AMOOKOS [was: Mahahradanatha]

[Guest guest]

Many Thanks, Vaj and Mahahradanath.

 

That helps with some missing pieces of the puzzle (for me.)

 

Fascinating. The Crowley/Mahendranath connection is particularly

illuminating.

 

I didn't know the context surrounding Mike Magee's site, or how (for

example) Don Michael Kraig fit in to the picture (AMOOKOS,

California, 1980's)

 

, "mahahradanatha"

<mahahradanatha> wrote:

>

> [....] system of self development based on authentic kaula and nath

> teachings but in a way that was more easy accessible to the west.

> [....]

> Many Pagans [and ceremonial magicians]

> [...]were attracted to AMOOKOS [....] Mahendranath, who was

> involved with the infamous Aleister Crowley

> [....]

> The Order had a great impact at that time

> inroducing tantric ideas into the

> differing pagan and magic movements.

> AMOOKOS was functional for about 10 years as a centralized

> organisations with around 200 active members , the internal

> curriculum that once was secret was then published in a book called

> tantra magick and the rest of the material

> was made available on the

> website http://www.shivashakti.com about 15 years ago.

> [....]

> Sex Magic was not taught [....]

> Contrary to others, we also did not teach practices that

> involved any sort of retention. [....]

 

---my google travels----

 

For a summary of the early history and development of

sacred sexuality and its somewhat tenuous connection to Tantra, see

 

"The Omnipotent Oom:

Tantra and Its Impact on Modern Western Esotericism"

Hugh Urban

_Esoterica_, Vol. III, 2001

http://www.esoteric.msu.edu/printable/Oomprintable.html

or

http://www.esoteric.msu.edu/VolumeIII/HTML/Oom.html

 

For a discussion of what Urban refers to as "New Age appropriations

of Tantra" and the "modern fetishization" of Tantra, see

"The Cult of Ecstasy: Tantrism, The New Age, and the Spiritual Logic

of Late Capitalism"

Hugh Urban

_The History of Religions_, Volume 39, 2001

(not generally available online)

 

Info on Mahendranath, from Mike Magee's site:

http://shivashakti.com/dadaji.htm

Another site:

http://www.mahendranath.org/

 

Adinath FAQ, text version (Mike Magee)

http://www.clas.ufl.edu/users/gthursby/tantra/ftp/adinatha.faq

 

Nicely annotated links collection:

http://www.linkagogo.com/go/Members/wabiskr/Public/Aghora,+Nath,+OTO