Monday, September 24, 2012

Review- Lon Milo DuQuette's "My Life with the Spirits: The Adventures of a Modern Magician"


There are some people who’s brains just fascinate me.  Even trickier to get a good look at a brain, when I don’t know them personally, and just know them by there writing.  Lon Milo DuQuette is on of those people who I would desperately like to know.  This book recounts amusing, frightening, enlightening, embarrassing anecdotes in a way that it seems like he is telling the stories to you in person over coffee. There are some fascinating cautionary tales, that still manage to make magick still seem amusing anyway.  He tells you the story of his life and how he came to be a magician, and then relates some stories of magickal events.  He adds enough details to these incidents that they are useful in seeing magick done by people in the current world, with everyday tools like cardboard to draw sigils on and clothesline rope to form the circle with.  I was also fascinated by the way that he can write about those events that are true and crystal clear in magick when you are doing them, but when you get done, seem crazy, even though you were there at the time.  This book was such a good read I couldn’t stop. 

If you like it, also read by him “Low Magick: Its All in Your Head…You Just Have No Idea How Big Your Head Is”

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