I suppose if such you were a participant in such a rite and such a horrific god offers you a piece of human flesh and you just observed this god cut the guy’s head off, and you are surrounded by intoxicated fanatic devotees of this god that you would damn eat what it offers you and smile. This gives a new meaning to “enjoying the fruits of the flesh” doesn’t it? Along with eating and drinking, these Primal Forces having possessed human bodies will also partake of other fruits of the flesh: sex, with whoever they want.
These dark rites of intoxication, hypnotic music, frenzy dancing, and possession are universal to almost all indigenous cultures and shamanic traditions. The best known manifestation of such rites of course is Vodou. The long forgotten Odin “The Frenzied” of the Northern European Tribes is this same archetype of Primal Nature. One may recall the frenzy and berserk method of ecstatic rites and war practiced by such ancient Northern Tribes.
So the West was not alien to such dark rites; it has just been forgotten and/or misrepresented today by Magian misinformation. When you study the Cult or Mystery Religion of Dionysus, and you do a little research on how exactly this Mystery Religion used such words as “Enthusiasmos,” and “Ekstasis,” and you learn that such Dionysian rites were secret in which wine, other intoxicants, music, and wild dancing were incorporated, you will begin to realize that the Dionysian Mysteries were the same Dark Tradition practiced with Greeks using Greek outer forms.
In fact name Dionysus is made up of two words: Dio/sdeu [God] and Nysos [Nisa]. Mount Nisa is a sacred mountain associated with Shiva. In some myths Nisa is one of the peaks of Mount Meru, where Shiva sits in meditation. Mount Nisa is also associated with Osiris, who is the ancient Egyptian version of Shiva. Before Osiris was the god of the underworlds, he was the god of plants, crops and the harvest: Nature. The Roman’s Saturn – also the god of crops and the harvest was the same archetype.
The Saturnalia during ancient Roman times was a 6 day festival of licentious depravity. It began on December 17th and ended on December 23. It was so popular in the Roman Empire that many Emperors tried to reduce it down to 4-3 days, but nobody followed such decrees. This Saturnalia was so popular and ubiquitous that after the Empire fell, Christianity re-adjusted its Jesus Birthday from January 9th to the Saturnalian week because everybody was already celebrating it. The Jews in Palestine after the fall of the Empire did the same exact thing and made their Hanukkah fall on the Saturnalian week because everybody was already celebrating that week.
The Magians systematically beat this ancient primal dark tradition out of its Christians in the West sadly; but for many centuries this Dark Tradition remained active out in the open across all of Asia and Africa. During which time these Dark Traditions of the Left Path evolved and spawned new forms. The best known form of the ancient Dark Tradition to Westerners were the Thuggees of India which the British during colonial times worked hard to suppress. These Thuggees performed human sacrifice by strangling their victims with their Rumal [a sacred cloth twisted as a rope] to the Dark Female Archetype, usually named one after a sinister Goddess of Hinduism such as Kali or Durga. Head hunting, cannibalism, and human sacrifice to the these dark archetypes only stopped due to laws classifying such acts as “homicide” in the last half of the 20th century.
The Order of Nine Angle’s Sinister Tradition still remains true to the ancient Dark Tradition of the Left Hand Path. The ONA still – like its ancient cousins – represent Primal Nature as Dark Male and Female archetypes known as simply Satan and Baphomet. The ONA’s rites still resonate with the Left Path Traditions of ancient times. It still teaches human sacrifice, and it still has frenzy as a magickal rite which it teaches in Naos. Although the outer names of the dark archetypes are different – but symbolically appropriate and fitting – the male and female archetype representing the Dark Essence of Primal Nature is still present and still precenced.
Philosophies of the Ancient Left Path
It’s hard to explain why the ancient Left Path Traditions split Primal Nature into two Entities without understanding the underlying philosophy or world/cosmic view of such ancient peoples. Fortunately I was raised in such a Tradition, although mine was syncretic and the Left Path was hidden beneath the exoteric Right Path of our “Buddhism.”
If I were to ask you to envision a tree in your mind’s eye, you will begin to understand why the Cosmos is divided into two forms. Because at the very moment you have that tree visualized in your Mind there co-exists two separate – yet interconnected – phenomena: 1) Your Mind – which is Emptiness; and 2) The Tree – which is thought-Form. In the same way that Form – physical matter co-exists with Emptiness. The Tree is in essence a materialization of or a coalescing of the “Emptiness” of Mind stuff – thought.
