The past thirty years have witnessed dramatic developments in the study of Agamic Saivism in general. On the one hand there has been a substatial increase in the historical and anthropogical data. On the other, access has been cleared to vast reserves of unedited and unpubished sources. This book is a collection of essays whichdocument in their own way the author's personal journey in these years through parts of the Saiva and, to some extent, the Vaisnava Tantras.