S2 #02 / Mike Magee on Kali Magic

For episode #2 of season 2 we are joined by
author and journalist Mike Magee.


Mike Magee is a well-known name to lovers and practitioners of
Tantra to whom he has offered for decades the essential,
condensed contents of many Tantras of the medieval period. This
book is a fruit of his maturity and vast experience. Containing
reliable translations and many Kālī Vidyàs, it is a valuable
manual for practitioners and an important source for scholars.


Magee has written since the 1960s on matters related to occult
and esoteric religions. In 1971 he started a small occult
magazine called Azoth, and in 1973 in conjunction with David
Hall, and his girlfriend Janet Bailey, started a more ambitious
six monthly magazine called SOTHiS. In 1978, he went to India and
met with an English tantrik guru (and former student of Aleister
Crowley) called HH Shri Gurudev Mahendranath (1911–1992) who was
a guru of the Uttarakaula Tantric Order of northern India.
Mahendranath gave him the title of a guru and a charter to form a
group of students. Magee took the tantrik name of Lokanath. Later
this was to become a nucleus for the "Arcane Magical Order of the
Knights of Shambhala" (AMOOKOS). This group was highly
influential, particularly in the way it brought Tantrik teachings
to the West.


Kali Magic brings together Mike Magee’s decades of experience in
translating and elucidating tantrik texts. The first
section—Sadhana—explores the ritual worship of Kali through
mantra, her various aspects, and her yantras. The second
section—Tantras—includes new English translations of the
Matrkabheda, Todala, and Yoni tantras, plus two Kali Upaniṣads
and abstracts of ten tantras related to the worship of the
goddess. With a comprehensive bibliography and glossary of key
terms, Kali Magic will be of great value to devotees and scholars
of the goddess alike.


In the Plus show we discuss some of the rituals in Kali magic in
relation to Western Ritual magic. We go through how Kali
represents the killing of Ego. Tantra the similarity between sex
and death. The importance of waking up. And how Mike sourced the
materials found in the book.


Show notes: https://shivashakti.com/
https://www.twistedtrunkbooks.com/
https://www.twistedtrunkbooks.com/items
https://enfolding.org/books/
https://www.amazon.com/stores/Mike-Magee/author/B0B86CGGR6


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