It cannot be said that Empty Mind and the Tree are the same “things” because they are not. One is “nothing,” the other is “something.” But at the same time it cannot be said that the two things are different things independent of each other. The Tree would not exist if Empty Mind does not hold its Form. Without Form to Observe the Mind remains dormant and Empty you see? This philosophical tidbit is thus related in essence to every other concept and aspect found in ancient Left hand Path Traditions. It is related to esoteric value of Meditation, Dreams, and use of Intoxicants.
You spend half of your mortal life dreaming in sleep. As a fetus all you do for your first Nine months is dream. So it can be said that we come into causal existence dreaming and we never truly leave the world of dreams. We always have one foot in the waking world, and one firmly fixed in the world we came from: Dreams – the Abyss between the Causal and Acausal. In Oriental mythos this Abyss is symbolized by a Dark Ocean or Black Sea with a moon looming above. The area of the body below the abdomen such as the genital region is Traditionally where this dark ocean is symbolically found. This is because your genitals is the exact Center of your body. Take a picture of a naked person standing upright, and take a compass, place one point on the genitals and trace a circle with the other point, and you will confirm this yourself.
The dark sea is found at the genital region because it is exactly at the Middle Way between the firm ground – Earth – your feet walks on and your head which represents the Sky or Heaven. In Taoism Man is the off spring of Heaven and Earth, and in Taoist Alchemical texts the genital region is also described as the Black or Dark Ocean. It is the Abyss in which the Sea Dragon lives: Naga, Kundalini, Leviathan. In the mythos of the bible God casts the Leviathan out of Heaven and into the dark oceans. In Taoist yoga awakening that sea serpent and causing her to fly back to “Heaven” [the head] up the spine, and bringing her back down to the dark sea is called the Microcosmic orbit which generates Chi, prana, pneuma, Life Force: Shakti.
When we sleep and dream, the contemplative Mind esoterically learns about a truth of reality. In a dream, although you have a body, and interact with other people in what looks and feels like a vast world: everything that you are experiencing is literally between your ears. In actuality you are nowhere at all. You are the Nothingness/Emptiness of your Mind generating that dreamscape, you are the observer, you are every character and person, and the experiencer all at the same time. And everything your are and experience is contained in the Nothing or Emptiness of your own Mind: Acausal and Causal.
We spend half of our mortal existence dreaming. As if there was a lesson that we should each wake up every day knowing inside of us as we experience the waking world: that all is Maya – illusion. That everything we see, including what seems to be a vast universe is all one Acausal Empty “Mind” becoming form; experiencing such forms, and observing in the silence beneath your very Nature. If we were to just stop being entranced by the illusions – as wonderful as they are – and look inside of us for that original Nature – that source deep within us – we would come to realize that we are that same infinite and eternal living nothingness.
Hallucinogenic substances – such as hemp and angel trumpet sacred to Shiva – causes vivid hallucinations – illusions – to be experienced. When you take something like LSD or DMT, the waking world slowly fades away and you vividly experience illusions or other entire worlds – depending on how good the stuff was you did. The contemplative Mind on a quest to know reality will learn a spiritual truth from this simple experience: that the waking world is nothing but a head trip – a really good one. Shamans the world over take hallucinogenic plants to come to realize this fundamental truth.
Meditation also teaches this simple truth, at least a certain type. In pre-Buddhism times certain Left Hand Path sects termed this form of Mind/Meditation “Mahanirvana,” or in certain schools of Buddhism it is sometimes called “Mahasamadhi.” Maha meaning Great and Samadhi meaning Concentration. In 352 lingo we call it “Phasing.” The concept is very simple, but achieving it is a life long practice. It simply begins with learning to meditate and keep a still mind focused on the Nothingness of the Mind.
When that has been mastered a picture or image or statute is studied for the detail and then one meditates with a fixed concentration on that image in one’s mind, so that eventually one can see every detail. In essence you learn to “phase” the thought-forms in your Mind from being hazy Mindstuff to a crisp vivid realism. When that has been mastered you visualize an entire scenery in your Mind. This is continued until you are able to see and experience the detail of every leaf and rock and gust of wind as if it were real. The last step is to learn to inject or project your own Self into that scenery to live in that “Acausal” realm. In certain esoteric schools of Buddhism, two or more monks will learn to visualize the same scenery, so that they realize from direct experience that what they are creating “in their Minds” is not in fact in their Minds, but is a shared experience. When you have mastered that the causal body is discarded. This is called “Crossing the Shore” in certain Buddhist schools.
