Low Magick: It's All In Your Head ... You Just Have No Idea How Big Your Head Is

189 Pages·2011·3.09 MB·English

by  Lon Milo DuQuette

About the Author
Lon Milo DuQuette is a preeminent scholar, magician, and speaker. The author
of fourteen critically acclaimed books on magick and the occult, DuQuette is one
of the most respected and entertaining writers and lecturers in the field of
Western Magick. Visit him online at www.lonmiloduquette.ning.com.
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This little collection of memories, insights,
and embarrassments is lovingly dedicated to the members
of our Monday Night Magick Class past, present, and future.
“There is no truth, only stories.”
Zuni Saying
CONTENTS
Acknowledgments
PROLOGUE Stories ZERO First Let’s Talk about Fear ONE The Dogma & Rituals of Low Magick
(Dogme et ritual de la bas magie) TWO The Formula of Solomon THREE The Law of Attraction, The
Power of Intent & My Date with Linda Kaufman FOUR Family Secrets FIVE My Planetary Talismans SIX
A Weekend Alone with the Spirits of the Tarot SEVEN A Midsummer Night’s Curse EIGHT Astral
Projection: Traveling in the Spirit Vision (or, Real Magicians Eat Quiche) NINE That’s Not What
Invocation Is About TEN … And That’s What Invocation Is All About!
ELEVEN Pop Goes Ganesha!
TWELVE The Rabbi’s Dilemma THIRTEEN The Exorcism of Our Lady of Sorrows EPILOGUE It’s All in
Your Head … You Just Have No Idea How Big Your Head Is Appendix I: My Brother Remembers Our
Father
Appendix II: Apostolic Succession
Bibliography
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
The author wishes to recognize and thank the following individuals, whose
encouragement and support over the years he shall always treasure: Constance
Jean DuQuette, Jean-Paul DuQuette, Marc E. DuQuette, Judith Hawkins-
Tillirson, Rick Potter, Donald Weiser, Betty Lundsted, Kat Sanborn, Patricia
Baker, Chance Gardner, Vanese Mc Neil, David P. Wilson, Jonathan Taylor, Dr.
Art Rosengarten, George Noory, Poke Runyon, James Wasserman, Rodney
Orpheus, Robert Anton Wilson, Robert Larson, Brenda Knight, Sharon Sanders,
Michael Miller, Michael Kerber, Jan Johnson, Brad Olsen, Janet Berres, Charles
D. Harris, Michael Strader, Phyllis Seckler, Grady McMurtry, Israel Regardie,
Helen Parsons Smith, Alan R. Miller, Ph.D., Clive Harper, William Breeze, John
Bonner, Stephen King, and a very special thanks goes to Elysia Gallo and the
wonderful team at Llewellyn Worldwide Ltd., for making this project such an
enjoyable experience.
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