You’re probably not going to like this review. You may be reading this expecting some sort of revolutionary revelation that will FINALLY fix all your problems and put your life on easy street just by reading this book.
This book is about a simple mindfulness exercise that one can do to regain some perspective in our lives. It’s a simple, common sense technique and actually can change your life. The book is very short, only about 60 pages. The circumstances of this technique involve members of the spiritual and fraternal organization, Ordo Templi Orientis.
The author, Steve King, who is the National Grand Master General of Ordo Templi Orientis – Australia, resurrected this method from scant mentions in letters between American fashion model, poet and literary critic, Jean Robert Foster, occult author Charles Stansfield Jones and the notorious poet and mountain climber, Aleister Crowley.
Steve King’s research not only gives us the surrounding circumstances of this method but takes the time to lay out important philosophical underpinnings crucial to understanding the method and its potential results.
As I said previously, you’re probably not going to like this review, or maybe not even the book, because you will still need to do the practice, often, developing a habit and that takes work. Perhaps you will not be able to get past Crowley’s comment that it’s ‘merely a trick’ or get caught up in some of the sensationalism that surrounds Crowley’s relationship with Jean Robert Foster. I hope you don’t because this method and habit will be worth it.
In a world where we all want to live regally, be one who is also willing to take responsibility for your sovereignty.
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