The esoteric lesson a contemplative Mind learns from mahasamadhi [pronounced: maha-SAM-mah-TEE] is the nature of Consciousness. In essence reality, or that which we as adults believe to be reality, is an experiential product of “Consciousness” or focus of the Mind’s Awareness – its innate ability to Observe. What your Mind is fixated on becomes real and is experienced – Wyrd in a sense. Do a thought experiment: visualize a “red car” in your mind for a week, and when you go about your daily business, look for red cars. You will soon realize that there are more red cars on the streets than you had noticed before. The Potentiality for so many red cars was always there. It’s just that your Mind was never fixated on red cars.
So if you go about your waking day mentally fixated – consciously Samadhi-ing – on worrying over bills, guess what you will experience in life? When you are the kind of person that lives and breaths money and have a determination to make money; guess what you will experience in life? Go pick a city park, and walk yourself to a part of that park and find a section with three leaf clovers it and look for a four leaf clover. You won’t find any in the beginning I promise you. But go back to the same spot every day, and concentrate or meditate and visualize on your four leaf clover every day before you go to sleep, when you wake up, and during your waking day. Do this every day and go look for a four leaf clover in the same area every day for at least 6 months. I can write an entire book for you on this topic, and it will do you no good. Because it will not change you or enlighten you. But when you find your four leaf clover or two or three – that direct experience itself will Enlighten you without words. And you will “know” that what you consciously dwell on you will dwell in [experience].
So in essence the difference – and this is a Causal difference, meaning that it has wyrdful consequences – is one of where/what our Minds are focused on. By ancient method and tradition Left Path Ways of Life focuses on the Left Side of Primal Nature: the manifested – the causal world that we mortally exist in. Whereas the Right Path Way of Life is fixated on the Right Side of Primal Nature: the Unmanifested, the “Transcendental.” But this is not to say that the Left Path Weltanschauung is “Materialistic” – meaning enthralled in the illusion of maya. For both Oriental Paths [Right and Left] are aware that material reality is an illusion. The difference is FIXATION, and causal end results of such fixation.
In a more everyday way, to illustrate the difference between Right Path [dakshina marga] and Left Path [vama marga] world perception lets say there is a playhouse [theater] in the city we live in which has a nice stage, many seats, and produces lot of evening plays to entertain ticket paying guests.
Now, a Right Hand Path person would be the person standing just out side of the line where people are lined up to buy tickets as he is telling everybody in the line: “Dudes, don’t do it man. It’s all fake inside – maya man! The people wear costume and they aren’t even who they say they are. And the tables and furniture: all props! It’s a trap man! They just want your money dudes! Transcend the evilness! Oh woeful is the flesh indeed! Don’t go in or you’re going to hell or be stuck in there for 500 life times due to bad karma! Let’s go sit on the side walk in the Real World instead and hang out?”
A Left Hand Path person would say to this Right Pather: “Get the hell out of my way you nutcase! I know it’s not “real” you idiot. I just came from the Real World and I need a drink and some entertainment! I got a trophy girlfriend with me here, I’m gunna pay for my damn tickets, get absorbed in the play, and hopefully the play with score me some booty afterwards!”
In this playhouse example the people sitting inside the theater can go crazy at any moment and panic over how the play they are in the midst of watching is fake, and feel claustrophobic like its all a trap. These Right Pathers will run around biting their nails looking for an exit, and if they can’t find one, they commit suicide. Like a normal theater house, children are brought inside to watch the play. Unfortunately the children are mentally immature and will believe that what they are watching on stage is “real life.” These are materialists whose consciousness is so fixated and enthralled by material reality that they immaturely believe that it is all that exists. Grown ups in the theater have to constantly tell such immature kids that what they are seeing on stage is not real.
And Materialist Right Pathers are the worst kind of people you want to sit next to in this theater. Not only do they think they need to get out of the theater ASAP, but they also think the play is real. So when scenes in this play calls for a character to fight and kill another character, these Materialist Right Pathers will ruin it for all of us and stand up and say something like: “OMG! Did you just kill that guy! Killing is wrong sir! Stop it please! Jesus said live and let live! I wish all you guys on stage would just learn to get along and live peaceably for once!”
