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Yes, often they were anti-Vedic. The term thugies comes from Shaivite cults of the extreme level that would kidnap kids from towns and sacrifice them, not the Shaivism that I grew up with mind you, but that existed.
The form of Shaivism I practiced growing up is more like Dzogchen with Ganachakrapujas, eating flesh blessing the beasts and having sex, or karmamudra with tantric intentions only available to the highly developed initiates. Kaula Shaivism from Kashmir was a mergence of left and right hand paths. Right hand being renunciate Tantra and left hand being more wild tantra, doing crazy things with the intention of transformation of every action into the vision of Shiva known as Shiva drishti or sahaja samadhi meaning spontaneous mergence with shiva in every moment.
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The form of Shaivism I practiced growing up is more like Dzogchen with Ganachakrapujas, eating flesh blessing the beasts and having sex, or karmamudra with tantric intentions only available to the highly developed initiates. Kaula Shaivism from Kashmir was a mergence of left and right hand paths. Right hand being renunciate Tantra and left hand being more wild tantra, doing crazy things with the intention of transformation of every action into the vision of Shiva known as Shiva drishti or sahaja samadhi meaning spontaneous mergence with shiva in every moment.