India and the Occult: The Influence of South Asian by G. Djurdjevic
By G. Djurdjevic
India and the Occult explores the reception of Indian spirituality between Western occultists via case reports. instead of concentrating on the actions of Theosophical Society, India and the Occult seems to be on the 'hard-core' occultism, specifically the British twentieth century currents linked to Aleister Crowley, Dion Fortune, Kenneth supply, and so forth.
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Even drawing up after the act of coition both rajas and bindu. ” Hugh Urban (2003d: 157; 2010) and David Gordon White (2003a) have also suggested that the practice involving male ejaculation and the ingestion of sexual fluids represents a genuine and in fact older tantric tradition, eventually replaced by the custom of seminal retention. These examples reinforce the similarity between Crowley’s and tantric methods. Arguably, the rationale behind the practice of the ingestion of sexual fluids for magico-religious reasons rests on a meaningful foundation.
Even drawing up after the act of coition both rajas and bindu. ” Hugh Urban (2003d: 157; 2010) and David Gordon White (2003a) have also suggested that the practice involving male ejaculation and the ingestion of sexual fluids represents a genuine and in fact older tantric tradition, eventually replaced by the custom of seminal retention. These examples reinforce the similarity between Crowley’s and tantric methods. Arguably, the rationale behind the practice of the ingestion of sexual fluids for magico-religious reasons rests on a meaningful foundation.
It is by now apparent that my intentions are to operate with the category of esotericism and its cognates in a typological manner. ” His own, and generally speaking, predominant preference is to use it “in a strictly historical 26 INDIA AND THE OCCULT sense,” that is to say, “as a general label for a series of specific currents in Western culture that display certain similarities and are historically related” (Hanegraaff, 2006: xi). And while I concur that this is manifestly a worthwhile approach that by all means needs to remain a major trend within esoteric studies, I disagree with the notion that this is the only possible orientation for scholarly engagement with this cultural phenomenon.