Right Pathers are in essence those whose Minds are fixated on the Right Side of Primal Nature: the Unmanifested. They will reject mortal existence and/or aspects of physical existence – such as sex, the enjoyment of physical pleasure – to attempt to transcend causal existence. In their very nature of rejecting physical existence as being inferior or something to be rejected, they will throughout mortal life be fixated on only the down side of life: the suffering or ‘bad’ parts of the whole experience of causal existence.
A classic example of such spiritual Right Pathers are generic Buddhists. Instead of understanding Life as being One whole experience, these Buddhists can only see the down sides to life, as expressed in their mantra: “Life Is Suffering.” This is well and partially true, but Life is also full of joys and pleasure. The question is, how do these Buddhists explain away such up sides of Life? By tying such enjoyable up sides of Life to “bad karma” and retribution. Like Christianity, Buddhism has its list of commandments which instructs what a Buddhist can’t morally do: such as enjoying sex, or drinking intoxicants.
The Left Path apprehension of Life and Reality does not imply that the Unmanifested Right Side of Primal Nature is rejected and believed to be inferior or unworthy. Like I said, the fundamental difference is one of fixation. A Left Pather understand the essential Nature of the Right Side of Creation, which is why we willingly choose to enjoy the flesh and what this causal realm has to offer and teach.
The Unmanifested Right Side of Creation is the “Emptiness” from which the Manifested springs. In the same way that one’s thought-forms springs from Empty Mind. Like the Mind, the Unmanifested has its own set of Laws as to how it functions. Most people are not consciously aware that the Mindscape has “laws” which governs what it can and can’t do. For example we can formulate that one such law of Mind is that: the Mind cannot think of or manifest in itself, something which doesn’t exist on a fundamental level. Try to think of a color that has never been observed before by anybody. By this I don’t mean a shade or hue of an existing color like celery green with a ten pinches of magenta. Try to picture in your mind a 5th dimension beyond the everyday 3 dimensions. Try to think of a music scale that is not one of the 7 already existing scales.
So, because these “laws” of your Mindscape “governs” what your Mind can and can’t think of, such laws eventually dictate what kind of forms will form in your own Mind. Whatever these forms are must by such Mental “Laws” not exceed infinity, not exist longer then eternity – since your Mind is incapable of grasping such – and what thought-forms your Mind creates must be composed of existing fundamental things. For instance in your Mind, you can picture a tree that has 8 elephant legs and a clock for a face, which can’t possibly exist in normal reality, but essentially your thought-form is made up of pre-existing things.
In the same way, the Emptiness or Acausal or Unmanifested Right Side of Primal Nature also is governed by a set of its own “laws.” Such laws influences what forms takes shape inside of itself, and the possibilities, capabilities, or potentialities of such forms. One such Cosmic Law or Acausal Law could be formulated to say: Whatever Emptiness is, can’t be more then one Emptiness. This is like your friend giving you three wishes and making a rule that prevents you from wishing that you had and infinite number of wishes. Otherwise things would get ridiculous. Such “laws” influences what takes form so that eventually the material aspect of creation is regular and ordered. And in turn, what physical world does form is governed by its own set of laws – which we have come to know as Laws of Nature. One such fundamental Law which governs the material universe from the subatomic level on up to the cosmos itself is the Law of Causality – Wyrd – Cause and Result.
From this fundamental law we gain an understanding of manifested Nature. Nature – Life – arises from causal phenomena. Nature is an aeonic causal chain reaction in a way. If we regress backwards and visualize our own human evolution backwards to a time when we were apes; and go way backwards to when causal life were single celled organisms, and take things further back to trace the ancestry of where the building blocks of the first causal life came from such as the oxygen, carbon, hydrogen, iron, we ultimately end up in some nebula that was once some unknown star that died and blew up; and we can even take things further as ask from where this star came. So from a chronomorphic perspective Creation itself is one single amorphous “thing” which changes and evolves like a fractal domino effect.
And we – humans – are not just a meager blip or glitch in that eternal process of the Living Cosmos in a state of endless Becoming. We are, in a sense, the reason why this Cosmic pageantry is enacted in the first place. We know so because of fundamental essence of things. It is the fundamental nature of Empty Mind to Observe form. Form on a quantum level is a cocktail of both Emptiness and Form – wave and particle – and it is known that it is the Mind of the Observer Itself that alters waves into particles. So on this level – and I have to stress THIS LEVEL because quantum behaviour does not apply to Macrophysical behaviour of things – the Mind observes things into existence by a mere act of conscious fixation.
