If it was Easy, Everyone Would be Doing It: beginning practicing Magic and thinking about Magic and Paganism in the 21st Century: by Francis Breakspear
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This is NOT a self-help book…..
So you want to learn about magic? Hell, how and where do you start?
Here’s how. The author has been working as a magician in Britain for over 25 years, and this book is a distillation of huge practical experience and teaching. The beginner (and many an experienced older-hand) will gain much useful insight and practical ability from this eclectic and enticing volume, which is part staged workbook, part magical tapestry of the universe. Using information, ideas and techniques gleaned from centuries of occult traditions, philosophy, humour, psychology, politics, sociology, art, history, science, religion, the accumulated output of numerous schools of magical thought and practice, and much more besides, this book synthesises an introductory ritual magical self-teaching syllabus suitable for the 21st Century.
Via the manageable stages of working through the methods in the book, beginners in this field can safely and happily commence on a progressive, creative, fascinating magical path. This path will soon expand into a broad highway, from where every new beginner will be able to direct their own explorations of the magical universe with confidence, after practicing the thorough grounding given here, and thus building a secure foundation. Don’t delay.
Contains some strong concepts and a few hard lessons. Not for Minors or Moaners.
What people said about Francis Breakspear’s Kaostar!
“Funny, but… more than that. Many of the ideas are truly leading-edge and thought provoking” Ramsey Dukes
“Outrageously funny and scurrilous… a wealth of handy tips” Peter J Carroll
“An entertaining read, and more…Kaostar! will inspire strange thoughts, and this is a good thing.” Spiralnature.com
“A clever and creative work… magick at its best, full of innovative techniques and novel suggestions for raising power and achieving results…” Silver Star Journal
Crowley in Fortean Times (article by Dave Evans)
http://www.forteantimes.com is the website of the wonderful and most mainstream magazine about freaky stuff… their issue available from the next few days is a special on the 60th anniversary of the death of Aleister Crowley, some of which i wrote for them, and there are pieces by more well-known writers in there like Gary Lachman, Phil Baker and Paul Newman too. It’s a cracker and i am delighted to be a part of it. Fortean Times can be bought in WH Smiths (in the UK) and most mainstream magazine shops and newsagents around the world. You want issue 231, which is officially published on Dec 13th (although some shops will have them sooner), and confusingly it will be the issue for January. Thanks, Dave Evans
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