Ask Baba Lon

excellent

Just a lovely book of a lovely master. I just thank all gods to meet Lon Milo's books, and the kindle edition are the better option to me, a young nomad seeking for stability, is just a perfectly adapted format. Very nice job!! Lon Milo and his books are now my grand master. I just thank it all. Im glad for meet this material, i've been waiting years for it.

I like Lon DuQuette's writing and I think this is an underappreciated little book. It covers a fair bit of magickal territory and reflects tons of personal experience presented by the writer. A couple of commenters here didn't like that the writer included his genuine responses rather than edit out "I'm sure this is not the kind of advice you wanted, but it's the middle of the night......" and other similar sentences from larger answers. Truthfully, this sort of criticism throws the baby out with the bathwater. This book is filled with practical advice and takes complicated magickal ideas and turns them into plain English. DuQuette is one of the most genuine, unassuming and generous of people in the magickal community. He also presents loads of well-thought-out answers to questions from general Thelema to advanced Goetia in the most accessible of ways. Other than "Magick without Tears" there are very few books that answer real questions from students of Magick. For a lot of people looking for more of a results-driven, magickal cookbook "Ask Baba Lon" is probably not the best book. However, if you want to see how a world-class magician uses experience, reason, and humor to teach the Western Mysteries this is a good book to have on your shelf.

Without doubt, I esteem Lon Duquette not only as a profoundly gifted scholar and practitioner of and writer on the theme of magick, but (as a teacher myself) as one of the most superlatively gifted teachers I have ever had the pleasure and privilege of encountering.Mr. Duquette takes magick very seriously, as well he may, but takes himself far less so. He writes engagingly, and everything he has written that I have read has been a pure pleasure. To be able to write in so engaging and charming a style about a discipline as recondite as the theory and practice of ritual magick is a rarely (if ever) seen skill.In answering the sometimes profound, sometimes sad, funny , provocative and occasionally decerebrate questions posed him over the years by correspondents, the author gives clear and helpful answers (where answers even exist), often using humor as a teaching vehicle. Funny and self-effacing a writer as Mr. Duquette is however, it is evident that once he "wraps his turban on" he knows - and he wants his readers to know - he is trodding on serious ground.This is a delightful and enlightening "little" book (which is really not a little book at all) that I wish had been in print forty or so years ago, when I began my own journey down the magickal path - I recommend it unreservedly.

"Ask Baba Lon" is the fifth book I have read from this author. I have enjoyed each of the books I previously read, but this book is easily my favorite! The book offers all kinds of fascinating insights into both "magick" and "every day life" and it puts on display the very real and human nature of a most interesting man (I refer, of course, to the author, Lon DuQuette). Lon's engaging personality is evident on every page, the reading is (for the most part) light and effortless, but do not assume that to mean there is not information of substance. On the contrary, the book offers quite a bit to chew on ... I enjoyed it immensely!