siddhis [magical powers]
Right hand spiritual path disciplines reject siddhis as dangerous temptations and distractions encountered on the path to enlightenment.
Left hand path disciplines take a broader view, different schools of thought making distinctions such as those based on the motivation and intent of the user (e.g. whether you seek personal power or the good of others) or making no distinctions at all and embracing their indiscriminate cultivation and use.
[begin quote from Lord Shiva interviewed in Sexual Secrets by Nik Douglas and Penny Slinger]
“Though magical powers are part of tantra they are not an end in themselves…
Some forms of magical powers are naturally acquired at birth, from past lives, astrological influences, or parents or ancestors. Others are acquired by the practice of austerities, by skillfully withdrawing the senses from contact with the external world and transforming their mode of action. …
Drugs have the power to take one beyond the worldly dimension. Since ancient times many different drugs have been used in magical rites. However, drugs tend to be almost as unpredictable as people and, like sex, can either liberate or enslave. Some say that sex is the greatest drug of all and that there is no intoxicant more powerful than the love of a man for a woman. Certainly it is true that drugs and sex both have much in common. Both can lead to the attainment of magical powers and both have an inherent illusory nature, an ability to greatly alter ones perception of reality. In this sense, drugs and sex are both transcendental”
[end quote from Lord Shiva interviewed in Sexual Secrets by Nik Douglas and Penny Slinger]
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