Tantrum Magick - Phil Hine

The following is the notes for a workshop which was held at the London Ananke conference of
Global Ritualism and Magick on the 10th April, 1999.

This workshop demonstrates some ideas which have recently come up in the work of the
Ganna Chakra – the Tantric magical group that I work in.

Basically, it starts from two related premises:

That gods & goddesses – and by extension – Guru-figures – don’t always behave in the
ways that we might expect them to, and The Ganas – the horde of hobgoblins, spooks and spirits who accompany Shiva.
There seems to me to be a general perception that ‘spiritually advanced’ beings – or if you like, people who are ‘making progress’ in their magical development - have somehow ‘conquered’ their egos – so that they appear calm, placid, and not given to outbursts of temper, irrational behaviour – that they have ‘overcome’ their passions – or have worked with them to the extent that they can ‘control’ or ‘subdue’ them – at least in public or everyday social situations.

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