Wednesdays, ah Wednesdays....
Jul. 7th, 2010 06:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
johnny9fingersPoor Mad Felix had a birthday at the weekend. Unfortunately I couldn't be at whatever celebrations he was having, so as usual I took him for lunch today, and gave him a card and small present (a clip-on-headstock guitar tuner) then took the road to Botley Hill Farmhouse.
He was going on about the evils of sodomy again, and how every time someone misuses the Kundalini sexual energy thang for the purposes of buggery, bad energies are released and accidents happen. His argument was that there were never any free beds in hospitals, because every time a patient is discharged the doctors had 'bad' sex and someone else had an accident and then needed the bed. Obviously doctors are all gay. The causal link is so evident it takes someone of my stupidity not to see it. Gawd knows who's been feeding him the Tantras, or maybe he's just been revisiting old ideas, but even so. I argued what I could remember of my reading around Tantric worship, and mentioned the transgressive element in some Tantric rituals, but by then Felix had moved on to MacGregor Mathers, Crowley, the Golden Dawn, the Templars, and Baphomet.
I'm glad to say my eyes didn't roll up into the back of my head, as I was driving.
Apparently I don't remember all of this because the EEG's have wiped my memory, including my having any memory of the EEGs in the first place.
He was dead chuffed about the tuner, though.
I do wonder about the proclivity of some cultures to emphasise some particularly hateful and prejudicial ideas above almost all others. Which is not to decry the Tantras in all of their glory: though I will admit to not wishing to either worship or meet the Lady Durga in some of her manifestations, nor the Lord Shiva in some of his, either.
I wonder if Felix has been reading of the Buddhist Tantras, rather than those which exult the various Hindu forms of the five sacrament worship? Or is he synthesising again? My knowledge is insufficient, and I must read more. Though I know of Hindu forms of transvestism, homosexuality, and just about every other take on the human sexual response, they are all essentially historical and predate the stupidly inhibited British Raj. I know that Hijras have a pretty rough time these days, but context is all, and I am lacking it somewhat. Which is not to say that I didn'tusurp adopt the authority to tell Felix he was spouting rubbish, in the nicest possible way, of course.
Also I do wonder if Felix doth protest too much? Is this some guilt/shame/renunciation triad?
He was going on about the evils of sodomy again, and how every time someone misuses the Kundalini sexual energy thang for the purposes of buggery, bad energies are released and accidents happen. His argument was that there were never any free beds in hospitals, because every time a patient is discharged the doctors had 'bad' sex and someone else had an accident and then needed the bed. Obviously doctors are all gay. The causal link is so evident it takes someone of my stupidity not to see it. Gawd knows who's been feeding him the Tantras, or maybe he's just been revisiting old ideas, but even so. I argued what I could remember of my reading around Tantric worship, and mentioned the transgressive element in some Tantric rituals, but by then Felix had moved on to MacGregor Mathers, Crowley, the Golden Dawn, the Templars, and Baphomet.
I'm glad to say my eyes didn't roll up into the back of my head, as I was driving.
Apparently I don't remember all of this because the EEG's have wiped my memory, including my having any memory of the EEGs in the first place.
He was dead chuffed about the tuner, though.
I do wonder about the proclivity of some cultures to emphasise some particularly hateful and prejudicial ideas above almost all others. Which is not to decry the Tantras in all of their glory: though I will admit to not wishing to either worship or meet the Lady Durga in some of her manifestations, nor the Lord Shiva in some of his, either.
I wonder if Felix has been reading of the Buddhist Tantras, rather than those which exult the various Hindu forms of the five sacrament worship? Or is he synthesising again? My knowledge is insufficient, and I must read more. Though I know of Hindu forms of transvestism, homosexuality, and just about every other take on the human sexual response, they are all essentially historical and predate the stupidly inhibited British Raj. I know that Hijras have a pretty rough time these days, but context is all, and I am lacking it somewhat. Which is not to say that I didn't
Also I do wonder if Felix doth protest too much? Is this some guilt/shame/renunciation triad?
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Date: 2010-07-07 06:29 pm (UTC)Felix
Date: 2010-07-08 06:54 am (UTC)Re: Felix
Date: 2010-07-08 12:35 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-07-08 10:11 am (UTC)I have a delightful Tantric cookbook. (not handy at the moment so I can't quote title/author/etc). It is about exploring the full sensory impressions of food properly, and about finding a healthy balance. Or at least that's what the cookbook's about. I've found it to be a better ref on Tantra than much else.
I'm not 100% sure that actual practitioners of Tantra would object to the sexualized stereotypes but that said... ;)
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Date: 2010-07-08 12:35 pm (UTC)In Christianity, hating homosexuality seems consistent with the OT, but rather beneath the message of the NT. These things seem often about emphasis rather than doctrine.
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Date: 2010-07-10 12:14 am (UTC)(am thinking of the historical orders)