Satans_Serrated_Edge
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Oh? Do you have any arguments, facts, or examples to support that?(as I did for the inverse)
But seriously, this comment reads like you haven't been paying attention to the discussion.
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'western' and 'eastern' LHP
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Oh? Do you have any arguments, facts, or examples to support that?(as I did for the inverse)
But seriously, this comment reads like you haven't been paying attention to the discussion.
I do find this to be an interesting thread and it has helped me to clarify certain things in my mind. I think I will stick mostly to the terms "Left Hand Path" or "Path of the Left" instead of adding the labels "Western" or "Eastern" to them, I personally don't find any real significance in either of these labels.
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Okay, first off, I only talked about Shiva as it's what i personally do. All LHP (or what you would call "eastern" LHP) isn't exclusive to Shaivism.
Second, in Shaivism Shiva is *not* a form of Brahman but is considered it in totality.
I personally can't really agree with this as The Hindus and Buddhists ect have been using LHP for centuries before anything occult.
Also in my opinion it's not really Right Hand due to all the Heterodoxy and taboo involved even if there is a perceived "union" by some (the Spanda view is that you simply become aware of your nature and then your will and personality is infinitely multiplied). It's not really right hand path to eat out of human skulls and meditate in dead people's ashes and walk around naked like the Aghori. Or to be involved in sex magick like in the LHP sects of Vajrayana and nibble on flesh of corpses before cremating them. Or raising up power by invoking deities by imitating them in the way that the Hindu and Buddhist ect LHP does. Actually method wise there are more similarities than differences between western and eastern if one is actually involved with meditation and magic and is involved in the taboo and heterodox practices of it.
Unfortunately I feel that some people have clouded a clear understanding of so called "eastern" Left Hand Path by virtue of their own mission to make their idea of the Left Hand Path seem like the only "true" Left Hand Path. Really it's the same crap that's ****ed up Satanism for so long. Religion is pretty subjective. People are going to disagree. There isn't any one "true path" of anything.
I can agree with this. The only "true" path is the one that you resonate with and that works for you.
I'd also like to clarify that I agree with the part about adding the part "western" or "eastern" not really having any value. The Left Hand Path is the Left Hand Path.