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To: alt.magick.sex From: an188381@anon.penet.fi (KHRS) Subject: Re: dervish dangling Date: 49950227 ng@mail.easynet.co.uk (NG), in reply to an earlier article of mine, writes: >Dervish dangling is a traditional, but very little known, sufi ascetical >practise. One of the most famous proponents was Abu Said Abel Khayer >who lived in the 11th centuray in Central Asia, and was known to hang >himself by his feet in a closet in house in the early stages of his >spiritual career. It may well be that the Rifa'iya of Tripoli still >practise it to this day. However one seriouse warning: such practises >should not be indulged in without the guidance of an authentic sufi guide, >at least if you wish any positive results. I came across all this in an unusual magazine called "Body Play". The reference to dervish dangling came in an article on sensory deprivation. The types of sensory deprivation discussed however differed in one crucial respect from the commonplace picture of this activity -- this was the addition of physical tension or stress. Very different from the image of lazily floating in a dark tank of warm water. The point was to immobilize the body, but to keep some stimulus to focus attention. The references to dervish dangling are through quotes and summaries of writings from the 1940's of an American occultist named Seabrook. The actual "experiments" described involve a young woman companion of his named "Justine" (very original nickname). The original "dervish dangling" technique which Seabrook claimed to have learned from the Rifa'iya of Tripoli, involved one of Justine's wrists being bound to a rope attached to a hook in the ceiling. She would then walk slowly in a circle, twisting the rope and therby shortening it, raising her up until her toes barely touched the ground, stretching out her body. One innovation which she and Seabrook added was the wearing of a skintight leather hood, blocking out all sight and sound. Later, finding the tension produced by this "traditional" technique unsatisfactory she would bind both her wrists to ropes hanging from the ceiling and suspend herself by kicking away phone books on which she was standing.. She had "trip-like" experiences during these sessions, feeling herself traveling to other places and times, and described these trips to Seabrook as they happened. In one case she describes in detail walking through some village at which a small circus is appearing. Seabrook claimed that six months later they were in Europe and came upon this very scene played out in exact detail as she had described it during one of her "dangling" trances. The magazine features photographs of an attractive young woman named Stanya dupicating these postures. I admit that my attention to all this was first attracted by the pictures, which are definitely erotic and quite striking. She is naked except for panties and the sleak leather hood. I have never previously felt any sort of erotic attraction to "bondage", but the more I have thought about this, the more it has intrigued me at many different levels. Stanya decribes her feelings of duplicating these poses in a very delightful way, stating at one point, "My body was loose and fluid and working as if it were one big living heart, stretching organically with the pull of the straps on my wrists." Other nice stuff as well about approaching " . . .the round edges of that dark and deep psychic place ready to open like my muscles and release me into a different realm of consciousness.". KHRS
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