Male Initiation Rites

☩ RITES OF EROS ☩

Erotic-Mystic Male Initiation Rites – Inspiration Retreat for the Artist

When you go against your true nature and resign yourself to conventional, amorous entanglements, your pleasure and inspiration wane until you find yourself in self-imposed chains. Neither prestige nor affluence nor the vain attentions of a desirable woman can shut out the growing feeling of weariness; an inner voice whispers that you have forsaken something significant.

I invite you to refuse the pretence and reclaim all that you have repressed, neglected or dishonoured – your unbound, sensual, masculine presence – free from the virtues of abstinence and renunciation or the empty promise of greed and decadence.

Enter into the male initiation Rites of Eros with HER – She who is the everlasting, erotic force of nature that pervades all life. And as Her virile hero, Her mortal lover, worship the ecstatic pleasure, supernatural power and sublime beauty of sacred alchemy.

Male Initiation Rites
Male Initiation Rites – Artist Retreat London
Male Initiation Rites

THE SERPENT PRIESTESS

Goddess Incarnate

Goddess IncarnateI carry within me an untamed feminine mystery, once dormant and long-forgotten in time. My life drew to me a succession of direct experiences which recalled only fragments of this memory until, during a sojourn in Hellas (Greece), where on visiting the sacred sanctuary of Delphi and drinking from the serpent-guarded Castalian spring, I experienced an Elysium, a prolonged ecstatic state of communion with the sensuality in nature.

She aroused in me a profound recognition and remembrance of the act of sacred alchemy, hieros gamos, or tantra maithuna, as the gateway to merge with the mysteries. This elation was followed by what can be described as years of silence from the beauty I had once witnessed. Unable to discern the source of the separation, I retreated from the world.

Then, during an all-night mystical ritual, the connection returned, together with sequences of spontaneous trembling in my spine until they culminated in an embodiment of an elemental serpentine force. With an explosive surge of power through my body, She revealed herself as fierce, sapient, sublime, and Her venom an elixir of liberation. When the episode subsided, I came to the realisation that I had undergone a rite of passage to arouse kundalini and become a vessel for the Great Goddess, Primaeval Creatrix. I had received the gift of self-realisation.

In the years that followed, my ability to embody kundalini strengthened. She expressed herself through storytelling and chants to recall ancestral memories. She revealed the significance of the ordeals of male initiation rites to re-enact the universal myth of the Goddess and Her dying-and-rising immortal lover.

These revelations prompted me to seek confirmation in the sacred myths and esoteric mysteries of ancient cultures. On discovering the many synchronicities with what I had personally experienced, I became resolute to fulfil my calling.

Male Initiation Rites
Ancient Tantra Rituals

INITIATION

Ritual Enactment of Archetypal Myth

Liberation for the Virile Hero

My calling is to initiate gentlemen artists* aged between 21 and 42 who desire a direct experience of the Immortal Muse and sacred eros.
(*actors, storytellers, visual artists, performing artists, martial artists and patrons of the arts)

If my words have awakened a quest within you, you will be inexplicably drawn to me.
You may be native to this land or overseas, but I will recognise you, and you will recognise me.

For this hero’s journey into the mysteries, you will need the resolve to encounter the alluring feminine force.
During your initiation, you will devote yourself to Her, and thus uncover
the domain of your true nature and fulfil your role in creative and erotic alchemy.
Beauty and power reside in the prolonged pleasure of sacred sensual adoration.

Eleusinian Mysteries of Minoan Crete & Orphic Thrace
Male initiation rites we may enact:
  • The Nectar of Immortality – Left-hand-path ancient tantra ritual: nyasa, caress & anointment; yoni-puja, veneration of the vulva; śivalingam-puja, release delay/mastery; tantra yoginī & Kali-Śakti worship; The Great Serpent & the Humming Bee – rising of kundalini; aphrodisiac foods, scents & adornments; amrita, the divine nectar.

  • The Goddess & Her Mortal Lover – Celtic Mysteries Rite of Passage. Sensual role-play of Sovereignty Goddess & Hero; libation, pouring of mead as offering; fothrucud, “ritual bathing” of the contender; dallbheart “blindfold”, sensory exploration; íoladhradh “idol worship”, adoration & admiration of the body as a divine work of art; tobar “sacred well”, curative waters & doorway to the Otherworld; snaidhm “Dragon’s Knot”, unravelling innate potential; Cernunnos, metamorphose into the virile Horned One.

  • The Making of a Sacred King – Ritual drama from the Dionysian & Eleusinian Mysteries: herb-infused medicinal wine; labyrinthos, archetypal shamanic journey through the underworld realm of the Goddess; enthusiasmos & ekstasis, power embodiment of the sacred bull; myron, sweet oil, perfume; ambrosia, the elixir of life; Eniautos Daimon, death & rebirth of the solar-year God.

TRIBUTE

Temple tributes are personal, true to your individual wealth and ability. They are your pledge of sincere dedication.
£ Bespoke

Initiation – Early until Late Evening
For select individuals.
A choice between two distinct rituals.

A retreat in an elegant Georgian “petite maison” near the ancient, natural thermal sacred-spring in historic Bath. There, we will breathe in the sensuous ambience and indulge in a rich dinner, to become acquainted with one another, before retreating to enact:

The Nectar of Immortality, left-hand-path, ancient tantra ritual.

or

The Goddess & Her Mortal Lover, Celtic Mysteries Rite of Passage.

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Hieros Gamos – A Sojourn Abroad
For the serious contender.
A stay in Athens to visit the Dionysian Theatre under the Acropolis before travelling to a secluded retreat near the Castalian Spring of Delphi for The Making of a Sacred King, the all-night, sunset until sunrise, ritual drama from the Dionysian & Eleusinian Mysteries.

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