This book is still being reviewed by The Onion Institute reviewers, and frankly this reviewer is having a hard time getting it back to review it. This book is about thelemic magick, finding and following your True Will. Not those whimsical desires and wishes that occasionally (and less and less, you'll find) wash over you, but your Will. To do this, you can use the methodology of FutureRitual as 'the method of science, the aim of religion', as Aleister Crowley put it.

As you read this review, start to sort through some of the times when you've done something that hasn't come through the simple conditioned response of being an animal, or through the conditioned responses you've gained through living in the society in which you now live, or your family, or even your own experience. As you read, your unconscious has probably already found a great number of such times, and has maybe even let your conscious mind remember some of the them. These are times when you were living authentically, from your Will.

The book includes detailed instructions on consecration, as well as banishing -- explaining the Lesser Ritual of the Pentagram in some detail, but more importantly without the cant and obfuscation that has confused so many before. One of the great processes that makes NLP so enjoyable is that you so often find simple, effective ways of working. Take this book as an example. Previously, much of what has been written about magick has occluded to ways of doing magick through a filter of attitude. With a useful attitute, you'll get useful results. But few have been available that lay out the fundamental structures in a such a clear way.

Invocation is the drawing in of a quality into the magickian. In NLP talk, it's changing your state. Magickal state change and anchoring works with the same fundamental principles as the rest of NLP, although some would say that NLP invocation and symbolising works with the same fundamental principles as the rest of magick. FutureRitual talks about ways of making invocation stronger and more powerful, to the point where a single word can 'enflame you'..

This is but a small part of what's in the book. As soon as I find which reviewer has stolen my copy ... I'll get back and write a fuller review.

Highly recommended for learning about either magick or NLP. We'll leave Robert Anton Wilson to give the last words:

"I found this book absolutely unique -- the first magick manual entirely contemporary with modern science and the only one that will really prepare the student for life in the 21st Century." -- Robert Anton Wilson

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Last updated: 21 October 1997