Almost finished with it. It does a good job of decoding the "magick" of chaos into NLP psychology. Or was it the other way around?
A big portion of the book focuses on "invoking" Farber's ATEM--an entity (basically) devoted to opening neural pathways. Thirty-six mini-chapters are devoted to performance practices/rituals to better empower ATEM within the reader's reality. Almost all of these exercises require a partner(s), however. The best parts of the book focus on creating your own entities (servitors, egregores, etc).
The subject matter is highly digestible, not very intellectual. Nothing groundbreaking here, alot of the first half deals with POV, framing, and presuppositions (very general NLP stuff). Because of this, I think the format could have been presented in a more interesting manner. Illustrations could have made this book so much more accessible to a browsing audience.
I just can't win with this type of instructional subject matter.
Packwood's "Memetic Magick" was an unreadable mess, Cunningham's "Magickal Entities" was incredibly watered-down, and Morrison refuses to write a book despite being an adept at entity handling. Hine's "Pseudonomicon" remains an unsatisfying (pamphlet sized!) champion of entity evocation.
No--wait. . .
I don't wanna pee on Farber's effort.
I will conclude this mini-review by endorsing the six-point circle method for getting into the 'practitioner' frame of mind. It makes use of all the senses while prying loose the watcher from the experiencer. A very unique and useful method for entering into trance. |