On a more macrophysical level, the same Mind-centric essence of the Cosmos applies. First the brain and its network of neurons is the actual experiencer of causal phenomena. When your brain “sees” a tree in the real world, what actually happened is the light and essence – coherent information – of that tree is translated into electrical signals by your optical nerves. Those signals then stimulate your visual center in the back of your brain, and only then do you become consciously aware of the tree and “see” it. When you do “see” it; the tree is actually a Mind-Brain-Neuro-Electrical phenomenon inside your head. In other words, the activities of your nervous system actually gives form to your three dimensional environment.
Secondly, everything that physically exists, exists and screams to be Noticed and adored by Mind [human or animal mind]. Fruits taste sweet even thought they cannot taste themselves. Flowers have colors and odor even though they have neither eye or nose to see and smell themselves. Colorblind fish are brightly colored. Tone deaf animals like bird and whales sing beautiful songs. Even a venomous rattle snake goes through the trouble of building a rattle at the tip of its tail to make itself noticeable by other things.
Everywhere we look everything yearns to be noticed. As big and empty as space is, it is still filled with trillions of stars, spectacularly colored plasma filaments and nebulas. As dark and dreary as the bottom of the ocean is, jellyfish down there glow and flash brilliant colors for other things to notice and behold them. Why? Materialists and Right Hand Pathers will say that such a “Mind-centric” apprehension of Creation is absurd. But what or “who” is Mind according to the ancient traditional Left Path apprehension of Creation? The Creator Itself – The Living Cosmos.
This is another philosophical difference between the Left Path and the Right Path. The Left Path states that there is only one Life Force, One Universal Mind, that manifests itself into all form; and that we are each this same Universal Mind in an individuated physical form. The only purpose then that Creation went through so much time and trouble to become everything that surrounds us is so that Creation Itself – manifested as each of us – can enjoy the sensual fruits of Creation – the sights, the smells, the sounds, the tastes, the tactile feels of Creation; and to evolve and grow from such accumulation of experiences.
Emptiness remains dormant without Form to observe, just as Energy remains dormant without Form to animate. Like electricity in a light bulb; or the potential energy in a ball which is Expressed in it kinetic form. Self Awareness cannot arise unless Emptiness has “something” to observe not being itself. Without stimuli and input from your five or six senses [sixth sense here refers to the conscious ability to feel your body] your Mind would struggle to cause hallucination in itself, so that it has Form to observe and from that observation of Form it feels an “I-ness” or is consciously aware of itself. A deep dreamless sleep which you experience in which your Mind is not entertaining itself and when your senses are turned off is called being unconscious.
Thus in the ancient Left Path apprehension of Creation, Primal Nature must come in two forms: the Unmanifested, and the Manifested for there to exist Self Awareness in the Living Cosmos. This is another philosophical difference between the Right Path and the Left Path. The Right Path interprets Void – that which has no Form – to be dead and unconscious. They believe that somehow living things have “spirits” and that because living things have “spirits” there must be gods who make the spirits. Therefore, living things, spirits, and gods, themselves are alive, but the “thing” living things, spirits, and gods, live in is dead.
The ancient Left Path states that the Cosmos Itself is a Living Being that is aware of itself, because we are each this same Cosmic Being alive with the same Life Force in different physical bodies, aware of ourselves and the world we exist in. There is no “spirit” in the Left Path. In the same way that if you day dream about being in a room of 100 people, that none of those people or you have some “spirit” which animates them. It’s all just the Expression, and Creation of One Mind. If you “erased” one of those day dream people out of existence, you did not kill it or snuff it out of existence, because it was a manifestation of your own Mind, which still exists.
Thus, the difference of enlightenment is also one of focus or fixation. I can ask you that while you are day dreaming do you Know Who You Are? Are you the Mind day dreaming or the Forms you see and experience? If you answer that you are the imaginative forms in your Mind, then you are mentally ill. It’s called dementia and schizophrenia amongst other things. You know you are the Mind which gives form to those day dream people. Who are you then in Life? Are you the Form or the Living Cosmos?
But just as a son cannot genuinely understand his father, you – we individuated Life Force – cannot comprehend the Living Cosmos that we each are. It is when we progress upwards, and become what the Cosmos is that we will fully realize our fully Nature. It is like a lotus flower which opened and its seeds fell into the pond it grew out of. The seedlings growing in an alien world of murky water will not be able to understand their lotus nature, until they become lotuses themselves. When that moment comes when they penetrate the surface of the muddy pond and blossom, there is a knowing – a numinous Self realization – that needs no word or teacher.
