Summoning Spirits (llewellyn's Practical Magick... ✰
Summoning Spirits: The Art of Magical Evocation by Konstantinos is a highly practical, beginner-friendly guide to ceremonial magick that streamlines complex rituals into accessible steps. The book provides comprehensive instructions on constructing tools, performing psychic exercises, and evoking 50 distinct spirit entities. While praised for its hands-on approach, some practitioners note it oversimplifies traditional, complex occult systems. Read the full review on Amazon .
“this is alas just another film that panders to the image Thompson himself tried to shirk – the reckless buffoon that is more at home on fraternity posters than library shelves. It is a missed opportunity to take the man seriously.”
This is an excellent summary on the attitude of the seeming majority of HST ‘admirers’.
It just makes me think that they read Fear and Loathing, looked up similar stories of HST’s unhinged behaviour and didn’t bother with the rest of his work.
There is such a raw, human element of Thompsons work, showing an amazing mind, sense of humour, critical thinking and an uncanny ability to have his finger on the pulse of many issues of his time.
Booze feature prominently in most of his writing and he is always flirting with ‘the edge’, but this obsession with remembering him more as Raoul Duke and less as Hunter Thompson, is a sad reflection of most ‘fans’; even if it was a self inflicted wound by Thompson himself.