So from a traditional Left Hand apprehension of Creation, we exist as individuated Minds, each in a process of becoming that which we “came from.” Or in old ONA talk, we become Satan. The reason behind this Left Path tradition that we are evolving into “gods” is because of the Nature of the Living Cosmos: it is just One being.
Picture an artist. No matter how creative and productive this artist becomes, it will be limited or will realize at a certain point that it is limited. It will realize that no matter what it creates, everything comes out of its own single mind. Thus there is a limit to its evolution as an entity if it remains a single “thing.” To remedy this problem our artist gives up art and meditates. In its meditation it gives day dreams thousands of other artists from its own Mind, and to each new art endows with its own creative potential and its own individuated sense of self. Thus, as each of these thousands of new artists each develop into creative artists each with their own style and creativity, the original artist evolves exponentially. This implies that there will come a time when we ourselves will each reach the limit of our Self, and will thus become many also, if we are to evolve. And in such act of becoming many, a pyramid like scheme is manifest where the First Artist at the top grows exponentially from the growth and evolution of all its underlings.
So from a Left Path apprehension of Life, we are here not only to enjoy Life as Life is in totality and in essence, but if we are to become creative gods ourselves, then we must learn to create now. The Living Cosmos has given us a simple causal tool to work with on this causal plane of existence with which we learn to create: Wyrd. It’s a simple concept and it operates on the most basic law of the causal world of phenomena: Cause and Result.
Mortal Life, from a Left Path understanding is thus like a bunch of kids playing in the playground. There are no real rules on the playground, except cause and effect: punch another kid and he punches you back; be mean to others, and nobody wants to play with you. Otherwise we kids are free to play fight or do what ever we please to learn from our own experiences, and more importantly: from our own mistakes. On this playground, some of us kids, learn to work the laws of cause and effect faster to dominate the playground, get what we want, and thus move on to bigger things. Some don’t ever learn.
So from a Left Path weltanschauung, there is nothing fundamentally “wrong” with war and killing or enjoying mortal existence; because from a Cosmic perspective, such things as just the games children play with each other. It’s as wrong as two actors playing their part on a stage. They may appear to be enemies, hate or kill each other, but when the act is over, they are together back stage laughing and talking about their experience of stage. The only difference is that we literally write our script as we go along in life; and the only constant rule is Wyrd. Casual death is just an illusion, because we each fundamentally have our essential being in the One Cosmic Being.
From a Left Path weltanschauung, because we are all the Cosmic Being as unique manifestations, and because all of creation yearns to be noticed and adored; the most sacred, Numinous, and divine aspect of Life are those beings in our own lives that notice us and adore us, and life for us: Our Kinfolk, our lovers, and our companions we live and share life with. To love, adore, and reciprocate the attention, affection, and devotion these beings closest to us give to us, is in essence to venerate and adore the Living Cosmos Itself. Thus tribes, clans, loyalty, duty, honour, devotion, and relief of each others needs and suffering are sacred and Numinous expressions of this Left Path Way of Life, which has been the essence of all Left Path Traditions since ancient times. There is no such thing as “individuality” in the ancient Left Path Way of Life. We are all the same Life Force, the same Living Cosmos, living parts of an integral whole. Thus a collective, communitarian Way of Life is the very essence of Primal Nature and the ancient Left Path Traditions.
The Sinister Way Of The ONA
When we take the time to learn what the Left Path Traditions in ancient times were, and what their fundamental cosmology, ontology, and world views were, we soon come to dis-cover that the Sinister Way of the ONA is in essence a Traditional Left Path Way of Life more closely resembling ancient Left Path Ways, then these other Ways and institutions in the West passing as “Left Hand.”
True, the names we in the ONA call the two dark archetypes of Primal Nature are different, and some outer forms of our dark rites are different; but over the many thousands of years the Tradition of the Left Path has taken on many outer forms and called these archetypes by many names according to time, era, and culture. The symbolism and esoteric essence remains unchanged. Only outer form changes. But such outer – exoteric – changes are necessary if the ancient and living Vama Marga is to remain relevant to those few who resonant with its Dark Nature in their specific time and era. The Essence of the Left Path of Primal Nature must evolve humanity evolves slowly. It must move with Time, and since we now exist in the 21st century, those through whom this ancient tradition passes, must evolve it to meet the needs of today’s Spawn of Primal Nature.
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